Billy Kingsley
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With my health problems, I'm limited to just looking at them and photo documenting them.
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The worst for selling your name is the American Archaeological Society. Not the one that publishes Archaeology Magazine, the other one that basically only cares about the far west US. Got bombarded by crap after they sold my name...
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Thanks for the comments. I didn't realize it was still so prevalent. I am surprised I didn't notice it in the past since I love to watch the snow and watch cars driving in the snow.
My dad was a USPS employee for the last 20+ years of his life, making the trucks go. I'm surprised he didn't mention it.
How late in the year is it required out west? I've never been further than Joliet Illinois, yet...but that will be changing this year.
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I was not able to get a photo but as I headed out to the dentist this afternoon I saw a postal employee putting chains on the mail delivery trucks' tires. I don't recall seeing this before. I know chains were in use in the 60s but I thought that they were out of use.
Is this a widespread practice that I just didn't notice before or something unusual?
They are predicting 8 inches of snow and a mix with ice for today here in the Hudson Valley NY. It's already started actually.
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Our family daily driver is dark metallic red and my brother's car is light metallic blue. The last red car we had was a Chrysler Cordoba...blue has been the predominant family car color. I can remember 5 blue, 2 red, 1 white and 1 metallic orange. Have pictures of 1 green but don't have any memories of it. Most of our cars didn't last that long... considering I've only been alive since 1984.
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16 years old, in my brother's 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier. June of 2000. My aunt let me steer while I stood on her knees at 3 years old, don't know what kind of car it was but I remember it was red with a brown interior.
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6 hours ago, rocketraider said:
On a truck designed for ranch/farming use that makes sense. Course most King Ranch never go within 50 miles of a cow patty!
Re "Edsel brick": talk-to-text and autocorrect are responsible for much mangling of the English language. I've learned to proofread anything I type on an electronic device.
That's the truth. A relative was using talk to text and when we asked how their kids were it changed "oh they are fine" to "oh they are dead".
Autocorrect isn't much better. I tried to type "that's beautiful" on a nature photo just this past weekend and my phone changed it to "that's Bea Arthur". It also changed hockey superstar Alex Ovechkin's last name to "oven chin".
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I learned very early on it was not worth the effort. I once tipped off a seller of something somewhat rare and expensive NASCAR item that he had spelled the drivers name wrong in the listing and would likely have more money coming his way if he corrected it....he called me a "grammer Nazi" and said he was blocking me from bidding on his stuff. I had no intention to as I already had it...and he didn't have anything else I was interested in ever back when eBay used to show what the seller had sold.
I decided I could spend my time and effort on more useful things and now I just laugh at people who can't even bother to read what they are selling.
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1990 Ford Aerostar. Was the most comfortable seats I've ever felt. Unfortunately it wasn't made very well and rusted badly. We had it from 1997-03 and I miss it. Our current family car is a 2018 Ford Edge and is a close second. In a couple of months we will be taking the longest trip either my brother or I have ever taken it it, and I can't wait.
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Well, if it makes you feel any better, the modern day slang is completely foreign to me too 😁
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I had always wondered what that meant! I figured it was some sort of 60s slang related to a blue car.
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Hope the kerosene guy wasn't a smoker...
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I think the deciding factor here is if you ordered it from the car factory or dealer it's fine but if you did it yourself it's not.
Personally speaking I find the whole thing kind of silly. By thing I mean "judging a car which you didn't create or put any personal touch on and which anyone could own an exact duplicate of with time and money"
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It's funny how people are derogatory towards "assembled cars" because they weren't made in house, yet venerate coachbuilt cars which also weren't made in house.
If where the parts were sourced from is the main concern then both are equally not in house.
Just for the record, it doesn't matter to me in the least.
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Thank you! They either updated the fair website in the last two days or I just missed it, either is possible, lol.
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Does anyone have information on this year's Rhinebeck show? It was not held the last two years and it doesn't appear on the website for the Dutchess County fairgrounds for this year. Hoping that they are planning to have it this year.
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Very nice work! I'm surprised these don't exist in kit form, they are popular trucks. If you are on Facebook search for Dynomite Decals, he mostly does race cars but I bet he could whip them up pretty easily.
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Naw, too thin!
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Here's one on Route 66 (now Il-53) in Joliet Illinois that I photographed in October 2019. Based on the Blues Brothers movies I think. I'm not a big movie person so I haven't actually watched them.
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There's a lot of Viper info on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Viper. They break it down into five generations although I consider it only two myself.
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The Hemmings museum is closed forever. They closed up when the pandemic began and we called last year to find out when they would reopen. They said at the time "maybe in 2022". Called again today and they said they were not going to open again.
That's disappointing. I never got the chance to get there.
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The Weather Channel mentioned the Corvette factory getting hit the next day. Saw a couple pictures of the cars after the tornado piled haphazardly atop one another, but that was on Facebook. The Corvette Museum posted about the damage on their social media pages as well but no pictures...more warning people to stay away because the whole area was damaged and roads had debris on them.
Sad, sad situation.
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CCCA Linkage Geared for the Automotive Life....
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Facebook has never sent me any mail talking about overthrowing the US government and how anarchy is "the only way to save the world"