Countdown to Kickoff

[Homebrewcock]

 

[kingofnerf]

Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.

 

[kingofnerf]

 

[kingofnerf]

Morgan Shepherd.

 

[kingofnerf]

Ron Bouchard.

 

[kingofnerf]

 

[kingofnerf]

'47 Plymouth.

 

[kingofnerf]

'47 Ford pick-up.

 

[Swayin]

The P-47 Thunderbolt, affectionately known as "The Jug."

 

[kingofnerf]

Boeing B-47 Stratojet.

 

[Homebrewcock]

 

[Homebrewcock]

 

[Homebrewcock]

 

[kingofnerf]

Cole Trickle's #46 Chevy Luminas from Days of Thunder.

 

[Swayin]

USS Maryland, BB-46, pumping water during the attack on Pearl Harbor; she was quickly repairs and earned 8 battle stars for her service.

 

[Swayin]

The Curtiss XP-46, the successor to the P-40 Warhawk. Curtiss instead made improvements to the Warhawk, and the P-46 was never put into production.

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Duncan, DD-46.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Duncan_(DD-46)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Phoenix, CL-46.

USS Phoenix (CL-46), was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn-class cruiser family. She was the third Phoenix of the United States Navy. After World War II the ship was transferred to Argentina in 1951 and was ultimately renamed General Belgrano in 1956.  General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982 by the British nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror, the only ship to have been sunk in combat by a nuclear-powered submarine during wartime.

Phoenix passing the battleships West Virginia and Arizona at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Phoenix_(CL-46)

Belgrano being abandoned before sinking during the Falklands war in 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Niantic, CVE-46.

USS Niantic (CVE-46) was a US escort carrier, that served in the Royal Navy as HMS Ranee (D03).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ranee_(D03)

 

[kingofnerf]

USS Iwo Jima, CV-46.

USS Iwo Jima (CV-46) was a planned Essex-class aircraft carrier for the United States Navy. Newport News Shipbuilding began construction of the vessel in early 1945, but on August 12, with the end of World War II, the Navy cancelled the contract.  She remained in an unfinished state until 1949, when her hull was scrapped in the slipway in Newport News before ever being launched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iwo_Jima_(CV-46)

Never launched or commissioned, but the skill required to build modern ships just amazes me.