Billy Kingsley

I've been dealing with a lot of spam on the NASCAR forum I run as well, it's not fun in the least and you have my sympathies for how much you are getting. One of my biggest missed picture regrets is when I saw the Spam can shaped motorhome on I84 around 2002, predating the digital camera or smart phone era. Unlike the Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile I've never seen the Spam mobile again.

I love snow, I can sit and watch it fall for hours. I enjoy watching the cars on my residential street, and whenever I hear the plow I always stop what I'm doing to watch. With that said, one of my scariest moments ever in a car was in a snowstorm. It was December, 2002 and I had gone to the Town of Newburgh Model Car Club meeting. It began snowing while I was in the meeting and the ground was covered, albeit only an inch or two, and the snow was still coming down but it didn't seem too bad. We set out for home in our 1990 Ford Aerostar. My mom, who was driving, refuses to go across the Newburgh -Beacon bridge so we went up 9W to take the Mid-Hudson bridge. The ride starts out fine, the road had been plowed and all well. About halfway up 9W the snow intensifies. Visibility is now low, the snow is coming down hard and heavy, and the road becomes very slippery. Luckily, there was not much traffic since it was after 10 pm and while we were sliding around some all was well. Then we get almost to the interchange with the bridge and there in the middle of the road not moving was a mid-80s Ford F-150. Mom hits the brakes and nothing happens...the road is too slippery, we are sliding towards the back of the pickup. After what seemed like an interminable about of time but was probably only a matter of seconds the truck turns into a driveway and disaster is avoided. We very gingerly make the turn for the bridge and once we get back to our side of the river it's barely snowing at all, not even collecting really. Even though that ordeal with the truck lasted maybe a few seconds the image of it appearing out of the snow as we got close enough to see it will be forever etched into my mind, I can still recall that it was a red truck with a diamond plate toolbox. After that we decided to skip meetings where snow is predicted. ======== One of my earliest memories of anything, let alone automotive related, is watching my dad back out of our driveway in a heavy snowstorm, in our metallic orange 1974 Torino wagon. Dad worked for the post office so he still went to work no matter what the weather was, but that image has always stuck with me. I have a few snowy car pictures that I'll share later. I'm on my phone now and it's not easy to post them from here, I'll post them when I get on my computer.

We of Italian descent cannot talk without moving our hands 😁

Always liked Jay Leno, even went and saw him at West Point a few years ago...only comedian I've ever gone to see. Speedy and complete recovery is my hope.

I'm not a member of any full size car clubs. With my health not allowing me to own or drive a car it just seems...wrong somehow, I suppose. No matter how welcoming and friendly the people are, I still feel like an outsider, and I probably always will, a mental thing no doubt. I would like to join the AACA just because it would make me feel less like a freeloader on the forum but the terms confused me about joining mid year. I've been meaning to do it at the start of the year but I keep spending my money on other things...I have a limited amount to spend on fun things. We do have a local AACA chapter but the meetings conflict with the Hudson Valley Historical Miniatures Guild and I enjoy that too much to quit. I have toyed with the idea of joining the Edsel club. I dream of owning an Edsel some day. I don't know if there is an El Camino club, at least nationally. I know of a few regional ones but none closer than Massachusetts. I am a member of the Town of Newburgh Model Car Club and that is a LOT of fun. It's a car club but scale cars that we build ourselves.

That was such a popular conversion in the 1970s (for some reason) that AMT made a model kit of it.

I am one of the few people who loves oddballs like this. Being a fox body platform this shouldn't be too hard to get back on the road... hopefully. It doesn't look particularly abused.

Happy belated Birthday! Mine was the 18th.

I'm sorry, I know hating everything new and electronic is the expected default but I think it's awesome. Especially if they light up at. The only drawback I see is collecting them...that may prove a bit of a problem.

According to his profile he was born in 1938.

Sad to hear that...can't say I really knew him but I do remember seeing posts from him.

Get well soon Dave!

I was hoping to get there for the show this year but it doesn't seem like it's going to happen.

I consider the fact that I'm still able to attend car shows, and have been able to photograph more than 200 automotive brands, a major lifetime victory. My health may limit what I am capable of doing but I refuse to let it stop me.

I've always loved the 2+2. It's my #1 most wanted car in 1/64, especially the NASCAR version. It's never been made. The Canadian Meteor models are very rare sights in the US. I've seen I think two total in my life. Never any of that year. The Pontiac based Canadian exclusives are much more common.

This is terrible news. I never met him but when everyone speaks so highly of someone it's pretty telling. I bet a donation box for his family at the show for helping them pay expenses would be well received.

Luckily I have not seen an accident at a car show but I have heard one. At the Adirondack Nationals probably about 10 years ago a 1955 Chevrolet was waiting to turn into it's motel and got clipped in the left front fender. I was at the north end of town but I heard the crunch and the sirens. The car was still drivable, and was in the show the next day with the fender laying on the ground next to it. I believe they came back to the show the next year with the fender replaced. Luckily it was something with an easily available replacement fender. About 3 years ago a 1932 Ford coupe hot rod flipped on the way to the same show. I didn't see or hear that one but I was told that it was hit by someone texting and I believe it.

The carpet appears to be mats of astroturf. Probably placed right on top of whatever was there.

It never crossed my mind until just now that the AMC Hornet was a nod to the Hudson Hornet. Even though I've been familiar with both cars for years, I just never thought about it. The AMC version had far less success in NASCAR.

Why not go to the boat store and see if they will shrink wrap it? I don't know if that will work or be feasible, as I've never done it. Just thinking out loud.

Ford actually built a flying car in 1964 for the World's Fair. Called it the Levacar, and it was powered by compressed air. Supposedly they built only one, I don't know what happened to it afterwards. The cost was apparently prohibitive. AMT made a model of it though.

People are funny about that sort of thing...they think by not putting that information out there themselves that they are somehow private or untraceable. That's not actually true, considering that the companies you deal with on a daily basis do everything on computer these days...from the grocery store where you get your food all the way to the IRS. Everything is connected, anyone can be found if someone wanted to enough. The fact that you're using a computer or smart phone to access a message board means you can be tracked to exact location you're posting from using the ip address. The thing is...nobody really cares enough to do the work required to track you down. There are much easier targets to try and scam, the kind who believes everything they read and that the email telling them they are locked out of some account and they better put their SSN in and send Amazon gift cards to correct it is a real message from the company, those are who they go after. Because people do fall for it all the time. And they send them out to everybody hoping that one will bite. I get on average 8 to 9 emails a day telling me that I've been locked out of my account at some place I don't even have an account with. Not putting your name or location doesn't do anything other than make you feel better. With that said, I don't give out my home address on the Internet freely. It's not that I have anything to hide, and there are some people who have it and have looked it up, I just am anti social and don't like being near people, or talking to people, haha. (I much prefer the written word such as forums) I have my PO Box publicly posted on several hobby forums.

Congratulations! It looks good to me.

Welcome! Always nice to have more people from NY here.

After having several of my family daily drivers devolve into basket cases while trying desperately (and failing) to fix them and keep them going, I would say unquestionably it's one I could get in and go somewhere without having to worry about walking home (again)!