OldTrucker

Both outstanding in their own right. Just a different mode of service and different types of situations!

Nope, in 1977 she had her first heart surgery and we had 2 kids by then the youngest not quite 2 and the oldest 7. two more heart surgeries and two strokes, a fused ankle and then the knee replacement. Yep! Well versed at that! I should have added after our surprise twins (was expecting just one) which from time I drove her to the hospital till delivery was only 20 minutes! They were 5 minutes apart and natural childbirth. (all were) I switched from midnight to days so I could be there to help at night. Daytime her sister lived in the building across. I came in off the road and took a factory job when we found she was expecting. (did the same with our second) I owe this woman more than I could ever repay. Had it not been for her I would not be here today!

You know, I walked every aisle in our Hobby Lobby and did not see a single pizza anywhere in the store!

Well today started getting thing moved around and ready for a week from today. They wife will be getting her other knee replaced on the 13th. So I will become chief cook and bottle washer for a few weeks!

I taught our youngest two (twin boys) how to drive a stick shift. Both bought cars with a stick shift without knowing how to drive one. (got tired of sharing our old Ford Escort LOL) Had them each driving like a pro in an afternoon! A ROUGH afternoon!!! I made sure that they learned to stop and takeoff on a hill without riding the clutch or rolling back! I don't know how many guys I have seen that will ride the clutch to hold them on a hill rather than using the brakes and easing the clutch out as you quickly get to the gas. Also showed them a little trick with the hand brake on a really steep hill back in the industrial area where I had taken them to learn to drive before they got their license! Told them unless they wanted to be replacing clutches.........

To me it looks like the roof arches a little too much front to back (needs to be flattened out a little) and is a tad high in the back.

." Did the kid from Da Bronx show you guys how to play skelzies? This was a popular street game. No equipment, except a piece of chalk and bottle caps, were needed." He tried but most the other kids showed much interest in it. He was only here for a few years and they moved back to NY. Still miss the kid! He brought a whole new world into our neighborhood!

In the mid 70's I drove a short time for a company hauling liquid asphalt in non-baffled tankers The tractor they assigned me was a early 60's twin stick Mack! Lesson #1...... NEVER miss a gear lesson #2.... slow smooth starts with no jerk between gears and lesson #3.... NO sudden stops!

I learned in a 54 GMC cabover grain truck when I was 11! The older guys got ticked off about it making wise cracks because the farmer had to put blocks on the pedals so my short legs would reach!

Not me! I'd build it!

Just after they shut USA down a guy was in Hobby Lobby buying up the Revell kits. Almost got into it because he took exception when I picked a kit off the shelf before he could get to it. Have no doubt that those kits would be on eBay at inflated prices soon!

The first time I saw the start of personal jabs I quit following it. It was becoming a slapping match and would have turned into a slugging match. All the moderator did was stop it be for it accelerated and kept members from getting themselves in hot water. I know would be some members response to that will or would be but it is a judgement call not unlike an ump making a close call at the plate. Some won't like it but it is what it is. He's just doing his job and a thankless job most of the time at that!

I never have and never will PAY for an autograph or a selfie. Now it is different if I were asking for an autographed picture or other item that they were supplying but still will not pay an unreasonable amount either! There was a certain 60's TV star that my wife wanted a signed picture of and I looked them up on the net. The cheapest was 40 dollars for a 8X10 black and white. I emailed the contact and told them I would be willing to give 10 bucks and within minutes got the reply SOLD! She got the picture in the mail 4 days later! Guess it pays to ask!

Our Walmart has the in door on the left for some unknown reason!

Myself I do it because that was how I was raised and don't expect to be thanked for it. If they do, it is just another plus for my day! I held the door for a lady a while back and she stopped and started giving me a lecture on how she wasn't just a helpless woman so I just let the door shut in her face before she could finish. Takes all kinds to make up a world!

I've had friends and co-workers over the years from those areas of NY. The stories are all the same just different names just like yours! No one had a real name just nicknames it seems! I grew up in a small town next to a small city. But we all had our neighborhoods which tended to be about an 8 square block area. We had our share of troubles there too but were severely curtailed in our endeavors by the parent alliance! That was all the parents told the other parents to treat us like we were their own kids if they saw us doing something we weren't supposed to be doing! So we shifted to the east to the Illinois Central tracks and hung out under the trestles over the creeks and the tunnel under an old trolley barn/warehouse building the creek ran under! That was the place the "tough guys" hung out! (ie the ones not afraid to go under it!LOL) One of our "beasts" was an old lady that sat on her back porch in the evening with a box of rocks which she would throw at us when we came to steal a stalk of rhubarb from her huge rhubarb patch which she let go to seed every year. There were several more that just did not like kids and would call the cops almost daily! BTW kick the can was one of our favorite games that was brought to us by a kid that moved into the neighborhood from the Bronx! We all gave his a hard time about his accent but we were not much better with our "Chicago" accent even though we were about 45 minutes south of the city!!

Looks just right! That color looks like a near perfect match for the orange used on later bugs!

I had this but gave it to my son!

That would make mine a 71 then!

I do the same thing. Seems it always comes full circle back to me in the end when I need a part! Just had a a member here send me a whole kit and even refused to let me pay the freight! That is a big part of what keeps me in this hobby!

Mine is te 71-74 body style.

A Johan Mark Donahue Javelin AMX kit. and yes I built it. Wish someone made replacement decals for it. The kit ones were bad but managed to make them work.

I can remember having a new sand filter system installed for 1,250.00 back in 1990! That included pulling the old septic system out too! Then early the next year the city put sewer lines through the neighborhood and condemned all the septic systems forcing everyone onto the city system!

No, not "anyone" but some and maybe on ebay a big percentage but not all. The only times I have sold kits was either to pay medical bills but often because I wanted to buy something of more interest. I very rarely made a profit on what I sold in fact most times I lost money! I have even had a few sought after kits that were going for big money and I put mine up for what I thought was reasonable which was 50% or less than what others were looking to get and were getting! I love this hobby and raping other modelers on price does nothing to help keep this hobby going! I know that many on here that sell on ebay do so not to "make money" but to buy something else they like better. Most will try and trade for what they are looking to get first before going the ebay route!

Too, once he stops cheating he will find his game will actually improve! He will have incentive to try and improve his game rather than coasting along on the lie. A golf pro that worked at one of the courses here would tell that to his students that were fudging the scores.