#vivalive

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I can't believe that one of these exists. Sir Vival 1958- source 40s & 50s American Cars. Look at this thing.

[weirdlookindog]

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

Sir Vival, the two-piece safety Hudson

Sir Vival, Walter Jerome's Hudson-based concept for the ultimate safety car, last moved under its own power sometime around when he showed the car at the New York World's Fair in 1964 or 1965. Since then, it's been split apart, reassembled, shuffled all over eastern Massachusetts, and remained hidden more or less in plain sight, but nobody's made an attempt to get it running again. That'll change now that longtime owner Ed Moore of Bellingham Auto Sales has sold Sir Vival to Jeff Lane of the Lane Motor Museum.

"It'll be the perfect fit," Lane said. "I've been pestering him about it for a while."

Moore, as we reported in November, has decided to close the doors at Bellingham, which he considers the last active Hudson dealership in the world, and has been either selling off his inventory of cars and parts or transferring portions of his lifelong collection to his house nearby.

In 1958, Worcester-based Walter Jerome decided it was about time somebody built a car designed primarily for safety and not for looks or speed. Rapidly increasing numbers of highway deaths - especially in the postwar period - led many to call for greater automotive safety as early as 1947, but the response from Detroit was tepid at best throughout the Fifties. Ford made a few gestures at improving automotive safety, including funding a study on safety cars at Cornell, but it largely fell to independents and individuals to build cars with safety features designed into the vehicle.

Jerome decided to start with a step-down Hudson - which he bought from Bellingham - and split it into two sections "to anticipate the possibility of collision from any angle." Similar to Bela Barenyi's idea for the crumple zone, Jerome intended the front section, mounted via a hinge to the rear section, to absorb a collision rather than deflect one, noting that the rigidity of typical cars was what led to injuries and deaths in collisions. To each of the two sections, Jerome added steel bumpers that acted, in his words, like a second frame, and rubber bumpers around the steel designed to redirect all but direct collisions. Yes, he built a full-size bumper car.

He didn't stop there. The driver controlled the car from a turret-mounted central driver's seat surrounded by a "full circle" windshield for greater visibility. (According to Jerome's literature, the windshield itself rotated past stationary windshield wipers as part of Jerome's quest for maximum driver visibility.) The exterior is fitted with high-visibility marker and signal lamps; the parallelogram doors are designed not to pop open in a crash; and the interior features seat belts, padding, and even a rollbar.

"It is all too obvious that Detroit has no plans to come up with anything really new," Jerome wrote. "Their 1964 cars are already on the drawing boards and spring from the same rigid frames. I hold that human life is important, far more important than Detroit's worry about the cost of retooling to produce an automobile which will save human lives. Adoption of the flexible Sir Vival design would make rigid vehicles obsolete and create a new market, almost immediately, for 65 million vehicles."

Moore and his family assisted Jerome over the years with Sir Vival, including one episode Moore recalls in which he went to Worcester to retrieve the vehicle from the fourth floor of a warehouse, where Jerome had stored it in two pieces, so it could be reassembled and transported to Jerome's house on Cape Cod. After Jerome's death in the early 1970s, the Moores took possession of Sir Vival and brought it back to Bellingham. While Moore had hoped Sir Vival would have gone to Eldon Hostetler's Hudson museum, it turned out fortuitous that he didn't donate it to Hostetler, given that the museum was closed and liquidated in 2018. Sir Vival has thus primarily sat in its pride of place in Bellingham Auto Sales's garage ever since.

"It needs gone right through," Moore said. "It's not really something I want to take home and just let it sit there. Jeff, he's the guy who'd really appreciate it. He'll build it and do it right."

Lane said he's only seen Sir Vival once in person, when he spent an entire day up at Bellingham Auto Parts four or five years ago. "I recall it as not terrible, but also not in great condition," he said. "It's not like it's been outside for 40 years, rusting away." While he won't have a more definitive plan about what to do with Sir Vival until he picks it up later this month, he said he wants to go through it mechanically without restoring the entire car, if possible.

"I'd say the closest it comes to any other vehicle in the (Lane Motor Museum's) collection is the Dymaxion," Lane said. "It's a really interesting story but it's really been pretty much hidden away from the general public."

