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    Favorite Vincent Price film

    Edward Scissorhands.
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    Show us your Guns!

    I'm totally on board with the P-35 (Hi-Power), but... I've been a CZ 75 addict since I bought mine in 1977. If I didn't have my CZ, I'd go back to the Browning.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Snow really is the stock answer. However, there are lots of places where the roads are salted/gritted and cars don't immediately rust out. I am of the opinion that one of the reasons so many cars in the USA have rusted can be laid down to poor or nonexistant undercoating. Living in Ireland for...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Deux-Chaveaux! a superb little car. We've had several over the years, including a Charleston which I used in Ireland as the backup for our old Rolls-Royce. I used to rent 2CVs from the appropriately named "Two Horse Hire" in London, and once drove one from Lands End to John O'Goats with my...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Why?
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Of all of Freeberg's television ads my favorite was for Sunsweet Pitted Prunes. The tag line was pure genius... "Today the pits, tomorrow the wrinkles. Sunsweet marches on!"
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    I think these ads were done by either David Ogilvie or Stan Freeburg and, love 'em or hate 'em, they are remarkably fresh and extremely well written and do what they are supposed to do: convince you to buy a Volkwagen.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I'd rate any quality, rust free car of the '50s a fair buy at something around $1000, so your Buick is probably close to the mark concerning value. $1200 is probably pretty good if it includes delivery. So, if ya like it, buy it, and don't worry too much about the price. Worst case scenario...
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    What Are You Reading

    President Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer, published in 1936.
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    Are you ever tired of explaining why you live or dress the way you do?

    You are probably right. Since people no longer have to conform to the standards of the workplace (where there seem to be no standards), they conform to the lower standards of casual dress as worn by their neighbors.
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    Waldorf Astoria Doors Removed

    There is nothing in statute law to prevent the owner of a "heritage" building from doing as he pleases. It is, after all private property and this is a free country.
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    Farmers Restore a Lancaster.

    If you look closely at the pictures by Terence Cuneo you may be rewarded by finding his trade mark mouse involved in the action.
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    Besides English, What Languages Do You Speak?

    School boy German, French, and Spanish, and enough Irish to have once held a position in the Irish Civil Service.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Yes, Dr. Porsche really knew how to design a car.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Very, very nice.
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    I've always been a fan of the air-cooled VW, especially the convertibles; like Morgans, they were the least changed thirties automobiles out there. My next around town car will probably be another Beetle convertible.
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    1938: Advice to Theatre Managers

    How lucky is that? Nothing worse than an audience full of drunks or saltheads...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    VW also had a print ad that showed a Beetle floating in a pond. The headline read "A VW definitely floats. It just won't float indefinitely."
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    Men's pants half off - and I don't mean sale prices

    This is a fashion that went straight from the jail house to the 'hood, where it was embraced as part of the emerging "gangsta" (c)rap culture.
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    The Lindbergh Case: Your views?

    There really are only three credible theories concerning the Lindbergh kidnapping: Hauptmann did it; Lindbergh did it; or it was done by an unknown third party. Starting with the last theory, I do not believe there has ever been any solid evidence (as opposed to mere conjecture) that the crime...

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