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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    ON xmas day, no snow here, decided to the same thing with my studebaker, bad gas barely got back to grandmas house, and the car doesnt have a heater even with no snow was like driving a freezer. My late great master mechanic who taught me my business spoke of a ride with a hudson where the gas...
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    Canadians in the Lounge?

    I live in southern ontario halfway between detroit and toronto give or take, woodstock ontario are claim to fame is the toyota car plant. Which more than half the workers live elsewhere. There is almost no place to buy retro expect flea markets or antique malls which we do have, we truck out...
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    Nike Missle Sites or how close you were to the Cold War

    Several years ago, a fella told me that the lime pits nearby here, beachville ont, about a couple miles from my house , had at least two russian warheads aimed at them. Really Beachville is a whistle stop, its lime pit is one of the largest in the world, you did at least then need lime to make...
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    Nutty Neighbors

    Tom, my brother lives in dowtown guelph famous for biltmore hats , actually he lives a block from the factory. He has woken up to drunken university students urinating on his wall of his house. He arranged for more police presense and moved a taxi stand so the students would get taken out faster...
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    greetings and solutations loungers 59Lark has returned .

    Sadly we had our first snow, my girls 9 and 18 both proceded to take our lab out and have a snow ball fight and the lab kept grabbing the snow balls and and eating them. Was gone by the end of the day but its a sign of things to come. Need to get one more good day to do some things to the stude...
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    greetings and solutations loungers 59Lark has returned .

    Mine is a Lark v8 sedan 51,000 original miles, arizona car, automatic, cream its actually a 60 model but i did the research and found out was made a week before xmas 1959 . sothe date of birth makes me call it a 59 and i didnt want a sixties car that really was a 50s car.Kinda like me the last...
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    Post-Apocalyptic Films of the 80's

    I read the book, and the movies script was practical rewritten, in the book society was in bad shape but their was something left, and the journey was to deliver vaccine, in the movie it wasnt like that at all, only the dangerous journey was the only thing they both had in common. Typical...
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    Post-Apocalyptic Films of the 80's

    I read the book, and the movies script was practical rewritten, in the book society was in bad shape but their was something left, and the journey was to deliver vaccine, in the movie it wasnt like that at all, only the dangerous journey was the only thing they both had in common. Typical...
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    greetings and solutations loungers 59Lark has returned .

    Greeting loungers , news of my demise was permature. My double breasted pinstripe and black biltmore came out of the closet for a funeral last week but it was not for me,but a poor fella that some surgeon forgot to close off a duct to his intestines when removing his appendix. . My studebaker...
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    The Fedora Lounge Theme Song

    my vote would be the harlem noture, please forgive if i didnt spell that right am very tired and ready for rest. but its a haunting sound and the black landscape and fedora figure would fit59 Lark
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    The Green Hornet

    saw this movie in the deluxe theater with fancy sound and leather recliner and bar service and meal if you wished. The 3 d glasses through me back to the sixites, I loved the imperial, one hell of a car, kato was good was spoiled by the tv series and expected more of the young actor but heck the...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Money is all you need when owing a old car, my 59 studebaker lark is 52 years old, its 259 v8 has never been torn down , 51, 400 miles original the two speed borg and warner auto trans never touched, i have original brake lines, arizona car, too night out driving at 60miles an hour a rice burner...
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    new straw fedora biltmore for 59LARK

    Loungers; spoiled as I am , buying on line bothers me, driving to large urban centres doesnt make me happy either. I am blessed with a brother that lives a block away from the Biltmore factory and outlet. This last week was the second time he took my order, style and colours and size and came...
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    Gents: Do you feel comfortable with a woman who is taller than you?

    I was always attracted to smaller women, my wife is a inch too short for the army, they turned her down and I said yes instead. Imaging her with a 303 inthe dark always made me nervous, mind you she is native indian and the idea of her with a hacket makes me nervous too. When she was in the...
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    Reporter's diary adds clue in Amelia Earhart mystery

    I remember reading the 1966 book at the local library and have always leaned that way, even if she was stranded at the desolate island why so much cover up is the navy ie the goverment that ashamed and how long did this cover up continue. It really wasnt that far fetched that fdr asked her to...
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    Thomas Edison

    If you go to henry ford museum in Dearborn mich, and the village so many of the edison building and workshops have been recreated or moved there that you feel like Thomas will walk around the corner and bump into you. The one lab from Menlo park, my memory isnt what is was, and the florida...
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    Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

    Watchingmaking, maybe I should have appreciated opportunity to learn the trade, the chap that offered was the last of two brothers, whom his father and uncle had gone from nova scotia to new england and had worked at Waltham watchworks and learned their trade and gone back and had up to three...
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    Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

    Singer sewing machine service in the home or farm, I am such a person, though most dont want to pay the extra for a house call, the amish still do too some degree. I was offered three trades out of high school, tv repair, watch and clock repair. I often wonder about the clock and watch if i...
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    The Green Hornet

    Well we went out with another couple to the deluxe theater leather seats with table service, meals, alcohol, firside lounge, premier , my buddy bought the tickets on line, no waiting no rush but $20. a seat with 3d classes. Was a good experience , a beer and a bag of popcorn helped and I...
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    As A Kid, What Were You Like?

    I was the awkard farm kid with the awfull turtle glasses, that was still wearing long johns when we moved to city and went to gym for the first time in my life and everyone laughed about that. WE didnt have gym at the country school, we had enough chores for exercise and we worked outside and...

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