Archive for March 10th, 2021

“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 344

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

I’m going to start out today with a little advertising.

From StudioCanalUK, “The Making of the Dam Busters”. I’m classifying this under “Movies” rather than “Military History”, so I can avoid having more than one military history per week. Also, I think it more appropriately belongs there.

Here’s the advertising: there’s a new US region blu-ray of “The Dam Busters”, which was released yesterday. This is something I think everyone in the Saturday Night Movie Group wants to see, and I will be ordering it directly. (There was a 2018 blu-ray, but it is region B/2 according to Amazon.)

(No, we do not have a region free blu-ray player.)

Bonus: since I want to stay away from military history, and sort of keeping thematically with the previous post: “This Is Triumph”.

I confess to a sneaking fondness for the TR7 back when I was a young lad…

Bonus #2: Why not? “Life In the Fast Lane”.

Oh, wait. I’m sorry. That was the wrong one. This one is from 1981, and discusses the US freeway system.

I may not be terribly bright, but honestly, I did not know about the odd/even numbering distinction. Or if I did know, I’d forgotten it.

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Things I did not know. (#5 in a series)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

There is a National Historic Vehicle Register.

In March 2013, the HVA [Historic Vehicle Association – DB] entered into a collaboration with the U.S. Department of the Interior to explore how vehicles important in American and automotive history could be effectively documented and recognized. This project is the first of its type to create a permanent archive of significant historic automobiles within the Library of Congress.

In my humble personal opinion, this is really an aesthetically pleasing site that does justice to the vehicles in the registry. And I think almost all of the choices in the registry are good ones.

(This by way of the NYT obit for Bruce Meyers, inventor of the fiberglass dune buggy.)

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