guard rails weren't particularly needed, as vehicles didn't move very fast, but when they were installed, were very fundamental
read all about it at https://www.maureenduffus.com/history/malahat-drive.php
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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Saturday, January 11, 2025
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
stored since 1974 in a storage locker with only 29,426 miles on its odometer, still wearing FJ6-code Sassy Grass Green, a set of black “billboard” stripes, and still has it's broadcast sheet
In 1975, the owner suffered from a traumatic brain injury that took away his ability to ever drive again. He decided to stow his pride-and-joy Plymouth on his father’s farm long-term; the risk of damage from moisture or other environmental hazards led him to ensure this was done the right way.
That meant draining all the fluids from the ‘Cuda, applying several heavy layers of undercoating all over the chassis and in the trunk and engine bay, and even painting the front and rear lower valances in a protective black finish. Around 1979 or 1980, it was towed from the farm to a U-Haul storage locker. It wouldn’t move again until 2024 when the owner's transfer to long term care earlier this year required his ’71 ’Cuda liquidated to cover those costs.
this is a result of sitting in one place, for 5 decades... the rust off the exhaust fell onto the floor and left it's perfect outline
a proposed rule from the U.S. Commerce Department is aiming to eliminate certain American vehicles produced in China and imported into the U.S., such as the Lincoln Nautilus, because of key Chinese software and hardware
Canadian officials are also asking for a similar ban, Canada’s Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said “We do have real security concerns.”
Freeland added that Canada is “absolutely” considering a similar ban, adding “that is something we talked about in imposing the tariffs on EVs and something that came out very, very clearly in the consultation."
Freeland added that Canada is “absolutely” considering a similar ban, adding “that is something we talked about in imposing the tariffs on EVs and something that came out very, very clearly in the consultation."
the Lincoln Nautilus, is built at the Changan Ford Hangzhou Assembly plant
Wednesday, September 04, 2024
a suspicious vehicle call got the cops to check out a Bronco, it WAS stolen, but the thief didn't want to go to jail... so, they tried driving over a police cruiser at a Tim Hortons drive-thru
police received a call at around 6:30 p.m. about a person at a shopping mall. The man had allegedly stolen items from a store a couple of weeks ago and had returned with weapons, police said.
Police located the vehicle and determined that it had been stolen. Officers surrounded the stolen vehicle and a number of cruisers were then damaged, when the police arrived to box in the vehicle
The driver initially tries to reverse, but sees that he cannot back away. An officer then gets out of his vehicle and points a gun at the passenger-side window and tries to instruct the driver who then accelerated forward to go over the police cruiser to escape, before a crowd of onlookers.
Police tazed the suspect when he eventually climbed out of the passenger-side window, and officers then tackled 25-year-old Ramanpreet Singhhas, and charged him with three counts of possession of property obtained by crime, flight from a peace officer, dangerous operation, and obstructing a police officer.
thank you Andrew!
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Police allege Larry Grogan is the rightful owner of over 100 vehicles, which were allegedly sold without his knowledge to unknowing customers, and now, even though the cars have been legally registered to new owners for over 2 years, they are getting impounded from the registered owners
Grogan only discovered the theft of the vehicles “when an employee attended at the MTO office to transfer the ownerships of more than one hundred vehicles from one Grogan corporation to another and discovered that some of the ownerships were not registered in their corporate name, but in other people’s names.”
The people who purchased these cars “are experiencing the worst possible consequence of purchasing a vehicle from a person who is not a registered motor vehicle dealer,” lawyer Downs told the Sun. “Had they purchased from a registered motor vehicle dealer, they would be entitled to be repaid the purchase monies that they paid to the registered dealer.”
The people who purchased these cars “are experiencing the worst possible consequence of purchasing a vehicle from a person who is not a registered motor vehicle dealer,” lawyer Downs told the Sun. “Had they purchased from a registered motor vehicle dealer, they would be entitled to be repaid the purchase monies that they paid to the registered dealer.”
Not only were cars allegedly sold by people who did not own them and then purchased by people who could not legally own them, there were alleged efforts to ensure the paperwork put through the Ministry of Transportation and Service Ontario appeared authentic.
“The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Lambton County crime unit received a complaint in late 2023 regarding stolen vehicles with a combined value of approximately $3 million.”
If people can get an ownership card from the province that says it’s their car and then have police come along three years later and say they don’t actually own it and insist they hand it over, then there is no system people can trust.
“We paid our tax on it, insurance and all our fees,” said Wayne. “It’s no difference than anybody buying a used car. We did everything right. This could happen to anybody.”
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Tesla used a technicality to get the Cybertruck off the luxury vehicle tax list of Canada, gross vehicle weight. That saves buyers 10,000 dollars
On a base CA$165,990 Cyberbeast price, however, the Canadian government also charges CA$13,773 luxury tax, or more than $10,000 USD. This luxury tax was introduced back in 2021 for passenger vehicles, boats or planes that cost more than CA$100,000, and is either 10% on the whole tag, or 20% on the difference above CA$100,000, whichever comes lower.
