video of the lunar rover on the moon

found on http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/01/apollo-16s-lunar-roving-vehicle.html

Best issue I've seen yet, Motor Trend Classic

Lots of great stuff inside, and the legit Vette given to an astronaut on the cover next to a NASA lunar rover prototype doesn't look too bad either!

Best interview of Bob Bondurant I've ever seen.

the article on the cars that weren't the stars of the movies (in Herbie the Love Bug the car that was chosen for the article was the Throndyke Special ... an Apollo 3500 GT http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-thorndyke-special-64-apollo-3500-gt.html  ) is well done

Most far out thing I've seen in a while, NASA used a Pontiac Catalina as a tow car for an experiemental aircraft

Thanks to John Torres! Who filled me in on the story of the Catalina; This Pontiac was driven at speeds up to about 120 mph. It needed to be able to tow the M2-F1 on Rogers Dry Lakebed next to NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC) now named Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) at a minimum speed of 100 miles per hour. To do that, it had to handle the 400-pound pull of the M2-F1. Walter "Whitey" Whiteside, who was working in the Flight Operations Division, was a dirt-bike rider and hot-rodder. Together with Boyden "Bud" Bearce in the Procurement and Supply Branch acquired the Pontiac Catalina convertible with the largest engine available and then sent it to Bill Straup's hot-rod shop near Long Beach for modification. With a special gearbox and racing slicks, the Pontiac could tow the 1,000-pound M2-F1 110 miles per hour in 30 seconds. It proved adequate for the roughly 400 car tows that got the M2-F1 airborne to prove it could fly safely and to train pilots before they were towed aloft behind a C-47 aircraft and released

Pontiac Catalina tow car for NASA’s M1-F2 lifting body aircraft, c.1963

found on http://www.motoriginal.com/post/51195565490/pontiac-catalina-tow-car-for-nasas-m1-f2-lifting

prototype lunar rover... the MTA

This is Frenc Pavlics (the mobility genius) driving the MTA over our “Lunarium” rock field outside of the engineering building. It is controlled with a joystick controller on the right side. The GM Research Labs at the Tech Center donated the same type controller used on the Firebird III. found on http://deansgarage.com/2011/moonmen/#more-4737