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The Wheels were founded December 13, 1973 by ten investors, whose number eventually grew to 33, including singer Marvin Gaye, Motown Records vice-president Esther Edwards, and Little Caesars founder ( and future Red Wings and Tigers owner ) Mike Ilitch.
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On 26 May, the Blue Angels announced they would not be flying their traditional fly-over of the Naval Academy Graduation Ceremony and that they were canceling their 28 – 29 May 2011 performances at the Millville Wings and Wheels Airshow in Millville, New Jersey.
Wheels were ‘ telephone dial ’ phone dial cast alloy 6J x 15 at the front and 7J x 15 ( at the rear ).
Good Trouble ( 1982 ) and Wheels Are Turnin ' ( 1984 ) were follow-up albums which also did well commercially, the former containing the hit singles " Keep the Fire Burnin '" ( U. S. # 7 ), " Sweet Time " ( U. S. # 26 ) and the un-ranked " The Key " and the latter containing the # 1 hit single " Can't Fight This Feeling " plus three more hits: " I Do ' Wanna Know " ( U. S. # 29 ), " One Lonely Night " ( U. S. # 19 ), " Live Every Moment " ( U. S. # 34 ) and the un-ranked " Break His Spell ".
Nasworthy commissioned artist Jim Evans to do a series of paintings promoting Cadillac Wheels, they were featured as ads and posters in the resurrected Skateborder magazine, and proved immensely popular in promoting the new style of skateboarding.
The Detroit Wheels were looking to move to Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Florida Blazers made overtures of bringing the first place club to Atlanta.
After several hotels and airlines went unpaid, the Wheels were unable to fly to games or get a place for the players to stay without paying in advance, and they were nearly forced to forfeit one game when they didn't have medical supplies or tape.
The Jacksonville Sharks and Detroit Wheels were liquidated owing nearly $ 4 million, and Detroit had 122 creditors looking to recoup losses.
After the Rock Steady Crew and Afrika Bambaataa were booked as the opening act for Bow Wow Wow at The Ritz nightclub in September 1981, Ruza Blue decided to book them at Negril and begin a night called " Wheels of Steel ".
During the 1980s, Matchbox started to switch to the more conventional plastic and cardboard " blister packs " that were used by other die cast toy brands such as Hot Wheels.
Other brands, including Husky / Corgi Junior, Budgie, and Cigar Box, attempted to compete with Matchbox, but none were particularly successful until American toy giant Mattel introduced the revolutionary low-friction " racing " wheels on its Hot Wheels line of cars.
There were great fears that Mattel would either impose a Hot Wheels-style philosophy on the Matchbox line, or actually fold the Matchbox line into the Hot Wheels series.
Early concerns of this nature by collectors were countered by assurances from Mattel that ( a ) Matchbox would continue to develop their product line independently from Hot Wheels, and ( b ) that it was intended that Matchbox represent " real " and traditional vehicles, while fantasy would primarily be placed firmly in Hot Wheels territory.
Some very realistic Hot Wheels Caterpillar models were actually re-branded to Matchbox to demonstrate the latter statement ( though this did not necessarily assuage concerns about the truth of the former ).
There were also jigsaw puzzles of photographs depicting Matchbox vehicles in realistic-looking situations, race track sets ( Superfast track was yellow, as opposed to Hot Wheels ' orange, and of a slightly wider gauge ), a particularly clever plastic snap-together wall-display system, roadways, and even a slot-car system for standard ( non-powered ) car models.
Hot Wheels created a Shotz Brewery delivery van, and several novelty toys were sold such as Halloween costumes, a board game, jigsaw puzzles, coloring books, and other toys.
* Slow Dog ( Wheels ) who were a Cambridge based rock band headed up by Scottish singer / guitarist Dave Kelly.
In 2004, a series of " Crash Dummies " animated shorts were commissioned for the FOX network, thus spawning another series of toys from Mattel through the Hot Wheels brand.
Another unusual and unique feature of the car was the alloy Avon Safety Wheels, which were designed to retain the tyre safely in the event of a puncture.
Police cars ( P71 / P72 ) switched from full wheel covers and dog-dish covers held onto the wheel by 4 nubs ( on HD Steel Wheels ) to a design with center caps that attached onto the lug nuts ; these were sourced from the Explorer SUV.
Hell on Wheels was showcased at the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo, where a playable demonstration and a teaser trailer were displayed.
: Wheels / tyres: Originally wooden wheels with solid tyres, but these were changed in the early years to Sankey type metal wheels and fitted with balloon tyres.
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The Daily Telegraph was sold to News Limited in 1972 ; the same year ACP founded Cleo and took over Publishers Holdings ( including Australian House & Garden, Wheels, and others ).
Doris Taylor founded Meals on Wheels in South Australia in 1953, and in 1954 the first meal was served from the Port Adelaide kitchen.
A subscription to Turning Wheels is included with a membership in the 13, 000 member Studebaker Drivers Club, which was founded in 1962 and is the largest of three US organizations serving Studebaker owners.
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*" New Era In Power To Turn Wheels " Popular Science, December 1939, early article on operations of gas turbine power plants, cutaway drawings
* The Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels Tour – November 15 – 16, 1989 & Bridges To Babylon Tour – December 5, 1997
* The Beach Boys – December 29, 1964, with The Fantastic Four Wheels and Sir Richard & The Mark IV's, November 18, 1966, with The Dawn Five, Chad & Jeremy and The Boys Next Door and August 26, 1982
Sierra Fellers ( born December 30, 1986, Whitefish, Montana ) is a professional skateboarder, who skates for Foundation Skateboards, Venture Trucks, Circa Footwear, FKD Bearings, Bones Wheels, Rpm Auto Sales, Nixon Watches, Spirit Skateshop ( of Kalispell, Montana ) and CCS magazine.
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Despite the V8 model winning Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 1973, sales of the P76 were adversely affected by a variety of issues: component manufacturers ' strikes limiting parts availability, production problems at Leyland Australia's plant in Zetland all restricted supply of the car ; the release of P76 coincided with the first Oil Crisis, when fuel prices increased dramatically.
Other film work has included roles in Diamonds on Wheels ( 1973 ); When You Comin ' Back, Red Ryder?
* In the song Maria Magenta on the 1973 album Cosmic Wheels, Donovan calls Maria Magenta my copper go-go girl.
Popular songs include Waltzing Matilda ( 1895 ), Pub With No Beer ( 1957 ), Lights on the Hill ( 1973 ), I Honestly Love You ( 1974 ), True Blue ( 1981 ), Boys From the Bush ( 1992 ), Not Pretty Enough ( 2002 ) and Drive It Till The Wheels Fall Off ( 2006 ).
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