To Baldly Go
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Whoa
This morning when I stopped at my neighborhood post office I was amazed to see in the parking lot a Ford Pinto. Before today I had not see a Pinto, in working condition or not, in many, many years.
My amazement was not just because the Pinto was basically a vehicle of the 1970s. And now the history lesson: the things became infamous because their fuel tanks had a nasty tendency to rupture and start a fire in the spilled fuel if the car was hit by a rear-end collision.
Due to that I would have expected all Pintos to have been retired to junkyards long ago. Think again! ¶ 12:39 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
My amazement was not just because the Pinto was basically a vehicle of the 1970s. And now the history lesson: the things became infamous because their fuel tanks had a nasty tendency to rupture and start a fire in the spilled fuel if the car was hit by a rear-end collision.
Due to that I would have expected all Pintos to have been retired to junkyards long ago. Think again! ¶ 12:39 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
License Plate Watch 5
Seen yesterday on what appeared to be a relatively new Jaguar: "XSKUZ ME"
Heh.
Heh.
Labels: license-plate
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