Brian Austin

Here's a bodystyle not noted in the Land Rover ad. Indeed the kits have creative potential...

I fell into watching a small number of Bad Chad episodes on Motor Trend channel just last week. I don't think I'll be watching any more.

Satin aka Blackie, 2005.

Traveler (foreground) and Smoky (background) in 1987.

My mother would never allow my family to ride carnival rides.

Apparently these carnival trucks had the rides built in. https://www.obnoxiousantiques.com/inventory/ferris-wheel-amusement-ride-truck/ https://www.obnoxiousantiques.com/inventory/antique-carnival-whip-ride-amusement-truck/ https://www.obnoxiousantiques.com/inventory/1953-chevrolet-whip-car-carnival-truck/

A complete truck https://www.obnoxiousantiques.com/inventory/1950s-gas-powered-store-promotion-truck/ Fiberglass body shell (made from original mold) https://www.obnoxiousantiques.com/inventory/divco-truck-body/ Aren't they cute?

A Dustbuster van in Argentina! https://auto.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-1185279295-chevrolet-lumina-v6-lumina-apv-38-_JM#position=30&search_layout=grid&type=item&tracking_id=29f08ccf-71e5-41aa-83d2-3e31cd08a2c9

I'd like to see someone build it as a yellow submarine.

If you email a model company with a complaint, I don't think an angry tone would help you.

The listing offers not info, but fenders were often trimmed like this for racing... https://auto.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-1213035799-chevrolet-coupe-1934-_JM#position=47&search_layout=grid&type=item&tracking_id=4a3808f4-15db-4ab2-8833-71b7133402b9

I grew up with this early electronica album This was always my favorite: The sillier side of their compositions. Electronic music was very much a novelty at the time. Most of this album was recorded by making various electronic noises and piecing them all together manually with little slices of tape--note by note.

One of my old mix tapes has "If You Could Read My Mind" recorded off the radio. I also have one or two Gordon Lightfoot 45s. There are numerous videos on YouTube of younger people listening and reacting to Gordon Lightfoot songs including the one above, so people are discovering and appreciating his music these days. "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" is one that usually gets a strong reaction, particularly once they read about the story behind it.

Note that one has the cove trim. Argentinean equivalents tend not to have the trim. I've actually been wanting to do one of those, which is why I'd been wondering about the trim removal.

I saw this at the 2007 MassCar show. I don't recall who built it. Note the monochrome "color" scheme for a B&W TV "picture".

I spotted this scene in central Massachusetts in 2018.

Yesterday in central MA I saw an early-mid '60s Chevy panel truck, customized as an Ectomobile tribute.

My first rock concert was the Christian band Petra at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, in the mid 1980s. While I still have a soft spot in my heart for the band, I haven't been following them since the '90s or so. My atheist high school friend certainly didn't want to hear about them. I guess Petra had already been around for a couple of decades when I saw them. Pretty much the one "Christian" artist I still like from the era is Steve Taylor. Sadly I never saw him live, but some friends had his albums and we had fun listening to him. Very '80s production. ? Funnily enough, I appreciate his writing today more for story telling than for any theology. Much of his material is on YT. As I said, my first rock concert was Petra, and I generally enjoyed it. The second, a couple of years later, was Jethro Tull. Now, that pretty much changed my life. ?

I've heard of such establishments over the years. ? For fun, here's an example of a theater organ accompanying a silent film. I guess the kids don't like it because there's no electronic beat...

I grew up in a household that loved pipe organs. My father belongs to the local chapter of a theater organ society. Movie theaters used to accompany the old silent films with large pipe organs that are a bit different from church organs. In my younger days I went with my parents to various concerts and recitals. They often showed classic film, especially for Halloween, with a live organ performance. This was all very fun for me and the family, but I sure felt old-fashioned being involved. No one I knew was into it, and few young folks attended these events. It doesn't help the music itself can be more often than not rather old-fashioned itself. Here is a brief example of the local organ in action. Note the console is the visible part of the organ, the pipes and mechanical audio effects apparatus are kept in chambers on either side of the hall, out of view.

Just don't call records "vinyls", as some people apparently do these days. Sadly most of the cassette decks in my house have failed due to age. The drive belts go bad and turn to black goo that sticks to everything. I see the Techmoan YT channel has already been mentioned. He bemoans the fact that seemingly nobody makes a good cassette deck anymore. Another fun channel is Tim Hunkin's "Secret Life Of Machines" TV series from the late '80s and early '90s.

This one was based on a poem by Goethe

This piece and Stan Ridgway's "Camouflage" are built around similar folk tales.