#49664 - 08/19/05 06:13 PM
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dashing
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We said "pisser" as a good thing. We had a "pisser" at a party if it got "crashed", was wild, etc. But, if we slipped around the "rents" they would get "pissed  ".
Roadrunner, I felt old reading the recent National SCI newspaper. Bobby Hall is old and grey! Marilyn Hamilton is middle aged...I think I'll remember Connie Head as she appears on the poster I have advertising Halls' Chairs. dash
hmmm, I wonder if my old ad for Braun Vans is in the NM mag archives  .
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#49665 - 08/19/05 06:27 PM
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rosebud
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P1 You started it! Thank you very much. 
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#49666 - 08/19/05 07:04 PM
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whiterabbit11
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How could I have missed this thread? Beatles dissed? That's blasphemy. Then there were the cars. A '66 GTO lead to my downfall, but it could've been my '65 Mustang or my '62 Chevy 409. Or even my '49 Ford flathead v-8 with dual exhausts, cut coil springs in the front so it rode like a red American Flyer wagon.
Yup, those were gthe days.Anybody got pictures?
I had a 49 willys jeep that actually did go anywhere. If it quit you could rebuild it with a crescent wrench a screwdriver and some pliers-almost. But I did take the carbuerator apart in the middle of nowhere and clean the needlevalve once a week.
I think somebody threw a rag in the gas tank. wr
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#49667 - 08/19/05 08:24 PM
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dashing
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When I was about 15 a friend let me drive his GTO on this straight stretch of road behind the school. It was our weekend dragstrip. Straight, not open to traffic. I brought that up to 100mph  .
I dreamed of getting a Dodge Charger but got sidelined. I first got hand controls in my Pop's 67 Plymouth Sports Fury Convertable. When still cold we could take the top down, windows up, heat on, stereo blasting and drive around and catch rays. My first "own" car was a 72 Plymouth FuryIII  . It looked like an unmarked cop car(that was the only fun thing about it). They then said big cars were best for getting a chair into. dash
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#49668 - 08/19/05 09:22 PM
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Paul I
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I think the Ford flathead V8 with glasspacs was the nicest sounding engine I've ever heard. Better than the OHV engines. Wind them until they'd begin to rap then back it down a little and catch the next gear.
Sooo sweet!
Remember summer nights? Mild, windows or top down, crusin? There's just something about those nights that just makes your heart race and your senses
just peaked out totally. Man, I can just feel it! Paul I
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#49672 - 08/20/05 10:48 AM
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whiterabbit11
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Hey Roadrunner-Sylvana posted a link to a free picture downloader on the pet thread. I figured it out for the dog and if I can, anyone can. here it is:
http://photobucket.com/login.php
I have my 409 handy but will have to dig out the rest from under the stack of 45 and 33&1/3 albums.wr
I had 2 '49 fords in my backyard and a '49 chevy-must've had a thing about '49. My mother finally came after me with a baseball bat and a threat-something about her new grass and flowers.  So I hustled and made one good 49 ford from 2 not so good ones and sold the chevy 6 to some nerd-6's were not cool.
I'd drive the 49 ford past my gf's house in 1st gear and let the glass packs back off. Her Dad said it was the "Mating Call" 
dash- I got my GTO past 120 once and God knows how fast the 409 topped at. I ran it 'B stock', in the Drag strips in Texas while stationed at Ft. Hood till LBJ sent me across the ocean.
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#49673 - 08/20/05 05:11 PM
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LASHB
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Okay, my stories are boring compared to you guys. My first car I personally ever owned was a used Chevy Impala - I can't remember the year. The most favorite car I ever owned was a Toyota Celica. Don't remember the year of that one either, but it was old, but sweet! Had to leave it in Japan when I left.
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#49674 - 08/20/05 06:34 PM
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Paul I
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Don't feel bad, Lash. we always used to say- "the car made the man-till he got out of it". PI
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#49675 - 08/20/05 07:00 PM
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rosebud
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Ahhh - this evening was a lovely warm 82 a little humid but I'm still riding high on this nastalgia topic, so I went out cruisin (alone unfortunately). Got to to pay attention to the road though, almost drove off into a field. LOL To be continued. Goodnite ya all.
"In the still of the nite hmmmmmmmmm"
PS- remember when we used to wear taps on our shoes? They were cool. Mom used to holler at me for tap dancing upstairs on the linoleum floor - sure sounded good to me but made a heck of a racket downstairs! lol
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#49676 - 08/20/05 10:43 PM
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Paul I
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Taps were totally what's's happening. Our school had ceramic tile floors. If you got a lav pass you had it to yourself and you could practice the slow, deliberate, self-composed walk like Jack Palance in Shane. Course he had spurs.
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#49677 - 08/20/05 11:59 PM
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rosebud
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Jeez, I left this laptop and went to do a couple loads of laundry and watched the weather channel for a while. The forcaster said it is 96 degrees in your area tonite (whew).
Was ready to turn this off and saw you were back on. It's raining pretty hard right now and I hear thunder, so I'm signing off.
Oh yeah, good old Jack Palance. He was on Jay Leno a few years ago still doing pushups! Good Nite.
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#49678 - 08/21/05 07:18 AM
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LASHB
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I wore taps on my combat boots...
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#49679 - 08/21/05 08:05 AM
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tandi
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Just the other day I was remembering sitting on a rug on my Grandmother's front lawn, shelling fresh new peas into a colander. Home grown of course.
Then recalled the days of preparing the new garden beds, for just such a harvest ahead.
And the younger ones these days complain about shopping at the supermarket!
I remember the russelling of stiffly starched petticoats, under our neatly pressed Sunday Best skirts.
And panama hats in our summer school uniforms, and white gloves too! And laying out, oh so carefully, our winter uniform under the mattress ever so careful, to press the deep box-pleats, while I slept.
I've only read page one. Maybe tomorrow the rest of this thread. One of our greatest gifts... MEMORY!
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