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Thanks for the (excellent) photos, @tim boyd! That F-100 looks sweet (I've always loved those "crown" hubcaps). I'd be keen on building a replica of the pickup in Easy Rider from it. Nice to see that wild full-on camper version of the '65 El Camino. I had it as a youngster (40+ years ago), but couldn't put it together properly. I hope that the '64 will see light of day some day... or at least the I-6/Powerglide as an option.

I'd buy one just to make the folks in the gym I attend get all totes jelly. Then the twenty-somethings at the local supermarket will get all, like, OMG!, when they see me high-sidin' at the curbside delivery of my groceries and White Claw.

While waiting for Jackie Brown to arrive, The Beard sat inside his Ghia in a quarry in the dark

The car he'd purchased in Indi-an-Anna which smelled like gym socks and Wheaties ! Great work on replicating its 540 cube Mark IV, shifter, seating, etc., etc., and especially that paint scheme ! Another huge fan of Vice Grip Garage here.

"Behavior self, else we won' goat ewe Mc Donald's aft our word !", shouted the first generation Scotsman at his bratty children

Another wrong-wheel-drive it box with a small-displacement engine with a turbo, back by a CVT; offered under some "creative" name and available in bright colours. Wow.

Super nice ! My grandfather had one (110 years ago at that) and used to call it, Every Morning Fix-it (haha) : "The tires were always popping-off the rims of that thing. I'd have to remount them all of the time !". Great work !

Fun House [1970] , The Stooges second album, was recorded when I was one month old

I've been crying about this since the (age-of-disposable-products) 1980s. My paternal grandparents' 1955 Magnavox Color T.V. was still perfectly working as 'recently' as 1989 (they both passed in 1989) ! We used to purchase vacuum tubes at the Vons or Sav-On store(s) -- yes, they still had the tester-and-tubes station as late as 1990 ! -- and replace 'em. My. Word. That television weighed a metric tonne ! Took two-three of us to pull it away from the wall, against low-pile carpeting, just to access the rear panel. I think that I got my first hernia pulling that solid oak cabinet ! In other words: stuff is going to wear out, irrespective of how well it's built. Being able to service the worn parts -or replace them - is the key. And, as @Ace-Garageguy mentioned, the prospects of 3D printing will help monumentally. That, and teaching folks how to perform servicing.

Remastered Star Trek T.O.S. ?

I agree with your sentiment regarding original vs. remastered. However, oftentimes the original tapes were decaying or outright muddy, so digitising them was necessary. In one instance, David Crosby was called into the studio to re-record a vocal line in Triad. Apparently, the original tape was decaying and that one line in the song was completely unusable. So, 20 years after Crosby laid down the vocals for the song, he re-sang one line so that the song could be issued on a comp. The result is seamless. Sometimes remastered - or, specifically, remixed - albums sound better than the original. I cite The Stooges Raw Power [1973]. The remix by Iggy Pop in 1997 is leaps and bounds above the original thin Bowie mix. Then there's the , "Wow ! This sounds like s__t on compact disc ! Woof !", as the analogue tapes didn't translate to digital all that well.

Thank you for the clarification and the additional information regarding the Vectrex @peteski . It would seem that there was some teenage bragging - in respect to the game's price - going on with my friend some 40+ years ago. I was likewise impressed by just how fluid its graphics were, and the fluid action of its joystick . I was used to and fond of my Coleco-Vision and its graphics and controls ( I wasn't much of a fan of the Atari 2600 insofar as its stiff as 'ell controls, and the so-so graphics), so the Vectrex was even more of a treat. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On a related note to the topic: I've long preferred mono mixes of albums, especially when those albums - vinyl or C.D. - are played through a great sound system. The stereo mixes more often than not kill a lot of the dynamic - the richness, the power - of the songs. For an instance, Pink Floyd's first album , Piper at the Gates of Dawn [1967] , sounds 1,000 times better in mono. On the opposite end of the spectrum, The Who albums in mono sound, well, not so good. Either they were never properly mixed to begin with, or they're fold-in mixes via 'remastering'.

Too Much Junkie Business by Walter Lure of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers was a play on Too Much Monkey Business

More precipitation in the Golden State than in the wettest regions of northwest Washington, as of yesterday. I haven't witnessed this pattern in some 14 years -- Summer's going to be hot, thick, and stormy.

"Spring ne'th hinterto thy Finger nor thy Thumb of Mich'gan, 'til the last frost go'th in trade for skies so grey, all the way, from C'nada" - Me, right now.

Those were so awesome ! A well-heeled friend of mine had one in c.1983; a very expensive gaming system (somewhere in the low-mid hundreds) for its time. IIRC, it included acetate sheets for screen overlays which were subjective and exclusive to the specific game being played. Very cool.

Me mum worked for the local - one of the regional - telephone company ( G.T.E. , now Verizon, et alia ) , so she used to bring home old/blemished/etc. punched cards for me to draw on. Those and Tele-Type paper (ends of the scrolls and torn pieces of them). To this day I mention Punched Cards and Tele-Types to these kids who complain about their fill-in-the-blank electronic leashes devices : "Maybe you need a new punched card for updates. Go to the store and enquire about a new punched card for updates and jailbreak controls."

Precisely. Serviceability is gone, and has been for some time. But, hey, let's keep those existential landfills happy with 5 year old electronics that're unserviceable.

Pandemic derives from the Greek God Pan

Men who look like women who look like girls who look like boys

I just passed a Jimmy and a White.

"Bloom, the flowers of evil are in full", to paraphrase one of the critiques in the gatefold of The Velvet Underground & Nico , in reference to Andy Warhol's "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" travelling multimedia performances of 1966-1967

Start the day with a song in your head and it'll drive you crazy by the time you get to bed