von Zipper

Sad to hear this, Dickey and Duane have alot of catching up to do.

Im always on the look out for old store display fixtures like this that was discarded behind our local grocery store ( I asked first ) sometimes i have to sort them by the odd shaped boxs Also found this rotating display stand that works great for Hot Wheels/Matchbox

I replied to your P.M.

I have a stalled Pinto project that Id be willing to trade for. I believe it is a '74 with the big safety bumpers , it has a trunk not a hatchback I have the glass , bumpers, grill and tail lights

The Buick from the real French Connection you posted reminds me of the Buick LeSabre from Fast Times at Ridgemont High . They could make a model series from that movie , a 1960 Buick , a green Gremlin an old VW bus a silver Z28 ect besides alot of cool cars/trucks in the background Loved the clip from the Flim Flam Man !

Saw on the national news this evening that ebay is ' eliminating ' 10% of their workforce

Some of these stories remind me of high school shop class and good 'ol Primitive Pete.

A friend of mine drives a semi from Michigan to California every week , some times he goes through Hatch , New Mexico and brings me back a string of chilies like this The starting point of my chili recipe or other Mexican inspired meals .

Thats what I used and it worked great.

My boy , "Ace" ( one eye/one ear) flirting with his girlfriend , our neighbors cat from up the roads cat "Chickie"

In an earlier chapter of my life I was the care taker / grounds keeper at a cemetery . At that time the cemetery did not have access to a back hoe to dig graves in the winter months so we stored bodies in the same storage shed we kept the ground keeping equipment in until sprig thaw and we dug the graves by hand. I got a $50.00 bonus for each grave i helped dig-it was always a 2 man operation , dig down around 4 ft. then place sheets of ply wood braced to avoid cave ins , the common belief is a grave is 6 ft deep but we dug them to 8-9 ft to accommodate the cement vault . There are alot of local legends and "ghost stories" surrounding this cemetery but i took the job anyway , never being a believer in such things and I found the work very rewarding and peaceful....and I needed a job. One winter morning I went there to get the snow plow out to clear the roads through the cemetery and found that the storage building had been broke into and a group of people had been there performing a Satanic ritual the night before. That is not my idea of a good time ! Even though I strongly dis agree in that practice and was offended on many levels , not to mention totally creeped out- I had to except the fact that there are these types of things out there. First i had to call my boss who in turned called the police , the police arrived within 10 minutes . I had to stick around for the next 4 hours with them answering their questions . Turned out this wasn't the first incident in our area either. For the next few days afterwards the cemetery was over run with concerned relatives of people buried there and curious Looky Lou's , which I thought was kind of ghoulish . One of the detectives made a disturbing comment - the act of these Satanic rituals is perfectly legal and with in their rights BUT the act of breaking/entering and desecrating a grave (yard) or human remains is a high crime. As I recall that happened in early February so it goes to show, this topic is relevant year round and not just in the month of October . After 2 years working there I came to believe I am prone to "attachments" by both good and bad energy.

If you tilt your head a little to the left it does sort of look like the ghost of a 1987 Yugo though , Doesn't it ?

Can this conversation be had without violating the forum rules about religion ? An honest open conversation about demonology and possession minus the trick photography and parlor tricks.

1963 Plymouth Valiant

On second thought , that elevated road might be Rotunda Drive

When I was in grade school they took us on a field trip to the Mustang assembly plant 2 years in a row 1967 and 1968 my dad worked for Ford Motor /Rouge Steel for 32 years which is in the same complex as the Mustang assembly plant

That picture is of the Dearborn Assembly Plant The elevated road in the background is Miller Rd.

The first concert i went to my mom took me to see The Carpenters at Pine Knob in 1972...that was not the best concert i have been to LOL In 1975 some of my friends got tickets to see Alice Cooper "Welcome to My Nightmare'" at the old Olympia Stadium in Detroit, Suzi Quatro was the opening act, my dad wouldnt let me go , my maternal grandmother bought tickets and took me , My dad really couldnt say NO to her . All these years later i still have a crush on Suzi Quatro ! And miss my Grandma like crazy , she was a cool lady !

My grandpa with his 1941 Plymouth my dad and my uncle with my dads 1953 F100 my dad with his early 1955 Chevy pick up me in the back of my dads 1956 Chevy one ton with an 8 ft box

My dads 1956 Oldsmobile being a black / white picture, this is a color combo picture i found on line

In the past I have made headlight visors out of my wife's artificial finger nails-