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Google Nancy Green because it is her. She was born a slave, became the first living trademark, then a millionaire, and represented the brand till dying in a car crash.
I think there may some confusion going on. Nancy Green is/was Aunt Jemima. Thelma "butterfly" McQueen is/was Mrs. Butterworth. Thelma McQueen played Scarlet O'hara's maid in Gone With the Wind.
Aunt Jemima syrup is in a regular bottle, with her picture on the label. Mrs. Butterworths syrup is a figurine style bottle.
Aunt Jemima syrup is in a regular bottle, with her picture on the label. Mrs. Butterworths syrup is a figurine style bottle.
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Just a few “Ford’s”. Probably $5.5 - $6.5 million worth today.
I once had the opportunity to ride in an extremely nice ‘kit car’ $100K + “kit car”. It had basically a cup engine (NASCAR motor) with approximately 750Hp in this little car.
It was really exciting, but to this day it was the scariest car I’ve EVER ridden in. To put this in a little perspective, we were going about 70 down the highway. The driver down shifted one gear and rev matched the RPM’s. He then rolled into the throttle and the rear end broke loose and we were doing a burn out at 80+ Mph. The rear end was stepping out sideways doing 80-90 mph with ease. When he lifted the throttle and switched back up one gear we both jerked pretty violently when the back tires hooked back up to the ground behind the front tires.
I like doing things like this, but you literally felt that your life was balancing on a razor blade going sideways down a highway doing 100 and just “burning the tires”
good times. LOL
For folks that are not car people: These are Ford Cobras. In todays terms, these are basically a Mazda Miata with 500-700Hp. The average person has no clue what 500-700Hp can do or experienced something with that much power. To put this into perspective your average Honda Civic probably has 125-140Hp. Your expensive cars might have 300Hp and weigh 3-4 times as much as this car. This Cobra was like a jet engine installed in a sardine can. LOL
I once had the opportunity to ride in an extremely nice ‘kit car’ $100K + “kit car”. It had basically a cup engine (NASCAR motor) with approximately 750Hp in this little car.
It was really exciting, but to this day it was the scariest car I’ve EVER ridden in. To put this in a little perspective, we were going about 70 down the highway. The driver down shifted one gear and rev matched the RPM’s. He then rolled into the throttle and the rear end broke loose and we were doing a burn out at 80+ Mph. The rear end was stepping out sideways doing 80-90 mph with ease. When he lifted the throttle and switched back up one gear we both jerked pretty violently when the back tires hooked back up to the ground behind the front tires.
I like doing things like this, but you literally felt that your life was balancing on a razor blade going sideways down a highway doing 100 and just “burning the tires”
good times. LOL
For folks that are not car people: These are Ford Cobras. In todays terms, these are basically a Mazda Miata with 500-700Hp. The average person has no clue what 500-700Hp can do or experienced something with that much power. To put this into perspective your average Honda Civic probably has 125-140Hp. Your expensive cars might have 300Hp and weigh 3-4 times as much as this car. This Cobra was like a jet engine installed in a sardine can. LOL
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thats a puncture
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And it probably missed the inner liner too, held air?
Thanks for finding my 5mm
cyclemike4
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those are bad @$$ cars. Not sure i like the way they boomed them down!
This pic is from way before they reached their current legendary status. At that time, they were just fast cars that were gonna be ragged on.
gv550
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Current project, pulled engine and split the cases to replace the output shaft with stripped splines. A common issue with Kawasaki 1700 Vulcan models.
Cycledude
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I always figured you were a pretty highly skilled mechanic !