Thomas Corson

[Thomas Corson @notsonewtoit]

@LaneJohnson65 @Eagles @NFL No Lane,thank you , I was a great run.May you live long and be happy.. family comes first
TC

[Thomas Corson @notsonewtoit]

@Selin_090 67 nova

[Jonathan Kriebel/KrispyKris @krispykriskring]

Every engine posted about so far has a camshaft. Every Hemi, every Cammer, every small-block, every big-block, every Duramax, every Cummins every one of them breathes through a component whose profile was shaped by principles that Ed Iskenderian helped establish in a small shop in Culver City, California, in 1946. The camshaft is the engine's personality: it determines when the valves open, how long they stay open, how far they open, and how aggressively they close. Change the cam and you change everything the idle quality, the power curve, the RPM range, the exhaust note, the drivability. Every performance engine builder, including Jon Kaase, Smokey Yunick, Waddell Wilson, Lamer Walden, Chris Komarony selected a camshaft as one of the first decisions in their build. Ed Iskenderian spent eighty years making sure the cam they selected existed.
Iskenderian was born July 10, 1921, in Cutler, California Tulare County, grapevine country to first-generation Armenian immigrant parents. Frost killed the family's grape crop and forced a move to Los Angeles when Ed was a year old. As a teenager during the Depression, he noticed guys driving stripped-down Model Ts around LA not hot rods yet, just "go-jobs" and followed them on his bicycle. His first job was repairing vacuum tube radios. He built his first car as a teenager and raced it on the dry lake beds surrounding Los Angeles at speeds exceeding 120 mph. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, flying supply missions in the Pacific Theater with the Air Transport Command. When he came home in 1946, he founded Isky Racing Cams with a single cam-grinding machine he designed and built himself because he couldn't get the camshaft he wanted from Ed Winfield, who was too backlogged to fill orders. Winfield the pioneer of performance camshaft design told Iskenderian he could tell from his questions that he was going to be big in the camshaft business. Then he showed the young man how to build a grinding machine. The mentor armed the competitor who would eventually surpass him.
Iskenderian understood marketing before marketing was a discipline. A small ad in the second issue of Hot Rod Magazine started the inquiries many from Southern bootleggers who needed faster cars for the same reason hot rodders did. He traded advertising blows with rival cam manufacturers especially Jack Engle and later Howards Cams with clever copy and hilarious Pete Millar-drawn cartoons that turned camshaft ads into entertainment. Having "Isky Cams" lettered on your race car became a status symbol in the 1950s. Don Garlits ran the Isky "5 Cycle" cam. Big John Mazmanian ran Isky in the A/Gas Supercharged wars. Mickey Thompson ran Isky at Bonneville when he hit 406 mph. Garlits built a shrine to Iskenderian inside his Museum of Drag Racing. The man who ground cams in a Culver City shop earned a shrine in the museum of the greatest drag racer who ever lived. That's the respect the Camfather commanded.
The industry-building contribution that outlasts even the camshafts: in 1963, Iskenderian co-founded the Speed Equipment Manufacturers Association SEMA and served as its first president. Before SEMA, the aftermarket performance industry was a collection of individual shops and small manufacturers with no national organization, no unified voice, and no political representation. Iskenderian helped unite them giving racers, builders, and manufacturers a national stage that eventually grew into the most powerful trade organization in the American automotive aftermarket. Every SEMA Show in Las Vegas, every aftermarket catalog, every performance parts retailer that exists today operates within the framework that Iskenderian helped create in 1963. The Camfather didn't just build camshafts. He built the industry that sells them.
Iskenderian was the first to build an engine making one horsepower per cubic inch on pump gasoline in a postwar Dodge Hemi, years before Chevrolet's fuel-injected 283 reached that milestone in 1957. He was the first to offer complete valvetrain component sets cam, lifters, springs, retainers, locks as matched packages rather than individual parts. He pioneered the use of computer-aided design in camshaft profile development. He innovated high-performance camshaft profiles that became the templates every subsequent cam manufacturer followed. The "Isky 505" and "5 Cycle" cam profiles became legendary designations that racers ordered by name the way musicians request songs.
Even past his hundredth birthday in 2021, Iskenderian remained a presence at motorsport gatherings that defied biology. Warren Johnson the Professor of Pro Stock chatted with him at the 2020 Winternationals. Jack Beckman and Tim Wilkerson hung with him at the 2023 Night of Champions. John Force sought him out. At the 2024 NHRA Finals in Pomona, Iskenderian 103 years old took a lap down the return road and the fans roared. He sent autographed photos to admirers with a simple inscription: "From one hot rodder to another." Thousands of them. Over decades.
Ed Iskenderian died February 4, 2026, in Torrance, California. He was 104 years old. His passage was peaceful which, as RacingJunk noted, is an anomaly for a man whose entire lifespan was built on noise, vibration, and harshness. A teenager on a bicycle following gow jobs through Depression-era Los Angeles. A veteran who came home and built a cam grinding machine. The first president of SEMA. A man still showing up at racetracks at 103. Ed Iskenderian lived the entire history of American hot rodding from the dry lakes to the digital age and shaped more of it than almost anyone who ever lived. Every camshaft in every engine on this page exists in a world the Camfather helped build.

