The Evolution Of Monster Trucks
Shows featuring monster trucks, or jacked up trucks, have become a popular sports event for those who love extreme vehicles. These event feature a variety of monster trucks that compete in various events like car jumps or car crush and mud racing. This was all started by one guy and his creation of the first jacked up truck.
Bob Chandler, a construction worker from Missouri, decided to modify his pickup after hearing about an idea that was proposed to the Army. The idea was to provide steering capability to both axles of the truck. Bob decided to try this on his own truck using military axles and he ended up creating Bigfoot, the first monster truck.
At first he would take his truck off-roading on the weekend. Then he soon learned that the local auto parts stores didn't have the parts he needed to repair his modified truck. So with the help of his wife and friend he started his own truck supply store.
He used his truck to promote the store, then in an effort to draw more attention to his business he entered Bigfoot in a truck and tractor pull. Bigfoot, with it's raised clearance and monster truck tires, made an impression and started drawing bigger crowds. Things really took off when he performed what was meant to be a joke and what may be the first car crush ever. It was done in a farmers field with permission from the farmer. That was the start of a whole new form of entertainment.
Since then the monster truck genre grew and has become increasingly popular. Now you can go to arena shows all over the country to see multiple monster trucks racing, crushing cars or even spitting fire. Enthusiasts work to make the trucks and tires bigger and more unique in one way or another. Some go strictly for size and the visual wow factor, and some focus more on the performance or extra features, like spitting fire.
Short-term motor insurance- justified or not?
There are many occasions when you lend your car to someone else or you need to drive a car that doesn’t belong to you. How do you protect yourself and the car in such situation?
The best solution is to obtain a short-term motor insurance. How do short term motor insurance works? Actually, is quite simple. This kind of insurance policy can be closed for any period of time staring with one day and up to 28 days. You can have it ready in a couple of minutes and its coverage starts right away. So, don’t let your car at other people disposal without insurance. It’s fast, easy to get and it’s cheap. It might not look like a necessity, but you need to realize that, at any moment someone else is driving your car or you drive someone else’s car, an accident may occur. And, if you are not protected by an insurance policy, you’ll end up paying a lot of money for property damage on even physical damage.
Short-term motor insurance policies are perfect when you have guest over and they need a car. You can be the ideal host offering them your car, but don’t forget about the insurance. In a matter of minutes, on the phone or online, you can get them covered by a short term motor insurance policy and they’ll be ready to drive. Do the same when your teenage kids insist to borrow your car.
Learning Go Kart Safety For Children
Go karting is an interesting sport and hobby in that it is not limited to professionals. Anyone can try and drive a go kart for fun. Pros know the dangers involved when driving and discovering what a racing go kart is. Go karts can be dangerous since it is a motorized vehicle. So, here are the things that you must remember or make your children aware when they operate a motorized cart.
1. Be careful when driving because you can actually bump into different things. It could be trees, fences or other things that may be found in your lawn.
2. Go carts for kids can run at great speeds sometimes (45 mph) unless yours has a speed limiter or a very small engine.
3. Go carts have engines that get extremely hot so burns can be a normal occurrence if not properly educated.
4. When wheels are in revolution, never dare touch it, your hand or fingers might get caught.
So, when you buy your child a go kart, it is best to buy safety gear along with it and know the safety measures that should be observed. Consider it a gift to yourself as a parent because your worries will lessen.
What are these safety gear? Let us enumerate them one by one.
Helmet - This is important as this protects the head from injuries in case of severe flipping or bumping.
Gloves - This allows the user to get a good grip on the steering wheel. As you drive longer, your hands will sweat so it is best to have gloves to always be in control with the steering wheel.
Suit - This is great when your child is into serious go karting. This will protect his entire body from getting cuts or the like. There are many others like pads, boots, shin guards but let us just take up the basics for now. If you are wanting to buy a cart for your child there are numerous places you can go. Pep boys retails
Also your local ATV dealer most likely carries some name brand carts. The online market is the best place to go to find go karts for sale cheap . Sites like Craigslist and Ebay have thousands of new and used options to choose from.
We All Need Car Parts Eventually
You would think that operating a car would be a fairly simple procedure. You simply start the cars engine by turning the key, then carefully steer it along the road to get to your destination. If only things were quite that simple, but they are not.
Instead we have to keep the car filled with fuel, and keep it tuned so that everything works perfectly. This is not always cheap or easy, and cars are likely to let you down when you least expect, or need it. So unless you decide to put your car parts on your Christmas Gifts 2011 list, you need to budget for them through out the year.
This can be done by trying to predict how much your next service bill is going to be, if you have had a certain car for any length of time you will have some idea how much it will cost for a standard service.
But if not, you may end up with a big bill, and this will soon lead you to realise that a car is very expensive, not like a toy car you get as a top toy for Christmas 2011. You know the days when that was what you wanted and there was no worry if you bashed it up because they are cheap. When you own a real car it is very much more expensive, especially when you need new car parts.
