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A fourth generation Chevrolet Caprice hi-riser. This model Caprice is commonly known by the term "bubble" due to its rounded style. Hi-risers are a type of heavily-customized automobile, typically a full-size, body-on-frame, rear-wheel drive American sedan.
Unless otherwise stated, the status code is part of the HTTP standard. [1] The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) maintains the official registry of HTTP status codes. [2] All HTTP response status codes are separated into five classes or categories. The first digit of the status code defines the class of response, while the last two ...
One of the famous custom cars in the classic American custom style, the Hirohata Merc [1] A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been altered to improve its performance, change its aesthetics, or combine both. Some automotive enthusiasts in the United States want to push "styling and performance a step beyond the showroom floor - to truly ...
Some of Coddington's signature innovations were his custom-fabricated alloy wheels, typically machined from a solid aluminium billet, an industry first. Together with John Buttera , [ 3 ] Boyd pioneered this "billet" machined look and applied it not only to wheels, but broadly throughout the car.
This car featured some new high-tech looking tires that had only a very thin stripe of whitewall rubber. By 1958, [2] Cadillac starts selling cars with these type of "Skinny Whites" or "Inch walls"; they were an instant hit and all the rage with the Kustom Krowd. This style of thinner 1 in, 1.5 in, 1.3 in, 3/8 in, or 5/8 in whitewall continued ...
It was part of the "Sweet 16" Hot Wheels cars in 1968. In 2000, the Deora II was released, a modern interpretation version of the original. The vehicle is also Joseph "Vert" Wheeler's signature car in Hot Wheels: World Race and the AcceleRacers series. Three years later, in preparation for Hot Wheels' 35th anniversary, a full size Deora II was ...
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
A scraper is an informal term to describe a modified American-made luxury/family car, usually a General Motors model from the 1980s to current vehicles, typically enhanced with after-market rims. Scrapers are popular in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California , usually associated with the hyphy music and lifestyle movement.