Nobody seems to have noticed that the first car is a green Chrysler Newport. All pinup girls look better in a Newport- it's a proven scientific fact! #photography
But growing up in Southern California, there were Hot Rod and Muscle Car gatherings at everywhere on any given weekend in places like Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, San Pedro, different parts of San Diego, etc. As a child, my dad took me to all of them. And as I learned to drive, I went to many of them with my buddies. We always went because the coolest cars in California could be found there.
But the girls? Ummm...no. There were some cuties, as evidenced by the likes pictures 3, 5, 6, and 10 above, but most others were two hundred pound, chain-smoking blobs wearing too-small tube tops and boy shorts to show off their mass of poorly done and poorly thought-out tattoos with raspy voices, a cigarette in their mouths, asking us high school kids if we wanted to have a good time.
Yeah, no thank you.
If it was girls you were going for, Hot Import Nights, Import Showoff, etc. were the places to be. The cars weren't to our taste, but every kind of gorgeous girl you think of, from leggy blondes, tall and beautiful African American women, and cute-sexy little Asian models could be found there. Sure, some of them might have been bitches in real life. But you weren't there to get into relationships. You were just there for a little eye candy. #photography
Keep all your trailer queens and trailer trash; my heart (and other bits of my body I value highly) STILL belongs to three time NHRA Top Fuel champion Shirley "Don't call me Cha-Cha" Muldowney. These girls make better hood ornaments than top fuel drivers. Bruce Springsteen wrote lyrics about illegal drag racing in rural New Jersey, Shirley Muldowney drove the damned cars! #photography
I like punk rock betties and rockabilly broads. They can bait their own hooks and shit in the woods. I'd hang out with any of these beauties. #photography
@skaycog: I'm going to go ahead and come out and say that I'm glad I'm not the only one that found some of these girls a little out of my taste range, and I am especially glad that you made the post before me.
I was never used to be that big a fan of this generation Thunderbird, but they've really grown on me. If you want a retromodern T-Bird, get one of those final-gen turd's that killed the nameplate. Ruining a Super Coupe, one of Ford's best cars of the last 35 years is pure sacrilege. And pure crackpipe.
If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face was starred
If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face was unstarred
Crack Pipe for sure. That's both due to, and in spite of the fact that I'm a Thunderbird fanatic. These conversions are PAINFULLY common, and every one is a travesty.
God, EasyRods are among the worst things you can do to a Tbird. They never look good. Some of the Camaro based ones are passable, but the T-bird ones have NEVER been passable.
Crack pipe. I bet you could find a really nice 1950-something Ford for a lot less than $20,000. Heck, you could probably get the 1950s Ford plus a 1990s Thunderbird for less than $20,000. Oh look, I just did. And neither one has a terrible flame job.
YOUR ALL JEALOUS OF THE RETRO UPDATEDNESS AND YOU WISH YOUR CAR HAD AN INTERIOR MODELED AFTER THE PADDED CELL I WAS IN FOR 12 YEARS OR THE FREAKY MUSTACHE SKULL GUY WHO I PAINTED ON THE TRUNK LID SO THAT HE WOULD STOP HAUNTING MY DREAMS
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But growing up in Southern California, there were Hot Rod and Muscle Car gatherings at everywhere on any given weekend in places like Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Manhattan Beach, San Pedro, different parts of San Diego, etc. As a child, my dad took me to all of them. And as I learned to drive, I went to many of them with my buddies. We always went because the coolest cars in California could be found there.
But the girls? Ummm...no. There were some cuties, as evidenced by the likes pictures 3, 5, 6, and 10 above, but most others were two hundred pound, chain-smoking blobs wearing too-small tube tops and boy shorts to show off their mass of poorly done and poorly thought-out tattoos with raspy voices, a cigarette in their mouths, asking us high school kids if we wanted to have a good time.
Yeah, no thank you.
If it was girls you were going for, Hot Import Nights, Import Showoff, etc. were the places to be. The cars weren't to our taste, but every kind of gorgeous girl you think of, from leggy blondes, tall and beautiful African American women, and cute-sexy little Asian models could be found there. Sure, some of them might have been bitches in real life. But you weren't there to get into relationships. You were just there for a little eye candy. #photography
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I'm just not the killing type. #photography
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Keep all your trailer queens and trailer trash; my heart (and other bits of my body I value highly) STILL belongs to three time NHRA Top Fuel champion Shirley "Don't call me Cha-Cha" Muldowney. These girls make better hood ornaments than top fuel drivers. Bruce Springsteen wrote lyrics about illegal drag racing in rural New Jersey, Shirley Muldowney drove the damned cars! #photography
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The photos seem to require a lot of processing to get these effects. Lovely work. #photography
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I will refrain from judging the women in these photos, lest I be deemed a misogynist, so I'll let you judge them for me.
But if you say anything disparaging about "Monika" (#5), or the nameless young lady in picture #10, I'll have to un-heart-clicky you. #photography
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My opinion of these females agrees with yours...5 and 10 are easier on the eye. The others are just 'ruff'.
Did I keep my heart-click? #photography
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/End awkward moment. #photography
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God, EasyRods are among the worst things you can do to a Tbird. They never look good. Some of the Camaro based ones are passable, but the T-bird ones have NEVER been passable.
This monstrosity isn't worth 5k, much less 20.
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Looks kind of neat. Not $20,000 neat, though.
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Crack pipe. I bet you could find a really nice 1950-something Ford for a lot less than $20,000. Heck, you could probably get the 1950s Ford plus a 1990s Thunderbird for less than $20,000. Oh look, I just did. And neither one has a terrible flame job.
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/1274950933.html
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@discontinuuity: http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/1285606554.html
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@discontinuuity: Heck, you could even throuw in a 1965 Thunderbird and still be under $20,000
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/1288897059.html
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