If I have a grail car, it’s the 1937 Supercharged Cord 812. The brochure is for 1936, but it’s the only complete one I found… The one thing I remember (as a little kid) was the engine turned instrument panel! … Continue reading
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Up to my alligator in assholes this week, so took a bit of a break. Read Pratchett’s Mort and found my copy of Doc Smith’s First Lensman. But I drug a couple of others out… 🙂 I also have a … Continue reading
It’s cars… Back when you could actually tell them apart… And VERY few of them had AC. I can remember going for ‘Sunday’ drives as a kid, and first learned about the 2 55 AC there… And it was actually … Continue reading
They clanked when they walked… This 19 minute video is a little hokey, since it was done during the war, and the cameras didn’t really work well at night, but it is a tribute to the Naval Aviators and crewmen … Continue reading
Kinda like the old days of dial up… AT&T is acting like a ping pong ball, except without the old tones… Maybe a 14.4 modem on a lousy line. Go read the folks on the sidebar, while I wait for … Continue reading
Pictures… 🙂 Everybody was a daredevil on the swings when we were kids… And we survived… We ate the cake batter right off the beaters, raw eggs and all… And we survived… And there weren’t malls’ per se… Grocery stores … Continue reading
9 years ago this week, I was out ‘playing’ at working in Hawaii… Or at least that was what I was accused of… The only problem was, I’d been here the week before… Bonus points if you recognize this place… … Continue reading
Memories… from 45 years ago… I was one of those kids, in a brown shirt. A video tribute to the young folks who work the Navy’s aircraft carrier flight decks, which when operating – regardless of world events – have … Continue reading
This past weekend is responsible for today’s post… Some of us from the class of ’69 got together for dinner and conversation, and memories… There were two A&W drive-ins in town, one on the Arkansas side, and one on the … Continue reading
Digging for something else in the closet, I found this… I must have been washing in for a date on Friday or Saturday night! 🙂 My old ’66 Goat… Sigh… I miss that car! Gold with the black vinyl interior … Continue reading