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Redneck Power! Billy Carter’s Pickup on eBay
Jalopnik ^ | June 22, 2006

Posted on 06/22/2006 12:22:33 PM PDT by presidio9

While Jimmy Carter has fared better in the public imagination as an ex-President than he did as Commander in Chief, his rather colorful brother Billy passed away in 1988 at age 51 from pancreatic cancer. We were very young when Carter was pres, but we do, in the dark recesses of our mind, remember the hubbub about Billy Beer (which we didn’t understand back then; all we heard was “beer.” Mmmm…beer…). We don’t, however, remember this pickup, built as a full-size version of a Revell model kit. Click over and check it out, and note the sweet in-dash digital clock. State of the art in ride-pimping, circa 1977.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: billycarter; rednecks
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To: KC Burke; Mr. Mojo

My dad still has a case of unopened Billy Beer, but it's in his attic. In southwest Houston. And has been for almost 30 years. Blech.

So you've had that one beer occupying fridge space for the better part of three decades? What occasion are you saving it for?


61 posted on 06/22/2006 1:48:42 PM PDT by Xenalyte (The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out it's just sort of a tired feeling.)
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To: absolootezer0

62 posted on 06/22/2006 1:49:58 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Big Tents" you get Clowns & Circus Freaks! The road to HELL is paved with LIEberals!)
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To: KC Burke

You really should clean out the fridge once in a while. Since 1978? Why???


63 posted on 06/22/2006 1:50:39 PM PDT by GBA
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To: RasterMaster

64 posted on 06/22/2006 1:50:48 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Big Tents" you get Clowns & Circus Freaks! The road to HELL is paved with LIEberals!)
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To: KC Burke
I had a 6 pack....but my son and his HS buddies decided they needed it.....which I didn't discover that it was missing for about 6 months....then of course no one knew what happened to it. A few years ago he finally admitted what happened and then had the audacity to complain that it tasted rotten and admitted that they threw the rest of it away!!
65 posted on 06/22/2006 1:51:21 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver
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To: cripplecreek
i'll go ya one better on that one...

mercedes!!
66 posted on 06/22/2006 1:54:05 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: presidio9
That ain't no treehouse...

That's a hunting house...

67 posted on 06/22/2006 1:54:19 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The pen is mightier than the................pigs.)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver; GBA

I started saving it for a friend that I thought I would see again, after I found it still in the back of my fridge in 1980. I kept it for a number of years thinking that I had heard that the can is worth more to a collector un-opened and that the beer would survive corrosive spoilage if refrigerated.. That friend died in the 90s before I ever got to see him and give it to him and I have just kept it in there, since I have only moved once in the last 22 years. Actually, the inexpensive refrigerator is from the same 70s era as well. Even though I want a new one, since the old Roper won't die and I haven't banged it up, I can't bring myself to spend the jack due to style alone.


68 posted on 06/22/2006 1:58:03 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: Xenalyte

see number 68


69 posted on 06/22/2006 1:58:58 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: presidio9
Billy must have had a moment of clearity before he died.


70 posted on 06/22/2006 1:59:23 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: presidio9

Does it run on peanut oil?


71 posted on 06/22/2006 2:01:38 PM PDT by GOPJ (Once you see the MSM manipulate opinion, all their efforts seem manipulative-Reformedliberal)
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To: absolootezer0
Redneck Drive-in...


72 posted on 06/22/2006 2:06:19 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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To: absolootezer0
Redneck wedding...


73 posted on 06/22/2006 2:08:37 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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To: Ceebass; Grampa Dave
LOL.

Billy Carter had some dealings with Omar Khaddafi in Libya. Bob Hope had a line that "the main difference between Jimmy Carter and his brother was that Billy had a foreign policy."

74 posted on 06/22/2006 2:10:45 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: presidio9
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

 
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/20935.html

75 posted on 06/22/2006 2:13:25 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

They always said that Miss Lillian had the two biggest boobs in the whole state of Georgia.


76 posted on 06/22/2006 2:27:28 PM PDT by OldEagle (May you live long enough to hear the legends of your own adventures.)
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To: presidio9
How many miles per sixpack does it get?
(Tip of the hat to a 70s era Car & Driver article by P.J. O'Rourke)
77 posted on 06/22/2006 2:39:12 PM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: digger48

That's a Super-Yooper Subie Snowplow. Yooper is pretty darned close to redneck, for sure, but Bubba don't do no Subaru.


78 posted on 06/22/2006 2:41:43 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: presidio9

"Redneck treehouse."

Looks more like a dee-luxe deerstand to me.


79 posted on 06/22/2006 2:44:02 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: GOPJ
"Does it run on peanut oil?"

It could. Otto Diesel's original vehicle ran on peanut oil. But I don't think Billy's truck is a diesel.

80 posted on 06/22/2006 4:02:37 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I never submit to IQ tests. That way, I can honestly say that my IQ can not be measured.)
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