Awesome.
Apparently the permitting process was not a hurdle.
If I had a Geo Metro I would have burned it after week one.
Good aim.
I love that they made it a community event with bleachers and stuff. Very American.
Somethings tells me the only thing orginal on the Geo Metro was the gas cap.
Somethings tells me the only thing orginal on the Geo Metro was the gas cap.
The Geo couldn’t get away if it wanted to.
True, but not many pumpkins get to end their life by smashing a car. It was one of the lucky ones.
People will do anything for attention.
But at least this guy isn’t hurting anyone else, wasting tax money, or saying something stupid...
So sure, let’s watch the show and have some pumpkin pie too.
BTW, a 2,000 pound pumpkin is a spectacle in its own right.
Florida man has competition.
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.
Well, that’s one way to celebrate Hallowe’en....
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...
Driving a car that long...pretty good.
He wouldn’t be able to drop a 500 lb. Lemon on it. That would be wrong.
Geo metros were built by Suzuki IIRC...so no surprise that they could function well.