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    [QUOTE=Itoldyouso;429968]
    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
    Hmmmmm, where are all the rusty, channeled to the ground "authentic" rods?

    Those were back East. We couldn't afford paint and fancy stuff like you richies on the West Coast.

    (Somebody has been hanging around a certain traditional forum a little too much, Me thinks. )

    Don
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rrumbler View Post
    Wow, Bob, what a trip. Our Dads were sure young back then, and the cars look just like they did when I first became aware of such things. And, I think I recognized that hill in the background in one of the shots; I worked in Barstow in '68 - '69, and we did a bit of work in Harper Dry Lake a few times. It was almost entirely alfalfa fields then.
    Rrum......Randy hits most of the events down there, takes tons of pictures (knock around his Fotki site if you wish, there are many, many albums posted). You'll find him at the Cars & Coffee deal most Saturday mornings down on Eastern.
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    Uncle Bob,
    Thanks for the link. I would love to have been there but I was two years yet to be born.

    Jack
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