I just heard of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Would you be surprised to learn they aren't roads? They are glacial lake shorelines. I kid you not.

The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy is one of three sites in Scotland included on a list of internationally important geological locations.

The site, which is part of NatureScot’s Glen Roy National Nature Reserve, is home to an iconic suite of glacial lake shorelines that informed the development of Glacial Theory in the 19th century. Three shorelines, or ‘parallel roads’, are evidence that glaciers were once in an area where none exist today.

https://www.nature.scot/parallel-roads-glen-roy-recognised-one-worlds-top-geology-sites

https://iugs-geoheritage.org/geoheritage_sites/the-parallel-roads-of-glen-roy/

a 1935 Riley Kestrel, alone and unloved in Holland was chosen to be the eye magnet for marketing beer... it's working! Then they decided to land speed race it!

Nigel McNally founder and CEO of Brookfield Drinks and The Kestrel Brewing Co (Scotland), said: “Plenty of people told us we couldn’t do it. We have had setbacks and issues, particularly with the aerodynamics"

The car, with trademark fastback styling, had not been touched since 1965 when Nigel and Joel found it.

It's now powered by a specially modified 2.5 litre, 5-cylinder engine capable of 992bhp.

It achieved 7 land-speed records at Elvington Racetrack in June 2021, and is prepped for the June 17th 200mph record attempt..

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c033jx085nwo

https://theflyingkestrel.com/

https://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/people/bedfordshire-duo-break-uk-land-speed-record-with-historic-run-in-classic-car-3285229?r=8940

https://www.facebook.com/theflyingkestrel

https://www.facebook.com/theflyingkestrel/photos_by

The annual Trossachs Tractor Run, a 50-mile ride of classic tractors was held in memory of Arnprior blacksmith Bobby Gunn, who died suddenly at work in 2017, raised more than £1,700 for Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland.

The participants drove from Mr Gunn’s former workshop, now converted into a museum dedicated to his life’s work in Arnprior, before passing through Kippen, Fintry, Balfron, Gartmore, Aberfoyle, Blairhoyle and Thornhill, and reaching the finish line back in Arnprior.

You can donate to the charity here: https://www.chss.org.uk

https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/rural/charity/scottish-villagers-pay-tribute-to-blacksmith-bobby-gunn-with-tractor-run/

A bronze statue is in Fort William town center, commemorating when a Model T was driven up the tallest peak in the UK in a publicity stunt by Scotland’s first Ford dealer

In 1911 a Ford Model T became the first car to climb to the summit of Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, in a daring publicity stunt by Henry Alexander, Scotland’s first dealer of the American car company Ford.

In a bid to assure customers the Ford brand was of higher superiority to hand-crafted British cars, a Model T went from the foot of Ben Nevis to the peak, and back down. Not on a road. Roughing it, the hard way

Alexander had left the town driving from sea level the five miles to the summit of Ben Nevis which stands at 4,406 feet. The route crosses burns (streams), traverses bogs and ascends the steep trackless rocky hillside. Then as now there is no road or navigable trail.

This feat of man and machine took 5 days in ascent and one working day in descent.

The statue was commissioned by the Powderhall Foundry in Edinburgh, the statue weighs a whopping three tonnes and depicts Mr Alexander Jr behind the wheel of a Ford Model T.

 This event was celebrated and publicised by the Ford Motor Company for decades, becoming part of the “Mountain Culture” of Ben Nevis.

 

A 1911 film (available by googling “Motoring over Ben Nevis”) shows the car rattling down the rocky hillside and then becoming stuck in a peat hag beside the half way lochan. Its progress continues when sticks of dynamite are used to demolish the peaty impasse!

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands-islands/1479172/bronze-ford-model-t-unveiled-in-fort-william/

https://www.markstoddart.com/model_t_car.html

British Rail discontinued the Waverley Route in 1969, abondoning many train stations like the Saughtree Station in the south of Scotland... which one guy transformed into a bed and breakfast, and then he added a section of rail and a 1950s train

and now it's for sale for about 600k USD

https://www.insider.com/man-converted-scotland-saughtree-train-station-into-home-photos-2023-3

nice... traveling gypsies, or wandering labor?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226275978820342&set=gm.1528415057659128&idorvanity=1363954160771886

Scotland names its entire snowplow fleet and posts maps showing their locations.

https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2022/12/minnesota-name-snowplow-contest-returns.html

this doesn't seem possible, or logical, but the story is that this is a 20 mile, never titled or registered 1963 Cortina, that was ignored at a Scottish dealership for 25 years, then bought and ignored by it's current owner since 1989, 32 more years

 

The car was delivered from new to Mr Young's Ford dealership named Townhead garage in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire in Scotland in 1963, but being only the Cortina Consul it was passed over by people who wanted the Ford Lotus Mk 1 model and the car was never sold.

It was then left forgotten in the corner of the dealership for decades until the dealership closed down due to Mr. Youngs age and health issues. Then the premises were sold and it reopened as a garage for a couple years, until it was demolished and developers replaced the area with housing.

https://barnfinds.com/20-mile-never-registered-1963-ford-cortina/

it will be auctioned off on Dec 10th 

Thanks Pip Bip!