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Detroit, 3:47 AM
Sun Nov 8
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10/12/09
[karakullake.blogspot.com]
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[en.wikipedia.org]
(I'm a domestic car guy, so this is my best guess)
Edit- My guess was wrong. Oh well. What did you expect from a domestic car guy at 6:53 am?
10/12/09
That's a Toyota Publica. here's another one-
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I´ll try to find something more obscure to post on FB
10/12/09
Edit: It could also be a Toyopet 700. They both look almost the same with the grille and the way the character line swoops up by the rear wheel well. There was also a sports car based on this chassis called the sports 800.
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I just learned Toyota made a few Sports 800s in left-hand drive for Okinawa...some of which could easily have made their way to the U.S.
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There are some amazing tire sculptures out there, especially of animals. I particularly like this sculpture of a car.
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There was a park up the street from my Great Aunt's house that had the coolest rocket clubhouse type thing. It may have been 15 or 20 feet high, but as a kid seemed to stretch all the way to the sun. It was made, like most other playground equipment at the time, out of galvanized metal tubing. There was a stairway to the top, with little "windows" at a couple of places along the way to look out of. It was topped with an observation deck, if you will, directly beneath a large plastic nosecone. Well, story has it that a couple of children had climbed to the observation deck one day and were monkeying around up there. One thing led to another, with one of the kids falling, somehow, from the top to his death, at which point the rocket was doomed. They sealed off the second set of stairs with a wooden blockade, and it was just never any fun after that. I think it was eventually taken down and replaced with something much more boring.
I learned a lot more as a kid, I think, from doing things the wrong way, getting hurt, and getting in trouble. I broke both arms, had stitches, and have multiple scars from childhood, and I wouldn't change any of it. That being said, when kids get hurt or even worse, killed, it's not cool, and safety is a damn good thing. Maybe we've gone a little too far, and maybe we should let them get hurt once in a while so they learn, but I'm glad that a lot of the unnecessary risks have been taken away. There are plenty of other ways for kids to have fun that we never had, so it seems to balance out a bit.
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What I'm saying is, I agree, kids need some bumps and bruises. It shows them their limits and it means they are running around getting exercise.
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What kind of pervert does it take to do this? I feel bad for the pilots that are required to pilot this abomination.
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I don't understand the uproar if your plate is seen by hundreds of people daily. I back my truck in, anyway, but I don't do it to hide the plate.
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