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Designed by George Watson, the “Glide” toaster “is designed to engage the user, re-invigorating the social context of toasting by questioning everything about what we toast with today.” Glide’s toasting elements can adapt to toastables of differing thicknesses, so I can continue my unhealthy and socially isolating but oh so yummy toast lifestyle Via Gizmondo

The Vah-ster malks Farber on the future of the Boeing factory floor. Brain the size of a planet, yo. Check it, bleed: Vah-man on the ZD-Net homepage. From http://blogs.zdnet.com/ Link: http://tinyurl.com/2fnzxu Jeezum crow, he sure do look and sound like a Rebassoo:

I posted the Club Coupes story (previous) strictly for the purpose of being able to run this fan letter about it, as I seldom get anything other than hate mail. I love you too, Dave: Name: David Forslund Email: dgforslund@aol.com Comments: To: David Traver Alolphus I enjoyed your Club Coupes feature. My definition is a convertible body with a sedan top. While Nash may have had the most coupes over the years, the "younger generation" loved those Ford 5 window coupes of the 30's (for hot rods) and the '40 to '48's painted black, lowered and leaded,w/fender shirts, red rims, Cadillac hubcaps, white walls and twin spots. (Sometimes a sunvisor added.) Of course the '49 & '50 Merc's either customized or James Dean style caught everyone's eye. There were coupes (as you showed) and then there were COUPES! There's enough here, to do another article. Hope you are right and someday they will return! (Chev had a few during the same period tha...

HCC30 HSX HMM HMN It’s all relative If you think you know what a Club Coupe is, think again. By David Traver Adolphus When we were selecting cars for this special club coupes issue, we were going to include a 1955 Ford. The two-door Customline sure looked like a club coupe to us: The roofline took a dive over the rear passenger’s head, so the rear window sloped from the point where it began at the B-pillar. The rear window also began below the front door window line, and there was a space between the trunklid opening and the bottom of the C-pillar. Then Editor-in-Chief Richard Lentinello asked, “Ford had a club coupe in 1955? Really? Great!” His moment of hesitation made us go back and double check, and sure enough, Ford called it a Tudor sedan. (We’ll have that car next month.) But was that Ford’s naming convention, or were they obeying a rule we didn’t know about? The ’54 was a club coupe (although the Mainline, on the sam...

You maybe remember the recent video of an English top speed test in an Evo, brought to a...screeching...halt by an errant seagull at 160kph? Well, that ain't nothin'. I don't know who this Hungarian Boxster owner is, but I do know he was hauling ass when a feathery projectile inserted itself through the glass and deep into the upholstery. And from the look of the feathers, I'm going to say it was a chicken. Related: Keith hits a deer Via: A5

I can only hope that someday, Mark Mroz's '72 Polara CHP makes it into print. Cause it's, you know, awesome. I hate shooting things and then having them hang around forever.

Yet another press release I didn't finish reading: FANUC Robotics America, Inc. has received SsangYong Motor Company’s Supplier Appreciation Award for the development of an automated paint system installed in 2006. Attached is a photo of a FANUC P-200E paint robot with a P-10E door opener.

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Look--he touched a baby! From Late feb-mar

Victor Muller, CEO of Spyker Cars, and Andrea Zagato, CEO of Zagato, today unveiled the Spyker C12 Zagato at the 77th Geneva International MotorShow. Norihiko Harada, Zagato’s Automotive Chief Designer, and Muller co-operated closely to design this limited edition of 24 sports cars to be delivered from March 2008 onwards. read more | digg story

Tedious Still Lives; "Stoolegs." This work is incomplete. From Still lives

I'm working on a series of tedious still lives, this is "Produce" From Still lives

The boy was born when it was 60 degrees in Vermont in January, it has since cooled down. From Scum and frost

I got a nice letter today from Ken Gluckman, a DaimlerChrysler Associate General Counsel and vice president, who's been following my exclusive series on the Christie's Auto Union . His email followed by a matter of minutes an off-the-record conversation with Christie's...I'm feeling like a bigshot today: I have been reading your blog for a while and have followed the story of the Auto Union car with great interest. Last year I was lucky enough to visit the Riga auto museum. While there I saw the original Auto Union racer, which I immediately recognized from the photos in the blog. I was told that this original car was sent to Audi some years ago and they helped restore it (and displayed it in their museum for a while). The original restored car was eventually returned to the museum, but while Audi had it, they made a copy, which is the vehicle now on display in their museum. I am attaching a photo of the car -- sorry it isn't better, but we weren't tryin...

From Muscle cars HCC HSX HMM42 HMN 2000 Cobra R Insane and possibly illegal The Cobra R came 30 years after the muscle car wars, and was worth the wait By George Mattar & David Traver Adolphus Photography by David Traver Adolphus Did we feel a little stupid putting on a Schrath five-point harness to drive around on the street? Yes. Was it a good idea, even with seriously bolstered deep Recaro buckets? Umm…yeah. We’re as willing to stuff a car and our careers into a nearby ditch as the next guys, but we do try not to, and in the R, truly tragic things are only a careless ankle away. Because we wanted the car nice and clean for photography, we had Steve perform some asphalt antics before we went for a drive. We should have known about the car’s character by then, as we originally met him at a track day on a road course. But come on—look at the thing. Going wicked fast around diminishing radius curves is just so Corvette. We needed smoke. H...

HCC/HMM 29 January 20 07 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder turbo restoration Cake and eat it Restoring a 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder to a concours standard and driving it, too By David Traver Adolphus Photography by Kim ________ If you’re a Corvair fan, you might recognize this car—it’s the 1964 Monza Spyder turbo club coupe on the cover of your October 2005 club publication, CORSA Communiqué . Posed on the brick pavers outside of Meadow Brook Hall, Rich Thompson’s car was the first Corvair ever to appear at the distinguished concours, where it won a coveted Lion Award. If you are that Corvair aficionado, you may also recognize Rich Thompson’s name, as he’s the Corvair Society of America (CORSA) Central Division Director, and the club Concours chairman. But Rich didn’t get his car into Meadowbrook Concours judging because he’s on the CORSA board of directors; this project predated those roles by years. Rich was motivated to...

I was certain this was a shopping list when I found it today at the four corners in the center of town. It reads: boredom Sugar Fat Pain Insufficient exercise My friend Andrew is certain it is one, possibly his. 'Always knew the Vermont Country Store had a wide selection, was unaware they had schadenfreude.

Hard to play, particularly if I attempt to score it for either of my two instruments, baritone horn or chanter. 406258694_e65219a08c_o.jpg (JPEG Image, 788x1080 pixels) via Dark Roasted Blend