What's the one in the back of the photo with the slicks? It looks like a top fuel dragster. Just think a mower blade under that, and you could mow a landing strip in a few seconds! :)
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What's the one in the back of the photo with the slicks? It looks like a top fuel dragster. Just think a mower blade under that, and you could mow a landing strip in a few seconds! :)
some buds enjoying some buds :).. the angles of the pics dont reflect true but i promise you the new bridge would fit above this old bridge .. the little V6 mower above is used to pull the dragster around the pits ..iv`e laid out of work today .. fabulous weather .. going to do many things today .. clean up all my cars .. gas them up .. order stuff for the stang ..got several new neighbors i need to annoy :p
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1955.. the best looking chevy was built .. albert einstein was still alive .. there were still two civil war vets still alive .. and i was born .. this is the original bill from the hospital the day mom went home .. i cost 45 bucks to come into this world .. aint that sumptin .. an older set of tripplet brothers of mine were free so to speak .. Gerber baby food company paid for their birth so they could put their pics on baby food jars .. and they also provided free baby food for several years ..
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Wow add a few zeros for today! I believe it's somewhere around 18k here.
on friday mornings `im about the only car i meet coming to work .. seems everyone has took the day off .. but after quitting time when i hit I565 there is 4 times more traffic than any other day of the week and they are all racing to get somewhere .. recently i hit near 100 mph in my V6 pinto ( scared the crap outta me ) just trying to blend into the flow of vehicles .. most were still running off and leaving me .. i quickly found my way back to the " slow " lane ( 75 to 80 ) and eased on home ...!!!:o
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stovebolt .. i think i`ve seen this car running up and down the road in huntsville ..
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ah ,,, the finer things in life .. the cuttlery of a single man .. my utensils .. not a single matching pair .. same as with my drinking vessels .. 3 empty large mayonaise jars .. i dont mind spending thousands of dollars on my toys but it kills me to spend a dime on myself .. stupid hotrodding addiction .. boutt got the stang motor back together .. have sworn off drinking after a run in with luckily a freindly trooper late friday nite ... i`m scared straight :HMMM:
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bout time to hook up the plow and furrow up that back 40 ..should`nt take but a minute or two with this tractor .. got some bad new yesterday ... my girldfriends boyfriend may have to spend a few years in jail :CRY:.. breaks my heart it does ..;) .. on another thought .. my father must have done some serious spring planting in his day .. of 13 children he fathered .. 9 were born in december ..
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35 years ago a girl bought a new pinto from a ford place in fayetteville .. soon as she pulled into traffic she was rearended and killed in the ensuing fire .. there was later a rumor that her twin sister also had gotten a car the same day ... then went home and parked the new pinto never to drive it again .. this pinto was told to be that car .. it has been sitting here since at least 1974 .. i do in fact remember seeing it sit here when i drove back and forth to high school those days .. finally curiositity ( how do you spell curiosity ? ) got the best of me and i stopped and inquired about it ... being a pinto nut as i was ... seems it was more or less a lemon car that stayed broke most all the time and just sat .. before lemon laws were in effect .. the owner was forced to just "eat "it ..
