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1957"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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I just received this vintage magazine ad yesterday. I love everything about this image.
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Just a picture of a grasshopper I took while I was letting the dog out that I thought looked good for a phone camera.
afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Father & son sorry my windshield isn't too clean.
afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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Father & son sorry my windshield isn't too clean.
1964!!!!!
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Judging by the (pseudo) "vents" behind the front wheels, I reckon it's one or the other.
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man, I'd love to have a Taco like that one! I miss mine nearly as much as I miss my '74 Bronco.
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Since we've learned that @Viking64 is a connoisseur of vintage auto ads -- ripped straight from today's email inbox
, here's a CC topic for you.
source: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/vintage-ads-and-brochures/vintage-ad-tropes-nighttime/#more-487081
Night time is the right time...
https://youtu.be/x21B-TqOk7I?si=yAIY-xiG6ZdpwqgR
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The Eagles shared a tribute to Jimmy Buffett during their opening night concert at Madison Square Garden.
Those itching for air guitar moments would soon receive their wish. But first, Henley shushed the crowd to say a few words about his “dear friend” Buffett. Don Henley reminded the crowd Bassist Timothy Schmit was a onetime member of Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band and coined the fandom term “Parrotheads”.
“He’s now sailing on that cosmic ocean and having that cheeseburger with Glenn and Randy,” Henley said. “Jimmy made work look like play. He brought joy to everything he did and one of his final wishes was we keep the party going.”
Schmit offered a dreamy take on the sublime “Come Monday” while Walsh donned a parrot hat to lead the audience through a singalong of “Fins.” The well-intentioned dedication was bittersweet as a glance around the venue of people making the overhead “fins” motion underscored the reality that we’ll never see Buffett lead that chorus again..
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
mhardy6647 wrote: »Since we've learned that Viking64 is a connoisseur of vintage auto ads -- ripped straight from today's email inbox, here's a CC topic for you.
I just ordered another batch last . . . . NIGHT!
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I couldn't imagine waxing those 20yrd vehicles with the paste wax they had back then. Jesus it would take the whole week and 6 sets of arms.
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I couldn't imagine waxing those 20yrd vehicles with the paste wax they had back then. Jesus it would take the whole week and 6 sets of arms.
the pace of life was slower then.
My parents had a '57 Plymouth convertible when I was very young. It was an utter piece of junk, whose life was nasty brutish, and short.
When I was in college, my parents bought a 1981 Plymouth Reliant. It, too, was an utter piece of junk, with a life that was nasty, brutish, and short.
I am sure that was just a coincidence.
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Does not make me wonder whether Japan outsourced to China the power steering pump reservoir cap on earlier Toyota trucks...
This is consistent for both 80s Toyota trucks I had. The 4wd one is still around waiting for me to get old and retired and to have unlimited funds for resto.
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Does not make me wonder whether Japan outsourced to China the power steering pump reservoir cap on earlier Toyota trucks...
This is consistent for both 80s Toyota trucks I had. The 4wd one is still around waiting for me to get old and retired and to have unlimited funds for resto.
Funny you should go there...
In case you didn't know it, the founder of what we know as Toyota was... wait for it...
Kiichiro Toyoda (1894-1952)
https://toyotatimes.jp/en/series/racing_car_restoration/050.html
Now, with a wee bit of chagrin, I turn to good ol' wiki-p for the rest of the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ToyotaToyota Motor Co. was established as an independent and separate company in 1937. Although the founding family's name was written in the Kanji "豊田" (rendered as "Toyoda"), the company name was changed to a similar word in katakana - トヨタ (rendered as "Toyota") because the latter has 8 strokes which is regarded as a lucky number in East Asian culture. Since Kanji are essentially Chinese characters, in Chinese speaking markets, the company and its vehicles are still referred to by the original Kanji name (simplified Chinese: 丰田; traditional Chinese: 豐田; pinyin: fēng tián), but with Chinese pronunciation.
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My high school buddy George's '74 Hilux long bed pickup proudly bore the old katakana Toyota logo here and there:
Some of us were early adopters of trucks...
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Oh.
And all y'all know about that other Japanese car company -- the one that descended from a company known as and for a car called DAT. Right?
[DAT]... stands for the names Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama, and Meitaro Takeuchi, who founded the predecessor company Kwaishinsha Car Works in 1911 and produced the first automobile developed entirely in Japan, the DAT-go in 1912
In the Japanese dialect, “dat” also means a bunny, which is why a bunny has adorned the radiator and logos of the first models.
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From 1925 the company was called DAT Motorcar Co., which initially only produced commercial vehicles before DAT presented its first passenger car in 1931, the Datson - "son of the Dat".
In 1933 Nissan took over the Datson company and finally introduced the brand name Datsun. The Japanese were already working with Austin and BMC in the 1930s, and in 1958 the American market was introduced. Datsun started producing in Mexico in 1966 and entered the European market at the end of the 1960s...
https://coverking.com/blogs/blog/the-datsun-story
Good day!
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oh.
and...
The guy who (with his son) smuggled Carlos Ghosn out of Japan was one of our neighbors in Massachusetts.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/18/we-stuffed-carlos-ghosn-into-3-ft-box-to-escape-japan-he-owes-us-1m/
OK, that's enough from me.
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^^^ THIS......this is exactly why I don't have 8 wives. 6 is hard enough to keep track of....
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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^^^ THIS......this is exactly why I don't have 8 wives. 6 is hard enough to keep track of....
Tom
7 would therefore be nice, one for each day.
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7 days a week? At your age?! You must have a pretty big stock pile of blue pills 😉afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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