Billy Kingsley

I really don't hate any cars, I love pretty much everything that ever existed and, knowing myself, will exist in the future. With that said, I've sworn off Mopars. Throughout my life we've had 4 of them and all of them were nothing but trouble. They were a 78 Cordoba, an 86 Reliant K, a Horizon of year I don't recall, and a 94 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The whole point of having a car is so you don't have to walk everywhere and I found myself having to walk home often with them. Unfortunately I think they make the best looking modern cars, so I will just admire them from afar. I know lots of people have had vastly different experiences than we have so maybe someone cast some sort of curse on us or something, haha.

Here's me in October of 1986 with a Hot Wheels in each hand. You didn't say they had to be real cars! 😉 Yes, I still have them.

Is that on a race car? I could see it being placed there to prevent it getting knocked off by another car.

I read this thread in full when it was new but didn't comment. I had a picture I wanted to post but couldn't find, but I found it today. This is not me but it sort of led to me existing. In 1968 my dad hit a brick wall with this Chevrolet. He met my mom while he was in the hospital recovering. They ended up getting married two years later and were together up until cancer claimed his life on February 5th, 2002...21 years ago today. This accident occured either in or around Peekskill, NY. He had the same license plate on the 55 Bel Air he drag raced at Dover and also daily drove for a while. I believe the 55 replaced this one. The 55 he had was probably not the one barely showing in this photo since his was a dark brownish maroon color with white back half.

It's new for us plebians! I'm on my third smartphone and I consider them new, too.

This technology is still so new and so few people are working with it, but imagine in 10 years time when the technology progresses...it's going to be a lot more advanced and prevalent. It is currently beyond my knowledge on how to do it but I could see myself learning it in the future.

When the post mentioned I90 in Nebraska, which it does not run through, I figured it was a typo of I80.

I don't know if they finished it yet but when I was in Omaha last year there was a ton of work being done at the intersection of I80 and I29, with 29 being completely closed. https://media.fotki.com/2v2adprH9x2zUmm.jpg

Three thoughts...if that is the original color, but it can't win a major award unless the color is changed, doesn't that make it less accurate and thus less deserving of the award? Horses die after 20 years and poop constantly. I like horses, but I prefer much more than 1 horsepower. The most important question, how does one go about getting into that stratosphere? What kind of job do you need, obviously oil baron is one.

Hudson Valley NY has lots and lots to see and do. I live here so I'm biased though.

I believe the photo in the opening post is actually a very detailed drawing.

Thank you...each photo is duplicated in the album from where I saw it, whether it be a museum or show. https://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/automotivephotography/

My dad could do that with engines. He was strong enough that he could have completed in the world's strongest man competition. My mom has seen him deadlift engines, and tow a larger boat on a trailer by hand. When he was younger he was known to put the transmission on his stomach and just use his stomach muscles to put it in place. My mom knew that there was something seriously wrong with him when we went to the Orange County Fair and he couldn't ring the bell. She made him go to the doctor and he was indeed sick with cancer. After he passed away he left a lot of stuff that he had been collecting for scrap metal. One of them was a bus engine, it took three people to get it out of the back yard...he got it in to the trunk of his Volkswagen Quantum and up the hill in my yard all by himself. I have often wondered if the bus company he worked at knew he had taken that engine. Knowing my dad, probably not. 😂 Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I wish smart phones and YouTube had been around when my parents were younger. I have no doubt my mom would have been filming my dad's feats of strength if that was the case.

There's a 1907 here locally, it's the oldest car I've seen driving under its own power.

Thinking more on this I realize I also don't have a photo of a Geo or Eagle, even though I used to see them driving regularly.

Before the pandemic I was hitting 30 or so a year. Two of my three local cruise nights never restarted and the one that did cancelled if there was any rain in the forecast, even if the sky was blue...long story short, I got to 4 last year, Rhinebeck, the Adirondack Nationals (a predominantly hot rod show) and two local cruise nights at a local diner.

Congratulations! I love old Pontiacs.

I have a project where I'm trying to photograph as many different automotive brands as I possibly can...since my health keeps me from driving an old car the photos (and models) are my way of staying attached to the hobby. I got backlogged on what I added this year and I just put it together, 38 new brands in 2022. All but one of them were at museums, the Gardner was at Rhinebeck. The Iowa 84 Trucking Museum provided 15 of the brands, while 13 came from a museum in Pennsylvania that shall be unnamed for reasons I don't fully understand and 9 from the Maine Automobile Museum. The next brand I find and photograph, whatever it may be, will be the 275th I've photo documented! I am especially glad to get a Messerschmitt on film finally- it is one of only two brands I'm sure I'd seen in person but didn't have a photo of. (Daihatsu is the other). I also saw a car from the 1800s from the first time ever in 2022, and in fact did it twice. Here's the chart if anyone cares to look it over. They are in alphabetical order. https://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/automotive-brands/

I've heard of Apperson, Citicar, Columbia, Elcar, Flanders, Glasspar, Lozier, O-We-Go, Pope, Rickenbacker, Roosevelt, Ruxton, Scripps-Booth and Wills Saint Claire and I've photodocumented Brush, Cartercar, Chandler, Detroit Electric, Durant, Jeffrey, McIntyre, Oakland and Zimmer. I've also photodocumented an E-M-F which the Flanders went into. I've never heard of Welch but I would really like to see one of those. That name has significant meaning to my family.

Happy new year! 2023 is my first year as an AACA member thanks to a generous friend on the forum, so the year is starting out right automotivaly already!

Seeing an old car with rain on it makes a totally different perspective..I don't know why, the basic shapes of the car haven't changed, but it does. A few years ago at Rhinebeck, probably 2009 or so, it started pouring during the Goodguys show. I took my umbrella and my camera and I was literally the only person on the field that I could see, I was getting great shots without people in them, until I saw a bolt of lightning hit a tree at the other end of the field. I then decided that being alone in a field of metal cars during a thunderstorm may not be the best idea and begrudgingly retreated to the building.

I've got nothing. I kept setting goals for myself in other hobbies and then finishing them up within a week. All the easy projects got done so now it's just plugging away on the huge projects that just take time and effort to complete. I'll get there eventually.

My brother gave me 8 cans of primer for my scale modeling. I'm constantly running low on primer so this is a very good gift. Although a bit outside the realm of the cars normally covered on this forum, it's still going to be used for something car related. Unfortunately I also caught his cold. First time in about three years I've gotten a cold which was I think my second longest streak ever, living with a compromised immune system isn't fun. Luckily it's not the worst cold I've had but I'm sure not enjoying it regardless.

So make your own!