America's Love of Speed

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Only once in every 4 years

America's Love of Speed

     February 29 only occurs every 4 years. The reason is that the earth rotates around the sun in 365 1/4 (365.25) days. So every 4 years the 4 quarters are added to the year in February, which needs the day, because it's the shortest month.

     America loves speed. Right now the NASCAR series of races are high-profile, and have need the association billions of dollars in TV revenues, and advertising. Then America has the Indy 500, and of course the land-speed record that occurs on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Great Britain periodically held the land-speed record on the Salt flats intermittently between American record holders. Sir Malcolm Campbell held records for land-spped in the 1920's and 1930's. There are some beautiful racers that Kingsbury made, but they're way out of my price range.

     I just received this Hubley # 22 cast iron racer. It was manufactured in the USA in 1946-47 and identified as Hubley model # 456. Other variations of this beautiful car were made after. I purchased one of these when I first started selling toys, but didn't photograph it like today.  Back then, I was photographing  to illustrate the detail, and without "drama".  However one has to wonder at some of the photographs that e-Bay allows on their site (underexposed, out-of-focus, and badly lit)!

    So for today, I thought I'd present to you this nice toy, which measures just shy of 7 1/2"  or 190mm.

        Starting in July, E-Bay is going to allow 12 free images to be uploaded for each item. If you've ever looked on E-Bay, I've been presenting a photo combination of 4 small images. As well, I like to take nice photos. 

      Now I'll be able to present these photos for selling, although, like I've mentioned above, good photos don't always sell merchandise on E-Bay, garbage photos sometimes do!

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