Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Power Transmission system

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Louis Jensen and William Brazier,  Related Science for Automotive Trades. Delmar Pub. 1958  The artist must have had fun making this unusual...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

The wreck of the T. P. Leathers

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Joan and Thomas Gandy, T he Mississippi Steamboat Era in historic photographs , Dover Pub. 1987   Sailing down the Mississippi river on Octo...

1934 Hupmobile

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 One of famed designer Raymond Loewy's first automotive designs, the Aerodynamic line was introduced in 1934, the cars featured dramatic...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

West German padlock

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 These things turn up all over the place online and seem to be considered collectable. They're stamped with a size 35mm or 45mm and Made...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Wapwallopen

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  Candidate for the best locomotive name ever. This freight engine was built by Baldwin in 1865 for the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad. Not...
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Making a cut with a lathe

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  From a South Bend instruction manual from 1920. That's a cut depth of nearly an inch in steel. The flat belt on my South Bend wouldn...
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Monday, February 23, 2026

GM parts

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 I recognize this as probably a steering king pin on a 50s GM car or truck but the box has no part number. I like the care that GM put into ...

Monday Mystery, Clamp

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 This looks like a really useful thing for... some thing... any ideas?
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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Chrysler for 1955

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 Twin-Tower tail lights that say "Stop" with great authority.... 

Sidecar Sunday

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