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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:54 am Post subject: Re: a guy down the road from me...
We had scanners to keep track of the police. Thankfully helicopters were not as ubiquitous then as they are now. Wheels _________________ Cheers Wheelsup_cavu Planes of Fame Air Museum \| March Field Air Museum \| Palm Springs Air Museum

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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:46 am
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*picturing you lot as extras in 'American Graffiti'.

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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject: Re: a guy down the road from me...
wouldn't be far from it - more like Dazed n Confused Shades LOL the 70's... _________________ I deny everything I lie about everything And everything I deny Is a lie!

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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:17 pm
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Cool.
That wuz my last day at school too.
'Til I went to college of course.
*sigh*.

I didn't imagine you'd have Cricket bats over there that long ago though.
You colonials might not be as backward as we first thought.

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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:37 am
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- HF_SlowHand

wouldn't be far from it - more like Dazed n Confused Shades LOL

the 70's...

Dazed and Confused in high school in the mid-'70's was nothing like my experience of it....being a 24 Y.O. freshly minted combat veteran with a desire to study being unleashed on the coed population who were more used to dealing with 20 year old males who mainly focused on binge-drinking beer and trying to impress the girls. Trust me, 3-4 years doesn't sound like much, but a 24 year old veteran seriously back is school is a whole order of threat magnitude above the beer-swigging, newly away from home 19 year old when it comes to competing for the attentions of the coed part of the class structure.

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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:29 am
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Lucky sob!

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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: a guy down the road from me...
- Shades I didn't imagine you'd have Cricket bats over there that long ago though. You colonials might not be as backward as we first thought. Well, now - that is how a Yank uses the Cricket bat but we learned from you all.. Your Name Sir _________________ I deny everything I lie about everything And everything I deny Is a lie!

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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:52 pm
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LOL!
Who'd have thought House would evolve from that.

In Paris just now.
Just had a Fillet Mignon in my hotel restaurant and toasted y'all over it with a Bud'.
25°C tomorrow, apparently.
Bit too hot for me really, but what can you do?

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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:02 pm
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Because I know you're dying to know the rest of the story (and because I've never scanned these pics before)...here's how the run with our C Gas Dragster did against a top class Gasser body....

"Sneaky" Pete Robinson's SOHC Ford car. With Kalitta, he was one of the two top Ford racers. I don't recall if this was one of the "jack" cars or not. With this meet (this is the same race at Bristol, Sept. 70 as the Garlits and C Gas car pics), he secured the AHRA All-American at Bristol.

Pete was killed in a nasty crash with the guardrail at Pomona the next year.

In the modern day of luxo transporters that are full-bore luxury coaches with tents out the side, even the top teams back then showed up with ratty pickups and flatbed trailers for their cars.

I'm not sure, but I think this was Chris "The Greek" Karamesines dragster, also at Bristol.

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