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  1. StraightEight

    USAAF ground crew displays

    Great pics and a very nice recreation. We could really use you in Normandy this June as our '44 Ford GPW is painted in 344th BG colors from Stansted.
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    DETROIT CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO DEMOLISH M.C.S.!

    Grew up outside of Detroit and was in the building a few years ago. It's a total wreck, a modern-day Parthenon. The basements are full of water and the walls and ceilings are gutted. Whatever steel support the building relies on must be corroded beyond recovery. It is the black totem of a city...
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Ask and ye shall receive. Torpedoes away! (Sapphire, those are some beautiful old cars, by the way) My pal Mark at the wheel.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    What a fabulous looking car. :eusa_clap That torpedo-back sedan body was a honey. Just watched the '41 Bogart flick "All Through the Night" and there's one very similar but fitted with wheel spats in a chase scene. Great movie, by the way. Bogart doing comedy, a very young Jackie Gleason, a very...
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    Car Buff/Look What I Found.

    Might consider changing your life or your car but not both. Is the priority the destination or the passage? Old cars are dirty fuel sops which require a certain amount of infrastructure to keep running. That infrastructure used to be on every corner but the cars are old and the corner gas...
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    Fallschirmjager Regiment 6 - Pacific Northwest

    Count me as one who is believes that there are more ways to touch the past than through the grainy portals of old black and white photos. A book is history filtered, interpreted, and edited by somebody else. The chaotic past doesn't get a fair representation in the static, carefully orchestrated...
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    Aircraft nicknames

    I know a few without Googling: 7: B-17 (obviously) 11: F-105 Thunderchief (nice story about them in Air and Space this month) 12: P-47 4: I'd guess the F-04 Starfighter 5+15 (and probably a bunch of other planes): B-26 Marauder
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    B-17 Photos

    The Luftwaffe figured out fairly quickly that the nose was the weakest point, armament-wise, and staged its attacks head on. Taking out the bombardier and cockpit crew was the quickest and most effective way to disable the ship as the -17s rugged construction--particularly the stout Warren Truss...
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    B-17 Photos

    I flew in Aluminum Overcast at the Oshkosh Fly-in a few years ago. The plane is maintained by the Experimental Aircraft Association and is a G model that was produced too late to see service. It's a real thrill to sit in the bombardier's chair and see those four Wright Cyclone R-1820s spinning...
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    Show us your vehicles

    Nope. Bought it just as you see it. It's waiting in a garage near London for us to come over in June and re-invade the Normandy beaches.
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    Show us your vehicles

    1944 Ford GPW, livery: 344th BG support, 9th USAAF, Stansted, England, Feb-Sept '44.
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    I'm with the majority: the '39 Buick didn't quite get it right. The grille was too small, the evolution from the vertical stack to the horizontal fan incomplete. The result was a grille that just looks too small for the size of the car and the bug-eye lights. A metamorphosis in progress caught...
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    Top 5 WW2 movies

    Not in order: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo -A great adventure and quite accurate, down to Ted Lawson forgetting to set the flaps, except that besides losing his leg, Lawson also knocked his teeth out in the crash. Absolutely shames the silly Doolittle sequence in "Pearl Harbor." A Bridge Too...
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    Very neat. Thanks for posting it! Interesting how they put the total interest of the loan on the sales contract. 18 months--a rather short maturity by today's standard of 60-month contracts. I love how it says the payment is due on the 10th of every month in the Ashville Office. Wonder if he was...
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    LA Times - LAPD Gangster Squad series

    The writer has labored hard to rise to the level of a dime novel Mickey Spillane knockoff (see quote in above post--not a single murder was solved in 50 years in LA? What does it mean that not a single gangland killing was solved on paper? Was it solved on stone tablets? How about vellum?)...
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    Favorite Military Quotes

    "TELL JIMMY TO GET ON HIS HORSE." -The coded message that launched the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, April 18, 1942. "Well, I guess they'll send me to Leavenworth." -A despondent Jimmy Doolittle sitting on the wing of his wrecked plane in China, believing the raid was a failure.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    The hot rodder's blow torch has already claimed too many cars and made too many into Kandy Kolored cloned cliches. Enjoying outmoded automotive technology is my thing (though a 350 is almost equally anachronistic). Anybody who has throttle-jockeyed a straight eight will know why. The car was...
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    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    Oh well, you did ask. I hadn't thought about someone stealing my vacation snaps but it does make a point.
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    What's in your Garage..

    Buick Special Model 46S Suzuki Cappuccino Kawasaki ZZR600 Two workbenches One Craftsman roll away One Craftsman 5hp/25gal compressor A dresser made by my family's furniture company around 1960 Two glass showcases full of car models 10 years worth of accumulated household junk and model...
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    What are you wearing today??

    Not today, exactly, but two weeks ago at Goodwood.

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