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Anybody remember the Wild Bunch ?

this fellow built a lot of stuff i liked in the 70`s and 80`s .. hot rod mag recently ran a reshoot of some of his work but i cant find my copy . iv`e had hot rod since the mid 70`s .. i remember this copy ..

Always loved his T sedan, i have this car as an unbuilt model in the closet collection

here`s you a monte barb .. i see this thing around a lot on the hiway .. my first chance to get a shot of it .. big block car .. i recon hooters has a show every weekend .. i was just in town cause i worked today and dropped by ..

if you aint heard one of these beasts run get down to your caddy dealor and fire this bad boy up .. i heard one coming a mile away at the hooters show yesterday .. 516 hp .. 6 speed manual .. zero to 60 in 4 secs .. the sound will blow you away

is there a way one can find - trace the whereabouts of a vehicle they once owned ? i know my 440 six pac bee was crushed at the yard i worked at but my 69 r code stang traded hands a few times before i lost control of it .. is there records of ownership going back that far you think .. i`m not real sure i ever had it in my name .. tags and insurance were`nt so important then

Sometimes it is fun to remember


FENDER SKIRTS
I know some of you will not understand this message, but I bet you know
someone who might. I came across this phrase yesterday. 'FENDER
SKIRTS.'


A term I haven't heard in a long time, and thinking about 'fender skirts'
started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our
language with hardly a notice like 'curb feelers.'



And 'steering knobs.' (AKA) ?~suicide knob,?T ?~neckers knobs.?T


Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.

Any kids will probably have to find some older person over 50 to explain
some of these terms to you.

Remember 'Continental kits?' They were rear bumper extenders and spare
tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln
Continental.


When did we quit calling them 'emergency brakes?' At some point 'parking
brake' became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went
with 'emergency brake.'


I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the
accelerator the 'foot feed.' Many today do not even know what a clutch is
or that the dimmer switch used to be on the floor.


Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you
could ride the 'running board' up to the house?


Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore -
'store-bought.' Of course, just about everything is store-bought these
days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a
store-bought bag of candy.


'Coast to coast' is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and
now means almost nothing. Now we take the term 'world wide' for granted.
This floors me.


On a smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once a magical term in our homes.
In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow,
wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall
carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure.

When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase 'in a family way?'
It's hard to imagine that the word 'pregnant' was once considered a little
too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company, so we had
all that talk about stork visits and 'being in a family way' or simply
'expecting.'

Apparently 'brassiere' is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other
day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just 'bra' now.
'Unmentionables' probably wouldn't be understood at all.

I always loved going to the 'picture show,' but I considered 'movie' an
affectation.


Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure '60s word I
came across the other day 'rat fink.' Ooh, what a nasty put-down!


Here's a word I miss - 'percolator.' That was just a fun word to say.
And what was it replaced with 'Coffee maker.' How dull... Mr. Coffee, I
blame you for this.


I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern
and now sound so retro. Words like 'DynaFlow' and'Electrolux.'
Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with 'SpectraVision!'


Food for thought. Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody
complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I
never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.


Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The
one that grieves me most is 'supper.' Now everybody says 'dinner.' Save
a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.


Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a 'certain age'
would remember most of these.


Just for fun, pass it along to others of 'a certain age.'



IF YOU AREN'T OF A CERTAIN AGE, YOU MUST KNOW SOMEONE

thanks hoss. both the monte and the caddy are things of beauty.

Excellent food for throught fitzwilly and we on the wrong side of fifty have so much trouble understanding TEXT talk from the young generation. Heck I believe the young kids of today will not be able to spell correctly as they grow older. I believe your Mr Ray Stevens produced a comical song summing up exactly where our english was heading. I think you can find it on Utube?
Hoss those Caddies might sound the part but ain't they ugly???

i guess good things can happen to us all now and then .. last week sometime i used my debit card at the atm machine and went on my merry way ,, this morning i visit the atm again to give myself my weekly allowance but cant find my card !!! after frantickly searching everywhere it mite be i go back to the bank to cash a check ( this time it didn`t fly out the window ) and i ask the teller what i needed to do to get a new card ,, she said why do i need a new card '? i said i must have left mine in the machine the last time i was here .. she said " no problem "" i`ve got it rite here .. some kind stranger or perhaps they knew me as my name is on the card ,, turned my card in to the bank .. sure made my day .. now i`m going to a local car show and snap a few pics for us .. big event next week in ardmore tenn .. expecting 1200 cars !!! .. i remember when it was good to get 50 and not that many years ago ..

hey hoss it sounds like your luck is turning around, go buy a lottery ticket, the picture of john butteras 32 is kick ass, read the article on the build of that car,, amazing, I wonder who owns it now lil john passed away a few years ago??

Originally Posted by simpsongreg68

hey hoss it sounds like your luck is turning around, go buy a lottery ticket,

mite very well need to do that .. my preacher friend got 150 large when his cheating wife was killed in a car wreck with her boyfriend .. a fellow co-worker just won 250 thow in the tenn 2 $ scratch card ,,.. paid off his house and bought his wife a new car .. smart man

Thanks for the Lil John shots....Man was an artist, wasn't he???? I remember the first time I saw Dobertin's creation in a mag, sat and tried to estimate what he'd spent on tubing and fittings!!!! There's some young kids out there doing some neat styling on cars, but as yet I haven't seen the quality or flash that some of the artist's of our generation came out with... Foose, Trepanier, and what's his name at SoCal being the exceptions... I still like to look at the stuff that Jeffries came out with, sometimes he wasn't as recognized as the "big names" but his creations to me just oozed class!!!!

haunted intersection.

pretty much have gathered up all the antiques i want cept for a push rotory mower .. have my drills .. my sausage grinder .. my old springfield shotgun .. ..my skilletts ..my sewing machine pictured a few posts back and my push plow which i havent shown yet .. my steam engine train era pipe wrenches