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  1. Twitch

    Question for why you're here?

    For me it the cars. The cars of the times remind me of some of the pastural and simple times in my life. Now that I own a vintage car and attend events I can escape the new days for the olds days if only for a few hours. There has been very few redeeming features in the vast majority of...
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    What are your hobbies?

    My actual active hobby is only my vintage car now. I find little items that were options or accessoriies for it and attend events relating to vintage autos on a regular basis. I have over 600 books on WW 2 mostly combat aviation related I've used to assist me in my written articles. Books...
  3. Twitch

    Hat in the swimming pool

    Great coincidence that worked out well.:)
  4. Twitch

    The Car Lives On

    And good riddance for the most part of the use of names that once meant something. My limit was reached with the Chevy commercial touting the Impala 4 door sedan as "409" played. What a sick joke!! A non-hardtop dorkmobile with a puny, less than 300CID engine is supposed to rekindle past...
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    Pre-Pearl Harbor Navy

    I don't recall Boyington loving the Buffalo but he may hive been fond of the P-40 when he associated it to his times with the Flying Tigers. I know Gabby Gabreski loved his times in Hawaii flying the P-40 the best of all his flying times despite the P-47s and al lhis kills. Once when I...
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    Best WWII museums

    Here's a place to go if you're interested in aircraft. They have 156 of them and quite a few fly. http://www.planesoffame.org/menu.php
  8. Twitch

    bad movie trailers

    I'll go you all one better and broadly state that most movie trailers of today are editied so poorly as to be useless in depicting the thrust of the body of work. Seems sad that they spend 159 million on a project and then "sell" it with a few poorly chosen sound and vid bites that do nothing...
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    What do you consider "classic"?

    Right you are Flivver. The AACA- Antique Auto Club of America is alltogether alien to this CCCA's rules. They consider any car over 25 years of age elegible for inclusion into it ranks. They are simply calling them "antique" after 25 years and stay away from the classic moniker completely...
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    Unsweetened Iced Tea

    I think the sweetened iced tea in bottles and cans is probably an automatic response by manufacturers whose statistics show that a majority of consumers prefer some level of sweetening in their tea. The arrived at some standard level of sweetness by taste testing no doubt. Sodas have a...
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    Do you believe in little green men?

    Maj. Nick sez- "I like to keep as open a mind as I can with such subjects as this, because of the fact that there is so much we simply do not know for certain." Exactly. When we become so pompous as to presume we collectively lose our objectivity. "I think these phenomena come from...
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    What do you consider "classic"?

    The Mustang is a "classic" in the most oblique, urbane way influenced by popularist verbiage dictum rather than well researched definitions of sanctioning bodies of automobilia. My 50 Packard is not a classic A classic defines a low production quantity of an auto possessing a distinctive...
  14. Twitch

    does it feel a little creepy wearing a dead person's clothing?

    Hell no it ain't wierd! I worn my father's and step-father's clothes and jewelry after they passed. The original owners of my 1950 Packard are long gone and they haven't pulled a "My Mother the Car" yetlol
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    A Lesson: Unsavory types aren't just on Ebay

    Truth in packaging was with you all the way. A reproduction of anything has to be so labeled. And saying that it's obvious that the original would be in a museum is pure defensive BS. People in the private sector buy and sell old publications all the time. I own photos 100+ years old that...
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    Do you believe in little green men?

    Yeah MrPumpernickel- I have absolutely no spiritual sense regarding the probability of life in the universe. I find it completely offensive that anyone suggests possible alien contact is in any way a substitute for God, religion or spiritual beliefs. In the cold clinical world of science and...
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    Pre-Pearl Harbor Navy

    Those planes were truly 30s in design and mindset as to what the brass expected the next conflict to bring. We must remember that the sourge of the Pacific, the Zero, was a brand new aircraft and it opponents took a while to produce tactics to successfully combat it. Initially its victims...
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    What do you consider "classic"?

    The word "classic" is akin to "pornography" in that they're both hard to define but you know them when you see them. Being vintage car owner I know how much the word "classic" has been argued when associated with cars. A 1964 Mustang isn't a classic but a 1933Dusenberg is. Hey a 1933 Ford...
  20. Twitch

    Talk about an Ancient TV show...

    The point is just look how desperate they are for program ideas.:eek:
  21. Twitch

    BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE

    This is out on DVD now. It allegedly is concerned with the treatment of Indians around the time of the Wounded Knee S.D. massacre. While it runs well over 2 hours it is hardly ghost of the book by Dee Brown. This is one time that the book was resoundlingly better. The book's scope begins...
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    Do you believe in little green men?

    Thanks Major Nick for retrieving your initial topic intent and off of plastic models from the 1950s.:eusa_doh: As I said earlier the probability that we are not alone is hugely stacked in that direction. Whether or not aliens have visited us is almost a secondary issue. The phenomena of...
  23. Twitch

    Vintage dreams?

    We all fuel our dreams with thoughts and visions during our waking hours so it is not too wierd to imagine we'd have a dream including vintage clothing. The fact that we see those who have passed on is not too rare. We have fleeting thoughts of them in waking hours and allow them to habitate...

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