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Billy Kingsley last won the day on October 30 2019

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  1. I like it! Wonder if it exists in model kit form?
  2. Rob Ida is still in business as far as I know. He had both the green and black custom and the blue one at Rhinebeck at various years when the Goodguys East Coast Nationals was held there. The blue one is the first Tucker I ever saw in person, original or recreation. I've seen 5 originals now.
  3. Thank you for the further info. That grill really threw me off.
  4. I photographed this today, but I'm not entirely sure what it is. It looks like a Jeep, but not like a Jeep at the same time. Sorry for the filthy window, roads were wet today. It was actually snowing when I took this.
  5. Although it rarely has uses in automotive, I absolutely hated the table saw. I know how to use it, I know the proper safety procedures, and I did use it successfully...I just hated it.
  6. Will do, it has not appeared since. I'm sure it's this phone I'm using, it seems to have a mind of it's own sometimes.
  7. I have visited 35 states since the start of 2022. Only place I saw 25 year old vehicles as more than a rarity was in Roswell NM where I was for one day, but saw a handful of 70s trucks, all Chevrolet, and most modified. It was enough that I wondered if there was a show and I just didn't know about it, since I was only there for a day and a half.
  8. We just sold our 1994 Grand Cherokee last week. Last ran in 2015. I'm impressed you've been able to keep a 90s Jeep running.
  9. Celebrity ownership generally doesn't do much for me...except race cars. Then it makes a lot of difference because you can pinpoint actual historical racing events it participated in. Certain celebrity ownership would actually be a detriment in my mind, but since I don't want Peter chasing me with a broom Tom & Jerry style I'll stop there 😂
  10. If you think 25 year old cars are daily drivers, you really have no idea how to date a car outside of your area of interest. Anything from before 2010 is a rare sight. I saw a PT cruiser on Tuesday and realized I hadn't seen one in over a year. And it's not like I've been hiding in a small portion of the country...that time period covers a drive from NY to Utah and back and another from NY to Charlotte NC and back. Just admit you are a date snob and be done with it. It's fine to only like a certain period of cars but don't crap on those of us who care about the history of the automobile post World War 2. History doesn't stop just because you don't care.
  11. I leave a window open on my phone all the time with the forum pulled up. Today when I went to go on the forum I had to perform a captcha test. First two were "place a dot at the end of the car's path" which I apparently didn't understand and failed, third was click all images showing a bucket. That one it took. I've never seen that happen before on this website. Is it a new thing that's going to be a problem every day, a temporary thing to stop a spam attack or something else entirely? It has not happened again in this session. I didn't think to screencap it.
  12. I should add where the story of my nickname El Camino Billy came from. I have been fascinated with them since sometime in the 1990s when I became aware of them. I had surely seen them before but for some reason something just "clicked" and they became my favorite vehicles in 1998. Fast forward to the year 2000 or early 2001. I had joined a model car forum that still exists but I can't get to work on my phone so I no longer am a regular member. A topic came up about El Caminos and they were repeatedly referred to as an abbreviation that drove me up a wall. I will not say it because I have vowed to never type that word. (yes, I am obsessive and a little bit strange). Anyway, I got into a bit of an argument imploring people to use the proper name. One of the forum regulars began calling me El Camino Billy and it stuck. More people at the model shows refer to me by that than my full name. I was a lot more argumentative back then. Comes with being a teenager I guess...I was 15 or 16 years old when I got the nickname. I don't know when it happened exactly. It's the name of my website, my email, pretty much everything where I don't use my full name...except eBay where somebody else took it. There I am "therealelcaminobilly". I didn't actually get a chance to sit in an El Camino until 2019, go figure.
  13. My parents picked it out and I'm not likely to forget it. Remembering passwords is hard enough...
  14. Found on Twitter today. I have no knowledge of when/where, it was posted without caption.
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