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Feb 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Aw, dang. A very wistful RIP to Raquel Welch, who left an indelible impression on my youth. To follow, a short #DavesCarIDService thread dedicated to her:

Raquel Tejada (her maiden name) regally waving as San Diego County Fair Queen in a 1959 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible.
*she married (and quickly divorced) her high school sweetheart James Welch, but kept the name for the rest of her life.
Pre-film fame, as a trophy queen at Southern California race tracks, congratulating a very luck Bob O'Leary and his victorious Kurtis Offy sprint car.
Behind the wheel of a small block Chevy-powered T-bucket hot rod, circa 1965.
Holy moly. Raquel with a 1960 Chevy Corvette.
1967, with her film career in full swing: with a 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS, and yep, this car she actually owned.
That Ferrari deserves another look.
With a 1968ish Volvo P1800S coupe.
One more; Raquel with a 1968ish Piaggio Vespa Super 150.

Farewell, you goddess, you will be missed.
correction - driver pictured here is Don Cameron, who drove the Bob O'Leary Kurtis-Offy. 1958, Balboa Stadium Speedway San Diego.

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May 16
Today's Dave's Car ID Service pays homage to the General Motors Technical Center in Warren Michigan, which held its grand opening May 16, 1956. The absolute pinnacle of postwar Detroit style, confidence, and power, and a fitting showcase for a 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Image
The shot of the Caddy was merely the lobby of the Design Center. The technical center itself is a huge 320 acre campus, built around an artificial lake, with office space originally designed for 5,000 workers - engineers, designers, researchers, GM's brain center. At the time of its opening 70 years ago it had a reported price tag of $100 million, about $1 billion in 2026 money.

Internal discussion of the project began in 1944, when GM car production was still shut down for war production. GM Chairman Alfred P Sloan and Research Director Charles Kettering (of Sloan Kettering cancer hospital fame) presented the proposal with early design layouts to the GM Board that December. It was approved, and the first 100 acres of farmland were purchased outside the then-tiny town of Warren, north of Detroit.

Neither Sloan nor Kettering really cared for architectural flourish, but GM's chief of styling Harley Earl argued that an architecturally distinct working environment would spur creativity and innovation. The earliest design by Finnish-American Eliel Saarinen were in a Streamline Moderne style, similar to the GM Pavilion building at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1948 GM again hired Saarinen, Saarinen & Associates to revise the plans. It was assigned to Eero Saarinen, Eliel's son. It would be his first solo project as an architect. Saarinen's revised design was in the International Style, influenced by Mies van der Rohe's IIT campus in Chicago. The landscape architecture was handled by Thomas Church.

It took 8 years to complete, and the Finnished product (pun intended) is among the most stunningly beautiful examples of Midcentury Modern architecture ever built. Subsequent expansion of the campus to accommodate 20,000 workers, and $1 billion renovation/restoration completed in have adhered to that style. It was truly "Where Today Meets Tomorrow."Image
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Imagine going to work every day here. I don't know about you but I wouldn't need to set my alarm clock.

I've attempted to get into the GM Technical Center for a tour and looky-loo, only to get the bum's rush from the gate guards. Very hush hush place with high security.

In case anybody from General Motors reads this, could I prevail upon you to take pity on this old car & architecture nut and request a guest pass on my behalf? I will be in Detroit later this year, and honestly I'm fairly harmless.Image
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May 13
Right fucking now
Players earning money, out in the open, in a free market
Historically bad program winning a championship
Teams with gigantic spending failing terribly
10-15 programs with a legitimate chance at a title
End of the ESPN-SEC 1000 year reich

What's not to like?
Iowa has about the lowest transfer turnover in the country. Because they recruit underrated 2-3 stars with chips on their shoulders who remain loyal. Pay $2 million for a 5-star, don't be surprised when he considers the deal purely transactional.

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May 11
I love Texas, but my god the Dallas skyline is an aesthetic abomination.

Worldwide skyline rankings:

1. Chicago
2. 4000-way tie of also-rans
Say what you want about Chicago, but its skyline is a 140 year long group project masterpiece. Unequaled on Planet Earth, go talk to a wall Image
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Honestly outside a few notable buildings Manhattan architecture is decidedly mid. Like a movie trailer that shows you a few highlights but the rest is just boring
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May 10
M is for her Mercury Marauder
O is for her Oldsmobile Jetfire Image
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T is for the Triumph Grandpa got her
H is for her Hudson white wall tires Image
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E is for her fashion top Electra
R is for her Rambler '53 Image
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May 9
A very happy 150th birthday to the Otto Cycle internal combustion engine from Dave's Car ID service! Revealed May 9, 1876, it was the first practical example of a gasoline powered 4-stroke (a/k/a Otto Cycle). Or as we gearheads say, "suck squeeze bang blow."

German Nicolaus Otto invested 14 years of research, trial and error, and help from his employees Gottfried Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach into creating it, but reportedly had zero interest in transportation applications; his were all designed as huge stationary engines for industrial or agricultural jobs. When it debuted, it claimed the "day of steam was at end." Not a correct forecast as it turned out, but it carved out a niche in the light industrial market. I've seen a working Otto engine from the early 1880s.

In any event, the potential of Otto's engine for transportation didn't escape his employees Daimler & Maybach, who pioneered the earliest days of automobiling with scaled down, more efficient versions of Otto's 4-stroke. It wasn't the invention of the car, but it made the invention of the car possible.Image
Technically the Otto engine was not the first internal combustion engine. Otto was inspired to create his design after seeing Jean Lenoir's IC engine in 1862. He built a replica but noted it was noisy, inefficient, and had an unfortunate tendency to BLOW THE HELL UP.

The key insight he derived was that compression mattered. Though it had a piston, Lenoir's design did not compress the fuel, it simply ignited and returned to TDC where it received the next fuel charge. It worked, but not for long due to the stress on the cylinder and piston. Otto's experiments proved fuel compression was more efficient and resulted in more power and durability.

Unlike Otto, Lenoir *was* interested in transportation. He powered a boat with one of his engines in 1861, and built his "Hippomobile" (2) in 1862. Petroleum powered, it made a 7 mile trip around Paris in 1863 at about 1.8 MPH. Arguably the first gasoline powered car, beating the Benz Patent-Motorwagen by over 20 years.Image
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So was Lenoir's the first internal combustion engine? Like the debate over the "first car," therein lies a definitional rabbit hole. The answer is no; in 1851 Italian mathematics professor Eugenio Barsanti and engineer Felice Matteucci patented a hydrogen-burning IC with free floating pistons (a replica in #1).

And WAY before that, French-Swiss artillery officer and inventor Francois De Rivaz received an 1807 patent for a gravity piston & ratchet wheel hydrogen IC design that he completed in 1804-05 (2). He even made a vehicle with one (3) in 1807.

To dive even deeper in the IC rabbit hole, the Niépce brothers received a 1807 patent for their "Pyréolophore," an internal combustion engine for boats. The fuel? A mixture of finely crushed coal dust and lycopodium powder.Image
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From my intrepid cousin, who has learned through the National Archives that our grandmother was forced to attend what was literally known as “Detention School” until she dropped out. I couldn’t be prouder or more delighted Image
*I'm the result of crossbreeding a completely taciturn American Gothic Iowa farm family (Dad) and a family of insane dysfunctional Irish criminal alcoholics (Mom). This is my mom's mom
Anyhow Happy Early Mother's Day!
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