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1942 in your driveway
I hope not! For it's time, it was a very reliable engine, but it was very limited on horsepower. It's funny when people see WW2 Jeeps in any kind of environment other than a parking lot, they can't get over how slow they are and how little weight they can move...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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1942 in your driveway
That thing is a Jeep by name only, sorry... I have owned two 'modern' Jeeps and my 1944 Willys MB has outlived them all.- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I have never participated and neither has my wife. The one time she ever went to one of those 'midnight before black friday' sales was when a friend of hers begged her to come along because she didn't wanna be outside waiting alone. My wife was not inclined to do that again (nor was her friend...- p51
- Post #1,379
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I'm equally saddened that service-level employees have to work on Thanksgiving more than ever before. But that said, we should have seen this coming. We've all watched the "Christmas shopping season" creep ever forward for years now. Remember the Charlie Brown TV special, "It's the Easter...- p51
- Post #1,374
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I always find it funny when people vilify the 'box stores' when they're no different than such corporate evils as Woolworth's or Sears. People way back in the day decried them for killing the 'Mom and Pop' stores. Funny how everything old is new again. huh?- p51
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver
Driving my 1944 Willys Jeep, I make a point of avoiding heavily-travelled roads because the over vehicle color tends to blend in, and the signal lights are 6V. They really don't look all that bright, and there's only one, directly under the jerry can holder on the driver side. The housing on the...- p51
- Post #72
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?
Amen to that. Beats me which is worse, that or the prop coming apart and the engine screaming at full throttle and lack of resistance from the missing prop. The agenda at that point with a helicopter is: A. Crash B. Burn Still, I'd think silence would be more unnerving. All I know is I still...- p51
- Post #90
- Forum: The Golden Era
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FS: VS 7 5/8 granite.
I've never heard of someone losing weight affecting their hat size.- p51
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- Forum: Classifieds
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Members in Uniforms Part 2
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Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?
I have one fewer normal landing in one than I should, pancaked onto a concrete runway after a main rotor failure. I also have two fewer landings in Chinooks than I should, one with a parachute and one where we simply stopped flying. Both were surprises, neither were pleasant.- p51
- Post #78
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?
Okay, there's a few, and I might miss a couple, but here goes... My very first flight was in a Ford Tri-Motor which was barnstorming through my area, I think I was 16 at the time and went up with my parent's blessing. I've also flown on the following (and a few of them more than once)...- p51
- Post #64
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Lost But Now Found
Whenever I hear of stories like this I always recall this news story I first read several years ago: I think of that story whenever I hear of things like this and often wonder how those Belgians must have felt they read this story... -
When wearing shorts become acceptable for grown men?
I find it funny that many here who feel that shorts are the ultimate source of all the anguish in the world appear to live in more temperate climates. I do, however, agree with all who have posted that there's a time and a place for them. Church? No freaking way, in my opinion. I pose it to...- p51
- Post #35
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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When wearing shorts become acceptable for grown men?
I'm no fashion expert but I know that shorts were worn by the British army as early as the Boer war era with some uniforms, and also in WW1 in warmer climates. I have photos of my adult Grandfather (born 1897) and uncles (all but once served in WW2) wearing (non-swim trunk) shorts in Virginia...- p51
- Post #7
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread
Seattle used to have trollies along the waterfront, but the city had to have a sculpture garden where the trolley barn stood, so that got torn down and the trolleys are now stroed somewhere. I just drove down along the waterfront a couple of weeks ago and the tracks are now gone. My wife and I...- p51
- Post #47
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
I was born and raised in North Florida, and there is an oft-told story of a German U-boat crew coming ashore in one of the Gulf Coast towns and shopping and looking around, but not saying much because few of them spoke English. The story seemed silly to me even as a kid, but there are plenty of...- p51
- Post #794
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Interesting how we're now hearing that there are polls on the most previous President Bush and how the public has a more forgiving opinion of the man already. No matter what you think of his presidency either way, it's a fact that he had a lot of detractors. And that fact is slowly vanishing...- p51
- Post #759
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Too true. History is, largely, a condensed version of the facts, and never showing the subjective and personalized nature of how different groups handled or thought about things as that takes too much time to get across. I'm reminded of a Simpson's episode where someone is trying to help Apu...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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