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has been raining for nearly three days straight :mad:.. i hate rain .. gets everything all wet ... reminds me of my adventures in the 05 power tour which came thru hometown usa .. drove 150 miles at breakneck 25 mph .. it was sorta ok in 4 lane traffic but when 231-431 narrowed down to 2 lane i had to get off .. big rigs dont care if they can see the road .. they just go where the truck is pointed .. wait a minute !!! where`s those folks from munster quest ?? i think i`m about to run over bigfoot :eek:
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Hoss.... are you off your meds??? :LOL::LOL: I'm only kidding.... your posts crack me up. Keep it up. :LOL::LOL:
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speaking of sasquacth .. i have my own big foot expierence to tell of ..in 1973 a local fellow earned his 15 minutes of fame by spotting the hairy beast in north lincoln county tenn near lincoln lake .. so happens at the same time my high school sweatheart lives at lincoln lake .. being one of 4 brothers still living at home we had to share the same 64 ford for dates and such .. my weekend happened to be the siteing weekend .. i was younger than the other brother so i did`nt get to drive on our double date ..after our planned date we parked for a bit.. when we finished parking down on this one lane backwoods dirt road i needed to relieve myself before taking my girl home .. as i was standing behind the car doing my buisness a giant white faced cow stuck its head over a fence right into the drivers door and gave a big " SNORT " right in my brothers ear .. my brother yelled to the top of his lungs .. both girls screamed bloody murder .. he stepped on the gas a busted outta there spewing gravel all over me .. i`m not finished doing my thing yet but idid`nt care ..O.J Simpson could`nt have kept up with me as i was hoofing down that gravel road trying to catch that 64 ford with "little HOSS" still flopping in the wind .. they did finally stop and in a minute or two i reached the drivers door and accidently grabbed my brothers arm .. once agian he screams like a school girl .. the girls scream all over again and again he speeds away .. i soon quit dating that girl needless to say..,, you know what they say about men with big feet !!....... BIG SHOES !!!!
Laughing my A$$ off after this one .
could that fellow in the middle be carl shelby ? carroll`s lesser known brother . nah .. thats dan .. a local ford dealor who is very much a car guy and hot rodder .. thats` his pantera .. he has about a dozen hot rods as well as many other ford muscle cars and rides in his collection ..all ford powered of coarse ..
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i`m not sure the pic will get past the mods but the story fits .. back when i was active in sports i went every sunday nite up to park city tenn to a small gym to play basketball with some friends .. one nite as i was going home i fell in behind a little car with an alabama tag .. quite odd to do at that time of nite .. we trailed each other for about 12 miles and it made a left turn onto carriger road ... so did i .. after about 5 miles it turned right onto manley road .. so did i .. we came to a four way stop and it zoomed away at a high speed only to have to stop again at the next stop sign ,, so did i .. turned right onto .. walnut grove rd ... they actuall ran the next stop sign for some reason .. but again had to stop to turn left on henry taylor .. drove away agin as fast as they could up that street .. then i saw brake lites and it turned into a driveway .. ( my driveway ) .. i pulled in a bit suspicious of what was going on .. overheard the obviously terrified woman talking very loudly to someone on her phone .. yelling she was being followed and mY god !!! he`s right behind me ... i did my best to ignore her death threats as i unlocked my front door and went into my home .. after a few minutes she drove away .. very similiar thing happened later but they only stopped in front of my home and walked back to my car and asked why i was following them .. i said " cause i live here "" do you ???
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too late to post and almost to buzzed to do so .. just took a lap in my stang .. hit it hot and heavy in first .. went into second and the stupid driveshaft hits the ground .. my # 1 fan courtney is watching so i`m happy anyway .. folks dont mind if i break stuff when i`m giving them my all .. had to only walk a little bit .. a neighbor heard me and came to my rescue .. and to beat all .. a state trooper was ticketing some poor sole as i was walking back to see the damage .. sometimes luck is on my side.. (edit ) man !!! 6 hours later and i have to re read my post to see what i did .. almost overslept ... almost late for work .. what a nite :) and the boyfriends girlfriend is home :D. and she called me first
a familiar site round my neck of the woods .. the stang on the " fetch " trailor .. broke the front yoke .. never did that before .. shaft is ruined .. brakeline is cut .. good thing i was only in the middle of second gear when it came apart .. motor still runs though :).. no doughnuts yet .. got to get out and scare up some things to post about .. my quitting drinking did`nt last long.. 10 days ... i could not sleep .. got tired of being up all nite and day .. took my medicine ( 12 pack of sudlite ) yesterday .. and slept like a baby :)
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a rare treat for you folks .. i never usually post pics of myself but lately i dont care what people think .. i`m a great guy even if i must say so myself .. i will share a bit more of my storied history with you soon .. stupid buddy holley glasses .. from 1974 by the way ...
