Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Before the day is out, avid followers of the Pickled Egg Library will find deposited there an absolute gem of motoring fascinating facts 365daysofmotoring

and selecting todays date we find that on this day....

In 1938, the Toyota Motor Co. was founded. The name was changed from Toyoda to Toyota because the number of strokes to write Toyota in Japanese characters (Kanji) is eight, a lucky number in East Asian culture, while Toyoda was nine strokes.

and

In 1976, Jensen Motors Ltd (which have cropped up in FCF discussions recently) ceased trading after 42 years.

and

In 1980, reserve Lotus driver, Nigel Mansell, made his Grand Prix debut at the Osterreichring, Austria.

So what picture to select.....a yellow Jensen Interceptor is as good as any...

https://www.premiercarriage.co.uk/vehic ... terceptor/

REgards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

My comment from yesterday when the post went belly up.

The write up for the Minerva at the Brooklands auction made me chuckle.... "driving them is like riding a bull with a chilli jockstrap."

[mickthemaverick]

To celebrate my 200th post on this forum:



Here's to the next 200

[NewcastleFalcon]

To celebrate my 200th post on this forum:

You may or may not have come across this stuff before.....



The Landlord at the Pickled Egg, brings the odd bottle of the stuff out on such occasions, just tell him its for your 200th post and you might get it for nowt!

Seeing as its Summer you may even be able to persuade him to do you the legendary Old Engine Oil Ice Cream Float

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Cheers Neil, all I need now is a map to the pickled egg and I'm sorted. Still can't get into the jukebox from my browser even tho I can from chrome so I hope I don't have the same issue at the door!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Cheers Neil, all I need now is a map to the pickled egg and I'm sorted. Still can't get into the jukebox from my browser even tho I can from chrome so I hope I don't have the same issue at the door!!

No problem Mick, there's always a warm welcome at the Pickled Egg. The punters make their own entertainment. Just look at them enjoying themselves!



Out the back things get a bit more animated in the skittle alley



Regards Neil


Regards Neil

[myglaren]

^ Reminds me of:

[NewcastleFalcon]

While flicking through a recent deposit at the Pickled Egg Library I discover that today is the anniversary of the opening of the first clover-leaf junction at Watson Road and Lindbergh Boulevard near St. Louis, Missouri as part of an upgrade of US 66. The cloverleaf interchange (junction) was patented in the US by Arthur Hale, a civil engineer in Maryland in 1916.


US 131, M-6, 68th St interchangeMichigan Department of Transportation [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

We have spaghetti of course
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Spaghetti-Junction-Crop
Original - Highways Agency photo on flickr [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

and just look at the excitement in 1935, when Europe got its first Cloverleaf Junction.

The crowd went wild in Stockholm!


Slussen 15 10 1935
Stockholms stadsmuseum [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

One Gorgeous Motor Car
NF Own Work

REgards Neil

[myglaren]

If you like that then...



Lysekil is a lovely place, I would like to live there. Not possible unfortunately.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Steve, I thought you might have first hand experience of that Stockholm first ever european cloverleaf interchange couple of posts up


Regards Neil

[myglaren]

Possible but I don't remember it. Only driven to Stockholm once in a (1954) Volvo PV 444 that we cleverly filled up with diesel on the way home, smokescreens galore.
Went to see Leonard Cohen.
Every other time I went by train.

[mickthemaverick]

Steve, I thought you might have first hand experience of that Stockholm first ever european cloverleaf interchange couple of posts up


Regards Neil

Just out of interest does anybody else have their displays set so that the latest post comes first so that previous posts are "down"? I find it easier to get to latest post that way but it can be confusing. Could we call former posts "previous" to cover both options?

[myglaren]

Mine are so that the first unread post is jumped to and more recent ones down the page - default setting.
I did see Neil's photos but as I didn't drive there (Stockholm) but one time had nothing to offer.