Petey's New Hobby - Stud Baking!

[4est_4est_Gump]

http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Leisure/2009/studebakergoldenhawk.jpg

Could the Lark fly again? It will if a Colorado man has his way.

...

Reed wants to go hybrid because he thinks it will be a long time before electric cars are truly viable in the marketplace. A somewhat ironic position considering Studebaker’s first car was battery-powered.

His company’s website has renderings of several design proposals, but Reed says new ones are in the works that better capture the essence of classic Studebakers. In the meantime, he is considering entering a joint venture with an unnamed company to build a conventional retro-modern take on a Studebaker pickup truck, like the Champ, in order to raise interest in the brand and generate capital to develop the more modern cars. He figures they could sell 3,000 of them for around $70,000 a pop.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012...ebaker/?intcmp=features#content#ixzz1mjik2Z8Y

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Steadybreakers had an interesting run.


The Russkies loved their trucks.


They told us to keep the tanks, but send more trucks.


Stalin's organs needed rides to the front.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Grandpa owned a President!



Truman, I think...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My parents owned a Lark wagon, a '60, I think, with an automatic.


I was playing in it one day and knocked it out of gear, and it rolled down the driveway and out into the residential street. I was maybe seven or so.


Apparently, I tried to lie my way out of it, but I have no recollection of that event at all.


The next time I backed into something, at least the car was running.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

We kids pushed the doctor's car out of our driveway...

... and into the Indian Creek.

It was damned scary, then very funny.

The doctor's wife blamed her daughters; it was my sister's idea though...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

What was the doctor doing, making a housecall?


There were, way back in the dark recesses of US automotive history, three luxury car makers, once known at the 3 P's.


Studebaker had a hand in the failure of 2 of them.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

While this was in the time of house calls, it was not a hose call.

My sisters and his daughters were the same age and became good friends, so his wife/nurse used my stay-at-home mother as a free baby-sitting service. We lived on a family farm, so it was basically a phone-it-in job, and that's what mom did all day, talk on the phone...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In America, no idea is so bad that it cannot be resurrected.


Take Hollywood, for example...

 

[Saint Peter]

You fat fuckers need to get a bicycle.

Save the Earth. Save the Heart.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I have a bicycle.



I have a koi pond too! I'm going to uncover it today; snow crocus is in full bloom!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This:

http://wizbangpop.com/images/2010/10/Packard_Hawk-thumb.jpg

was a shitty end for this:

http://bid123sold.com/Portals/0/Packard/1929%20Packard%20633%205470.JPG



I still feel bad about the insult to my model A, too.

http://blog.al.com/engine-block/2008/09/Hals%2027%20project.jpg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Whole lotta insults:

http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/SIA-PackardCrushathon_lede.jpg


Some guy with a flap holster's gonna get it.

 

[Saint Peter]

Save the Earth!

Feed the raccoons!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Remember the caption this pic of the girl covered in raccoons...

 

[Saint Peter]

Remember the caption this pic of the girl covered in raccoons...

"Will work for fishfood."

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/SIA-PackardCrushathon_lede.jpg

Does that not look like a Mayan, Aztec or Incan temple covered in writing?



I think it says something about 2012, Doom and Gloom!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"Will work for fishfood."

Just not very hard or fast...


Union RULES!

 

[Batch]

I found some tulips coming up in one of the front yard gardens.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's your Grandfather's Oldsmobile!

http://a57.foxnews.com/img.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/U.S./660/371/auction1.jpg

Two brothers who spent a lifetime traveling the world and buying one-of-a-kind items have auctioned off their collection, with one of their antique cars fetching more than $3 million.

Two days of bidding on 550 lots neared their conclusion with the biggest sale of them all, $3.3 million for the only known surviving 1912 Oldsmobile Limited, more than double its pre-auction estimate.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012...test=latestnews?test=latestnews#ixzz1nUP7TCpk

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I found some tulips coming up in one of the front yard gardens.

Snow crocus, daffodils and hyacinths...



Tulips hate the soil here.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/SIA-PackardCrushathon_lede.jpg

Does that not look like a Mayan, Aztec or Incan temple covered in writing?



I think it says something about 2012, Doom and Gloom!

Maybe that's what became of the Book of Mormon . . . .


Makes as much sense as any other explanation.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And I say to you!


How you treat the Studebaker and the Oldsmobile is how you shall be judged!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I totalled the Olds, so I guess there is room in Hell for Yours Truly.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Bá'al zebub has a Pinto set aside for thee!




Have a Nice Day!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

See my post in the Volvo thread.


Hit anything in the ass hard enough and it might kitch-a-farr.