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I have noticed that there seems to be a lot of the same posts coming up on forums at the moment regarding insurance for first time drivers and young people. Hopefully this guest post from Gary at Grime & Gears will help some people who are looking at getting insurance or helping there kids get first time insurance.
Probably not the same learner car you will have…
It’s a valid excuse most of the time if you are caught speeding and you weren’t on the bike at the time, because one would assume if you weren’t on the bike then it must have been another rider borrowing (or stealing) your bike and breaking the law. However I don’t think this swiss biker can use the same excuse, sure he wasn’t on the bike but he was definitely still in the picture!
Yes I am a Vans fanboy and yes I already own a pair of the last Moon/Vans collab but I’m still allowed to lust over the new 2011 design that has just been previewed.
Some more blog recommendations today with The Amazo Effect, which is a superb site that has the usual awesome finds of cars and bikes but also, putting it into the must read category, is the amazing detail they will go into for blog posts. For example, he does drag racing history articles that are a long but very worthwhile read! I’m not ashamed to say I have learnt a hell of a lot from reading some of the stuff found on The Amazo Effect!
Good old Ford!
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It would seem Evel Knievel hurt himself on quite a regular basis. When you look back on his stunt career it is amazing just how many of his jumps went bad, I think people turned up ready to see a fail or a win, either would keep them happy.
“There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke”
A shattered pelvis doesn’t sound like fun. Interestingly the ever reliable (LOL) Wikipedia claims “The 433 broken bones he suffered during his career earned an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of “most bones broken in a lifetime”.
Without a doubt the most famous stuntman, I wonder if he has the record for surviving the most motorbike accidents in general as well. I do know he held the record for jumping the most stacked cars for 35 years before it was broken in 2008, what seems ridiculous now though is most modern moto x riders jump huge gaps without even thinking about it, shows how much bike technology has come on, it must have been hard work heaving a heavy Harley Davidson off a ramp!
Apparently the current longest jump done on a Motorcycle was done by Australian Robbie Maddison who jumped an incredible 107m and made it all look very simple as you can see in the video below. Evel Knievel’s longest successful jump was 133 feet (40.5m).
Everyone knows that company cars are the best car you can ever drive along with rental cars because you don’t ever have to fix them yourself but I would happily treat the Sibs Hot Rods company car with respect! One of the best things about working for a company that makes awesome Hot Rods for a living is the company car is going to be something slight different to the normal Prius or Mundano. While big companies have to struggle with their fleet management and sorting out who is driving what on certain days, the only thing Sibs Hot Rod employees will be doing is fighting over who is going to take the T for a coffee run in the morning!
Sibs Hot Rods will take on most Hot Rodding projects a customer would want and what better way to prove their skills than to have the company car as a very cool, period correct (to the 50′s) Model T with a proper 1951 Flathead. The Rod gets used every day (weather allowing – it has no bonnet or roof!) and gets taken to find lunch, run errands, take customers for a ride and was built to be as reliable as possible with it getting many miles put on it every year; just how any Hot Rod should be.
It may not be the flashiest of rods around but I love the simple working look of it and it must be great fun to drive and it looks like they had a fun build with it!
I just got a comment from the owner of the amazing garage build, I wrote about back in March, he said he has now completed the upstairs and the Cobra kit is on the ground and evidently from the pictures he included, it is also drivable!
The pictures won’t come up in the comments so I thought I would just do a quick update post and put them on here. I’d like to thank the man who comments by the name of HIRISC (sorry I don’t know your actual name!) for updating us all on his amazing garage and ace Cobra build. It is looking fantastic and my jealousy is hitting an all time high!
Greenwood Corvette at Sebring 1980 by Nigel Smuckatelli on Flickr.
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