A few years ago when the Tennessee Air Guard put a Dolly Parton nose art graphic on one of their tanker jets Parton herself made a big publicity thing about it. So it isn't exactly "dead" Stateside.

The car that Robbie Nevil set fire to in one of his music videos.

There was a request from the family to not have a lot of cameras around. Somehow, tho', I expect more photos are just going to show up over the next some days.

The biggest gearhead in my circle of friends is a twenty-something female veterenary medical student in California who owns two vintage VWs (a fastback and a Ghia) but who has a Mini Countryman as a daily driver. Just a datum.

Raul Julia's character did it in a scene in GUMBALL RALLY. A JetRanger tops out at about 150 mph, a Hughes 500 is maybe 10 to 15 mph faster.

The drift car seems much lighter in construction than the race car. For example, the roof on the race car has the reinforcers while the drift car's roof reinforcers have been stripped out. No wonder the drift car won the start...it probably has a good advantage when it comes to power-to-weight ratio.

In the pilot episode, Finch explains the Machine's habits to Reese. Most of the time the numbers are victims. The problem is something like the Uncertainty Principle in physics...human nature could go either way. Die from tainted narcotics or recover from the bad trip and murder the pusher? Get killed in a mugging…