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David Burge Profile picture
@iowahawkblog
Oct 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I'll lay even odds that at least one of these posts is from faculty or administration
We are witnessing 5 fucking Charlottesvilles every day, and universities are like🤷🤷🤷‍♀️
"I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling has been going on in here."
The idea that virulent antisemitism on campus is some kind of shocking unforeseen phenomenon that suddenly appeared out of nowhere in October 2023 is fucking willful blindness. Every "elite" university in the US has spent 40 years creating sinecures and chairs and entire departments for Jew-hate-peddling lunatics, and for the last 20 years panhandled donations from every lunatic oil sheikhdom to pay for them.
So college presidents and deans can spare me the shock when some of their edgy pity-hire faculty members chant support for Hamas into a bullhorn. You dumb fuckers knew full well what they were all about when you hired them in the first place, it was all there in their curriculum vitae. In fact it was the only reason you hired them.

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Dear Wealthiest Person on Planet Earth: respond to my email immediately or be prepared to suffer the unimaginable consequences
I am at MOMA. Did you hear me, motherfucker? MOMA. You better get back to me before I start browsing the gift shop, or there will be HELL to pay
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Today's #DavesCarIDService salutes pioneering motorcycle sisters Augusta and Adeline Van Buren, who arrived in Los Angeles Sept 8, 1916 after a 60 day, 5k mile trip from Brooklyn NY aboard 1916 Indian Power Pluses. Here greeted in LA by silent film starlet Anita King, Image
It was quite a road trip, including a jaunt up Pike's Peak (the first women to do so in a motorized vehicle), getting saved by a prospector after getting lost in the Utah desert and running out of water, and an epilog journey to Tijuana. During the trip they were arrested several times, not for speeding but for wearing men's clothes.

Addie & Gussie, as the were known to friends, were descendants of 8th US president Martin Van Buren and wealthy suffragettes. They were part of the "Preparedness Movement" in the US prior to WW1. The trip was meant to demonstrate that women could serve in military roles, such as motorcycle dispatchers, if called upon.

Later in life Gussie became a pilot and member of Amelia Earhart's Ninety-Nines, while Addie earned a law degree from NYU. While a pioneering duo, they were only the 2nd and 3rd women to complete a transcontinental motorcycle ride; the first was Effie Hotchkiss on a Harley 11F in 1915, with her mom Avis in a sidecar.

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Motoring is an endless source of fun history, and as always I welcome you to share some of your own family's. To get in line for an ID on a mystery car from your family archives, follow the simple directions - and remember this is a NO POLITICS zone. Image
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Welcome to another #DavesCarIDService college football Saturday, brought to you by the all-new 1932 Rockne Model 65 from Rockne Motors! Named for legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne, so get out there and buy one for the Gipper! Image
All of the above is true. Rockne Motors was a short lived (1932-33) division of Studebaker, and like Notre Dame, located in South Bend Indiana.

Two automotive engineers from Detroit, Ralph Vail and Roy Cole, developed its prototype and initially approached Willys-Overland to make it. Willys was financially strapped, and passed, but they got the attention of Studebaker.

Studebaker was looking for a low price model to replace their Erskine brand which died off in 1930, and it fit the bill. Believe it or not, Knute Rockne served as Studebaker's Assistant Sales Manager from 1928 until his death in 1931 (yes, back before $10 million salaries, famous national championship college football coaches had to moonlight in the off-season to put potatoes on the table).

In any case, Studebaker created an entire division and brand, named in honor of their beloved fallen South Bend football coach/ Studebaker salesman. Rockne was never photographed with a Rockne, but photo #2 shows him and one of his Irish Horsemen with a 1931 Studebaker.

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Sadly Studebaker went into receivership in 1933 and the Rockne division was a victim of the reorganization. Only 38,000 ever made.

Gotta say it was quite a handsome car, with nice styling and a distinctive grille. One of my fave oddball hot rods is this 1932 Rockne 3-window coupe - a perfect gearhead gift for that Notre Dame fan who has everything.
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