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[ltljohn]

25 minutes ago, TEWKS said:

Tewks, that's not a Chevy

[TEWKS]

True, but being born down in York PA she gets the title. 

[roadscholar]

 

Took a little drive today, Northeasterly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[roadscholar]

 

Molly says this is the oldest bar in Florida.

 

 

 

Some cool old homes in Fernandina.

 

 

 

[roadscholar]

 

 

[TEWKS]

[taylor1]

Took my wife’s scoot out for about a 150 mile ride today. At one point I passed a small group of H.D. riders. I was running between 65 and 70. On my way back I stopped at a small store to grab a few snacks. They passed me going the other way , and boy did I get some looks. I wasn’t really concerned though, I figured they couldn’t catch me even if they wanted to. 😂

[TEWKS]

22 hours ago, roadscholar said:

 

 

 

Could it be?  

[roadscholar]

4 hours ago, TEWKS said:

Could it be?  

 

 

 

Good eye Pat,  close but probably no cigar. It's been decades but heck ya never know. I figured the dude in Fernandina just ran in to pay a speeding ticket : )

 

Mr. Dean was pretty dang cool wasn't he, shame he had to leave us so soon..

 

 

[lkraus]

27 minutes ago, roadscholar said:

Mr. Dean was pretty dang cool wasn't he, shame he had to leave us so soon..

James Dean was pretty cool, but that is Martin Sheen, about 1974, in The California Kid.

[Warren Dean]

On 5/2/2020 at 12:22 PM, ltljohn said:

Tewks, that's not a Chevy

 

Drop dead gorgeous!!

[roadscholar]

3 hours ago, lkraus said:

James Dean was pretty cool, but that is Martin Sheen, about 1974, in The California Kid.

 

Sho nuff after a closer look, except for the couple decades between them Martin could’ve passed for his double.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TEWKS]

I never realized the incredible resemblance between the two. I think James was slightly better looking and Martin, the better actor. 

 

 

Edit..

Funny you mentioned paying a ticket, Bill. After reading the plot above, you pretty much described the scene in the movie. 

 

" He provokes Sheriff Childress into giving him a speeding ticket on purpose, establishes his credentials with the sheriff as a hot rodder and potential speed maniac, boasting it can do 75 mph in 10 seconds. He pays the ticket in front of Judge J.A. Hooker (Frederic Downs), and it is revealed he is Michael McCord (Martin Sheen), older brother of one of the sailors."

[longjohn]

My latest 4/wk hike. 
 

[TEWKS]

 

 

[TEWKS]

A little iPhone art! 

A musical rendition

[Paul De]

The Bald Eagle family is eating well here.  My wife just snapped this picture of one of the pair chowing down on about a 4-5 pound Red Horse (carp) it caught and put it down on our south point shoreline.   Life is good

[taylor1]

I walked out on my back porch this morning and confirmed, spring has sprung 🥰. LOL !!

[Rougarou]

40 minutes ago, taylor1 said:

I walked out on my back porch this morning and confirmed, spring has sprung 🥰. LOL !!

 

Get some!!!

[roadscholar]

 

[taylor1]

Beautiful Airhead

[roadscholar]

It's a '61 R60, belongs to Chris our resident orthopedic surgeon (we need one), it had been sitting 37 years when he got it six months ago. He put in fresh fluids and a battery and it started on the 3rd kick. Tonight it started first kick : )

 

 

Tony was impressed..

 

[TEWKS]

Now while not as cool as that 61, a coworker just brought in his 86 Vulcan 750. He’s had it since he was 18 which makes it more interesting than what it actually is. A center stand on a cruiser! Nice idea.

[RandyShields]

4 hours ago, TEWKS said:

Now while not as cool as that 61, a coworker just brought in his 86 Vulcan 750. He’s had it since he was 18 which makes it more interesting than what it actually is. A center stand on a cruiser! Nice idea.

 

I still have a few things from high school (early 70s), but very few.  Not sure how old your coworker is, but my wife likes to categorize stuff I want to keep that long as hoarding, versus, say, nostalgia or mementos, which are the descriptions I prefer to go with.

