old3bob

if you had one of these in 56 you just plowed the road as needed with its big bumper ;-) (Btw. lots of room in the trunks of such old tanks to hide people in for lower entry costs at drive in movies)

This older video may already be on site (?) if not it goes to show a cat can be very protective...

beautiful old tech, and looks to have been rebuilt with a lot of TLC ! The original company does not look to have been cheap-ass at all!

this was a fairly modern camera (Nikon FG which we still have) back in its day but even then one had to or should know some settings and operations for it besides auto:

more speakers meant hearing loss after awhile, I'm at about 50% loss in making out some peoples voices! (without any proof of a vaccine causing it ;-) its amazing how far speaker technology has come in about 25 & 50 year periods!

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had a different one of those as a kid. (from Radio shack)

righto, sidecar it is...and your latest additions are interesting but they must be hard to ride and I don't see much in the way of brakes on them which must have also made for an interesting ride ;-) from the movie "The worlds fastest Indian" with Anthony Hopkins, and Burt Munro that it was based on.

trike style reminds me of thunderdome ...(filmed in your home country) (with mercy for Master Blaster)

sorry, nothing here but various ships, which is why I wrote skip it unless some want to talk about various ships throughout the ages? another that sparks the imagination of iron men and wooden ships; Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion. Wikipedia USS Constitution restored: Viking recreation: RMS Titanic Remember "Mark Twain" Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri: Chinese Junk take a cruise...

Buck Rodgers ride?

Haven't seen an 8 track player like the one below in a long time, but we still have two cassette players, one in hi-fi system and also a small portable along with lots of cassette tapes.

...and a hell of a way as they say for "a drop to return to the ocean"

Yea it looks more radical to me than the very incredible break in Tahiti called Teahupoo! Also using the words "best wipeouts" on the title page is kind of strange to me since a best wipeout (or best outcome) would be a mitigated one in my book, while most of the ones shown are not mitigated! If "God' was these waves who would dare a ride? I know that sometimes a surfer can get in a zone inside the curl of a wave where the power of the ocean is rushing around or at them and thus they must find and travel on a razors edge to keep from wiping out, yet in that same moment they can feel and act with a perfectly harmonious, timeless and fearless awe that overcomes any hesitation.

and there was your wagon....for everything from A-z and your flexie (saw a young kid in the neighborhood take a horrific bite out the concrete street curb (face first) because he didn't really know how to control his flexie, I still cringe thinking back on that)

this place almost got me way back in 71 - Yikes x3, it closed out with around totally unexpected swells climbing to around 30 foot in size trapping me and another guy outside for hours until it subsided to 18 footers which i could ride the dissipating shoulders of (but even then I was flying with the boards fin vibrating because of the speed!) to get back to its a deeper channel and then get back to the beach. (I had paddled out earlier in the day to mainly watch other guys taking her on...with watching from the side where it wasn't breaking normally being predictable since I was no where experienced enough to ride it with my much smaller wave board and limited skills.

nice, we can get into 3 phase down the line . Btw, I took 3 three years of electronics in high school largely because I wanted to build powerful audio amps to blast out late 60's to early 70's music with 12' speakers and also tinker with ham radio and early generation electronic music. What slowed me down was all the frigging math involved since I just wanted to build something with my hands! (Heathkits when i was a little older and radio shack projects when I was rather young). In later life I spent 25 years in all aspects of operating small steam powered turbine generators that put out 13.8KV @ around 10mw each, along with sometimes running the chief operator job in a an industrial plant utility department. (before 'that later in life" I worked in different aspects of telecommunications including as a telephone lineman and with the old NORAD warning system in Alaska for the USAF. Which was not a bad job except for having to snap off salutes to many wanna be a general captains who thought they were far above the common NCO. Hell, several times I worked for a four star base commander who I thought was a really cool guy after we talked for awhile. (and I quit shaking in my boots )

which reminds me of: or

I'd say no in the sense that meritorious conduct (following dharma from the outside-in) is more like preparation in that if it can be followed so to speak (to a threshold) then it could also be lost...Thus dharma's come from or spring from the true Self, a Self that can never loose or gain merit via following dharma's since by its' power and truth dharma springs from It inside-out. (and for any "absolute" fans there is the attainment of no inside or outside ;-) Further I'd say that the "Holy Spirit" or "Grace" (in several sects of Hinduism known as the Grace of Satguru) is needed to unlock the mind being that the mind can not unlock itself no matter the virtues of mind stuff that it may or may not have attained. Incredible it is to some human beings that the Spirit can work with us whether fool or saint, or of any degree in between! Om Tat Sat

not exactly retro, more like sideways (literally), chaps racing lawnmowers

Very nice recounting and pictures of those times Nungali! A high school friend of mine drove his dad's XKE jag around town. I'll never forget getting a good look at its awesome 12 cylinder engine and long sleek convertible type body! A big problem with this particular car was that it had bad brakes so my buddy had to constantly down shift when some braking was needed since its brakes alone were not enough to properly slow down, and that was kind of hairy with such a fast car!

"Does chocolate increase bleeding? They found that the specially enriched dark chocolate significantly increased bleeding time after six hours in both men and women, possibly caused by the metabolites that our bodies produce from flavanols.Dec 21, 2012" Has anyone heard of or know of this about chocolate?

Here is some real fun, pulling a 50 year old engine and tranny out of a 50 year old car...I love it! And the tech is very simple and easy compared newer cars! Heck it even has a high performance dual point distributor that I'm not going to replace because it works so well with a high energy coil! (btw, how many youngsters out there know what dist. points are?)