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The 65 Barracuda That Really Didn’t Quite Work Out

February 18, 2007
The 65 Barracuda That Really Didn’t Quite Work Out

The BEGINNING   This is the sad story of a young man and a car, the car being the ’65 Barracuda pictured above. The photo was taken after the car had been disposed of- traded in on a 1966 Mustang GT- and was spotted parked by the roadside. Anyway, in the beginning, the young...
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RAM’s 66 Mustang GT

February 18, 2007
RAM’s 66 Mustang GT

Look at the above photo. See that black car? That, my friend, is a genuine 1966 Mustang GT coupe. It is parked in the dirt lot where the Speed Emporium cars were both worked on and displayed. There was another pretty much identical Mustang Gt at the Emporium. That one belonged to Henry, our...
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The Cars of Tobin Place

January 31, 2007
The Cars of Tobin Place

The 1937 Chrysler A car like the one pictured to the left was the family car we had at 320 Tobin Place before we bought a ’41 Plymouth limo. While the car in the picture is identical to the car the family owned, the image is so small that I am adding the picture...
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At the LA Auto Show

December 29, 2006
At the LA Auto Show

In mid-December my son, Rick and I attended the new, more important (according to the powers that be) LA Auto Show.
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San Diego Auto Show

December 29, 2006
San Diego Auto Show

Just a couple of weeks after Rick and I attended the 2006 LA Auto Show, we felt the need to visit the 2006 San Diego Auto Show.
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It’s a good thing the new Camaro is not really going to look like the old one

June 16, 2006
It’s a good thing the new Camaro is not really going to look like the old one

It’s a good thing the new Camaro is not really going to look like the old, original (’67) Camaro. The other day, on the way back from my hearing aid appointment, I was behind a white ’67 Camaro survivor on the interstate. Absolutely original, with requisite black CA plates. It was probably a 6-cyl...
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El Paso High School Class of 1960

April 22, 2006
El Paso High School Class of 1960

We will be using this post to write some notes about the Class of 1960 from El Paso High School, the “School on the Hill” in El Paso, Texas.  It is alarming to note that that this class is approaching its 50th anniversary since graduation.  That’s right, it will soon have been 50 years...
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