Posts Tagged ‘Cool cars’
Cool cars: old fire truck edition
Wednesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Apparently, there’s a museum dedicated to baseball player Roberto Clemente in an old firehouse on Penn Avenue, and they park an old fire truck outside of it – which must be a lure to bring in passing lookie loos. Here’s their link, btw.
Caught my attention, I’ll tell’s ya. Love me a cool car.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I grew up idolizing comic book artists and film directors, so the cult surrounding athletes is one I’m not a part of.
Want to talk Jack Kirby? I’m down. Want to discuss an athlete? I get quiet and listen but don’t participate in the conversation as I don’t have anything to offer on the subject. Did Roberto Clemente create the Fantastic Four, or the Avengers? Pfft.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a complete curmudgeon, I’ll go to a baseball or hockey game if you like. Won’t watch one on TV, although I will listen to a baseball game on the radio (the natural broadcast medium for baseball is AM radio) occasionally.
Couldn’t care less about football or basketball, me.
Saying that, sports means the world to a lot of people. Clemente is remembered by Pittsburgh in several conspicuous places. There’s a bridge named for him, as well as a street. A statue of the man greets entrants to PNC Park, where the Pirates compete.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Couldn’t help but pop out a few shots of the thing. My allocation of time for the walk was running down and I needed to keep moving.
Twirling, always twirling towards freedom, that’s me.
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Cool Cars – motorcycle edition
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
While walking to the T light rail station at Pittsburgh’s First Avenue, this motorcycle caught my eye. It’s a Royal Enfield, which already makes it remarkable, as you mainly see people here riding either Harley Davidson bikes or one of the many offerings from the East Asian manufacturers.
The Enfield was ‘done up’ in a trim that was reminiscent of how their bikes were finished during the Second World War. It looked modern to me despite it, this bike, but I’m no expert.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
My British father in law actually is an expert on this sort of thing, but I haven’t been able to petition him about it as of this writing.
Regardless, ‘cool bike.’
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I wonder if it’s a movie prop or something? Seems to be a legit street bike, with a license plate and everything, so…
Neat!
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Cool Cars, Van edition
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Longtime readers will recall that the ‘cool cars’ designation for a post used to be fairly common here at Newtown Pentacle, but that was in Western Queens. The tag on post signifies that I wandered past an unexpectedly charismatic vehicle, during a walk, and felt compelled to photograph it. Hence…
Check out this crazy van.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The bonnet, as the British born ‘Our Lady of the Pentacle’ might call it, was festooned with skulls. Wouldn’t want to clear snow off of this one.
I’m guessing that the owner must be in a band. The cargo racks on top… gotta be a vehicle which a band tours out of. Metal band, I’ll wager.
It’s also possible that the devil had simply parked in the South Side Flats area and this is its ride.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Front shot of the thing, and then your humble narrator moved on.
It was still too early in the day for a beer, so despite my proximity to the Sly Fox Brewery and it’s non stop parade of CSX trains, your humble narrator instead ‘leaned into it’ and continued on with his scuttle.
I was determined to use mass transit to get back to HQ, but that’s another story for another day. Back tomorrow.
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Three from Pittsburgh
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s a ‘T’ light rail train set operating at street grade, along Arlington Avenue in Pittsburgh, and sitting at a red light. The transit service is currently rerouted from its normal efficiency to accommodate a construction project rehabilitating a transit only tunnel punched through Mount Washington which it normally uses.
Your humble narrator was car based on this particular day, due to high atmospheric temperatures and a desire to see a lot of things all at once. Luckily, I’ve developed a fairly decent knowledge of how to get around hereabouts in the last three years. Zippy.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
A quick drive over to Etna found me sitting under a bridge to take advantage of the offered shade. I was trying for a railroad trifecta, but Norfolk Southern wasn’t playing ball. I had other stuff to do, and my ‘me time’ interval was coming to an end.
All of the posts you’ve seen this week were captured rapid fire on that particularly hot and sultry morning.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
On my way back to where the car was parked, this truck carrying smaller trucks caught my eye. I asked the trucker if I could grab a couple of shots and he waved me on saying ‘I couldn’t give a flip.’
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Monstrum has
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
So… I’m scuttling along in the South Side Flats section of Pittsburgh when I happened across this fantastic vehicle, whose driver was executing its function – which is to smash things.
A friend had mentioned this service to me in the past, but it’s best described by the ‘horse’s mouth’ at the company website: monstersmash.com. There’s video.
In a nutshell, they’ve got a giant spiked roller mounted on the end of a hydraulic arm, and said setup is used to compact materials which are already in a dumpster at a job site. Awesome sauce.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Beyond their absolutely fantastic cartoony style branding, the service is meant to save some space within the dumpster by compacting boxes, boards etc. Pretty clever, if you ask this humble narrator.
Also: Who doesn’t like to see a giant spiked cylinder tearing stuff up?
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I didn’t interact with the driver, other than shouting ‘awesome’ and ‘yeahhh!’ at him while popping off a few photos of the action. The only thing that would make this better would be they also had a big mallet that beat the stuff in the dumpster down into dust.
COOL!
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