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  1. Juanito

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    When one of your life long best friends advises you to buy as much Microsoft stock as you can after he finished up his internship in 1989 says so, do. Same for the other friend from grade school that said the same about Amazon in 1995. Take that trip after high school, after college, and after...
  2. Juanito

    FS: Cafe Racer 42/40 Excelled

    These are awesome jackets, someone should snap this up!
  3. Juanito

    Today in History

    While I missed the December 7th and 16th (yesterday) "what happened on this day", in early December, I think of two servicemen from my little town of 150 that were killed in WWII on those two days. Claude Gowey was on the Oklahoma on December 7th. I just ran across an article that his...
  4. Juanito

    FS: Eastman Luftwaffe 44

    Damn...I have been looking for one of those for years, specifically a 44 with the Luftwaffe label. I need to check the classifieds as much as I do on the VLJ site.
  5. Juanito

    Broken-in Lost Worlds a Myth?

    Current photo. Very much an old friend. I just haven't worn the jacket much since about 2005 after I got a real job and stopped wandering around. The thing has literally been around the world. I wear it occassonally, mostly when motorcycle riding.
  7. Juanito

    Broken-in Lost Worlds a Myth?

    Here's mine, new in 1995. Was worn nearly everyday for 10 years.
  8. Juanito

    Unknown Reproduction Heavy Goatskin A-2 Jacket, Size 42--Great Shape

    I will be listing a number of my jackets in an effort to pare down the jacket armoire. This is an odd jacket. I don't know who made it since it is missing the tag, although there is a size 42 tag in the lower part of the liner. The jacket is extremely heavy goatskin, like Lost Worlds heavy...
  9. Juanito

    Where's all this intolerance coming from??

    I don't think it is complicated. Humans are predators and that is the base root. Modern laws and the societies and tenuous civility they create are the unnatural state.
  10. Juanito

    Does Aero make the most `Period-Correct' B-3 Jacket?

    What a coincidence...look what I just ran across stuffed in an old "Fighter Aces of the U.S.A" Book:
  11. Juanito

    Does Aero make the most `Period-Correct' B-3 Jacket?

    No, I no longer have the jacket. It went to James Garcia after a couple of years of ownership in 1993. The thing that make me think it was different were the samples of the new sheepskin I got when I got the russet horsehide A-2 from you about a year later .
  13. Juanito

    Does Aero make the most `Period-Correct' B-3 Jacket?

    Odd...the B-3 I bought in 1990 which I had to wait on since it was one, if not the first to have the horsehide trim, did not have that finish which I though came out shortly after thereafter in 1991-92?
  14. Juanito

    Does Aero make the most `Period-Correct' B-3 Jacket?

    I would agree with this if Eastman is still offering the polyacrylate lacquered finished sheepskin.
  15. Juanito

    Best A-2 goatskin I've seen so far anywhere.

    Cool story, bro.
  16. Juanito

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    While I realize this thread is about the 1980s, I think one needs to understand the decades leading up to it to understand why the 1980s were what they were. It may be simply that this is the time period I have experienced, just as someone born 30 years prior or after would for their own era...
  17. Juanito

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Good to see the thread brought back to life.
  19. Juanito

    Good Wear A-2 "Cable Raincoat Company" 46

    Sold for $286.
  20. Juanito

    Good Wear A-2 "Cable Raincoat Company" 46

    So much for due diligence on the seller's end.
  21. Juanito

    Late 1960's Excelled Cafe Motorcycle Jacket: Black--Size 46

    Withdrawn from sale. In a fit of Easy Rider nostalga, I took it in to get it repaired and made a light copy of Fonda's jacket. Going to wear it on a ride following the Easy Rider route.
  22. Juanito

    Good Wear A-2 "Cable Raincoat Company" 46

    I am guessing right at $300. It is a great jacket with first rate workmanship if you can get past the finish of the jacket wearing off with a light touch. Contrary to the EBay listing, this was NOT "made to look broken in" or with the "combat clone" treatment Diamond Dave was offering. The...
  23. Juanito

    Good Wear A-2 "Cable Raincoat Company" 46

    I don't want to rain on your parade and all, but that is a steerhide Diamond Dave Cable jacket--chrome tanned, aniline dyed. How do I know? I ordered it new from Diamond Dave in 2015, then resold it about a year later on the VLJ site. It went through a couple of people, and last I saw it sold...

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