Needless to say, all of these levies can make the Cybertruck up to 50% more expensive than in the US, so Tesla promised that it will do something. Over the weekend, the Cybertruck Vehicle Program Manager tweeted that Tesla is "working on fixing this," referring to the luxury vehicle tax.
It now seems to have found a solution, too. Besides its price range, there are no less than six criteria that a passenger vehicle sale has to conform to in order to be charged with a luxury tax. The Cybertruck ticks all those boxes, but misses one by a tad, the gross vehicle weight.
Tesla found the loophole, and asked the Canadian authorities to exempt the Cybertruck from the luxury vehicle tax based on its weight. Thanks to its stainless steel body and large 123 kWh battery, the total GWVR of even a Cybertruck with all-season tires is 8,883 pounds, which is 332 pounds more than the government's threshold for the luxury passenger vehicle tax.
Needless to say, all of these levies can make the Cybertruck up to 50% more expensive than in the US, so Tesla promised that it will do something. Over the weekend, the Cybertruck Vehicle Program Manager tweeted that Tesla is "working on fixing this," referring to the luxury vehicle tax.
It now seems to have found a solution, too. Besides its price range, there are no less than six criteria that a passenger vehicle sale has to conform to in order to be charged with a luxury tax. The Cybertruck ticks all those boxes, but misses one by a tad, the gross vehicle weight.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
What stopped ice cream trucks from roaming Orillia Ontario? The new permitting process made it too expensive, as it has 2 components an ice cream vendor can't afford
an $861 licensing fee and proof of $2 million in general liability insurance
“I’ve been in the business for 38 years, and I’ve been licensed by eight different cities, and the most I ever paid was $300,” Barrie-based business owner Nick Karabetsos wrote in his letter. “I just renewed my licence for Barrie and it was $265, Alcona was $300, Alliston was $170 (a) couple (of) years ago. $900 is more than triple the going rate for the same-size city.”
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Sunday, May 05, 2024
very surprising... they made a Canadian spec '81 Z 28 Camaro - that got a stick shift. They did not make a Stick Shift 1981 Camaro Z28 to sell in the USA that year. Lucky darn Canadian young men got the better car that year!
This is a Canadian-spec version of the 1981 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, and as such, it could be ordered with the 4-speed manual transmission which wasn’t available to American-delivered cars – they all got the automatic.
As a result of this one-year-only, cross border rule, original Canadian-ordered Chevrolet Camaro Z28s from 1981 are among the most collectible from the era.
For 1981 the Z28 and its 350 cubic inch (5.7 liter) V8 could only be ordered with the automatic transmission with a lock-up torque converter, which was linked to the CCC unit.
This limitation didn’t apply for non-US orders however, and as a result there was a special Canadian version of the Z28 Camaro that wasn’t fitted with the power-sapping CCC unit, and could still be ordered with the Borg Warner 4-speed manual transmission.
Canadian Camaro buyers made good use of the loophole, over 3,000 4-speed manual examples of the 1981 Z28 were sold, all of which were faster than any new Camaro sold in America that year.
This limitation didn’t apply for non-US orders however, and as a result there was a special Canadian version of the Z28 Camaro that wasn’t fitted with the power-sapping CCC unit, and could still be ordered with the Borg Warner 4-speed manual transmission.
Canadian Camaro buyers made good use of the loophole, over 3,000 4-speed manual examples of the 1981 Z28 were sold, all of which were faster than any new Camaro sold in America that year.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
the Canadian government announced in December that they plan to phase out the sale of gas-powered light duty vehicles by 2035.
Although transportation accounted for 63 per cent of the N.W.T.'s greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, only 7.5 per cent of overall emissions come from light duty cars, SUVs and pickup trucks, while 24 per cent come from heavy duty diesel vehicles like transport trucks.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yellowknife-electric-truck-level-2-charger-1.7078959
So, 31.5% come from what? Tractors? Construction equipment like excavators and dozers? Trains?
and 37% come from industrial exhaust and cows?
Friday, December 15, 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
A company called Madill out of Canada uses Sherman tanks as the undercarriage for yarders, which are a mobile "spar" or towers used in cable logging operations.
In a small village in northern Minnesota, there was an older gentleman, who was the radio man at Battle of Bastogne. After the war he bought a tank without the turret to use for dragging the trees they cut down for his logging crew.
It worked well, except it consumed 60 to 70 gallons of gas a day. Then they heard about a diesel engine they could convert it with, that cost $3,500 , which was a lot of money, back then, but he finally went for it, with his partners and then it only used an average of 10 to 12 gallons a day.
In the late 1960's there was a place in Salem Ma that sold Sherman tanks
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023
take a moment to appreciate that the clearance bar is still standing after a dump truck plowed into it
Clappison's Corners is a community located in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
you might wonder why anyone would put a block to truckers going from a gas station to the Wendys/ Tim Hortons next to it
I'm guessing the gas station did install that barricade to stop truckers from passing through it's parking lot, and not stopping to spend money.