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Young and had some hair huh :3dSMILE:
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i am quite the animal lover .. wouldn`t harm a fly .. but i will kill every sparrow bird that flys in my yard .. those things are nuthin but roaches with feathers .. but on with the story .. back when i was in wedfull bliss with my ex we went to the grocery and on the way back i spied a monster of a snapping turtle in the middle of the highway trying it`s best to not get squshed .. i pulled over to the side of the road and took one of the boxes we had loaded our groceries in and subdued the beast with intentions of releasing it out of harms way .. as we were driving it would now and then make a great effort to escape the box it was in and my wife ( at the time ) would scream bloody murder for me to get that thing out of our car .. in a bit it settled down and the wife seemed to forget about it .. as she was daydreaming i gave her a good pinch on her leg .. she yelled most unkind obscenities at me and after beating me half to death demanded i stop and let the beast out .. which i did as i was where i wanted to take it anyway .. had i known at the time that 3 months later she would ask for a divorce and shack with with one of my ( former ) good friends i would have kicked her out of the car as well as the turtle .
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this is about a mile from me .. actually at the bridge `ive been posting about ' had the fellow gotten his engine in a timely manner he probably would have suceeded before orvile and wilbur .. some interesting related links as well .. this very fellow had a lot to do with a Mr Boeing getting into the airplane biz ...
http://earlyaviators.com/equick.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick1.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick2.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick7.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick4.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick5.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick6.htm
http://earlyaviators.com/equick3.htm
woke last night to the sound of thunder
how far off i sat and wandered
started humming a tune from 1962
aint it funny how the nite moves
but i did wake up in the middle of a thunderstorm .. i love a good lightning show .. my mother and grandmother also enjoyed them ... we rarely get such a spectacular event any more .. since the great tornado outbreak of 74 every time it rains there is a tornado threat ..hook echoes to dodge .. mezzocyclones to run from .. great drive into work this morning facing the storm ...
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i mean good show saturday nite at the cafe 302 cruise in ,, not much happening in my world of late but i can post show pics all day long ..
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over a week without a post .. sorry !! there`s just not a lot happening in my world lately .. sold the black truck .. trying to sell the two pintos and the tracer .. trying to deal with my feelings for this lady who sometimes stays with me ..getting out of shape from not working out and consuming too much suds .. still have not gotten the driveshaft fixed in the stang .. i just fire it up in the shop every day and give it a few redline revs ,, probably will blow it up before i break it in good .. loving the warm weather that has finally arrived .. supposed to be in the 80`s this weekend .. i know there is one little car event i will go to .. may get some pics there to post
i know i did :p
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sitting in my swing yesterday evening i hear the distinctive puttering of a classic old vdub coming up my street and as i sit up for a better look two of them cruise by followed by this ford and then a flat bed hauling an old ford truck .. sweet i said :). then they stopped at the church on the corner .. great i thought .. i`ll run up and get some shots .. after the first pic ( this one ) the fellow who must have owned the caravan comes up and ask " can i help you ? " i said no ... just wanting some pics of your stuff ,, he said you ever thought about asking if you could take pics of my "stuff" .. i said you`re in public view fellow in a public churchyard .. you cant stop me from getting a picture .. i had a similiar situation with a model at a car show .. she was standing in the way of a car i shot and a few minutes her and some goons came up and made me delete the shot with her in it .."" i make my living from my pictures she said "" you cant have one for free !!:mad:
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if i were a car i have no doubt
i`d be in a junkyard where i`d be scrapped out
`im covered with dings and bumps and rust
and am easily blown over by the slightest of gusts
my head lamps are blurry sometimes i cant see good
lots of strange noises come from neath my hood
my whitewalls are covered with varicose veins
i roar when i sleep like the sound of two trains
i hope someone finds me and restores me like new
but that may be more than even chip foose can do
so i grow even older with each passing day
waiting for the supreme car maker to take me away ;)
Put some Lynyrd Skynyrd on and sit back and smile, you may be older, but you also have more experience!