Create a Home Business from Your Love of Cars
If you're really into cars, meaning you live it, breathe it, work on your car in your spare time, read the latest car magazines, can almost tell what type of car is about the turn the corner just by listening to the engine, then perhaps you can create a home business out of it. There are tons of home based business ideas but the best ones are the ones that have to do with what you love, your passion. If someone looking for advice on cars were to search for a site, do you think they would want to read a site from some guy who just read about cars online or someone who's life revolves around cars?
So how can you actually make money from your knowledge? One thing you can do is to check out other sites that are already in the same niche. See what they sell. See what they do and how they do it. Put your own spin on the things that you like. You can offer advice for fixing up cars. You can recommend car parts by doing reviews on the most popular brands and models. There are plenty of things you can do in this niche in order to make money. Who knows, if your sites get big enough, you may even be contacted by a big car company or car magazine to do some sort of partnership project.
Decorations for Halloween
Every year I have to reassess my ideas for Halloween decorations. That's because the age of the neigborhood kids really affects how scary my Halloween ideas can be. For a while we had toddlers and I just decorated the yard in inflatable dinosaurs. My husband and I dressed up like Fred and Wilma Flinstone.
Well the toddlers are tweens and the Twilight vampire saga is all they are talking about. So the Halloween decor has a decidedly Victorian vampire and steampunk vibe about it.
But first we pay homage to Twilight and we'll have two candy buckets one for Team Edward and the other for Team Jacob. So the tweens can vote for their favorite heart throb. My front door will have a creepy Victorian door kocker and there'll be a Halloween door mat that plays creepy organ music when you step on it. I've found some easy-to-use Halloween window decals that have vampire profiles on them as well as candelabras and spiderwebs. So from the oustside our house will have haunted house look.
In the foyer I'll only have candle light from candlelabras and some assorted skulls. Of course my husband and I will be dressed in vampire Halloween costumes complete with fangs.
Motor Sports
Remember the legendary international motor rally driver Shekhar Mehta
There will be five years from the death of the famous rally driver
Shekhar Mehta. He was the only man to finish the grueling Safari Rally in Kenya
five times, creating a new world record. London journalist SHAMLAL PURI
covering the event is this car for several years and Africa
Mehta met with a number, remember the man who rose from modest range
and become a legend in the world of rally.
Remember the legendary international motor rally driver Shekhar Mehta
For SHAMLAL PURI
On April 12, 2011, will be the fifth anniversary of the death of the legendary international automotive rally driver Shekhar Mehta. He died in London on April 12. 2006, 61 years after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia a few days before and C. Hepatatis
Mehta, the zoom in record books after winning the grueling Rally East African Safari (Safari Rally in Kenya later) to a record five consecutive times is the only man in the world to have achieved this distinction. His landmark achievement was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. He always had the ambition to win the race ten times. A couple of months before his death Mehta was named interim president of the Commission of the World Rally Championship engine body meeting of the International Federation Automobile (FIA).
At his death, the FIA has sent a message of condolence to the Mehta family said: "Throughout his life is a Shekhar enormous contribution to motor sport and assembly, in particular, both as an effective competitor and as a highly respected member of the FIA. Shekhar experience commitment, sense of honor and humor will be sorely missed. "
Mehta was born in Lugazi, Uganda, June 20, 1945 .. His full name was Mehta Chandrashekhar, but fraternity meeting and its millions of fans knew him by his short name - Shekhar. He was the son of a wealthy businessman Khimji Mehta, tea and exploitation of large plantations sugar. Studied in Europe before returning to help his family business Uganda. The family was forced to move to Kenya in the 1970's, after all Indians and Asians were expelled by the dictator Idi Amin in 1972.
His record of five wins Safari Rally, four of them consecutively, it is being equal, even by the Europeans dominated the latter stages of the event when it was much more than the World Rally Championship.
The newspaper of Kenya, Twincam Daily Nation writer has observed that former world champions Bjorn Waldegaard of Sweden and Finland Juha Kankkunen are the only drivers who came close to achieving the feat with four wins each. Mehta position as a rally driver was unmatched by any other driver. They are still trying to this day to achieve equality only Mehta.
Mehta began his rally career in 1968 at the age of 23, driving a Peugeot 204. That's when a young driver unknown. But it was quickly build his reputation as a fearless pilot. He established himself as one of the top touring car drivers and also won the Hill Climb Championship in a BMW. Was Eastern Africa voted the Motor Sportsman of the Year in 1969, but the best was yet to come. His greatest achievement was between 1973 and 1982, when he dominated the Safari Rally in Kenya. Mehta was really attracts a crowd. Strenuous event I covered this car for about a quarter of a century, travel on the road, thus encouraging him to remember the ecstatic crowd every time your car zoom through the forests of Kenya. Like a true showman, that his fans a sample of your driving skills on the wheel. I photographed during many years in the road rally that his car would be different zoom leaving behind a thick cloud of dust.
