When they do the Home Tours in my parents' city, they have cars from the year the house was built parked out front, when they can. I've gotten to see some real beauties that way. I can't imagine owning or driving one, but they are lovely to look at.
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Sep 10, 2009 3:26:47 pm PDT #22628 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
beekaytee - Sep 10, 2009 3:29:51 pm PDT #22629 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
After I bought Belle, I tracked down a custom detailer in San Francisco to buff out the paint that had oxidized fairly dramatically in the owner's garage. He was this wacky Brit who went around bellowing, "Woe betide the Japanese import that challenges two thousand pounds of AMERICAN steel!" in a superhero voice.
You had to see his shoulder length, ginger-brown curls flapping in the wake of his passion to really get the effect.
Mrs. Bishop, the original owner, traded in her Chrysler every year for a new one. Shortly after buying Belle, Mrs. B had a stroke, but vowed to drive again. He kids sold the car upon her death.
I felt terrible, AFTER they cashed my check, to learn that Mrs. B's next door neighbor had lovingly maintained the car for 26 years...running it around the block to keep the fluids moving, airing the tires, etc.
I wish I had been in the position (or had the maturity at 23) to just give him the car, as the family should have.
tommyrot - Sep 10, 2009 3:30:37 pm PDT #22630 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Speaking of classic Mercedes - Mercedes reintroduces the Gullwing: [link]
Maybe not as pretty as the original (also pictured at the link) but I'd be tempted to steal one as the beginning of a cross-country crime spree.
Cass - Sep 10, 2009 3:39:04 pm PDT #22631 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
An autograph poster from the band Fall Out Boy. Never heard of them. Anyone want it?
Ahaahaha. I would say offer it to Cass or Trudy.
::gimmehands::
Some days I am a grown up, but some days I am just a doofy FOB fan. Most times I am both.
Please?
Aims - Sep 10, 2009 3:44:40 pm PDT #22632 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The Miracleborn family at kindergarten orientation this morning: [link]
There will lots of First Day pictures tomorrow.
Trudy Booth - Sep 10, 2009 3:45:20 pm PDT #22633 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
JZ, I am envying your Grandfather powerfully right now.
Laga - Sep 10, 2009 3:49:26 pm PDT #22634 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
JZ, I am envying your Grandfather powerfully right now.
I would love to hear more about that day.
Aims - Sep 10, 2009 3:50:59 pm PDT #22635 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
This link should be better: [link]
Cass - Sep 10, 2009 3:54:55 pm PDT #22636 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
What an adorable family!!
This odd fetishizing of cars just confuses me.
How we are friends, SH, I will never know. Glad of it, most certainly, but there are times I think introducing us was just Jilli experimenting.
I like small, pointy, FAST cars.
Oh. Nevermind. Small, pointy and fast is my kind of car...
If you could have any car, money and mechanical needs being no object, what would you drive?
Shelby Cobra.
Aims - Sep 10, 2009 3:56:43 pm PDT #22637 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
1964 1/2 Mustang convertible. Cherry red (or baby blue. depends on my mood.), white drop top, white leather interior.
OR.
A 1964 Corvette Stingray convertible.