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Call this a Chrysler in front of a hardcore Mopar historian, and you will get an immediate earful.
Back in 1955, corporate brass spun Imperial off into a standalone luxury division specifically to fight Cadillac and Lincoln without blue collar baggage. You would not find a Chrysler badge on the car. Imperial had its own dedicated assembly line, its own eagle crest, and a wildly stubborn engineering budget.
While everyday Chryslers switched to unibody construction in 1960, Imperial kept a mammoth boxed perimeter frame with rubber isolators. It yielded a ride so silent, yet structurally indestructible, that county fair demolition derbies later banned Imperials outright.
Virgil Exner wrapped the 1963 model in freestanding chrome headlamps and tufted living room seating. Powered by a 413 Wedge V8 shifted via typewriter pushbutton controls on the dash, this was pure boardroom swagger.

This 1966 Fairlane packed Ford’s wild 427 into a street-legal body. It used forged internals, dual Holley carburetors, and a huge intake that needed a special fiberglass hood. Its Le Mans roots made this Fairlane far more serious than it looked.
Ford rated it at 425 horsepower, but private testing reportedly found output well above 550. Only 57 were built, using the lighter Fairlane body because every pound mattered at the strip. It was not a normal dealer option.
That is what makes this Fairlane special today. It was basically a race car wearing a street title, built in tiny numbers for serious competition. Ford gave buyers something brutally rare, and the chance to own one new vanished quickly.

Best hunter on the planet. By far. Not the lion. Not the shark. Not the falcon screaming out of the sky. The dragonfly.
Older than the dinosaurs.
When a dragonfly decides what it's after, it catches it 95 times out of 100.
Ninety-five percent.
A lion catches roughly one out of every four animals it hunts.
A Falcon can dive at more than 200 miles an hour and still misses plenty of its attacks.
The dragonfly?
95 out of 100.
These things have to be the coolest insects I've ever heard about. Check this out......
1. 360° vision — 30,000 lenses per eye. That's 60,000 lenses watching the world at once. It can see 360° around its body continuously. Sneaking up on one is damn near impossible.
2. MISSILE LOCK — A dragonfly's brain can pick ONE insect out of an entire swarm, lock onto that single target and ignore everything else flying around it. Fifty bugs can scatter in fifty different directions and the dragonfly says, "That one." From that moment on, its eyes and brain keep that target locked in while it moves in and snatches him from the air.
3. Flanks and intercepts its prey midair — It doesn't chase its food. It predicts where the food is GOING and flies there to meet it. A fly can zigzag all it wants. The dragonfly has already calculated the interception point. This bug doesn't follow dinner. It goes to where it knows dinner will be in just a moment. When the fly gets there, he's finished.
4. FOUR INDEPENDENT ROTORS — A dragonfly doesn't just have four wings. Each wing operates independently, almost like having four separate rotors. One can change its angle and speed while the others do something different. That's how it can hover, fly backward, shoot straight up, drop straight down and turn almost instantly. Some can hit around 30 miles an hour.
5. THE DEATH BASKET — It catches lunch with its legs. Six spiny legs swing forward and form a basket around its prey. The dragonfly doesn't land to eat. It snatches another insect straight out of the sky.
6. DRONE TECHNOLOGY — Engineers study dragonfly wings to figure out how to make drones smaller, faster and more maneuverable.
7. THE END OF ITS LIFE — Once you see a dragonfly flying through the air, it's near the END of its life. It may live for years, but the flying adult usually gets only a few weeks to a few months. Almost its entire life before that was spent underwater.
8. JET ENGINE — That underwater dragonfly breathes through its ASS. Seriously. It pulls water into a chamber in its rear end to breathe. When it needs to move fast, it blasts that water back out and turns its ass into a JET ENGINE.
9. MOSQUITO HAWKS — That's what old timers called them. Underwater, dragonfly nymphs eat mosquito larvae. Then they grow wings and hunt adult mosquitoes in the air. They attack mosquitoes below the surface and above it.
10. 300 MILLION YEARS — Before dinosaurs. Before birds. Before flowers. Their ancient dragonfly-like relatives included monsters with wingspans approaching 28 inches. That's more than TWO FEET across. Imagine sitting on your porch and having that son of a bitch fly past your head.
11. 11,000 MILES — The globe skimmer takes part in a migration between Asia and Africa that can total roughly 9,000 to 11,000 miles over multiple generations. These tiny insects cross the INDIAN OCEAN. No tree. No branch. No cattail. Just open ocean underneath them.
We've spent billions building machines that track moving targets, calculate interception points and maneuver through the air.
The dragonfly was doing it before the first dinosaur walked the Earth.
And you don't have to cross an ocean to see one work.
Stand beside almost any lake, spring run or river here in Central Florida.
Watch the water.
Blue ones. Green ones. Red ones.
Orange Halloween pennants flashing over the grass.
They're right there.
They were here long before we were.
Gators, panthers, black bears and manatees would all come millions of years later.
But over almost every pond, lake and river we have today flies the oldest and most successful hunter this planet has ever seen.
And most of us never look at it twice.
Rock on, you badass ancient drones.
Written by Jeremy Jenkins
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Ozarks Fishermen Stunned After Pulling Enormous Mystery Creature From Table Rock Lake
A group of fishermen on Table Rock Lake reportedly made the catch of a lifetime after hauling in a massive salamander measuring 16 feet long and weighing an astonishing 1,347 pounds.
The bizarre discovery happened near Branson, where the fishermen initially believed they had hooked an enormous catfish. But after a lengthy struggle to bring the creature toward shore, they realized they were dealing with something unlike anything they had ever seen.
The giant amphibian was eventually brought onto a boat ramp, where more than a dozen men gathered to help handle the enormous animal. Photos showing the fishermen posing alongside the creature quickly attracted attention because of its extraordinary size.
Giant salamanders are real animals, with some species capable of growing several feet long. However, a specimen measuring 16 feet and weighing more than half a ton would dwarf any scientifically documented salamander.
The discovery has raised questions about how such an enormous amphibian could have survived undetected in the lake and whether other unusually large creatures could be living in the deeper waters of the Ozarks.
For the fishermen involved, what began as an ordinary day on Table Rock Lake turned into a catch they are unlikely to forget.

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My grandfather used to work at Table Rock Dam.

gopher_byrd said:

My grandfather used to work at Table Rock Dam.

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I wish the picture woulda come up it was impressive