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10/04/09
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The big fat new Porsches would surely shun him at the family reunion. He's like the Quaker grreat grandfather who's way too unhip and plain.
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10/03/09
That black plate is a crude fake.
First off, the 7 digit 1ABC234 format plates started in 1980. The yellow on black plates were issued in the ABC 123 format until 1969 for passenger plates then the yellow on blue with the 123 ABC format took over until they ran out in 1980.
The number 4MLU255 was issued in 2000.
The dies are wrong.
The real plate for the vehicle would look something like the image above.
The only question is when are Ponch and Jon going to pull the owner and give them a hefty ticket and possibly arrest the owner for forgery.
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The black plates and most of the blue plates had letters larger than the numbers. There are some blue plates from 1979-1980 with the letters the same size which started from 000 WLA to 999 ZZZ, since they were gearing up for the seven digit plates.
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10/04/09
Agreed, while listening to "California Uber Alles" over and over at high volume. He needs to soak in California punk goodness for this slight faux-pas.
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09/28/09
Rust took most of them and is working pretty hard on this one. I never drove them in the winter but lots of people did before I got them.
Occasionally on the 77 you'd go to slide the side door open and it would keep going right off the side of the van and fall on the ground.
As if that wasn't enough there were good sized rust holes everywhere and going down the highway things would accumulate in the foot well of the sliding door and blow around like balloons in a Sears fan display. Beer cans mostly but once a full bag of potato chips fell over in there and the entire van was filled with airborne potato chips.
Salt in the eyes kinda stings.
09/28/09
09/27/09
RIP Mikey, Thanks for the Corvair, the V8 Vega, the High School drags, and that Goddam V8, 4bbl, headers and sixtys on the the rear van,... w/ 3 on the tree van. I miss you buddy...Ded
09/27/09
We had a group of my wife's girlfriends over one night. One of whom hailed from the deep farming area of the midwest. She had heard from my wife that I had two International Harvesters: a pickup and a Scout. Being from farmland, she exclaimed "Hey! That's the only kind of truck my Dad would ever buy! I learned how to drive a stick on an International pickup! Can I see them?" So she drags a gaggle of girls, including my wife, out to the garage where there's a line of vehicles: two Internationals, a '67 Mustang, and the Stag.
The midwestern girl walks down the row and starts explaining to the others, "This one here is an International Truck, we used these on our farms. This other one here is a Scout, we also used these during the winter instead of our cars because they were 4 wheel drive and could go anywhere." Then, moving on to the Stag (which she clearly did not recognize), she looked down at the Stag emblem in the middle of the grille, furrowed her brow while pausing for a moment, and then looked up and proudly exlaimed, "And this one here is a John Deere."
I didn't have the heart to correct her and never have
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You win this round, amazing van.
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