Harry P.

"If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass... Can't think of anything I need"...

Closer to Home, Grand Funk.

Right! Don't know on yours, though. The lyrics seem familiar but I can't place them.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

He's got crazy flipper fingers, never seen him fall... That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball! Pinball Wizard, The Who.

Ding ding ding! We have a winnah! How about this (easy): Don't you run back inside, darlin'… you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore. Show a little faith! There's music in the night… You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright. And that's alright with me...

"I said, be careful, his bowtie is really a camera..."

Aretha Franklin, Rock Steady.

It doesn't literally translate to goat milker, but the name evolved from the French words "chévre" (goat) and "lait" (milk).

The UTGT.

Furys (Furies?) were commonly used by the police all over the country. Here in Chicago they were everywhere in the '70s. So of course there would have been plenty of unmarked cars.

Trust me... it's not!

I remember when almost all cabs were Checkers, at least in Chicago. They had the small jump seats in back if you had a large group. Seeing a Checker on the street as a "civilian" car was very rare.

That's really nice! The contrast of the blue and the wood colors is beautiful.

I haven't seen a 240Z (or any Z) in many years.

You were quite the lady's man, weren't you?

Not where I live. The only 4-door I've ever owned (and I've owned a lot of cars) was a Plymouth Horizon... and that was the wife's car. She wanted a 4-door for easy access to the back seat when the kids were little and sitting in car seats.

The original Corvette badge and horn button was designed to show a checkered flag crossed with an American flag. The design was changed when it was discovered that using an American flag on a commercial product is illegal. The American flag was changed to a flag showing the Chevrolet “bow-tie” emblem and a French fleur-de-lis symbol, reflective of the French etymology of the Chevrolet name. The original "illegal" Corvette emblem:

Sure, why not? At least their list would be a list of realistic possibilities, not just completely random ideas, most of which wouldn't sell.

In the 1890s, Henry Ford was having a hard time keeping a car business afloat. He had already gone through two businesses (both of which went belly-up) when he finally launched a successful car company on his third try. However, all he had was an idea... he had no actual way to manufacture a car. So he hired the Dodge Brothers, who ran a highly successful machine shop that supplied parts to other companies (most notably to Ransom E. Olds). The Dodge Brothers supplied Ford with the parts for basically a whole car, which were then assembled by Ford. That car, the first Model A (before the Model T and the second Model A series) were "Fords" that were actually Dodges. However, you didn't see that in the Ford brochure...

Ford couldn't decide what to call their new cars (that eventually came to be called Edsels)... so they took suggestions from all sorts of people, and even hired a woman who was a poet (and the wife of a Ford executive) to come up with a name... one of the ones she suggested was "Utopian Turtletop." Really. Some other winners she came up with: The Resilient Bullet, the Intelligent Whale, Mongoose Civique, Aeroterre, Turbotorc, Thunder Crester, Dearborn Diamante, Magic Ravure, and Pastelogram. Seriously. Those were among her actual, serious suggestions.

If they set up their own threads, they'd still have to weed through it all. I've suggested that the manufacturers put up a poll on their sites, allowing people to choose the kit they would most like to see from a list of that manufacturer's own list of possibilities, based on their own marketing research. That would be a far more useful "wish list" than a completely random list of anything and everything, including kits that would have zero chance of success. But when I suggested something like that, people were quick to shoot the idea down. Not sure why, as it makes perfect sense to me.

I know. That's why I said most stamps are worth more unused. I guess it's only a matter of time before some of them start getting pretty valuable.