Yes, really.
Thursday, October 05, 2023
Here's a post to celebrate the most amazing Zamboni driver ever! A 42-year-old Zamboni driver who earned a win in his one and only NHL game, because he was the designated emergency backup goaltender (EBUG) on standby
However, by the time the night came to an end, he’d unexpectedly made his NHL debut at the age of 42 after both the team's goalies had to leave the game with injuries, prompting the Zamboni driver to play against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the home team. and walked away with a win against the franchise that signed his paychecks.
Ayres was the designated EBUG when the Maples Leafs and Hurricanes kicked off their game on February 22nd, and while he was watching the contest in the stands when the puck dropped, he got a text instructing him to head down to the locker room to throw on some gear after Carolina goalie James Reimer was knocked out of the game in the first period.
Reimer was replaced by the backup goalie was also injured after taking a hit to the head during a collision with around nine minutes left in the second period. As a result, Ayres made his way onto the ice and spent a few minutes warming up before play resumed to kick off his NHL debut with a 3-1 lead.
The 42-year-old helped the Hurricanes in their 6-3 win by blocking eight of the 10 shots on goal against him in the last 30 minutes of the game.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/zamboni-driver-wins-first-nhl-game-after-being-tapped-emergency-n1141371
Ayres is the second-oldest player to make their professional debut in NHL history, after Lester Patrick in 1927, according to the NHL.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Thursday, September 14, 2023
When the Avro Arrow program was cancelled in February 1959, many of the engineers were rendered jobless. Ross Ferguson, found himself looking not only for work, but for a project into which he could channel his untapped ingenuity.
He found the former at Northern Secondary, teaching machine shop to tenth-graders; and the latter in a sports car he’d already started building from scratch.
As it turns out, a lot of the skills Ferguson honed as a machinist developing tooling for the planes could be directly transferred into the design and fabrication of a Le Mans-inspired homebuilt roadster.
He had planned this build for almost a decade, but in 1959, its construction began in earnest. Eight years later, in 1967, the garage of their little bungalow in Downsview had parked in it a car unlike any other.
The windshield is a Vauxhall rear window flipped around, but the bubble-style side screens are Plexiglas, heated up in the family oven and formed by his wife standing on the molds. (The headlight covers, which carry the body lines through their length, were similarly molded.)
He ordered the Fairlane-spec K-code 289 a 271-hp unit with a four-barrel carburetor, date-coded May 1967 – from the manufacturer in the U.S., via a Canadian dealer. Or at least, he tried to.
“The first two engines didn’t make it across the border—they were stolen, because these engines were so sought-after,” explains his daughter Lesley. Fed up with Ford’s failed deliveries, Ross eventually crossed into the States after work one evening to pick up the third V8 himself.
Then one day in 1967, the eight-year-long project was complete, the Ferguson Super Sport, resplendent in its metallic green, sharing space in the driveway with Ross’ new 1967 Ford Mustang. It wouldn’t be long, however, before this rolling testament to one man’s ingenuity would be hidden away.
Ross continued to occasionally drive the Ferguson, but by ’69, he’d resolved to take advantage of changes to Canadian aviation regulations and pursue the pilot’s license that his use of eyeglasses had kept him from his entire life.
Ross continued to occasionally drive the Ferguson, but by ’69, he’d resolved to take advantage of changes to Canadian aviation regulations and pursue the pilot’s license that his use of eyeglasses had kept him from his entire life.
By the mid-’70s, the workshop behind the Ferguson house was being used for its intended purpose—a space for Ross to build his own airplane.
The Super Sport was basically abandoned.
The Super Sport was basically abandoned.
“It would sit on blocks, and then it rusted out,” says Lesley. Maintenance on a one-off car isn’t easy, so a thousand little fixes piled up until after the plane was finished in 1983. “He pulled it out of the garage, and after over a decade, it was a mess,” she recounts. “He had to strip the car down, the seats had to be redone, the engine had to be overhauled.”
The restoration was but a brief reprieve for the Super Sport. In 1988, perhaps nostalgic for his work on the Avro Arrow’s turbojets at Orenda, Ross got the itch to engineer a warbird from scratch—a two-thirds-scale replica of a Second-World-War-era Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane, powered by a Buick-Rover automobile V8.
The restoration was but a brief reprieve for the Super Sport. In 1988, perhaps nostalgic for his work on the Avro Arrow’s turbojets at Orenda, Ross got the itch to engineer a warbird from scratch—a two-thirds-scale replica of a Second-World-War-era Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane, powered by a Buick-Rover automobile V8.
That is to say the Super Sport was neglected yet again until the Spitfire saw its first flight in 2003, save for a second refurbishing in the late ‘90s. The one-time head-turner was became a dusty relic mired in myth.
It found a new owner in 2020 after Ross died
Thank you Terry!
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