Thread: The year was 1967...............

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Very cool Joe. That little viewer brings back some fun memories. That's not a bad picture considering it's taken from such a tiny film slide. Used to be a time when any sizable rod gathering would have a photog running around the grounds taking pics and offering to sell you one of your car. My bride bought one of our old '41 Chev taken at the Vintiques run in Yakima ('89 I think). We had just finished the car and it looked great, even in that tiny format. A week or two later we drove it down to Pleasanton where my ol' buddy Bubba convinced me to put a for sale sign on it even though I had no plans to sell that soon after completion and didn't even have the title with me. Wouldn't ya know it, some couple just had to have it, even though they hadn't planned to buy a car there (completing the circle). That meant they only had enough money to put a decent deposit on it. All was well though, they were from Coos Bay so Portland was a good central meeting point for the next weekend. We lunched together during the paper shuffle and delivery and the gal whips out one of those viewers with a pic of the Chev. Seems after they'd agreed to buy it she hunted down one of those photogs and had a pic taken so she could show everyone she knew what she'd bought for herself during the week between Pleasanton and delivery. She said she'd bored hell out of her co-workers all week with her enthusiasm.

Ah technology. Nowadays they'd probably just whip out their cell phone and click a pic. Is that progress? I guess............