you did'nt here this from me..............OCC fun fact

A good friend designed the touch tone phone as an art project in college..... never patented it... Yikes!!
Don't spose it matters now,, he is a billionaire from other things.

 

JimC,hatch,he is copyrighted.and assumed price would be disscused because of there freindship....probably not a wise move..

 

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I don't know if this is along the same vein since I signed the waiver but here goes...

Remember the Hot Rod/Boyd contest in '97? I entered a '40 Ford retractable hardtop called RetractaBOYD. I was stoked. In preperation, I even got the balls to call up Thom Taylor, one of my creative heroes. After the contest was over, I called Boyds up to see what the deal was. Foose told me I placed in the top 6 and was to be on display at the SEMA show. The reason I didn't win was that they had just completed a '40 Ford for Michael Anthony of Van Halen. The irony was killing me because for the previous 20 years, I WORSHIPED Van Halen. (AND when I saw their finished product, it was no big deal. ) Ok, great, I didn't win, but I'm going to be published in Hot Rod. I wait. I wait... and wait..... Then I found out that Boyd was under investigation, no contest would be fulfilled and all of us from the contest (among others with alot more invested) were out of luck.



Then I'm watching RIDES a couple weeks ago on Trepanier and what is he building... a retractable '40 hardtop. I nearly fell off the couch. It's got some minor difference, but it's pretty damn close in concept. I'm thinking I should call him up just to tell him my story and see if he saw it once upon a time or its just a coicidence.

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Looks like Chevy saw your drawings too and used the roof on their pickup. By the way-if I had the dough I'd pay you and Cole to build that for me, I love retracts, have owned several of the 57-59 Fords.

 

I was kind of thinking maybe buick stole it for that blackhawk they was tring to produce a couple years ago

 

Holy shit, I've never seen that Buick before!!!

I'd change a few things if it were to be built today. But I'd love to see it built. I'm still going to call Troy...

 

I invented the Internet.

 

Man I love the US Patent office web site, I just filed papers for a patent for the "The process of penile insertion into the vaginal oriface."

Now I just need to make up a NAME for it... I'll make lots of money...