Archive for January, 2005
Oldsmobile Experimental stopped by The Kneeslider
31 January 2005I mentioned that $3,000,000 auction sale the other day. One of the former employees from Olds Experimental dropped by with a few observations about that F88 and a little teaser about another car. Hmm…
Naro car and Aprilia Magnet
31 January 2005Here are two concepts that are absolutely neat. The first is the Naro car, which is a four wheel two seater. The seats are in tandem and the riders are seated higher than a car, eye height is the same as a Honda Blackbird and the width is just enough to enclose the mirrors of [...]
Barrett Jackson chopper
30 January 2005Very few motorcycles come across at Barrett Jackson, it is heavily oriented to cars but a custom chopper by Chris Olson just sold for $52,000. Not bad I guess if it’s to your taste, not mine, but there’s a buyer for everything.
Cleveland Cycle World Motorcycle Show
30 January 2005Attended the Cleveland Cycle World show yesterday and enjoyed the bikes. I was a little disappointed that the Monster Challenge was not part of this stop on the tour but I had the opportunity to look at a lot of other displays. I had an up close look at the new Harley Davidson Street Rod [...]
$3,000,000 car
29 January 2005For those of you on your computers now and not watching the live Barrett Jackson auction on Speed TV, you missed seeing a 1954 Oldsmobile F88 concept car go for $3,000,000. That’s $1,000,000 higher than their record sale in a prior auction. Prices this year are nuts.
Secure keys cracked
29 January 2005Just yesterday I posted the link to the lock picking championship and said that since mechanical locks were so vulnerable, electronic keys would be much more necessary. Today, we find out the code to those keys has been cracked.
Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a system, using off the shelf computer [...]
Lock picking champs
28 January 2005Ever watch the movies where some guy sneaks up to a door at night and pulls out a small leather case filled with picks and opens a door in seconds? Well, this isn’t the movies, this is the Dutch Open Lock Picking Championship. These guys are the real deal. Your average suburban home with a [...]
Hooligan - the film for old British bikers
27 January 2005By now, most of you have heard about the film Faster covering the MotoGP world. Well, now we have a film scheduled for release this summer of 2005 by the name of Hooligan. It’s all about riders of old British iron, cafe racers, the neat old machinery without the plastic or truckloads of chrome. These [...]
