Housekeeping: Happy President's and Family Day
Today is President’s Day in America and Family Day in Canada, and so we, and our corporate masters, are taking the day off.
We have a regularly scheduled Junkyard Find, and if news breaks we’ll be around, but otherwise, see you all on Tuesday.
Take ‘er easy, and we hope you enjoyed this weekend’s Daytona 500.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Not The Bee had a fun one, some TV station naively asking NASCAR fans what they wrote on the finish line. Otherwise, I got nothing relevant. https://notthebee.com/article/this-nascar-reporter-asked-the-crowd-what-message-they-wrote-on-the-finish-line--and-instantly-regreted-it
Happy Islander Day. (Why does Quebec hate families?)
On this Extra Peaceful [now that the Winter Olympics are over] Presidents' Day (Texas spelling; not observed in Delaware), you may want to re-familiarize yourself with the contents of these materials: Movie recommendation: The Atomic Cafe (1982 documentary) [available various places but here is one link] https://youtu.be/lF0r1OdDIME Book recommendation: www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Instructions/dp/1634502973
"The General built cars based on the front-wheel-drive A platform (no, not that other GM A platform) for the 1982 through 1996 model years, with the profoundly unmemorable Chevy Celebrity as the most numerous type." I thought the Cutlass Ciera was the most popular FWD A-body back then.