Moore, for his part, said he'll continue selling Hudsons from his home garage even after the Bellingham Auto Sales property becomes a warehouse. "I still have my new and used car licenses," he said. "I know I can't keep them all, but I've tried."

UPDATE (6.January 2023): The Lane has started restoration on Sir Vival, according to a Facebook post from the museum. "Sir Vival has been separated into two pieces, and the automotive archaeology begins!"

[eossa]

Vivale

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[toutplacid]

Boutique, rue Louis-Blanc, Périgueux – gouache format A3, 13 janvier 2022.

[falseandrealultravival]

Severe winter on the Blog: Closing Words (Note: This is from blogs in Japan, not tumblr.)

black winter

Life has seasons of blue spring, red summer, white autumn, and black winter. It's been 19 years since I started this blog in 2005, and just as I turned 63, the season of "gento:玄冬" = "black winter" has arrived. When I first started blogging, there weren't many media outlets on the internet, and there was a time when I got 3,000 hits a day, but now, in an age of media overload, most of the days I get less than 100 hits a day.

I see some other bloggers of the same age who are still doing well. In my case, I'm pretty picky, and I have a history of getting rid of visitors I don't like, which, while self-deserving, I think has a lot to do with my current hits. There was nothing I could do about it, and I could only do what I could.

In addition, it is also important that many of the blogs currently published on "Hatena Blog" are "unbearable to read". The reason why I started blogging was because I read an article that said, "A certain politician's life as a politician was cut short by a certain blog." In exchange for that, if I were to say that the current "Hatena Blog" general article has a low spirit!

In the beginning of February 2023, when I conducted a so-called "cost-benefit analysis", I came to think that continuing "Hatena Blog" would have little merit for me. There is no profit in continuing a useless blog.

So, with this article, "Hatena Blog" will end. I personally hand over guidance to the ``Violation Reality--Ultravival'' of the ``Severe winter'' period. After that, I will visit the articles of two blog friends, although I will not reveal their names here. Hope you all are well!

(2023.04.10)

虚虚実実――ウルトラバイバル

(In Japanese)

Diamond cut Diamond—Ultra-Vival

(In English)

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: SIR VIVAL

SIR VIVAL is a bay horse born in Barbados in 1978. By CLAVICHORD out of BATTLE LEA. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/sir+vival

[coolvintagecars]

Sir Vival Concept Car (1958)

[moonsworndandelion]

Ce qui est moins bien, quand tu as ta petite liste bien triée, et que tu ajoute un truc au dernier moment parce que arf shit j'ai plus d'oeufs c'est que si c'est pas à la bonne place dans la liste ton cerveau le vois pas.

Et vu que tu suis ta ✨petite liste ✨bah tu te pose pas la question de ce que t'as oublié...

Du coup chuis retournée chercher mes oeufs.

Ce qui est bien, quand tu vas faire tes courses avec une liste, c'est que tout parait plus facile : pas besoin de réfléchir, c'est tout regroupé par zone/type, hop hop tu ramasse les items et zou, 10 minutes plus tard tu passes en caisse et t'es sûr d'avoir rien oublié

[achromatophoric]

Pre-Wenclair. The roommates are early into a road trip when…

Wednesday: What is this infernal racket? Is it that Expedient Seamstress?

Enid: You mean Taylor Swift!

Wednesday: I couldn’t care less about their name. As I am the one driving, I demand that you change to some actual music.

Enid: Fine, but I happen to really like Taylor Swift, so you could at least like, respect her name. For me.

Wednesday: Please, as if I would waste my valuable mental energy on the names of your so-called musicians.

Enid: 😠

Enid: *fiddles on phone*

Enid: So what did you wanna listen to? Something like Wayne Gretzky?

Wednesday: What?

Enid: Oh I’m sorry, I meant to say Cheap Jet Ski.

Wednesday: You mean Tchaikovsky.

Enid: Did I? My mistake. Ooh, how about some Gay Oven?

Wednesday: 😑

Wednesday: It’s Beethoven.

Enid: Really? Huh. Maybe Shoppin’?

Wednesday: *grits teeth* Chopin.

Enid: I know! Imma put on some Big Baldy!

