Ironically, Detroit held onto its streetcars longer than most. They weren't eliminated until the mid-1950s.
I love cars, but would vastly prefer they were a luxury (as they were pre-1920s or so) rather than a necessity. It would be great to be able to hop on the Interurban to get between...
Whatever happened with the RPG you folks were trying to start. We did a few (non-mythical) pen-and-paper RPGs in highschool set in Vietnam and during Pershing's expedition against Pancho Villa in 1916, but my one foray into the D&D realm fizzled out because we basically got too old for it (I...
My brother keeps telling me they don't make flight sims anymore. I guess he's wrong. I haven't played them in years, but I started with Lucasarts reissue of Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe; and ended up eventually owning Microsoft Combat Flight...
I disagree. Around here, at least, those who grew up after WWII don't have much respect for what came before and tend to be the engines of sprawl (I alluded to this before in this thread). Those born since the Carter administration, though, seem to prefer a rehabbed downtown to a suburban...
The only fiberglass bodies with which I have direct experience are C3 Corvettes, which are great, but also benefit from about twenty years of General Motors engineering development, but my secondary information indicates that aftermarket bodies vary by manufacturer. Wescott bodies have a real...
As Fly Boy's response indicates, there are loads of reproduction bodies and frames out there that are designed to be fitted with modern running gear for a new/old experience. Fiberglass '32 Ford bodies have been around since the '70s at least, and Model T bodies since the early 1960s...
Of course, attitudes like this, held and loudly promoted by people who moved out of the city in 1967 and never looked back, have nothing to do with the current situation in Detroit. :rolleyes:
-Dave
The city counsel has retained a big chip on its shoulder for anything before the Coleman Young administration, and seems to relish tearing down landmarks erected by those who might now live in the suburbs. The current mayor seems to be better about this.
-Dave
Speaking of green shoots, I notice a couple of shots taken in Broderick Tower. That building is on the verge of being rehabbed, as funding just came through for the project in the last week or two.
-Dave
The tear-down tragedies in Detroit are when they are pulled down for no reason beyond some vague notion that another empty lot will better attract a developer than a decayed architectural gem.
Give me ten abandoned buildings with character over one soulless glass-and-steel monstrosity; or...
Ah, but the sealed-beam conversions are a neat '40s accessory, and handy a handy way to get sealed beams or even halogen lamps if you're not much of an engineer.
-Dave
Ruin porn sells magazines, but there's lots more to Detroit than that, and if you came and looked around you'd find plenty of green shoots to make you feel cautiously optimistic about the city's future.
Tellingly, our new governor had his victory celebration at the newly reopened...
Conwill is a small village in Wales where my ancestors originate. Along with William, John, and Norman, David is a very common name for Conwill men (it is my father's middle name, my great uncle's first name, my great-grandfather's first name, and my great-great uncle's first name).
-David
Uh oh, really? Here in Michigan they keep telling us that Pittsburg's comeback after the demise of the steel industry is a good role model for post-Motor City Detroit.
-Dave
I love the Lowey Studebakers myself, but I think mechanically you're talking about one of the newer Hawks rather than the '53 or '54 illustrated. An early model would be my preference, and all the better if refitted with the 304/4-speed combo you described.
-Dave
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