A World War II era U.S. aircraft carrier that sank in the Pacific over 80 years ago is now at the heart of an automotive mystery, the Daily Mail reported. During a recent expedition to the iconic wreck site—located about 1,000 miles northwest of Hawaii—a NOAA Ocean Exploration team discovered a car hidden inside the sunken vessel on April 19.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mysterious-car-found-in-sunken-wwii-aircraft-carrier/
Oh, and final #WeirdCarMastodon Nissan post, they had a model of the variable compression ratio engine, oh, and a model train from when the factory had a railway connection...
Took a trip to Yokohama, and then a wander to the docks for the "Nissan Engine Museum", which certainly lived up to its name! Lots and lots of... Engines. And lots of displays and timelines on the history....
#WeirdCarMastodon
In 1961, the Austin Healey Sprite lost the ‘Frogeye’ look sported by yesterday’s Mk1 version in favour of this more conventional look. The Sprite also acquired a badge-engineered MG sister, the Midget. I saw this Midget, like the Sprite, at the Practical Classics resto show. After yesterday’s Old English White, today we appear to have an example of British Racing Green. But tomorrow, something Sprite/Midget related that is less British…
California Is About To Run Out of License Plate Numbers
The seven-character pattern California has used for 45 years will finally run out of combinations in 2025, two years earlier than expected. But America's largest car market has a plan.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/california-is-running-out-of-license-plate-numbers
Vintage Corvette Driver Somehow Survives Playing Limbo With a Guardrail
The driver of this car escaped unscathed, but the car won't be good for much besides turning into a race car bed.
#RadRide at auction today! Let's kick off the week with one heck of a rarity in this 90 Nissan S-Cargo! It's a darling little runabout/delivery van that just has such style, but what else would you expect from the Pike factory? The hubcaps have snails on them! DM for interest or to bid! #JDM #weirdcarmastodon
Today, another random white car I came across while working back through my photo roll. Meet the Austin Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite. The colour is actually Old English White, a slightly ‘warmer’ parchment/cream shade traditionally seen on British cars over the years. An option of this name appeared on the Rover 75 paint chart, for example. The Frogeye spawned, if you’ll forgive the pun, a couple of spin-offs, of which more in the next two posts.
Roger's exhaust manifold is a bit borked. Good thing we picked up a new set of extractors at the VW show in November.
This Willy’s #Jeep is a bit wonky, but would be fun to get running
There was the propaganda war reenactment with various RAAF and Navy and Army doing their thing on land and air.
LOL. Good luck with that.
