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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Dog427435, Dec 18, 2009.

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  1. dad-bud
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    Katfish, Katfish, Katfish - you're doing it wrong!!
    I'm far more intrigued by her tan lines - my eye is immediately drawn to that, and she has a very nice face and legs, but then it's straight back to the tatas.
    Sorry, to each his own, but face, funbags and legs are just traditional for me, and this is a traditional hotrod forum...................
    ;);):rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
  2. Same school for you too!
     
  3. jroberts
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  4. unkamort
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    Local legend is that they were loaded up and then dumped at sea after dismal sales in the US. As a side note: I bought one once for $50 (guy wanted his new tire money back) drug it home in a string, fiddled with the points, and sold it later the same day for $600 after driving it for about 6 blocks... go figure
     
  5. Big_John
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    I remember reading in the back pages of Hot Rod about someone buying a bunch of them to race. Kind of like a go kart track rental. IIRC, there was a pic of Richard Petty racing one around a dirt track.
     
  6. biscaynes
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  7. jimi'shemi291
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    Don -- anybody -- from the year of the Plymouth coupe ('35?), what might this fella been campin' out for? A talk from FDR, maybe?:confused:

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  8. Looks like it could be some type of Union Pickett Line maybe?
     
  9. I don't think they met Federal safety regs. I remember, I think OCIR bought a bunch for an offroad track they had.
     
  10. My favorite vintage pinup girl!
     

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  11. 55bird
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    I've enjoyed this thread for months, so I dug up a few old family photos to add to the mix.

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    My aunt and uncle sitting on the top, with my tough-guy younger uncle on the driver's side of the back bumper, at Camp Cohasset, in the mid-30s.

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    Me on my new ride. Dad's new Y-Block '56 Merc SW in the background.

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    Me and my bro in Hawaii. We sold the family 52(?) Chevy with only 20k on it when it was 5 years old, but it was a rust bucket.

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    About 1930, Hayward, Ca. My dad and his little bro, now past 80.
     
  12. R W Ohio
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  13. jimi'shemi291
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    "Up to your tricks again, boys?
    It's DOUBLE-detention for you!:mad::mad:

    (Margaret Hamilton image
    thanks to Pintarest.com)
     
  14. OK, so what'z 'er name, you know we all want to google it! I forgot to count da toes?
     
  15. DiggerODell
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    Outside of Ebbets Field during the 1920 World Series.
     

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  16. T-Head
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    This photo was taken in Niles, Ohio at some point in the teens and the owner/driver of this interesting racing car was John Clingan. West Peterson who is the editor of the AACA Antique Automobile magazine, would be happy for any help in trying to solve the mystery of the brand of car this racer was constructed from. It so far has stumped everyone.

    It obviously was a very well built car, as was done in the era, with the radiator and probably the engine and transmission being set back in the chassis (although a few brands were built this way). There is also the possibility of it being built out of the parts of several different cars. This much is clear; It was very well done and appears to be about a 30 h.p. chassis, on about a 108&#8243; w.b. and it is equipped with three quarter elliptic springs.

    If you would like to see finer detail photos we have two of them here.

    And please make a contrubution to our fundraiser for the non-profit McPherson College for equipment and tools if possible. All the details can be found here.
     
  17. RRuss
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    Towards the end of WW11 the Pike was not a very nice place for family's. Is that tunnel under Ocean Blvd still there?
    In my youth we used to take the PE from Compton for 10c get go through the tunnel to Rainbow Pier. Oh what memories
     
  18. Sorry don't know:confused: Her photo was for sale on ebay years ago and I copied it for my tool box:cool:Sorry I had to block out her best asset:rolleyes:
     
  19. DiggerODell
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    Polo Grounds, New York, NY
     

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  21. billsill45
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    Consumer Reports Magazine rated the Subaru 360 "Not Acceptable" because of safety issues and the lack of power which was pretty much the kiss of death for the 360, at least in the USA. I was in Minneapolis at that time and someone set up a "pop-up" dealership on a vacant lot downtown (sort of like they do with Christmas tree and pumpkin sales lots). Advertised retail was about $850. The "dealer" came and went in a couple of months.
     
  22. 4everblue
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    There was one in Memphis. It was called Fastrack, a real joke. The layout was closer to a motocross track than a dirt track. I don't think the cars reached 25 mph. I went to check it out and left after five minutes.
     

  23. Don't care who you are , or how you think, inmyarrogentopinion, this is a beautiful face....:cool:
     
  24. Ester Eddie
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    Hawaii - Saint Francis Hospital's first ambulance, a 1942 Buick.
     
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  26. junkyardjeff
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    Am I seeing things or does the hood look a little taller then normal.
     
  27. rainhater1
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    Look how tall the roof is, they had to raise it to match the rest of the car.
     
  28. you're right, these are the Flxible Co. conversions, they raised the hood height to make the proportions match, looks a bit scary when you're standing in front of one o' these! but lots of room for blowers, horns or whatever ya like! ;)

    Carsten
     
  29. SDhotrod
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    Thank you for that link!
     
  30. Novadude55
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    "Douglas XB-19 1941" WOW!
    and Flight Deck video too, that really brings back memories,
    I lived on USS Saratoga CV60 for 3 and a half years 74-77.
     
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