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  1. 07-18-2007 12:07 PM #1
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    Curious ... What's the Correct Spelling? Hiboy, Highboy, Hi-boy, etc...

     



    What's the 100% correct spelling for the hiboy?

    I see it spelled so many different ways ...

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  3. 07-18-2007 12:22 PM #2
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  4. 07-18-2007 12:25 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim_in_NC
    What's the 100% correct spelling for the hiboy?

    I see it spelled so many different ways ...

    thanks,
    TIM
    I've been around the hobby since the late '50s, and never have never seen it spelled any way except highboy, until recent times.

    Today it is popular to use odd spellings like "old skool". Maybe it's because the younger generation is into text messages, or maybe it's because they quit school (skool), and just can't spell. Who knows. :-)
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  6. 07-18-2007 12:45 PM #5
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    Old school, highboy.
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    Maybe if you wave at people while cruising around, it would be a "Hi"-Boy roadster? :-)
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    You guys are too much !

    highboy it is!
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  9. 07-18-2007 01:57 PM #8
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    Why not ask HiboyGal?
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    Eh, she's out in the middle of the Mojave Desert yelling "cut" or something like that. You know that movie business and all...................

    I've always seen it as highboy until recent times too. But this is all just too confusing............channel it and you won't have to worry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FloydCotterpin
    Why not ask HiboyGal?
    She should surely know the answer, not. Besides, she's over at the Hamb where they've made her a celebrity of sorts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NTFDAY
    She should surely know the answer, not. Besides, she's over at the Hamb where they've made her a celebrity of sorts.

    Yup. Everybody wants to be in pictures.


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    Guys its the lack of education, look how bad my spelling and writing skills are, and that was my best subject in school.
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    It was always highboy to me. But then . . . .

    Why is a car with two doors called a tudor? Henry VII didn't drive one.
    Why is a car with four doors called a fordor? Because it was a FORD, OR something else?

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    I don C what S so importunt about speling wat wood we need et 4 N E way?
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