Jet Blue roll over for $50

Charge for folding bike on aircraft waived. CNN has the story. Come in Lloyd Alter.

Backlot curiosity shop

While visiting Las Vegas Motor Speedway we took a turn round the trading estate nearby and spotted this Caddy and Corvette waiting for new owners. Note the Corvette has ripped fibreglass and a smashed windscreen.

We also spotted this thingamyjig - what can it be?

Performance World, Toronto

Congratulations to the Lawrence family: best in class and best display at the recent Performance World show here in Toronto. That '56 Chevy rocked the house first time out. Route 66 tour to follow. Photo RLT.

Packard Clipper to go

This home-made 1949 Packard Clipper motorhome is resting next door to the Goldfield Hotel, in Goldfield, Nevada. Photo RLT.

Goldfield, Nevada

This mining town in Nevada was a boom town over a century ago. Here a couple of Fords keep an old railcar company. Photo RLT.

Chloride, Arizona

This International truck stands guard at the entrance to Chloride, Arizona. This old mining town is up north of Kingman in the Cerbat mountains. Photo RLT.

Hogtown City Limits IX

To Toronto City Centre Airport, on the Brompton bicycle - the first ride of the year.
You can fight city hall it seems as Robert Deluce is proving with Porter Airlines.
Now operating eight locally-built Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft, there are a further eight on order, and additional destinations thought to include Washington D.C. and Boston to be announced. The builders are on-site constructing a new terminal building said to be costing $40 million.
Somebody in the know told me that the airport accounts for 500 jobs and is ramping up service into the downturn. While local politicians talk about shovel-ready projects these folk are already getting on with it. The airport is operated by a fine body of men with the call sign "Satellite City."
The airport has also felt the current adverse criticism of private business flying, but was busy with Porter flights, light aircraft including training flights and the medevac helicopter when I was there. The fall in the oil price has helped some. They deserve to succeed despite the depradations of the borough-mongers down at City Hall.

On the Hog's back

I had a bad feeling about Harley-Davidson when visiting the powertrain factory in Milwaukee last summer - too many factories too far apart - see PunchBuggy Passim. Now they have secured bailout financing at 15% - ever seen a Hog in the high hurdles?