Heather's Heavenly Vapes - THE BIG THREAD (Part 6)

[Bronze]

Hardly any difference year to year.

 

[LAwaters]

Hardly any difference year to year.

If it ain’t broke... don’t mess with it!

 

[MostlySunny]

I love the Camaro!!! I would have been happy with a '72 Beetle too.

Funny you should just happen to mention a yellow VW Beetle...I have a yellow '67.

there is a story here.....

Some years ago when VW came out with the new ones I told my wife I would like to have one just to tool around in. She said "yeah and I would like Mercedes" haha. So leading up to xmas that year she kept dropping hints and naturally I thought "she's getting me one". Xmas rolls around, she blindfolds me and leads me out to the garage. My excitement growing all the way. She opens the door and tears off the blindfold and sitting on the table was a set of keys and a wrapped present...all the while I'm getting more and more pumped. She grabs the keys and says "open the present first" so I do. Lo and behold it's a yellow VW Beetle.

Hang on, I gotta go get some pics. Ok, I'm back and here's my bug: I had to low-res the pics so they'd load quicker.
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I had to use a toothpick...reminds me of another car I had where I always had to use a broomstick for the hood. I think we all had one of those right?
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I tried to get a pic of the interior but it came out blurry. Dang I never noticed how dirty it was until I saw the pics (something else to clean).

So after opening that present I turn around and she's dangling the keys with a s-eating grin on her face. The child in me spins around looking up and down the driveway, nothing there. I run out front thinking it's gotta be parked out front. Nope. Wifey comes out front laughing up a storm. Never got a real one but I sure was happy with that one...and it was a great xmas. I did get her back next xmas though!!!

Love this!!!

 

[ShowMeTwice]

Oh, yeah! The Fury was a boat alright! So was the second car I owned. A 1969 Dodge Coronet. My dying uncle gave it to me just before he died. Mine was the same color as the one in the photo too but I didn't have the black hood or scoops or anything like that. The paint job was horrible. Hate to admit this but it was true...there was an ice storm and I slid on some ice and popped some guy stopped at a red light. I popped him enough to slide him across the intersection. I quickly turned left and hauled out there. Light turned and traffic got snarled up and he wasn't going anywhere. I was long gone. When I got home I painted the car with blue spray paint so they couldn't easily find me. LMAO!!! Didn't do any good. The cops found me and I got busted for leaving the scene of an accident (that's what it was called in IL when there were no injuries). I knew I didn't hurt the guy. I was young and dumb and most importantly BROKE and no insurance. Ah the good ole days. Live and learn.

Loved those Mopars!!

Mopars, yes! I'm pretty sure my Fury had a 318 V8 if I recall correctly. I remember I would hit the gas and for about a second or two it didn't really do anything and then BOOM off she flew. Wow, I don't remember the left handed threads. I ended up selling the Fury to a friend a couple years later.

I too was a good standing member in the young, dumb, mostly broke and no insurance group too.

Buddy of mine had a beater Coronet. I don't recall the year.

In 1979 I turned to my grandpa again to help me get another car. He used to own an auto lot and it seemed to me like he knew everyone in the business locally. I wanted either a '71 or '72 Pontiac Grand Prix. There was just something about the styling I loved. We found a really nice '72 at a used car lot of another friend of my grandpa's. It had a 400 4-barrel V8 automatic and she could fly. I did have insurance then but I was still mostly broke but less dumb. That's the one car I wish I would have kept…oh well. Yes, live and learn. That was my last fast car. Been putt-puttin' along ever since.

This is not mine. My GP was a real pretty kind of like an almost midnight blue.

Illinois huh? Chi-town city boy? Burbs? My wife and I moved down to Illinois in 1980 for a job I got in field service installing/maintaining/repairing mainframes nationwide. Flying out of O'hare all the time...I loved it. We lived in Palatine and then Arlington Heights. Only thing I hated was missing the Green Bay Packers games but then again the Pack sucked back then…that is until a couple guys named Ron Wolf, Mike Holmgren and that gunslinger QB #4 came along. If think the Bears had like twenty-some QB's in that stretch (sorry, but not really). Da Bears have had a nice resurgence the last couple of years though. McMahon was a Packer in either 95 or 96 backing up Favre and another SB ring to boot. Bears, Packers...one of the oldest, and greatest, rivalries in sports.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

I’ve probably posted this before. But — c’mon — you knew I had to!

My baby circa 1981.

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Wow awesome, I love it!!!

Dang girl, what city? Kind of looks like it has that Laverne and Shirley neighborhood vibe to it similar to parts of Milwaukee.

 

[DavidOH]

Evening.....

 

[LAwaters]

Wow awesome, I love it!!!

Dang girl, what city? Kind of looks like it has that Laverne and Shirley neighborhood vibe to it similar to parts of Milwaukee.

LOL! Milwaukee might have been a step up. That’s Emmaus, PA. Behind the house sat a couple of foundries including one for processing pig iron. My grandfather worked in one of those. There was also an EFM manufacturing facility there. Might have been the first, and the main headquarters. Run by F. Kalmbach whose mansion in Macungie I ended up living near.

The house my car is parked in front of was within walking distance of Rodale Manufacturing’s factory where most of my family for several generations worked. When that factory closed it was declared a superfund cleanup site. Basically they tore down the building, put up a high fence and laid some topsoil over the toxic waste!

Still, it was a good town to grow up in. There were some beautiful areas. You just had to get out of my neighborhood to get to them.

