Remember when...
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rainee
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lol I think the cool weather has tuned you up!
My older brother says that gas used to cost him a quarter a gallon (25 cents). Then he told me it still does if you have any quarters that are pre 1964. Those quarters have actual silver content and if you melt down a pre 1964 quarter there is enough silver to buy a gallon of gas at today's prices.
Granpa Harvey's 1939 Buick Roadmaster formal sedan.
Dad was going to order a 1948 Tucker.
The Decastro Sisters
The McGuire Sisters
Ted Weems and Elmo Tanner
Legion Ascot Speedway
The Sear's Allstate car based on the Kaiser's Henry J
The Willys Aero two door sedan
1941 Graham-Paige "Hollywood"
Dad's 1955 Chevrolet Nomad
First grade in Porterville California
Dad's 1946 and 1946 Studebaker Champion
The beginning of the Denver Broncos
There's more...later
Dad was going to order a 1948 Tucker.
The Decastro Sisters
The McGuire Sisters
Ted Weems and Elmo Tanner
Legion Ascot Speedway
The Sear's Allstate car based on the Kaiser's Henry J
The Willys Aero two door sedan
1941 Graham-Paige "Hollywood"
Dad's 1955 Chevrolet Nomad
First grade in Porterville California
Dad's 1946 and 1946 Studebaker Champion
The beginning of the Denver Broncos
There's more...later
Never heard of a Huffmobile.
However there was Hupmobile that became the Graham Paige.
This body style just changed names as the Hupmobile had faded from the automobile scene. This particular body style was a resurrection of the 1936 Cord Westchester 810 Sedan.
My dad owned a 1941 Graham Paige "Hollywood"
However there was Hupmobile that became the Graham Paige.
This body style just changed names as the Hupmobile had faded from the automobile scene. This particular body style was a resurrection of the 1936 Cord Westchester 810 Sedan.
My dad owned a 1941 Graham Paige "Hollywood"
1) 1940 Hupmobile ... 2) 1941 Graham Paige ... 3) 1936 Cord 810 Sedan
No, he's more of a duck, dead wise. :shocked:AHEM!
So says the guy with the nick "fzappa"??
Frank Zappa is no spring chicken
And I'm going to Montana soon.
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
AHEM!
So says the guy with the nick "fzappa"??
Frank Zappa is no spring chicken
(But oldies are often goldies!)
Actually, he's deader than a hammer. I always thought the one thing we had in common besides music was that he was the guy who would say what everyone was thinking but nobody had the guts to. You pay a price for that but for some of us it really isn't voluntary ... it's reflex I guess.
Which should tell you a little something about our current monetary system ... different thread.
My first car:
Not this one, of course, and no fuzzy dice for me. But same model, same color.
Mrs. Barbarian (not yet Mrs.) named it "Betsy."
keypurr
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Yep, I also remember getting dishes at the movies. And you would see TWO movies, the news and five cartoons.
keypurr
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My first car:
Not this one, of course, and no fuzzy dice for me. But same model, same color.
Mrs. Barbarian (not yet Mrs.) named it "Betsy."
1956 I think. I had a 57 in the same colors.
rainee
New member
So embarrassed, thank you, Town.
Didn't know Frank had uhm died... now I get Musterion's joke!
:doh:
Of course now I don't know what "going to Montana soon.
Gonna be a dental floss tycoon" means.
Everything seems to be getting more and more over my head. May need to bring an interpreter here.
PureX
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Now that's a beautiful thing (the '56 Chevy). I'm not quite that old, though.
I had one of these when I was 16 y/o: a 1964, 305cc Honda Scrambler, mine was powder blue and black. It was a little old, even then, but a beauty.
musterion
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His earlier MoI stuff was chaotic, true, but not so much the later. Check out Watermelon in Easter Hay...it's actually almost melodic. Still, he did remain hopelessly juvenile pretty much his whole career.
Agree 100% on Springsteen. Never, ever saw the appeal.
(I followed Zappa heavily from around age 13 until shortly after he croaked)
My father didn't like Zappa either. He called his music sophisticated grossness. Like a lot of things in life I guess he is what you would call an acquired taste. But you've got to take your hat off to a guy that faced down the ADL, Tipper Gore and the commercial music industry.
Now that's a beautiful thing (the '56 Chevy). I'm not quite that old, though.
I had one of these when I was 16 y/o: a 1964, 305cc Honda Scrambler, mine was powder blue and black. It was a little old, even then, but a beauty.
Mine was a Honda 90. Somehow it got three of us back home after a party one night. Thankfully the law and everyone else but us were asleep at that point.