Tugboat Annie

found on http://www.motorcities.org/Story+of+the+Week.html?utm_source=MotorCities+Newsletter+Vol.+6+Issue+8&utm_campaign=%22You+Auto+Know%22+Newsletter&utm_medium=email as Lisa has just posted a History of International Harvester by Robert Tate

more than one person doesn't understand that you are more likely to be towed at the AAA dragstrip than probably anywhere outside Philadelphia

Why Philly? I've enjoyed watching the tv show "Parking Wars" 

What will a corrupt city government do to get your money in fines? Paint a handicap parking around your car, then tow your car, fine you, and get a cut of the towing and impound fines. Nice huh?

thanks Steve for the story! (he wanted me to see the cool tow truck (side forks that allow a narrow street parallel parked car to get hoisted onto the flatbed while parked beside it in traffic))

Here is the great part, it was all captured on a security camera across the street, and the car owner was smart enough to check for that. She's avoided the fines (total $365 USD) got her car back, an apology from the mayor, and publicly (using facebook) exposed this scam.

Full story here: http://www.timesofisrael.com/parking-debacle-turns-facebook-sensation/

It was rumored that the Travel Channel would have a show about barn finds, but it seems like that didn't work out. Nothing on their website even results on a search function about it

this photo is all I can find on Corky Coker's blog about barn finds, and since it was his barn find show that the Travel Channel http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows was rumored to have last fall, I think this means it didn't work out

photo from http://blog.cokertire.com/the-art-and-poetry-of-the-barn-find/#more-3239

the Nantuckett gas station from the movie "One Crazy Summer"

the only time an AMC Eagle was ever used as scenery I bet