It looks spectacular. What does the HMB in the third photo mean?
@louis HMB = Half Moon Bay
That is a nearby city with a population of approximately 11,400.
"If brute force doesn't work you aren't using enough brute force." - mTk
War does not determine who is right, but it does determine who is left. - B.Russell
"Turn based games don't need a pause key". - mTk
"Overkill is underrated." - Col John "Hannibal" Smith
Senatus Populusque Romanus- SPQR - The Senate and People of Rome (circa 60 BC)
Ford Zephyr Zodiac 1954
Happily retired, I worked till I was 72, am now 88, this year 2026 I will be 89
you could say I have earnt my crust
A car with history...
This black-and-white photograph is a famous 1936 Daimler-Benz advertisement showcasing two of the most luxurious and technologically advanced machines of its era. The very famous photo features Freiin (Baroness) Gisela Josephine von Krieger (1913/1989), a prominent Prussian aristocrat and one of the most high-profile European fashion icons of the 1930s. She is standing next to her fabulous Mercedes-Benz 540K, which featured a 5.4-litre supercharged straight-eight engine and was famously custom-built at the company's Sindelfingen works. Above soars the ginormous LZ 129 'Hindenburg', which, like the car, also used Daimler-Benz engines.
The Baroness fled to Switzerland before the war started, defying orders from the NSDAP to return. living in hiding in neutral Monaco and Swiss resorts. In 1949, she moved to the United States shipping the Mercedes-Benz over on the luxurious RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner. After her family moved to Connecticut and eventually returned to Europe, the vehicle was left locked away and forgotten in a Greenwich, Connecticut garage for over 40 years. When her estate was settled following her death in 1989, the car was rediscovered completely intact. In 2012, her beautifully preserved, untouched Roadster went to an RM Sotheby's auction where it fetched an astonishing $11,770,000, breaking the world record at the time for the most expensive pre-war vehicle ever sold.
@louis 936 Daimler-Benz very desirable machine
Happily retired, I worked till I was 72, am now 88, this year 2026 I will be 89
you could say I have earnt my crust
A Packard Standard Eight convertible alongside a LZ 127 'Graf Zeppelin', Mines Field (now Los Angeles International Airport), 23 Aug 1929, during the airship's historic round-the-world flight sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863/1951). A fleet of 25 brand-new Packard cars was deployed to provide ground transportation and support for the airship's historic stop in Los Angeles. The Packard Standard Eight featured a 133 inch wheelbase and a straight-eight engine producing 90 horsepower.
