Cool off topic pics of off topic stuff

I dont see no GTX!!!!

 

Having graduated high school in 74, neither the good looking blond (or any other color of long hair on the shapely beauty), nor the GTX (or any other performance car) would have been unusual back then.

The overweight, tattooed, sloppy dressed, short purple haired girls, like what is seen in most places these days, would have been unusual!

 

I agree with that fact about the 70s. Unfortunately that photo appears to be late 80s or 90s. The Trouble shirt was probably 2000s even.

 

Love them Spiders...

 

It’s all in da details : straight line stockins !

 

Only sort of "off topic" with the boat, but...four hot rods should be good enough.
It shows the nose of my 56 and part of my Anglia after getting a new set of headers.
Yeah, that's me with my arms crossed, watching the Bantam head off down the street.



Mike

 

I want that!

 

Looks like the illigitamate offspring of an illicit affair between the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile and an Isetta.

 

He was hotdogging it.

 

Late 70s cool, complete with side pipes.

 

It was late on the morning of Oct. 4, 1989, when 41-year-old Allen Stahl walked into Kalitta headquarters at Willow Run Airport in Ypislanti, Mich., and inquired about renting a Lear jet so that he could fly to Washington, D.C., to "visit" the White House.

Stahl suddenly brandished a six-inch butcher knife and forced a female clerk to the floor. Kalitta was in a meeting and was quickly called to the dispatch office.

To defuse the situation, Kalitta, then 51, bravely agreed to fly the man to Washington, but he already had a plan in mind to depressurize the plane at altitude to render the man unconscious.

With the butcher’s knife pressed sharp to his ribs, Kalitta and the hijacker got into a nearby Lear, and while Kalitta was warming the engines, a state trooper, alerted by Kalitta employees, pulled up and blocked the airplane’s route with his cruiser.

“[Stahl] really went crazy” at the sight of Trooper Jerry Cooley, recalled Kalitta, “swinging the knife around” the cockpit and grabbed the engine’s throttle control and began revving the engine up and down.

Well, ol’ Conrad had finally had enough of the whole scene and attacked Stahl. While “the Bounty Hunter” was struggling with the armed man, Trooper Cooley got a mechanic to open the jet’s door and ordered Stahl to drop the knife, then took him into custody.

Kalitta, as seen in the photos that accompany both stories, was cut on his right thumb and left ring finger but not severely injured.

"When you are under pressure, you have to think well on your feet," said Kalitta, who then calmly returned to his meeting. "If you don't, you're in trouble."

Moral of the story: Don’t mess with Connie!