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Jack Yan

Jack Yan posted For the automobiliacs: Car’s best from the ’60s and ’70s | 5 days ago

This was a great find at Take Note in Lower Hutt today. Take Note is a post office and gift shop run by my friend Mandeep but I have never bought a book from there before. I was surprised to find it displayed prominently and being an automobiliac I paid the $40 for it. My cover differs slightly: the...

Flamingo Dancer

Flamingo Dancer posted When are we going to stop being considered everyone's dumping ground? | Jul 6, 2008

US military planned nerve gas test on Aust troops The US was planning to test Sarin and VX nerve gas on up to 200 Australian combat troops. Defence files have revealed the United States military was planning to test deadly nerve gas on Australian troops in a far north Queensland rainforest in the...

Jack Yan

Jack Yan posted Herbie lives | Jun 26, 2008

Someone in Wellington must really love Herbie and The Love Bug. This is a Volkswagen Käfer done up with the perfect Herbie livery, it’s a 1963 model year (which I believe is accurate), and the interior trim looks right to me, too. The steering wheel is on the wrong side, but other than that, the...

Jack Yan

Jack Yan posted Watch out for those sideburns | Jun 11, 2008

Note to Vox: an auto-save feature, please, considering Maxthon crashed just as I finished the original and superior version of this post. Dammit, I really, really hate retyping. Here’s the short, short version. Right: ordered. Amazon. Saturday. Mission: Impossible, fourth season. Still good. But...