Wednesday: IT’S VIVAL—

Wednesday: *chokes down scream*

Enid: 😇

Wednesday: Point. Made. I will endeavor to remember their names in the future.

Enid: 😘

[pina-spigi]

I’m now reminded about my cyn - vival au…

So take this old art thing

Might remake it

[weirdlookindog]

[sovereignjojoz]

Crown Prince Dio

Pairings: Prince!Dio x reader.

Summary: being dio’s favourite noble.

Warnings: dio. implied fem reader, slight power imbalance?

Notes - sorry for being gone so long been busy w school! Also I will defs expand on this concept further and make it a big darker in later posts!

Crown Prince Dio, a man of vivality, the sun of the vast empire he ruled over.

In typical Dio fashion, he attained the throne by usurping the previous monarch but despite being the sovereign, he wanted to attain to upmost power available, so till he was coronated the Joestar line were exiled till he was firmly set in his position.

Once coronated, like any monarch, the council had started pressuring him to find a spouse, stressing the important of ensuring the security of the Brando dynasty, however he found all those matters rather tedious…even opting to fall asleep in some of the council meetings, after all, who would dare to disturb the king?

Additionally, he didn’t like to be tethered to one person, shouldn’t everyone be graced with the pleasure to experience all that is prince Dio? Why would he limit himself like that.

So when his loyal advisor, vanilla ice suggested to allow high ranking nobles to stay within the palace (almost like consorts but not fully) and see if there was anyone who piqued his interest, he found himself surprisingly agreeing.

Initially, the Prince had never heard of you. You were low ranking nobility from within the kingdom, with a barely recognisable name, yet what piqued his interest in you was Jojo’s interest in you.

Or more so a large part of the kingdom’s infatuation with you, he had heard rumours circulating of ‘the fairest maiden’ in fact jojo himself even slipped up and said it in his presence.

So how could he not be intrigued.

The fact that the whole kingdom wanted your hand made him desire you solely for himself, he’d sent a letter out requesting your presence at the castle immediately.

It was not a betrothal, he had just been curious, he wanted you to stay with him for a while.

And upon arrival, you did. You didn’t even get your own chambers, your belongings were whisked away from you as you were made to stay in Prince Dio’s chambers, which was a feat no other noble boasted (although part of this was only due to the fact that he wanted to irk Jojo with this news knowing rumours would circulate).

Because you are of a much lower status than him, he orders you to call him Lord Dio, as it gives him a sense of gratification.

But he actually comes to notice that he enjoys your company and you begin to gain a reputation of being “the prince’s favourite noble.”

You even noticed how he treated you differently compared to the others within the palace, gifting you frequently and having outfits tailored to match his.

Or simply being allowed into areas which would normally be restricted and also being invited into his bed chambers the most.

And he was very touchy with you too, you had heard Lord Dio was quite fond of pda, you’d seen him entangled with many other nobles before but becoming the recipient was a whole different thing. He was generous with his kisses, perhaps too generous since he liked to litter them on a variety of different places on your body.

He also carried you in the vast corridor, no matter who was present.

Yet such favour was met with distaste from the other nobles, you found your personal items frequently going missing and was met with the occasional shove or trip every once in a while.

Yet his highness only fuelled these reactions further as he was quite possessive especially in front of the other nobles.

You vividly remember the time when all the seats in the banquet hall were taken up leaving you seatless and as you vacated the room, Lord Dio called you.

“Come here, you have a perfect good seat here.” He gestured to his lap and pulled you down onto it.

He even bit your shoulder, making you squeal. He loved biting but he also liked attention.

Oh dear, you could only but hope this didn’t end badly.

[chronivore]

The Sir Vival safety car from the 1950s last moved under its own power in the 1960s. It is now being restored by LaneMotorMuseum.

[boombambaby]

[ @musemelodies liked for a starter from here ! ]

"Hey Timon! I've given it a lot of thought, and I'm seriously considering making you a knight."

Serious face, definitely not about to crack up from his own lame pun. Not him.

" --I think it'd really give you a leg up, you know. Help you stand TALL on the whole Sir-vival of the fittest, thing."

BADUMTSSS. Thank you, thank you. He'll be here all week.