Posted on 04/25/2025 10:58:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
lol... sigh... I dont think any excuse I come up with would work so I’ll just hang my head and go back and sit down!...
lol
Photos are coming through. If I remember, I’ll check out the car show in July.
“When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, every car was unique and distinct.”
I KNOW! I loved those cars.
As kids, we prided ourselves on recognizing as many brands and models as we could. And every fall, we’d learn about the new season models being introduced. It was great fun.
These days? Meh.
“As kids, we prided ourselves on recognizing as many brands and models as we could.”
So did we! It made road trips almost tolerable.
Cool find. I think candy apple red is usually a little darker shade of red, maybe that’s just my bias. Looks like a beast to drive - reminds me of a hot wheels design.
“It made road trips almost tolerable.”
I know what you mean. We had relatives all over the United States and we took huge road trips all around the country every two years. Upstate NY to Idaho, down to Albuquerque, and over to Fort Worth. We also kept track of license plates and wanted to be first to collect all 48 (later all 50). I’ve still got a couple of scrapbooks from those trips.
Slug Bug. Cadillac whack.
On your road trips, did you play “Zip!” with horses and graveyards?
I don’t recall “Zip.” What was that?
Our eldest daughter would always hold her breath while we were driving past graveyards. I have no idea where she picked that up.
I remember when I was about 9 and my sister saw a couple of cows in a field in Iowa copulating. She said “Oh, look at the cows playing!” Mom, dad and I just about bust a gut laughing. I don’t think anybody told her what was really going on. That was about 65 years ago and I still remember it! Mom & Dad probably weren’t sure if I knew what was going on.
“Zip!”:
First person to see a horse says “Zip!” and gets one point. White horse 5 points. Buckskin horse 10 points. 🐎
First one to see a graveyard yells “graveyard!”, keeps his points, and everyone else loses theirs. ⚰️
Entertaining when you’re six - LOL!
How fun!
We used to give each of our three kids about 12 quarters. Each time one of them whined “How much longerrrr.....” they had to give a quarter back. On our six hour trips to the lake, the two girls would be $3 richer and our son would be busted flat broke. LOL! All three of them are still that way, too, in their mid 30s.
“Fuel stations are a good place to run across gas hogs. My 1970 Cadillac used to get a lot of attention at the filling station.”
Last summer Mrs. BBB333 & I were filling up our RV in Glendive, MT (vacationing for a few days in MAKOSHIKA STATE PARK: https://fwp.mt.gov/stateparks/makoshika) early one morning — I was going to make Bloody Mary’s but had no straws, hence the 7:00 AM fill up — so after filling up I went into the ‘convince store’ and grabbed four straws...there was a line of folks getting pastries and coffee. I bypassed the line and said the the cashier: ‘I just filled up with $200.00 of gas, may I please have these straws?”
She said: ‘Of course” and several folks in line said: “ooooh...” at the thought of that much gasoline...
The Bloody Marry’s were excellent and we tried our hand at frisbee golf on one of the worlds hardest FG courses - we quit after two holes but had a great day!
Gas station stories!
Cool post and thanks for the ping mabarker1.
An annual event not too far from C’DA where this truck was spotted,
SUN VALLEY TOUR DE FORCE
NO SPEED LIMIT
JULY 17 – 19, 2025
https://sunvalleytourdeforce.com
A few years ago I saw a Bugatti Veyron in my smallish town of Bozeman, MT — and I thought ‘what the heck is that doing on campus (MSU) — then I learned that 6 of them had competed in speed day earlier in the week.
I’m going to have to catch it some year...
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Ultimately GM’s control of NASCAR killed off the 426 HEMI and 427 SOHC engines, and stepped in again when FORD started dominating NASCAR again in the 80’s with the restrictor plate rule.
It’s been on my bucket list for years. There are lots of great videos of the cars running in that event.
I own a 39 Ford coe (with the oval grille, not the waterfall). The 427 didn’t come out until the 60s.
These trucks came with a flathead v8.
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