You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

A 1968 GTO convertible at a Texas auto show. The car in question is an real custom job done at GM studios and displays custom medium orange pearlescent paint, custom two tone orange bucket eat interior with white inserts. Notice that though it has hidden headlights, one is left in the "on" position to show the feature.

Reportedly, this car still exists.

[1967 4K]

Does anyone know if this car has a born with engine or just “matching numbers “?

[grantprix]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

A 1968 GTO convertible at a Texas auto show. The car in question is an real custom job done at GM studios and displays custom medium orange pearlescent paint, custom two tone orange bucket eat interior with white inserts. Notice that though it has hidden headlights, one is left in the "on" position to show the feature.

Reportedly, this car still exists.

Looks a lot like the '67 "Skydiver" Firebird show car.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

On Nov. 2, 2000, Escondido police officer Jeff Valdivia was called in to help with the arrest of a parole violator at a known drug house in south Escondido.

Valdivia was in his mid-20s and just four years out of the police academy.

Inside one room, he found a sickly 6-week-old girl that had barely been fed after her birth and three pounds below her birth weight, along with her teenage mother, a daily crystal meth user, and a used methamphetamine pipe. (crystal meth capital of the world, Escondido California, about 20 miles north of San Diego)

Valdivia had never taken a child into protective custody before, but he feared that if he left the baby with her mother that day, she wouldn’t survive. So with the support of his fellow officers and a juvenile detective, Valdivia decided to file the paperwork that would forever change the life trajectory of the baby who became Natalie Young. But he never knew how important that decision was until six weeks ago.

Natalie was 6 years old in 2007 when her family left San Diego for Colorado Springs, in search of more affordable housing and the small-town life, with good schools, plenty of churches, horses to ride and lots of pine trees. In Colorado, Natalie gradually began to thrive.

Over time, Natalie’s health improved and she became very strong, eventually earning a black belt in tae kwon do.

Inspired by her daughter’s passion for law enforcement, Shelley Young enrolled in the El Paso County Sheriff’s academy herself about five years ago. She graduated and has been working for the department as a dispatcher ever since. It was through her work with the sheriff’s department in August that she finally found Valdivia. She called the records department at the Escondido Police Department and asked records technician Sandra Ferrer if it was possible to find a case file from Nov. 2, 2000. Intrigued and moved by Natalie’s backstory, Ferrer was able to retrieve the record from a digital database, and she immediately tracked down Valdivia with the news.

“Sandra approaches me in the hallway with a report in her hand and said, ‘Do you remember this?’ I see the name of the birth mother and I said, ‘Yeah, I remember this case really well,’” Valdivia said. “Then she said, ‘Well, that little girl was adopted, and I’ve been talking to her adoptive mom and she’s about to graduate from a sheriff’s academy.”

That’s when Valdivia — now the sergeant for Escondido Police’s community-oriented COPPS division — got a call out of the blue from Natalie’s adoptive mother Shelley Young, who had recently tracked him down through a records search. She told him that Natalie had grown up to become a healthy and happy 22-year-old who was about to graduate from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Academy in their hometown of Colorado Springs.

Shelley and her husband, Jeff Young, wanted Valdivia to know that his decision to save her had inspired their daughter to become an officer, and they wondered if he would fly out to pin on Natalie’s deputy badge at her graduation ceremony on Sept. 23.

Valdivia was stunned by the news and said it was the first time in his 26-year career that he’d had the opportunity to see the long-term results of his work.

Natalie said that from the time she was old enough to ask her parents where she came from, they told her the story of her rescue by a police officer. By the time she was 8 years old, she knew she wanted to follow in this unknown officer’s footsteps someday. “It changed my whole life and I wanted to change other people’s lives in the same way.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...y-badge-on-her

Now if THAT doesn't make your eyes leak, nothing ever will.
Congratulations to Natalie for making something of her life.

[dustinm]

Originally Posted by Too Many Projects

Now if THAT doesn't make your eyes leak, nothing ever will.
Congratulations to Natalie for making something of her life.

I know, some things shouldn't be read at work

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by 1967 4K

Does anyone know if this car has a born with engine or just “matching numbers “?

I would extend that inquiry to the entire drivetrain. The description seems it all may be replacements.
The trunk lid appears to have too much arch thru the center and Stevie Wonder installed the seal...

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

the Walter Taylor Bridge is the only habitable bridge in the Southern Hemisphere, it's in Brisbane Australia.

The original toll master and generations of his family lived in the unusual family home in the pillar on the Indooroopilly side of the bridge for 74 years. The pillar on the Chelmer side of the bridge contains another dwelling, as well as a ballroom underneath the bridge.

Reminds me of the first time I went to the Edsel Ford Estate in St Clair Shores Michigan.

We were driving along the parkway and came to the address.

I thought "wow. That's very conservative....not at all what I expected. Small, modest..."

I realized after we went in that what I was seeing was the gate house, where the security guard lived. The main estate home was inside the property about another mile, on Lake St Clair.

K

[Keith Seymore]

This is the play house they had build for their daughter. It is about 1/2 or 3/4 scale.

I could be quite content living there.

K

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

These wing cars used their enormous rear spoilers and full aero package to slice through the air like a hot knife through butter. With a drag coefficient of around .28, it's more aerodynamic than a modern Mclaren P1.

If I remember correctly the pre-production Volt number was .235 which, at the time, was best ever.

After we started production we did a spot check and the number was not what we expected, like .24+, which was a problem because we would have to round up to .25 for the advertising, which we didn't want to do.

After much investigation we found the production cars were building 5mm higher than design intent.

We dropped them back down 5mm and got back to our desired .235 number.

K

[60sStuff]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

1964 Pontiac 389 V8 dual groove alternator pulley



http://phscollectorcarworld.blogspot...ac-389-v8.html

Lee,

Here is a very early example of the ‘64 Tempest Series (08D) Aug. 63, 4th week with the 2-groove pulley’s.

Chris.