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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
Ha! On Monday I went to retrieve dear old mom from LAX in the DeSoto. Picking up people at the airport is one of my favorite old-car activities. So I pulled up to the Delta baggage claim, loaded up mom and her bags, and went to start. Rapid clicking, but no rotations or internal combustion...- StraightEight
- Post #181
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
As I recall, the footage is from an educational film from the period about unsafe driving, perhaps a theater short or something for driver's ed. I think it's elsewhere on Youtube in its original form.- StraightEight
- Post #177
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Europe marks anniversary of WWII beginning
Hard to know which anniversary to celebrate, the beginning or the end!- StraightEight
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- Forum: WWII
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Show us your vehicles
Congratulations on the working windscreen wipers. Mine worked grudgingly on the driver's side, barely a tremor on the passenger side.- StraightEight
- Post #720
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your motorcycles!
Just stole an '05 Ducati Multistrada 1000DS off Craigslist. Used the new Ford Transit Connect to go retrieve it from far away Lodi, Ca. It proved to be a perfect little bike hauler.- StraightEight
- Post #116
- Forum: The Display Case
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Great reenactment video
Update: my pal writes that the M8 he was on was recently in a wreck in the Ardennes during the 65th Battle of the Bulge reenactment. Luckily nobody was hurt. Details are here: http://www.panzergrenadier.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=13238- StraightEight
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- Forum: WWII
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Great reenactment video
Apologies if this has been posted before. The guy who bought my GPW sent me this link to a video of his club doing a rally from Ostend to Maastrict to celebrate the liberation of the town in September, '44. It's one thing to drive a ww2 vehicle, quite another to do it over the same landscape as...- StraightEight
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- Forum: WWII
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Show us your vehicles
Oh, that's a real sweetheart. Great year. Make the dude an offer. Everything seems to be on fire sale these days. You'd be amazed. Of course, while it's a great time to buy, you don't really want to be selling...- StraightEight
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your vehicles
Careful, you're dating yourself.- StraightEight
- Post #702
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your vehicles
1958. You can tell by the quad headlights (well, I guess you can't really see them in that pic). '57 Firedomes had single headlights. And the sweep, which is hockey-stick shaped (the '57 had more of a spear pointing forward from the rear wheel arch).- StraightEight
- Post #699
- Forum: The Display Case
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Crazy driving in 1939!
Amazing how the mundane can be mesmerizing if you simply wait enough years. I wonder who would be more fascinated: us watching them go about their routine chores or them watching us. I'll bet they'd be disappointed at the balance of what has and hasn't changed. WAY OT: ZDDP or zinc...- StraightEight
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
Very cool video!- StraightEight
- Post #169
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
NO EXCUSES!! Okay, you'll have to poke along the 10 for a bit through Cabazon and the pass, but I only do 50 or so on the 101 when I go up to Monterey in the Buick and it's fine. Turn north on 62 and go through Twentynine Palms. You'll have to climb the big 1200-ft grade into Morongo Valley, so...- StraightEight
- Post #160
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
Interested to hear what you ultimately learned. I'm going through that exercise on the DeSoto. Coker has a private label radial substitute for the 8.5x14 (225/75-14) but the manufacturer is Denman which, as near as I can tell, specializes in tractor and backhoe tires. The car currently has...- StraightEight
- Post #136
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Show us your vehicles
After rebuilding de-starter, it's de-running again. Finally.- StraightEight
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- Forum: The Display Case
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WWII Reenactment Pics
Sold it in the UK to a guy from Arnhem, Holland who wanted it for the Market Garden anniversary. Had to. The dollar crashed and the jeep was suddenly worth about $3000 more than what I paid for it. Had I shipped it home, it would have cost $2000 and been worth the same amount in dollars as what...- StraightEight
- Post #150
- Forum: WWII
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WWII Reenactment Pics
Since you guys liked those, here are a few out-takes from Normandy. Not reenactment shots exactly but evocative of the experience. Then and now: the Mrs. with a postcard of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont in 1944, and the same square behind her today. The Crisbecq battery...- StraightEight
- Post #140
- Forum: WWII
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Show us your vehicles
Hey thanks, somehow I missed that one. I have been audio-recording these onto a music mix CD for the car and this one has better than average sound quality. Great ads, but sales were so dismal in '58 that DeSoto's fate was pretty much sealed that year. Does anybody remember when the future...- StraightEight
- Post #681
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your vehicles
Great pics, gamez32 and Sapphire. That mascot is a hoot. Wonder who came up with the inspiration to fit jet engines to the Sphinx.- StraightEight
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- Forum: The Display Case
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WWII Reenactment Pics
Not a reenactor, or even an actor, but here are some pics I shot on Dog Green at 0600 on 6/6/09. Dead Man's Corner Sainte-Marie-du-Mont Some Red Devils on the way to Arnhem. Liberation celebration, Carentan.- StraightEight
- Post #133
- Forum: WWII