Just now! I was listening to their greatest hits and smiling when I read your post!:3dSMILE:
sometimes when i try to describe a problem with one of my vehicles to my mechanic he will respond in kind to my symptoms ..
C is for me ( customer )
M is for him ( mechanic )
c - something is loose under the hood
m- something was tightened under the hood
c - left rear tire alomst needs replacing
m-left rear tire almost replaced
c - evidence of something leaking under the hood
m- evidence removed
c-cd player has unbelievable loud buzz
m-buzz set to more believable level
c- cylinder # 6 seems to be missing
m- cylinder # 6 found next to cylinder # 5
c-suspected crack in tailpipe
m-suspect your correct
c-noise in trunk sounds like midget banging with hammer
m - hammer taken away from midget
c - car handles funny
m- car told to straighten up and act right
c - right rear tire hums
m- right rear tire taught to sing
recently a fellow i know from out west dropped by for a visit .. i in an effort to show him some of the famous southern hospitality and genioune freindliness i`ve bragged about took him on a cruise thru some of my favorite tenn backroads ..We rounded a corner and rolled up on an amasing site :eek:..A big black bear was mauling some little fellow who no doubt was from up north by the yankee accent he was yelling with .. Suddenly this ragged old pickup truck came flying up and two big old bubba looking guys jumped out with clubs and beat the bear off the man and shot it to death .Then proceeded to put the bear in the bed of the truck.. my friend was quite impressed by the bravery and kindness shown this little northern fellow by the good ole southern boys .. I assured him all was not as it seemed ..We walked up to the truck and i said "boys" this here fellow is a friend of mine from out west and he`s never been on a bear hunt before .. Y`all gunna be able to save yer bait ? .. they picked up the little yankee .. put him in the truck and said " yep " we`ll hose him off a little and put a few more stitches in him .. he`s good fer another bear or two .. :3dSMILE:( seems i cant add a pic )
till sumpthin happens worthy of posting i will share a scenerio i once concocted involving the ten fastest cars in my memory of days gone by ..i wont go into the personal bio of all the people involved but they all were intergal parts of my early hot rodding career ..and i will work my way into proclaiming the baddest car in my mind from that early 70`s thru early 80`s period of living in the fast lane .. the line up
( 1 ) jerry moore ... 70 big block camero .. jerry had older uncles who dragged raced somewhat professionally and jerry got their hand me down parts so he always had fast cars .
( 2 ) claude hicks .. black . 69 428 automatic mustang .. claude was much older than us all and probably the most expierenced streetracer
( 3 ) myself .. 69 440 sixpack super bee .. even though i also had the r code 69 mustang .. the super bee felt faster
( 4 ) paul moore ( jerry`s brother ) 70 440 challenger ... paul was a maniac .. a very mean man
( 5 ) phillip tunstil ( 68 383 plymouth sattelite .. just and uncommanly quick stocker
( 6 ) frankie wilkerson ) white 69 428 mustang .. i knew frankie the least of all .. he later died in a mental home
( 7 ) brent scott ... 70 camero ... usually always with high revving small blocks .. brent was probably the best mechanic of us all
( 8 ) donkey berry .. 69 340 dart swinger .. another non stock small block screamer
( 9 )danny lewis ... 67 455 olds cutlass ... the quickest 60 footer i ever rode in .. he wrapped it around a tree and slung the motor 400 feet up the street .. didnt get a scratch on himself
( 10 ) al bolden ... one of my best buds from the era .. just died a few months ago .. 455 judge .. al went thru more killer cars than just about anybody i knew .. his wife had a 440 4 speed cuda as her daily driver .. his shop was where most of my car building was done.
