Miss Fritter, a customized school bus that frequents the Thunder Hollow demolition derby.

http://thenewswheel.com/kerry-washington-nathan-fillion-and-lea-delaria-join-the-cast-of-cars-3/

Dodge Ram presents an interview with Norman Reedus. Why Dodge? No idea. What's the interviewer got to do with trucks? Chrysler Fiat or Dodge? Again, no idea, nothing is ever mentioned how he got them to fund his pet project

Skip the first 52 seconds.

"The celebrities chosen to be interviewed were selected due to the reflecting the rugged and free-spirited nature of the Ram Rebel."

http://thenewswheel.com/photographer-patrick-hoelck-interviews-actor-norman-reedus-in-video-series-sponsored-by-ram/

India has banned the sale of the more-polluting vehicles starting from April 1st, 2 days ago.

Sounds good?

The small issue arises though, that in a country with 5 times the population of the USA, there are 5 times as many car sales lots, new/used - whatever.

There are a lot of new and never been used gross polluter cars sitting on those sales lots. Now, who has to suffer the loss of the inventory costs?

The estimate is 0.8 million vehicles, worth 1.9 billion dollars.

Do they try to sell them to Indonesia? African countries? Where can they ship them off to recoup some of the cost? And doesn't that just move the pollution to another underdeveloped country?

http://thenewswheel.com/india-bans-sales-of-lower-efficiency-vehicles-starting-in-two-days/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-autos-idUSKBN17017N

Now, keep in mind, they had 2 YEARS of warning that this was coming, and yet,

India's top court on Wednesday banned the sale of vehicles running on older Euro III fuel technology from April 1, a decision that led to a sharp fall in shares of major automakers sitting on unsold inventories.

Shares of two-wheeler manufacturer Hero MotoCorp fell as much as 4.4 percent, while those of truck manufacturer Ashok Leyland were down as much as 6.6 percent and carmaker Tata Motors' shares dropped nearly 2 percent.

The court, in its judgment, said health concerns of citizens took precedence over any financial losses for companies.

2016’s Mazda Drive for Good program resulted in donations totaling more than $5.4 million to charities across the US

AND  partners of Mazda North America have pledged a total of over 67,500 hours of charitable service.

All as a result of Mazda pledging that for each test drive, Mazda does one hour of charity work; and for each new vehicle bought or leased, $150 is donated to the buyer’s choice of a list of national and local charities.

http://thenewswheel.com/mazda-drive-for-good-raises-5-4-million-and-67500-volunteer-hours-for-charity/

The Dodge Demon hasn't yet been fully publicized, but due to being in the movie Fate of the Furious, it's showing up in the movie previews, and the movie's related music videos. The movie is out next Friday

http://thenewswheel.com/the-dodge-demon-featured-prominently-in-another-the-fate-of-the-furious-music-video

1970 Challenger had 3 different stripe options... I can't think of another model with that much choice for a buyer as to decals

Hoodstripe, beltline stripe, TA High side stripe, and not shown here, the stripe around the tail on convertibles or the hood depended on if there was a shaker hood

https://img.clipartfox.com
http://www.highdefforum.com/1090255-post822.html

1970 and 71 Sport Fury.... big ol luxury barges

http://www.highdefforum.com/1090147-post815.html
http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2012/02/27/wheels-in-the-grass-102/

Look at a Chevy Volt hybrid a different way, mathmatically. It's a loser.

Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors... and he writes... For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.

Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kWh battery is approximately 270 miles.

It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.

According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kWh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery on a 120V system, less on a 240V system.

 The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity. I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kWh. 16 kWh x $1.16 per kWh = $18.56 to charge the battery.

If electricity cost 1/2 as much, it would cost $9.28 to charge, and still cost nearly 4 times as much as gas. $9.28 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.37 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.

$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.

The gasoline powered car costs about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.........So the American Government wants proud and loyal Americans not to do the math, but simply pay 3 times as much for a car, that costs more than 7 times as much to run, and takes 3 times longer to drive across the country..."



In February 2012, Eric Bolling did test drive a Chevy Volt and report on his experience for Fox News, noting (among other factors) that the Volt took 12 hours to charge and ran for only about 25 miles before discharging the battery and switching over to the gasoline engine, aspects he found particularly disappointing for an automobile that cost $46,500 and was heavily subsidized with taxpayer money

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2011-chevrolet-volt-test-review
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/chevyvolt.asp

specially built as a "throne car" for the evangelist "Father Divine" it's the largest, and heaviest, Duesenberg ever built. 7 thousand pounds.

