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Grow Automotive
8909 Gravois Rd
Saint Louis, MO 63123
Call or text 314.246.0227
2001 GMC Yukon XL 1500 SLT
$7995 - We finance.
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The invention of the word ‘Boob’.
Star Trek App
Star Trek fans:
A friend of mine (Justin Makler) just created this FREE app for the Saint Louis Science Center which will ‘Trekify’ you! Just download, upload your photo and become a Star Trek cast member!
Okay… I’m a nerd!
life:
Happy Birthday, Liza Minnelli.
In March 1965, when LIFE photographer Bill Eppridge spent time on assignment with Judy Garland’s enormously talented daughter, Liza Minnelli was just turning 19 and launching a titanic career of her own: she was about to debut on Broadway in Flora the Red Menace, in a role that would make her the youngest woman ever to win a Tony Award for lead actress.
Liza allowed Eppridge into her spirited rehearsals, and even invited him to her birthday party at a swinging New York discotheque. LIFE wound up publishing just one of Eppridge’s photos. Here, in tribute to Minnelli and her enduring career, LIFE.com presents an entire series of marvelous, previously unpublished images of a legend in the making.
Presenting you the Good Vintage Valves, as this event took place in 1914.
This is the French Grand Prix (Lyon), and try to rewind your brain to an era when “Grand Prix” didn’t even make any sense as a combination of words related to racing — mostly because racing didn’t make that much sense to everybody.
Still, apparently almost 300 thousand people watch Peugeot battling Mercedes for more than 700km. The chap with the stunning moustache is Christian Lautenschlager, winner of this event, possibly due to the aerodynamics of his facial hair.
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The 1964 Enzo Ferrari l 250 GT Lusso Comp Spec.
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Behold, the Austin J40 (1949) pedal car.
An anonymous chap (why anonymous? would love to know who requested this) sent me a message asking for a post about these. Since I knew nothing about them, here it is, and I find these to have quite a fascinating story behind!
I can’t explain in better words than the Austin J40 Car Club itself, so these are theirs:
Austin pedal cars were made in the specially constructed Austin Junior Car Factory at Bargoed in South Wales, which opened on 5 July 1949. It was paid for by Government funds and was run on a not-for-profit basis and purely for the employment of disabled coal miners suffering from the lung disease, pneumoconiosis. They were re-trained and benefited from in-house medical care.
The cars (..) were made from scrap off-cuts of metal from the Longbridge Austin Motor Car Factory and were built and painted the same way and with the same expertise as the motor cars themselves. (…)
A total of 32,098 Austin J40s were made until production ceased in September 1971.
If you’re looking for more details about these, which you should, there’s the full story over here.
They look quite astonishing to be honest, I wouldn’t want to scratch the paint on these, oh no.
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I am so homesick. I want fried ravioli, baseball games, Grant’s Farm, Shaw’s Garden, nice people, Midwestern accents, my granny, kool aid, bottle rockets, Meramec caverns, St. Louis butter cake, genuine Italians on The Hill, the Butterfly House, the history museum, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the penguin house at the zoo.
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