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Sink hole swallows 8 vintage Corvettes
A 40-foot sink hole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green swallowed eight of the sports cars on display inside the the facility's iconic Sky Dome Wednesday morning, said executive director Wendell Strode.
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Awkward! 28 Cringe-Worthy Vintage Product Endorsements
ere’s a moment in your typical advertising brainstorm when the people charged with wrestling the creative elements to the ground cry uncle, settling on a clumsy compromise for the sake of getting on with the really important business—billing their clients. Or so these advertisements fronted by some rather improbable pitchmen and women would suggest. Is a clown really going to convince us to buy tires for our cars? Did anyone ever believe Bill Gates bought his computers at Radio Shack?
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Selfie, 1920's style
5 photographers posing together for a photograph on the roof of Marceau's Studio, NY in 1920.
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Colin Powell's vintage 60 year old selfie is fascinating
Former secretary of state General Colin Powell posted a self-portrait taken 60 years ago when he was in his teens."I was doing selfies 60 years before you Facebook folks. Eat your heart out Ellen!" claims Powell on his Facebook account.
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These Chevy Vegas were designed for vertical (nose down) shipment. Circa 1969.
The Vega was designed for vertical shipment, nose down. General Motors and Southern Pacific designed "Vert-A-Pac" autorack cars to hold 30 Vegas each, compared with conventional tri-level autoracks which held 18. The Vega was fitted with four removable cast-steel sockets on the underside and had plastic spacers—removed at unloading—to protect engine and transmission mounts. The rail car ramp/doors were opened and closed via forklift.
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Mystery of the Traub Motorcycle
In 1967, a plumber doing renovations of an apartment building outside Chicago tore down a brick wall and found what would prove to be a baffling mystery to vintage motorcycle enthusiasts - a one-of-a-kind motorcycle bearing 1917 plates and the name "Traub". The building’s elderly owner admitted that his son had stolen the bike before going off to WWI, never to return. But where the bike came from and who made it remains a unknown to this day
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Vintage Door Knobs And How To Give Them A New Purpose
It’s been a while since I haven't seen people who have door knobs in their homes or apartments. To be honest, I really like them and since I was a child I
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Led Zep to be sued over Stairway
Led Zeppelin are to be sued by Spirit bassist Mark Andes over iconic track Stairway To Heaven's similarity to a piece released by his band three years earlier.
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A Brief History of Vintage Matchmaking
We are an obsessed culture, and there are few things we tend to fixate on more than finding love. Over 41 million people in the United States have attempted to find a partner through online dating — a billion-dollar industry that banks on our desire for a connection. But services like OkCupid, Tinder, and Match.com weren’t the first computer-based dating platforms — or the first matchmakers.
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Lomo'Instant, An Instant Camera Featuring a Variety of Lenses
Lomo'Instant is an instant camera by Lomography featuring a built-in wide-angle lens with a fisheye lens and a portrait lens both available as attachments. The camera can take multiple exposures, long exposures, and can use color gels to infuse photos with color.
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America's Most Prolific Car Collector Is Selling His Entire Collection
The Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona is one of the biggest auto sales events of the entire year. For the last decade, it's been about what one man, Ron Pratte, would buy. But in 2015 he's selling every single car he owns at that auction, including a GM Futurliner. And he hasn't given a reason.
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10 of the Coolest Vintage Motorcycles Ever Made
10 of the Best Vintage Motorcycle Models Ever Made...#8 blew me away!
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Pictures of Stunt Bikers from 100 Years Ago
In 1901, Fancy Cycling, an extraordinary book by Isabel Marks, was published, showing straight-faced paragons of Edwardian society pulling off some pretty daring (and peculiar) stunts. The original 1901 book which was one of the first to promote daring tricks for weird and wonderful acrobatics on two wheels, such as handle bar riding, riding backward and standing on the seat riding, hands off!
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Paris Through Pentax
Discover the city of love through a legendary camera, the Pentax 67.
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Urban Outfitters: Come For The Bloody Kent State Gear, Stay For Master Class In Terrible Apologies
Urban Outfitters, the clothing manufacturer and hipster closet-filler, was marketing a “Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt” for $129 earlier today. The sweatshirt is splattered with what appears to be blood. According to Urbanoutfitters.com, the sweatshirt is now sold out, probably because only one was available in the first place, as is the case with all of Urban’s “vintage” wares.
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Bloody Hell: Urban Outfitters Selling 'Vintage' Red-Stained Kent State Sweatshirt
The “vintage Kent State” sweatshirt with red blotches is for sale in the women’s section of the Urban Outfitters’ website. It must have been in high demand because it's sold out.
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King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made
The first thing you notice about the IBM Model M keyboard, when you finally get your hands on it, is its size. After years of tapping chiclet keys and glass screens on two- and three-pound devices,...
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1930 Henderson with an inline-4 air-cooled motor
Henderson produced four-cylinder motorcycles from 1912 until 1931 and, at that time, were the largest and fastest motorcycles, finding favour with sport riders and police departments. But this one’s special; based on a 1930 K.J Henderson with an inline-4 air-cooled motor, this custom is one of the most jaw-dropping art deco motorcycles we’ve ever laid our eyes on, with curvy custom bodywork that would have impressed even legendary coachbuilders of yore. More pics and info at source.
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11 Extraordinary Photos You've Never Seen
"Sometimes it's good to revisit old contact sheets," says photographer Thomas Hoepker, whose photograph of Muhammad Ali (below) is one of a handful of recently unearthed iconic images available (through November 14) in Magnum Photos’s Archive Dive sale. Some months back, the agency's photographers decided to look through all of their old, unpublished images to see what they might find. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the quality of work Magnum’s roster continuously produces...
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Jay Leno and David Letterman, 1979
Comedian Jay Leno chats with Letterman while he was guest hosting for Carson on July 4, 1979. The two became friends, then rivals, when Leno, not Letterman, replaced Carson in 1992.
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