In the mid-1930s, at the worst of the Great Depression a Duesenberg chassis was $8500 (almost $150,000 in today’s dollar). The number of buyers was quickly dried up, as the cars weren't modern disposable junk, they lasted for ever, and the desire to replace a car every year hadn't yet been invented by Harley Earl's design studio.

In Pasadena, the Walter M. Murphy company, builder of more Model J coachwork than any other, liquidated in 1932. Its equipment and some of its most skilled craftsmen coalesced into a new company, Bohman and Schwartz.

One of the company's first commissions was a modern Town Cabriolet body on a 1935 Model J chassis for candy heiress Ethel Mars. Designer J. Herbert Newport went with a raked, vee-shaped radiator shell, and created streamlined sidemount spare covers that became the car's signature design feature.

In 1936, the company received an order from “John the Baptist” for what was to be the largest and heaviest Model J Limousine Landaulet the penultimate of the marque.

Wealthy Californians Florence Hunt and her two sons, John and Warner, who adopted new names, Florence taking Mary Bird Tree; John becoming John the Revelator; and Warner, confusingly enough, John the Baptist were caught up in Father Divine’s charismatic preaching, so they donated this Duesenberg to his Peace Mission.

The order included many unique specifications like star quarter windows, a crescent moon-shaped rear window, star-studded white headliner, a hydraulically operated folding landaulet and an elevating rear seat. It was for the Rev. M.J. Divine, "Father Divine."

Father Divine was a charismatic preacher who founded the Universal Peace Mission Movement in the 1910's. The Universal Peace Missions provided lodging, food and a steady diet of Father Divine's messages in return for followers' turning over all worldly possessions and earnings to the Mission.

While his followers labored in support of the "Mission" Father Divine lived a luxurious life while never owning a thing, taking only "loans" of houses and cars from grateful "Angels", followers who had turned over all their possessions to the Mission.

His Missions hosted sumptuous banquets for followers and visitors; in accordance with the Mission's precepts anyone was welcome, drawing thousands during the Depression's dark days.

Father Divine received the Limousine Landaulet Throne Car from Mary Bird Tree as a Peace Mission donation (i.e., he didn’t own it per se, though the car was solely for his use) contrary to his main message to his followers of renouncing worldly possessions.

The throne car’s wheelbase was 178.5 in., 8.5 in. longer than a Bugatti Royale’s.

It went into storage in 1948, with 100,743 miles on its odometer and stayed there because Mother Divine wanted it handy for Father Divine’s return.

The sharks, flippers, and collectors were crazy to get ahold of the unique Duesenberg, and it was flipped over and over again in just 2 years of getting out of Mother Divine's possession, winding up in the Imperial Palace Collection in 1983, where it took a central place as one of the signature attractions in the IP's legendary collection of Duesenbergs until it was acquired in 1999 by the Dean V. Kruse Foundation, still in the badly deteriorated condition in which it had been rescued from Father Divine's carriage house.

No one put a dime into it's care or upkeep while they raised it's value and their bank accounts, flipping it.

Famous collector John O'Quinn had it restored in 2006, and presented it at the 2009 Pebble Beach Concours

https://simanaitissays.com/2016/10/30/a-divine-dusie/
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19363/lot/420/
http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/805281,8971/1937-Duesenberg-Model-J_photo.aspx

the state of New York decided to put the '32 Packard that FDR bought back into use, instead of buying a new limo, for its officials and diplomats to use in parades

New York Governor Cuomo told reporters the Packard is a national treasure, and it’s going to be a great marketing device for the state of New York, and a parade queen for politicians who are tired of new limos

The 1932 Packard Phaeton was purchased in 1932 by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt for his use in Albany. When Roosevelt was elected to the Presidency, the vehicle became part of the state fleet. Though kept in running condition, it was rarely used after 1942 when Governor Thomas Dewey acquired a Cadillac.

The goal is to get it working reliably and take it on the road for state events, the mail goal is the opening of the new Tappan Zee Bridge slated for 2018.

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/press/state-museum-exhibits-two-historical-vehicles-new-york-state-fair-august-21-september-1
https://www.facebook.com/anibal134/posts/10209081886264511
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2017/03/28/start-up-packard-ny-rehab-fdrs-ride/99745096/