tomorrow the line up
this is a race i witnessed myself in about 1975.. the others are hypothetical .. donkey in his 340 dart swinger and brent in his small block camero .. i dont have a current pic of the site but it was quite drag central in the day cause it was so easily defended from the law sneaking up on you ..donkey was about the baddest car in southern tenn ( vann town ) and brent was nearly unbeatable in his small block ride ... always claimed to be the original 307 !!!.. best two out of three was set up .. both were four speed cars .. the first run was leaving on a concrete bridge and running a bit up hill for about 3/4 of a 1/4 ..donkey won the first race .. i guess from being a bit lighter .. the second race was on asphalt coming in the opposite direction and headed a bit down hill .. brent won that one by virtue of having a few more horses than donkey ..the third race was started on asphalt at the end of the bridge and donkey more or less went up in smoke giving two out of three to brent .. donkey still has the dart to this day though unrestored and rough .. brent passed away about 7 years ago due to illness .. the other races i will select by blind draw
race # 2 will be paul in his 440 challenger and al in his 455 judge turbo 400 slipomatic . .. i raced paul plenty of times in my r code mustang and he always got me by a fender but we could swap cars and he`d beat me in his car with my mustang by three cars . I did`nt have the super bee yet .. .. does`nt say much for my dragging skills . i never raced al ..they would likely have raced in front of als house .. as i said paul was a crazy man and equally dangerous behind the wheel of a car .. if he couldn`t beat you sometimes he`d try to wreck you .. i rode plenty of miles in als gto and i would say it was plenty strong enuff to defeat paul ..so i`ll give the lap to al ...some of these guys may have met up in real life .. i was`nt always everywhere .. and most had their cars in the same two or three year period ..
.. race # 3 ...this race has claude in his 428 cobra jet Vs phillip in his 383 sattelite .. i saw phillip race about 100 times and most times he won by being just a bit quicker off the line .. having a stout stocker sometimes is a plus .. he rarely spun a tire .. claudes stang was mostly stock as well with the exception of headers and he always would not race without putting on some cheater slicks .. i saw claude beat enuff 440 roadrunners and 396 chevelles ( the most prevelant hot rod of the period ) to know that he could easily dust phillip .. claude by three lengths.. claudes was exactly like this black beauty
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this race probably never happened but if it did it would have turned out about this way cause i knew both guys plenty well .. as i said jerry always had fast stuff as he had hand me down racing stuff from his unkles who class raced in some superstock classes in the day .. but jerry`s stuff was thrown together in not always a reliable manner .. he was famous for selling his " race " motors to unsuspecting customers then taking all the speed stuff out and selling junk motors .. .. danny would have jumped jerry out of the hole and jerry would have blown his junk up trying to catch up .. this race to danny in his stout 455 olds ..( once again i cant add a pic ) :(
frankie was a fellow i knew very little about .. but i do remember him racing a friend of mine many times .. jeff had a very potent 340 demon .. jeff was/ is a very meticulous tuner .. he raced stock cars for many years and was always a track champion .. he even stepped up to one of the smaller nascar truck divisions and did well .. i saw a few races of hie on espn .. but anyway in the mid 70`s he was always picking at frankie to run him .. frankie did`nt want to waste his time .. they finally ran and frankie won by the smallest of margin .. jeff spent a few bucks and again they raced .. again the same results .. this went on for about a month even to the point of jeff accusing frankie of cheating ..jumping first and any other reason jeff could think of to lose .. finally frankie told jeff to just step on the gas and go anytime your ready .. i`ll give you a head start .. then frankie lowered the boom and blew jeff away by nearly half track .. he`d been toying with jeff the whole time .. but he didn`t toy with me in my super bee .. he knew it was pretty stout .. but alas he still took me by two cars .. .. now iv`e got to line up the next round and figure who to give the bye run to ..5 cars left..
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...g?t=1242144324 .. very much like the one i had
if some of you remember there is a girl up the street from me whom is my # 1 hotrod fan .. she`s the reason i do burnouts and cut doughnuts in front of her house .. i finally got a pic of her this past weekend and sadly learned she`s moving away when school is out .. she`s going to north carolina to study law and become an officer .. looks like no more burnouts for her ..http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...g?t=1242232307