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Posted on 10/30/2025 1:21:30 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A Utah man said a final farewell to the Geo Metro he drove for 35 years by dropping a 1,917-pound pumpkin on it from a height of nearly 14 stories.
Millville resident Alan Gebert said his 1991 Geo Metro finally stopped running this year, so he decided to send the vehicle off in style by destroying it with a giant pumpkin.
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That’ll buff right out.
It was a dorky little car, but I must admire the fact that he used it for over 20 years. Of course, since it didn’t have all the electronic cra...er...Obamastuff on it, it was actually repairable - albeit at the cost of having possibly the slowest car on the road.
I’m impressed that this farmer could cultivate a humongous 1917 lb pumpkin in the first place.
Then comes the question: after all the back slaps and applause for farming skills has stopped, what does one even do with a Pump-Zilla so large? Canneries may prefer much smaller pumpkins for processing, because the vegetable will probably be more tender.
I liked the Slow Motion shot
*” I’m sure it was just a coincidence that the weight of this Great Pumpkin uses the same numbers as an historical event:
1917 was the year the USA went to war with Germany.
“People will do anything for attention.
But at least this guy isn’t hurting anyone else, wasting tax money, or saying something stupid...”
He’s in the pumpkin business, probably wrote the whole thing off as advertising. Smart.
That’ll buff right out.
I’m so glad.
Yes, the days of repairable cars is over. I drove a Porsche 911 Turbo (930) for about 25 years. I loved that car, but it was a love/hate relationship. It was fast and fun, but it would sometimes try to kill me until I backed off on the throttle a bit. I was able to do much of the work on it myself.
But now it’s practically a classic…
Well, that’s one way to celebrate Hallowe’en....
There is a guy in Canada that has a 1985 Toyota Tercel with about 800,000 miles on it and it looks practically new..
https://youtu.be/vCXDvTiAdxs?si=lKK5ELdWeBAyg-Ww
They witnessed quite a jack o’
landing in Millville that day.
Save the radiator cap and drive a new car under it.
As with many, many other things every day, the Geo reminds me of the Great El Rush-Bo, and that amazing talent Paul Shanklin.
From the Groove Yard Of Forgotten Favorites
In A Yugo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWusM1EwBQ
While I was searching for In A Yugo, I came across an entire hour of Shanklin
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7MDNsjGs8
And for those of you in Rio Linda (yes, yes, I know that not too many young skulls full of mush visit here, but just in case)
Here are the lyrics
In a Yugo
As the snow flies
At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride
Cause if there’s one thing that this world needs
It’s environmental friends who’ll take the lead
In a Yugo
They say, “people don’t you understand
Those suburbans are ruining the land”
But they’ll wish they had a full size van one day
They point fingers at you and me
They say we’re too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose another way?
As those small wheels turn
Fifty miles to the gallon
And their knees on their chest
They’re gonna save enough gas
For all of the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
They’re squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride...
And as the crowds drive past a little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas
But they didnt get far
In a Yugo
And as they’re trapped inside
At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo....
And they drive with pride...
LOL - I love “In A Yugo” and all of those Paul Shanklin songs.
I got my dad a CD collection of those one Christmas as a stocking stuffer.
1985 Commercial - Citroen Visa GTI launched from French Aircraft Carrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdhBPuTd0c
That’s your opinion.
They were very basic transpiration that were intended to be throw away cars. Three cylinder, manual stick shift and not too powerful. But the first generation could get 60 mpg, the second generation well over 35 mpg. And they were durable, we kept our second one until it had over 120,000 miles on it and it never used a drop of oil.
They were just basic transpiration like the old Datsuns. We had a B210 and put well over a hundred thousand on it, sold it to my cousin who got rid of it after the speedometer rolled over the second time.
They were just basic transpiration like the old Datsuns. We had a B210 and put well over a hundred thousand on it, sold it to my cousin who got rid of it after the speedometer rolled over the second time.
Geo Metros were made by Suzuki. We had a Samurai for 10 years, and it was in great shape at 135,000 miles but got smashed on the freeway. I'd probably still be driving that thing today if that accident hadn't occurred.
My parents had a B210 that I got to drive pretty regularly. It was a great car, but it met an untimely demise well before 100K miles.
I was making a left turn. Several cars went around me, but one clipped the back end of my car. (Another B210.) He pulled off to the side of the road. I pulled off behind him. We were both out of the cars and some drunk guy in a Chevy Nova plowed into the back of my car, which bounced into the back of other B210.
We replaced it with a Datsun 310, which wasn't quite as fun a car.
I got laid in that thing.
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