[TEWKS]

I believe he’s 52. It was his first bike and that’s what I most admire. He held on to it for all those years. Actually, it was his only bike for most of those years until his father recently passed and left him his Harley.
 

I wasn’t smart enough to keep my first street bike. I wish I had just as a memento of my youth but the next best “faster thing ” was expensive at Minimum Wage. I did keep that old cigar box full of broken tanks & planes though. 

[taylor1]

I just got back from helping a friend pick up his crab pots.  Looks like it’s Stone Crab for dinner

[Matts_12GS]

1 minute ago, taylor1 said:

I just got back from helping a friend pick up his crab pots.  Looks like it’s Stone Crab for dinner

That will be us on Sunday with grouper and sea scallops to go with the stone crabs 

[taylor1]

Matt ,  add a 6 0z. Filet to that and I think you have achieved Nirvana  !!!!

[Hosstage]

And a cold beer to wash it down!

Say, where are you guys located, I'm sure I can make time...

[Matts_12GS]

I've been invaded by @lawnchairboy

He's being treated well in captivity despite his complaints of being forced to drink too much whiskey 

[ltljohn]

17 minutes ago, Matts_12GS said:

I've been invaded by @lawnchairboy

He's being treated well in captivity despite his complaints of being forced to drink too much whiskey 

He looks stressed out maybe more whiskey will  calm him down.

[taylor1]

Must of heard about that good grub your having tomorrow

[TEWKS]

Yo Bill, check this out!  Sure there’s no need to tell you but it’s a 56.

[Rougarou]

On 5/9/2020 at 10:02 AM, Matts_12GS said:

I've been invaded by @lawnchairboy

He's being treated well in captivity despite his complaints of being forced to drink too much whiskey 

Damn he needs a heavy dose of vitamin D “dat boy be white, ya”

[Janky59]

Did a little afternoon exploring before I had to be home for Momma’s carry out dinner. Looks like it’s time to turn around and go back the way I came.

 

[roadscholar]

Nice duo Pat, your bike has about twice the HP of the little black 356A : )

 

Yesterday.

 

 

 

 

[roadscholar]

Today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TEWKS]

Bill, I know that sand!  

I asked the owner of the 356A (like I really knew ) if I could snap a pic for a friend who was a Porsche guy. I told him you did some Porsche racing in the past and his ears immediately perked up. He raced them too, I should of got his name. 
 

Eye catching little car! 

 

Edit...If you could go back, how many would you buy? Profitable trip I'd bet?

[roadscholar]

On 5/11/2020 at 7:01 AM, TEWKS said:

Eye catching little car! 

 

Edit...If you could go back, how many would you buy? Profitable trip I'd bet?

 

I'd sure like to have a wayback machine or maybe a do-over, would've at least tried harder to keep some of them. It was a hobby turned business and w/o other income cash flow dictated turnover, especially while succumbing to a racing addiction. I told a buddy in the mid 80's those cars were going to start escalating more rapidly and sure enough so we went out and started buying nice barn finds, cleaning up and selling them as the wave was rising.

 

There were quite a few really nice original cars in South and Western Carolinas that never saw salt air, salt on the roads, and lived in lower humidity. They now are worth anywhere from 10 to 20 times what they were then, we were a few of the pioneers that helped get the ball rolling. 20 years later a second and far greater escalation took place taking them into the stratosphere, by then I'd burned out and had other interests. I'm waiting to see if this bubble is going to burst, things have softened some in the past year or so but anything's possible so we'll see.

 

Over the years thru connections and contacts of enthusiasts (a network that takes years or decades to establish) I was lucky to ferret out some interesting cars that were hidden away, heck they make TV shows and YouTube channels about it nowadays : ) Two of the more noteworthy were a '54 Speedster (#50 of 200) I heard about from a neighbor car buddy, it was sitting in a closed garage in a subdivision a few miles away. When I went to get it I realized the guy that lived directly across the street was in the Porsche Club and had a brother in California that was a collector. The owner didn't open his garage door so for years the Porsche guy never knew it was in there, phew : ) I had it painted and did a few things to it and though didn't want to eventually sold it to a dealer in Miami in the 80's for about 5 times what I had in it, he sent it back to Germany. Now it's worth about 5 times again what it was then, so about 25 times total.

