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2023 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 30 – April 1, 2023

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Official Site

2023 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 30 – April 1, 2023

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Official Site

2023 Mid-America Trucking Show

MARCH 30 – April 1, 2023

Louisville, KY at the Kentucky Exposition Center

Official Site

From the website:

First Dwarf Car

The first Dwarf Car came to life in 1965 as a 28 Chevy two-door sedan made out of nine old refrigerators. Ernie began gathering the materials for this little car in 1962. By 1965 he had enough materials and an 18 hp Wisconsin motor to begin construction. With a homemade hacksaw made from a chair frame, hammer and a chisel, Ernie began construction. He had no idea what this would be the beginning of. Because this is the first Dwarf Car ever built, it is known as “GRANDPA DWARF.” This first Dwarf Car is kept in running order and is still driven today.

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Taken from Hagerty:

“The world’s first minivan.” Few automotive honors are less sexy than that dubious title. Unless, of course, you look like the 1930s Stout Scarab. The Art Deco, aerodynamic, head-turning multi-passenger vehicle created a stir eight decades ago. Its powers have not waned.

Read the rest of the story over on the Hagerty website.

From Wikipedia:

Starting in 1999, CP runs a Holiday Train along its main line during the months of November and December. The Holiday Train celebrates the holiday season and collects donations for community food banks and hunger issues. The Holiday Train also provides publicity for CP and a few of its customers. Each train has a box car stage for entertainers who are travelling along with the train.

The train is a freight train, but also pulls vintage passenger cars which are used as lodging/transportation for the crew and entertainers. Only entertainers and CP employees are allowed to board the train aside from a coach car that takes employees and their families from one stop to the next. All donations collected in a community remain in that community for distribution.

There are two Holiday Trains that cover 150 stops in Canada and the United States Northeast and Midwest. Each train is roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) in length with brightly decorated railway cars, including a modified box car that has been turned into a travelling stage for performers. They are each decorated with hundred of thousands of LED Christmas lights. In 2013 to celebrate the program’s 15th year, three signature events were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Calgary, Alberta, and Cottage Grove, Minnesota, to further raise awareness for hunger issues.

The trains feature different entertainers each year; in 2016, one train featured Dallas Smith and the Odds, while the other featured Colin James and Kelly Prescott. After its 20th anniversary tour in 2018, which hosted Terri Clark, Sam Roberts Band, The Trews and Willy Porter, the tour reported to have raised more than CA$15.8 million and collected more than 4.5 million pounds (2,000 t) of food since 1999.

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Link to 2022 schedule

• Limited-edition Evija celebrates 50 years since race legend Emerson Fittipaldi and Team Lotus won F1 Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships
• New version of pure electric hypercar commemorates iconic five decades of black and gold colour scheme of Lotus Type 72 race car
• Emotive design details include rotary dial crafted from recycled original Type 72 aluminium, plus Fittipaldi signature hand-stitched on dashboard
• World premiere event at Hethel, UK, with Emerson Fittipaldi as guest of honour
• Eight cars now in build, all sold with first customer deliveries early in 2023
• Latest project from Lotus Advanced Performance
• Test driven by Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button

The Antonov An-225 Mriya , or “Dream” was destroyed in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This beefy cargo carrier was beloved by many and was well known as the largest cargo plane in the world.

On this day (September 29) in 1966, the Camaro went on sale for the 1967 model year.