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This is a crop from a picture I took a few summers ago while the kids were blowing bubbles.

As viewed from Chippewa Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Thunder Bay, Ontario. We had dinner there on Saturday and it was delicious. I didn't realize there was a problem until after we got outside and were waiting on the sidewalk when the ambulance pulled up and attended to someone inside.

Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Uncle Frank's Supper Club has been closed for many years. (It was closed when we were here two years ago.) I like the way it looks like it belongs in another era.

Spotted at the Ford dealership on Memorial Drive in Thunder Bay, On.


From the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide:

The 2007 Ford Shelby GT500
If classic Shelby Mustangs were liberally dosed with Vitamin HP, the '07 Shelby GT500 was a full-blown steroid case. Lurking within was a supercharged 5.4-liter twincam V-8, basically the 550-bhp Ford GT unit with a less-expensive Roots-type blower and milder tuning.

Milder? Not really. Rated horsepower was a thundering 500, torque a stump-pulling 480 pound-feet. This muscle was too much for any automatic on the Ford shelf, so the only transmission was a heavy-duty six-speed manual, familiar from recent Cobras and the race-winning FR500C Mustangs developed by Ford Racing. Thrust control also dictated a beefed-up suspension, big Brembo disc brakes with pizza-size 14-inch four-caliper rotors up front, and sticky high-performance tires sized at 255/45ZR18 up front and a massive 285/40ZR18 out back.

You can get more info from Ford's official site.

You can see a few more pictures of the Shelby GT500 in my Thunder Bay set on Flickr.

Freshly washed and waxed in Thunder Bay, ON.

Uncle Frank's Supper Club, Thunder Bay, ON.