 

Speedsters were made from 1954 thru 1958, usually the first and last years of a model are the most desirable to collectors. The other was in the early 90's, a one owner original paint (red), no rust, running and driving '58 Speedster that had been sitting in the basement of a rocket scientist's house in Huntsville, Alabama for years. We heard about it and got there before he advertised it after driving all night across the Appalachian mountains on back roads, let's just say it was very worth it : ) Of the many, I would most like to have that one back but it was a partnership so we pre sold it to a collector then had it painted and did the interior. Sadly the collector wanted a different color and interior so we had little choice but to oblige. Don't have a shot of the '54 but here's the '58, crappy pic, really nice car. 

 

 

 

One other quick story. Had a long time buddy in Gainesville, we met when I moved there in 1968 and parked my '63 coupe in front of his head shop, The Subterranean Circus (I might’ve needed some Zig Zag rolling papers).   He heard it pull up, came out and said, I've got one of those, a '58 Normal. Anyway we met up again on the vintage race circuit in the 80's and travelled together some, stories were told. He was racing a pretty decent black Speedster but couldn't figure out what year it was, and he was an expert. He got it from a junkyard and figured it was two cars welded together because it had two different serial numbers, it happens. The rear had a '53 Cabriolet SN and the front was something else.

 

During the 80's and 90's there was a small group, my buddy included, trying to locate very early Speedsters, they had found #3, it was near Ft. Walton Bch in the panhandle and I think #2 was somewhere in Pennsylvania, but number 1 was elusive. So my buddy Bob, after racing it for at least ten or 12 years contacted someone that was going to the factory and asked if they'd look up the Kardex for his car. It's how Porsche kept records, every car built had a card with the serial number, engine number, and paint code. The guy found the Kardex for the '53 cab with the engine number but there was some other stuff written on it. Turns out Porsche had taken a '53 Cabriolet off the assembly line and hand built the prototype Speedster from it, Bob had owned number one all along and never knew it. He eventually sold it, for a lot of dough : )

 

https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180805/sweet-rides-eclectic-engine-collection

[TEWKS]

I didn't know for sure but sensed there was a story behind that model Porsche.  I did know you'd be the one to tell it though, thanks! 

[TEWKS]

[Bill_Walker]

On 5/9/2020 at 7:02 AM, Matts_12GS said:

I've been invaded by @lawnchairboy

He's being treated well in captivity despite his complaints of being forced to drink too much whiskey 

 

Judging by this photo, apparently you had enough whisky that you had fallen and couldn't get up.

[ltljohn]

This 993 Flat Six Espresso-Maker Is Up For Sale

LINKY

[Matts_12GS]

19 hours ago, Bill_Walker said:

 

Judging by this photo, apparently you had enough whisky that you had fallen and couldn't get up.

The global warming is making the axis of the earth unstable in Miami so I had to move quick to catch the photo of @lawnchairboy quickly as gravity reasserted itself. 

[longjohn]

[Warren Dean]

1 minute ago, longjohn said:

 

Looks like Palo Verdes like we have here in AZ. Nice picture.  

[ESokoloff]

1 hour ago, longjohn said:

I can smell them from here

[longjohn]

2 hours ago, Warren Dean said:

 

Looks like Palo Verdes like we have here in AZ. Nice picture.  

Thanks!  These aren’t as big as your trees, nor do they have the green bark. I’ll get a closer look tomorrow. 

[TEWKS]

The Barn Is Open!  Now, let’s talk about hitting the lottery as a 10 Y/O. No going to school and then getting to ride horses!  Hmm, maybe someday it will be no going to work and only riding motorcycles! 
 

 

 

[ESokoloff]

On 5/13/2020 at 6:47 PM, Warren Dean said:

Looks like Palo Verdes like we have here in AZ. Nice

These are Scotch Broom.