 

[LAwaters]

Evening.....

Hi David!

 

[LAwaters]

Looking at that pic of my Beetle again... reminds me that in my hometown, porch-sitting was a thing. Darn near raised to an art form! Houses don’t even have porches anymore. Our condo has a nice lil balcony though. The high, solid sides give privacy, so the view is only up into the palm trees and further to the sky.

Not a bad deal at all.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

Looking at that pic of my Beetle again... reminds me that in my hometown, porch-sitting was a thing. Darn near raised to an art form! Houses don’t even have porches anymore. Our condo has a nice lil balcony though. The high, solid sides give privacy, so the view is only up into the palm trees and further to the sky.

Not a bad deal at all.

Porch sitting is still a regular spring/summer/fall thing here. Our house doesn't have a porch. When it's nice out some of us "closer" neighbors will just hang out on one of theirs and shoot the breeze.

 

[Bunnykiller]

Evening.....

I can see it now... the bees go back to the hive to do that bee dance they do to tell the others where the flowers are at...

shake shake... umm go down 6 rows and turn left... shake wiggle turn turn wiggle, then turn right at row 19 and then a left, go down 2 more rows.. uhoh Im lost.. wiggle wiggle...

 

[DavidOH]

Morning......

 

[Bunnykiller]

Mornin All...

 

[CMD-Ky]

Mornin All...

Mornin' BK.

 

[Bronze]

Illinois huh? Chi-town city boy? Burbs? My wife and I moved down to Illinois in 1980 for a job I got in field service installing/maintaining/repairing mainframes nationwide. Flying out of O'hare all the time...I loved it. We lived in Palatine and then Arlington Heights. Only thing I hated was missing the Green Bay Packers games but then again the Pack sucked back then…that is until a couple guys named Ron Wolf, Mike Holmgren and that gunslinger QB #4 came along. If think the Bears had like twenty-some QB's in that stretch (sorry, but not really). Da Bears have had a nice resurgence the last couple of years though. McMahon was a Packer in either 95 or 96 backing up Favre and another SB ring to boot. Bears, Packers...one of the oldest, and greatest, rivalries in sports.

Arlington Heights was my stomping grounds growing up. Lived there from about 1961 - 1974...basically my entire childhood (born in Detroit). Went to Arlington High School my freshmen year then moved to a little town called Sleepy Hollow (south of Elgin, west of Dundee). Moved around IL then came to N. Carolina in 1998. I knew everybody in AH growing up. Hated to leave all my friends. Lived near Arlington Heights Rd and E. Oakton till kindergarten then moved across town three blocks from Arlington Park race track. Ahh, the memories of laying in the summer grass listening to the crowds as the thoroughbreds came spinning out of the turn! The excitement in 1973 when Secretariat ran one of his final races after his historic Triple Crown. I had a great childhood and AH was where it happened. Where did you live there?

Don't get me started on the Packers.

 

[Bronze]

Mornin' BK.

Mornin' CMD.

 

[Bunnykiller]

wellll... my toilet finally crappied out it is one of those FlushMate types, the one with the pressurized tank. The core unit decided to start leaking ( after 12 yrs) so off to the plumbing parts place... they had the part 41$.. taking out the old part was a real "B", the O-Ring was dry and well secured to the outer seal wall... got it out tho with some serious torque and a pair of channel locks ( used as a spanner)... greased up the new one with silicone grease ( specifically for O-Rings and diving equipment... dayum just realized that the grease is 40 yrs old and still good) the new one went in without an issue and got it adjusted and we have FLUSH POWER!!

 

[LAwaters]

wellll... my toilet finally crappied out it is one of those FlushMate types, the one with the pressurized tank. The core unit decided to start leaking ( after 12 yrs) so off to the plumbing parts place... they had the part 41$.. taking out the old part was a real "B", the O-Ring was dry and well secured to the outer seal wall... got it out tho with some serious torque and a pair of channel locks ( used as a spanner)... greased up the new one with silicone grease ( specifically for O-Rings and diving equipment... dayum just realized that the grease is 40 yrs old and still good) the new one went in without an issue and got it adjusted and we have FLUSH POWER!!

Nothing worse than when your crapper craps out! It’s a crappy job to fix too. We have our Word of the Day!

Not so surprising... we are all 40+ yrs old and we’re still good.

 

[LAwaters]

Arlington Heights was my stomping grounds growing up. Lived there from about 1961 - 1974...basically my entire childhood (born in Detroit). Went to Arlington High School my freshmen year then moved to a little town called Sleepy Hollow (south of Elgin, west of Dundee). Moved around IL then came to N. Carolina in 1998. I knew everybody in AH growing up. Hated to leave all my friends. Lived near Arlington Heights Rd and E. Oakton till kindergarten then moved across town three blocks from Arlington Park race track. Ahh, the memories of laying in the summer grass listening to the crowds as the thoroughbreds came spinning out of the turn! The excitement in 1973 when Secretariat ran one of his final races after his historic Triple Crown. I had a great childhood and AH was where it happened. Where did you live there?

Don't get me started on the Packers.

I could almost smell that summer grass and hear the crowds! I love when we get to telling stories like this.

 

[LAwaters]

Congrats to @DavidOH for scoring his 10th millenial post on The Big Thread series!

MILLENNIUM list for the BIG THREAD Parts 1-6 (Grand Total)

List previously maintained by Chakris - RIP our friend!

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