What's left of a 1959 Chrysler Windsor. Old junk cars were once deliberately put on beaches and river beds as a means of erosion control. (ht @AndreaBitely)
Clue 1: transmission appeared to be an early Mopar TorqueFlite.
Clue 2: block head bolt pattern matches Mopar B motor
Clue 3: forward chassis & body mounts match 1957-59 Mopar (pic A)
Confirmation: 59 Windsor unique match to bumper (pic B)
Q.E.D.
once again though, I am not even in the same car ID league as hundreds of people you can encounter at your local old car swap meet. There are people who do this sort of thing for a living, I'm just a semi-competent amateur.
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Dear media: the scandal isn't how Hunter Biden spent his money, the scandal is how he got his money
Mark my words, Hunter B will get a 7 figure advance a ghostwritten book about his struggles with addiction, go on a weepy hand-holding talk show promo tour, and won't face a single question about how tf he got hired by Ukraine and Chinese companies
Today's episode of #DavesCarIDService is brought to you by the all new 1960 Chevy Corvair - official car of the Easter Bunny!
apologies to anyone who may have contracted the heebie-jeebies from viewing that clip, and for those of you who are new to Dave's Car ID Service, I thank you in advance for respecting the guidelines:
All right, let's kick off the vehicular Easter egg hunt with this neat story & photo. Solid ID is a bit hindered by the grille blanket but I think it's a 1923 Buick Series 23 sedan. The steel disk wheels give me a lingering pang of doubt, tho.
Don't know if that's good career advice, but I think we can all agree that whatever passes as opinion writing (left or right) is now so interchangeably conformist and boilerplate it might as well have been churned out by 3 algorithms freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/if-you-want-…
with a handful of exceptions, I can barely name any journo who is saying anything remotely interesting, or memorable, or who couldn't be replaced by 100 twitter randos without anybody noticing
I kinda have a 4-part writer test:
1. do they write about interesting topics nobody else is covering?
2. do they write in a unique, entertaining, or surprising style?
3. do they seem to know what they're talking about?