The first *truly* Multi-Terrain Vehicle :-p

Saw this via Facebook, and thought I'd Share :-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13405700

According to the Trivia in www.imdb.com it went up in E-Bay last month....

Why it's gone to L.A., though, is anyone's guess

Looks like I'll be watching this Movie again soon, huh? :-)

While I was on my Lunch Break today in South Melbourne while doing the Security Course in South Bank, I happened to see a Blues Mobile ( Read more... )

JANUARY 29

Karl Benz patents the first petrol-driven car in 1886, so beginning the automobile's single-minded destruction of the environment.

DECEMBER 16

BUBBLE CARS

At the official site of the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum you can check out such small and spiffy roadsters as the 1949 King Midget Series I, a single-cylinder race car that was ordered as a kit; the 1959 Frisky Family Three, which only seats two and looks like a miniature version of a giant fifties sedan; the single-passenger ( Read more... )

SEPTEMBER 6

1900: New electric-car speed record is set

On this day in 1900 a new speed record for an electric car was set in Newport, Rhode Island, when Andrew L. Ricker motored down a five-mile track in ten minutes, twenty seconds. The record proved that the electric car could compete in performance with gasoline-powered vehicles. The popularity of ( Read more... )

JULY 23

1903: First Ford Model A delivered to buyer

On this day in 1903, Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago became the first owner of the Ford Model A, a two-cylinder beauty whose cousin, the Model T, would make Ford the nation's largest carmaker. Henry Ford and Alexander Malcomson, a Detroit coal merchant, collaborated on the Model A, designed chiefly by ( Read more... )

Saw this Article and thought I'd share :-)

What your Car Colour says about you....

RED - Mostly bought by men. It stands for passion, speed, performance and strength. It's also a danger colour, but realistically when you're talking about cars it's performance. In the UK, red cars are the most commonly pulled over for speeding

YELLOW/ORANGE - They ( Read more... )