The first of five victories came Mehta Drews Sublime in 1973 in a Datsun 240Z model, which became synonymous with his name in the following years. He tried to drive the cars of other brands, including Lancia, BMW, Peugeot, but there was no car that could match the Datsuns, later called Nissan. It was very comfortable to drive Nissan.
Won Safari Rally 1973, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. He took part in the rally every year and always had the desire to improve his own record by winning the Safari Rally 10 times. He finished the 1986 Safari rally in eighth place overall in a Peugeot 205.
Mehta met their browsers and throughout his career has had three regular co-drivers - Mike Doughty, Rob Coombes Drews high and late. His first co-pilot Chandu Radia, a well known pilot in Uganda, living in North America. With these three co-drivers, performance was the same. Mike Doughty, who later became the owner of the Safari Rally Ltd, the treasures of his time with Mehta.
Although its dominance in the Rally Safari made him a legend in the home, Mehta had a strong desire to participate in events outside of Kenya. He be such. strong and competitive in these events he has produced the results to match the grandeur of an international car rally legend. He has participated and has been successful in Morocco, where he took sixth place, Kuwait (first) UK (eighth), Cyprus (First), Côte d'Ivoire (third), New Zealand (fourth), Argentina (fourth), Acropolis, Greece (third) Australia (Third) and Finland. More offers started coming young rider.
Mehta gave his first Datsun never ever victory in the Rally Raid by winning the Rally of Kuwait in 1979. He also won the Middle East and India Himalaya Rally Rally Championship. This event was inspired by the East African Safari Rally with the enthusiasm of Jayant Shah and Shekhar Mehta, among others, the leaders of India to Kenya.
His co-pilot in events outside of Kenya was a very young British woman, Yvonne Pratt. The two fall in love and then became Yvonne on Mrs. Mehta. The couple have a son of Vijay.
Driving a Peugeot 205 T16, Mehta turned to the Paris-Dakar Rally 1987, the toughest rally goes France through the deserts of Africa and ends in Senegal. His co-pilot Mike Doughty and finished fifth in the grueling race.
In 1987, also addressed the famous Pike's Peak Holl up in the U.S., driving a Peugeot. He finished the race in fourth position.
Mehta race meeting ended in 1987 when disaster struck in the Rally of the Pharaohs in Egypt Raid. He and his co-driver Mike Doughty survived a near-fatal accident at the end of a laminate of high speed is involving their Peugeot 205 T16. The car flipped several times in the Arabian desert before falling apart and leaving two Mehta and Doughty with fatal injuries. Shekhar spent months in hospitals in the UK and France, followed by long periods of time physiotherapy. The accident left him with a permanent back problem. He was unable to take part in any increment future.
His most recent Safari Rally in 1987 where he retired at the wheel of a Nissan 240R. I was one of the journalists to attend the event.
Despite the accident, Mehta was undaunted and continued his interest in motor rallies, but spent most of his time in the shade to make valuable contributions to the organization meeting with his experience and years of experience. It was official leader of the FIA world motor assembly. He also created his company and was based in London.
At the time of his death, Mehta held various positions at the FIA headquarters in France. He was president of the World Rally, World Rally Championship and FIA vice president.
Shekhar Mehta met several times in Kenya and elsewhere as a journalist I covered events. It was a very humble man and a great person to talk to. Never had a bad word for anyone. I met him at several times in the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi Safari Rally hosted the event. It has always welcomed as a friend.
One day, we met in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan, Coast, in West Africa, and introduced me Shekhar Mehta your wife Yvonne, and invited me to lunch with them. It was after winning the Rally Finish Ivory Coast. I always found charming and humble. Never had a chip on his shoulder, despite his legendary status. In press conferences and talking to journalists around the world, I always pay attention and respond to my questions with a smile. Has always recognized Rally as a sports journalist regular hordes of journalists. It was a privilege to speak in private and talk whenever we could.
Never Another legend as a driver meeting Shekhar Mehta walk the earth. His death is a huge loss for the car rally fraternity. - Shamlal Puri
email: shamlalpuri@gmail.com
About the Author
Shamlal Puri is a veteran British journalist, broadcaster, author and press photographer. He has worked with the media in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His latest novel ‘Dubai Dreams: The Rough Road to Riches' and DUBAI ON WHEELS: SPEEDING HEADLONG ON A DANGEROUS, SLIPPERY ROAD (CROWNBIRD PUBLISHERS LONDON and DIAMOND BOOKS, NEW DELHI published in English and Hindi) have been released around the world in 2010. Film rights are also being negotiated for some of his books. His next book Triangle of Terror will be published by Diamond Books in 2011. He is widely traveled in a journalistic career spanning 30 years. His work has been published in more than 250 magazines, newspapers and journals around the world. He is also the author of Axis of Evil: Blood Money and That's Life; Michael Matatu at Large (based on his columns in Drum, Africa's leading magazine and its sister magazines Trust and True Love.) He has several books in the pipeline.
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