#49710 - 08/28/05 01:49 AM
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rosebud
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P1 - what a dirty trick! hah I never heard that term before but I have had it happen. This reminds me of a funny incident that happened to my late husband and I. We went out to dinner to celebrate our 10th anniversary had a few glasses of wine afterward and on the way home we decided to do something crazy. We found a secluded parking place (in a cemetary of all places) and after a while, there was a loud pounding on the back window. Scared the bjeezes out of us and boy did we ever scramble around. It was the town constable. We had to show ident. and explain what we were doing there (as if he didn't know)lol. Afterwards we all had a good laugh about it, but he made us leave. He was doing surveilance because of vandalism that happened the nite before. What lousy timing!(lol) We had a Pontiac Grand Safari then. (just want to keep the car theme going)  Goodnite or good morning.
-Barb
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#49711 - 08/28/05 11:36 AM
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Paul I
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Hmmm, resize?
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#49712 - 08/28/05 06:08 PM
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rosebud
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Yep, you boogered up the page P1.  Great car, just love those long fins on the back.
Did you use your leg braces for long? I was sent home from the first rehab with them, but I could never do the "swing thru" gate more than about 10ft. My dad built parallel bars in the yard for me out of plumbing pipe anchored into a sheet of plywood so I could practice in the yard. I gave up using them by summer's end before going to college. It was too much of a hassel and painful, too. My husband was a para ,also and he used braces and crutches very well for many years before going to a chair. I wonder if people are still rehabed the way we were back then?
Keep cruisin in your mind and spirit and be happy!
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#49714 - 08/29/05 12:09 AM
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rosebud
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Did you stick with your braces Roadr? No kidding, your dad built you parallel bars, too? That's realy special. That's so true, it was a challenge to go anywhere back then. We just went out into the world and plowed our way through somehow. The best gift of all though was the day I got handcontrols put on my first car. God what freedom. You know what I'm talking about.
I've been hanging with P1's post because there seems to be a lot of commonality here with all of us growing up in the same era, liking the same cars, music, etc. I find myself checking in here a couple times a day just to see what's happening with you all. It's kind of a comforting place to visit don't you think so? I'm sure we all have enough experiences to talk about to keep this going for a long time!
I finally got a scanner. Spent a lot of time figuring out how to hook it up, etc., but now I can't figure out how to send a picture from my file to here. :rolleyes: It's supposed to be so easy, but I'm about to lose my patience with it. I dug out a few old pics I'd like to send. Keep cruisin gang!
-Barb
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#49715 - 08/29/05 05:21 AM
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LASHB
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Barb, the pictures have to be on a web page somewhere. Rob (sodapop) will host and even post them for you if you email them to him. I don't seem to have his email address in my address book. Well, I have one, but I'm not sure if it's the right one. PM him and I bet he'll help.
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#49716 - 08/29/05 10:14 PM
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rosebud
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Thanks for the assist Lash., I'll get into it more tomorrow...kinda fizzled out for today.
I hate to give up figuring out myself, yet. (lol) Goodnite
Barb
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#49717 - 08/29/05 10:19 PM
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rosebud
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Whoops! I left out "it" after figuring 
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#49718 - 08/30/05 05:04 AM
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LASHB
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You can also use http://www.photobucket.com
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#49719 - 08/30/05 03:29 PM
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whiterabbit11
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Okay ,Paul so you got a width problem and I got a height problem. Noticed finally on my scanner a re-sizer and theres an edit function on PhotoBucket.
That's a great lookin Car Paul. I remember skunking but didn't know that was the name either-did a google and got some xxx rated versions. Since this is sort of a PG thread I left em there. 
There was a hill outside of town where I lived known affectionately as "diddler's dome" where the majority of victims were raided.
You'll figure photobucket out Barb. I tried to make it complicated. Once you get a pic. scanned save it to your documents or "my pictures" as Jpeg. IMG, or whatever. Then when you go to photobucket "Browse" till you find it, click it and the url will show, then click submit and it oughta be there at bottom, scroll down a little,. I then click the select box, bring up the url on the long box that starts with select http, darken the one that says for posting on message boards then cut and paste into the NM. Confused? I f not, you should be.
I even tried leg braces as a c-7. I had a brace up to my chest. I could get through parallel bars but never made it to Canadian crutches. It was hell getting my legs in the car so I gave up. I'm still gonna find them other cars and post em.
Sylvana has better, shorter, Photbucket directions on pet thread.
I feel a Beach Boys Car-Tune coming up, or was it Jan and Dean? :p WR
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#49720 - 08/30/05 09:04 PM
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Paul I
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WR, I used tinypics and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit the picture once they host it and if I try to repeat it they don't allow it. Perhaps I should just edit out the post. PI
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#49721 - 08/31/05 11:29 AM
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whiterabbit11
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Originally posted by Paul I:
WR, I used tinypics and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit the picture once they host it and if I try to repeat it they don't allow it. Perhaps I should just edit out the post. PI
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#49722 - 08/31/05 01:38 PM
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LASHB
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Remember when gas pumps didn't even have a dollars digit on it because no one would ever think gas would cost more than a dollar!
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#49723 - 08/31/05 03:24 PM
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Paul I
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And some didn't have digits at all but I have to admit they were disappearing rapidly when I was a kid. The ones with the glass tanks on the top like a water cooler. Can't say that I understood how they worked. The lowest price I think I can remember is around 17 cents a gallon. At 25 cents a gallon which I do remember, for a HS kid it was $2.50 for 10 gals,
about 2+ hours of wages. 10 gallons today could be $26 dollars, 3-4 hours of work for a HS kid. Now 10 gallons could move you 200-250 miles in todays small cars but back then probably only 160 unless you had a VW.
Saw my first VW in 1955. I remember it clearly as I had never heard of them. I was doing my paper route, stopped the bike, walked around it about 3 times, looked at the turn signals which popped out of the window pillar between the two side windows like a flag, dual exhausts, and couldn't figure out where the engine was for sure. It had German plates on it.
Within 2 years they were popping up all over the place along with their main competitor the Renault
Dauphine. Remember them? PI
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#49724 - 09/01/05 12:30 AM
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rosebud
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I shoulda sent a magnifying glass with that e-mail P1. lol
Anyway it's a nice article about the Renault that was split and each half could be driven independently. It was on a Candid Camera show in the 60's. It was designed by a local resident. Don't know why it printed up so small. The picture and print are much larger on the original.
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