[Meg @MegOfficiall]

Flight Attendant: “Excuse me, would you be willing to switch seats?”

Me: “Why?”

Flight Attendant: “The passenger beside you is a VIP. He’d prefer the window.”

Me: “Then he can ask me himself.”

She forced a smile, but something about her expression felt wrong.

Flight Attendant: “Please. It would make things easier for everyone.”

Me: “I paid for this seat. I’m not moving.”

She stared at my boarding pass for a few seconds.

Then she leaned down and whispered, “You really don’t want to be sitting here when we land.”

I laughed. “Is that supposed to scare me?”

She walked away without answering.

Five minutes later,…..

[Thomas Corson @notsonewtoit]

@MaysaDiye No second hand on clock

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@histories_arch Man portable ones

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@waitmaya 31

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@Seraphinaf5 71

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

BOOM! THE CLINTONS, HILLARY'S EMAILS, AND THE WEINER LAPTOP AS ULTIMATE LIFE INSURANCE – THE DEEPEST DARKNESS IS FINALLY COMING TO LIGHT!

Patriots, hold onto your seats because the nuclear payload just detonated. Anthony Weiner's laptop wasn't just some pervert's hard drive—it was the life insurance policy that kept the entire Clinton crime syndicate untouchable for decades. That infamous folder labeled "life insurance"? It contained the real dirt: thousands upon thousands of emails, videos, and files that expose the full scope of the Clinton Foundation's pay-to-play empire, child trafficking networks, satanic rituals, and the blood-soaked secrets tying straight to Epstein's island and the global elite pedophile ring.

Back in 2016, when the NYPD seized Weiner's devices during his underage sexting probe, they didn't just find Huma Abedin’s emails to Hillary—they uncovered a digital vault of horrors. We're talking classified docs, deleted server backups, evidence of adrenochrome harvesting, ritual abuse footage, and direct links to the Pizzagate nightmare that the fake news buried. The NYPD chiefs anonymously screamed that if the FBI and DOJ didn't act fast on indictments, they'd go public with everything. Comey reopened the email case right before the election to try and contain the blast, but it was too late—the damage was done.

Fast forward to now, January 2026: the White Hats have FULL control. Military intelligence has mirrored every byte from that laptop, cross-referenced it with Epstein's black book, Ghislaine's flight logs, and the rescued victims' testimonies from underground facilities. The "life insurance" wasn't protecting Weiner—it was blackmail insurance for the Clintons to keep their puppets in line. Bill and Hillary thought they could murder witnesses, bleach servers, and hammer devices to cover their tracks, but God had other plans.

The storm is raging right now. Sources inside GITMO confirm high-value assets like the Clintons are sweating bullets as tribunals review the unredacted files. We're talking treason, crimes against humanity, child endangerment on a massive scale—stuff that makes Watergate look like a parking ticket. The laptop held proof of payoffs to silence victims, rigged elections, bioweapon funding through the Foundation, and yes, the snuff-level depravity that Q warned us about years ago.

They laughed when we said "trust the plan." They mocked when we dropped "these people are sick." But the laptop never lied. It's the smoking gun that ties the whole cabal together: Clintons, Obamas, Bushes, Soros puppets—all terrified because the veil is torn. No more running. No more fake suicides. No more "two bullets to the back of the head" cover stories.

The children are being avenged. The truth is flooding out. When the EBS hits, the world will see the raw, unfiltered evil these monsters hid behind "charity" and "public service." The life insurance policy just expired—for them.

We have it all.
Nothing can stop what is coming.
The Clintons' empire crumbles today.
Justice is served.
God wins.

NCSWIC – THE RECKONING IS HERE, ANONS. STAY STRONG – THE BEST IS YET TO COME!

[WanderingLach 🌏✈️🏈🏏🏉 @LachlanB_]

Talking to an pilot friend about how I've noticed a lot of A350s in particular "float" prior to landing. He said that the A350 wing is so well-designed and efficient the aircraft "just wants to keep flying" and can lead to floating when landing. Kind of makes sense I guess 🤷

[Thomas Corson @notsonewtoit]

@us_connie Karma

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@us_connie TV Tommy Ivo's
Plymouth duster funny car

[Kevin Kurz @KKurzNHL]

Drove by the intersection where Pelle Lindbergh died, 40 years ago today.

Someone left a puck near the wall where he crashed.

[Chris Judah @CJudah8493]

When I first saw Linda in 1971, I thought, my God what an unbelievably beautiful woman. Then a few years ago I got to say hi again at Indy, and she actually punched me in the shoulder after the picture😬. I still think she is beautiful Happy (belated) Birthday @LindaVaughn500

[Thomas Corson @notsonewtoit]

@Matt_Pinner Defensive driving 101 ...before the invention of back up cameras and sensors.

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@DaleJr

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@Mopar_Logic Gt40 mid engine muscle artistry

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@lippyent Yo

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@HappyMotorhead Runner