Michael Thies's Blog – April 2019 Archive (1)

New Ways Of Safe Transport - Meet a very creative car guy!

New Ways Of Safe Transport

Syre Perkins, JD, is a inspiration. I met him at a recent Caffeine & Octane where he was showing one of the more unique vehicles that I have seen in quite some time. It was a remote-controlled robot that picks up a full-sized car, with basically zero clearance, lifts it and moves it! I learned that TARVA, (Tow Atlanta’s Recovery Vehicle Autobot-Robot) can go into low clearance parking decks/garages…

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Added by Michael Thies on April 2, 2019 at 8:30pm — No Comments

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A Bite of History: The Jaguar XK120 by Mike Thies

A Bite of History by Mike Thies

The Jaguar XK120

There are moments in automotive history when a single car changes everything, when elegance, engineering, and audacity collide to create something that feels more like a declaration than a machine. We learn that the Jaguar XK120 was one of those moments. When it first appeared at the 1948 London Motor Show, no one…