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PatFromGundo
10/04/09

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Usually, I'm quick to dismiss those who would tell me how much better life was "back in the day." My standard response goes something like, "Yeah, you WOULD say that, you're one of the lucky ones who survived polio, lead paint, etc."

BUT, when I see footage like this, I am convinced that I was born 20 years too late.
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Cognitive Friction
10/04/09

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Good find Scroggs!

Love seeing Elkhart Lake back before they had all those fussy safety things around the track, like concrete barriers and sand runoffs and fences...
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TR3-A
10/04/09

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Ok, you won't believe this but I WAS THERE! I lived in the suburbs of Chicago and I had a few gearhead friends who loved going to the races at Elkhart (One of the guys had a brother who used to go when they raced in the streets of Elkhart.). Hell, I'm 61 now and I barely rememeber the details but I sure as hell remember the COBRAS!!! And, damnation, it was one hell of a fun week-end! Brats cooked in beer. Mmmm!!! This was in the days when people might actually drive their race car to the track. Probably more like the 24 Hours of LeMons than "modern" racing... whatever that is.
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lilwillie
10/05/09

@TR3-A:

Cool.

/Bows in respect to the elder Jalop.
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Tanshanomi
10/05/09

@TR3-A: Thank you for passing on the Jalop tribal wisdom.
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TR3-A
10/05/09

@lilwillie hides autos in the attic: Thanks, it's all I've got left. Brats all around!
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Flathead Smith
10/04/09

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I like hearing the Powerful Slow Running American V8 of the Cobras, as compared to High Revving Sissy Engines of the Europeans.
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TR3-A
10/05/09

@Flathead Smith: Good point. I remember the sounds of the high-revving ferrin' cars, real nice. BUT - when those big 'Merkin V-8s thundered past... ooo mama! Time to clean the shorts!
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TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
10/04/09

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I have concluded that these posts are pre-programed Murilee posts.

And now I shall enjoys motorsports.
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HoonThatFerrari
08/23/09

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The Bad News: The rust on these cars is a quarter-inch thick.
The Good News: That's still only halfway through.
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Novaload
08/23/09

@HoonThatFerrari: LOL, too true.
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GTBruiser
08/23/09

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Pictures of that Chevy have brought to mind when, as a kid, I first fell in love with automobiles while taking a trip with my "PaPa" (grandpa) from Nellis AFB to Las Vegas in his '51 Styleline. I got to sit on his lap and hold the wheel the whole trip. A really big deal to a 5 year old.

Thanks again Murilee. I now have a big smile on my face and couple tears of joy in my eyes.
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Novaload
08/23/09

@GTBruiser: One of my fave things on Jalopnik are the stories of how as a young child each one of us got hooked on cars in a different way. That's a nice one!
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CptSevere
08/23/09

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Good lord, those kiddie signs are the stuff of nightmares. David Lynch indeed. Creepy.
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HoonThatFerrari
08/23/09

@CptSevere:

"Hey Sis, come over here & we'll go down this slide into a pit of antifreeze & old 30-weight together!"

"OK, in a minute - I wanna play in this sandbox full of rusty nails first!"
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HoonThatFerrari
08/23/09

@HoonThatFerrari:
"You guys are BOTH lame! I'm gonna run up into the elephant's mouth & get shit out his ass!"
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lilwillie
08/23/09

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South Eastern Minnesota and you manage to end up going through Sturgeon Bay? What the heck kind of road trips home do you do?

I like them.
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Murilee Martin
08/23/09

@lilwillie hides autos in the attic: Flew into Green Bay, drove to Winona, then up to Sturgeon Bay, then flew back home out of Green Bay. I've also done the trip via Minneapolis.
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lilwillie
08/23/09

@Murilee Martin: Now I understand.

They've made the drive from GB to Sturgeon Bay a fast and smooth one.

Now if they could improve some of the roads between Tomah and Oshkosh it would be a really fast drive.

All though that might take some character away from the drive. Twists, turns, little unincorporated spots. Fun drive.
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TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
08/23/09

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Oh my, the '50 Chevy strikes my heart, Murilee, your playing with my heart again!

My dad has a very nice rust free 1950 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe in storage. Black, Stove-Bolt 6 with ta 3 on the tree. There is a pill bottle (Glass) in the glove box from 1964 too!

It was his grandmothers I believe. When she died, he was driving it back from South Carolina to Houston TX, when the motor died in Georgia. Trashy gas (Old, and just crap pump gas), and the lack of driving before my dad was able to get it (Sat for many years) caused a valve to stick and it locked up. I think it stayed with an uncle of my dad's for a few years until my dad was able to drive a tow truck all the way from Houston to Georgia to pick it up. I grew up in Dallas with it sitting in my driveway, usually under a car cover. Back when I was young it was hulking, massive, and reminded me of the Bat Mobile. In 2001 when we moved back to Houston it went into storage. I wasn't over 10, so the car was still huge to me. About 2 years ago, we went into the storage lot to pull some parts for the CST10, and I decided to pull some of the covers off it. Hadn't seen it in nearly 7 years. Boy, Hun's car was a lot smaller now. I never got a good picture of the whole car (Only the one attached above), and lost the others I had when the Hard drive on my PC froze, but if someone wants I can go dig up the photographs and scan them, if murilee can post them, That'd kick ass. A 20 year old DOTS set of photos.

Currently it sits holding old car parts in the trunk, and a built TPI 350 under the nose, but only as an oversized engine stand, that was for another car of my past. A certain '78 El Camino.
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tonyola
08/23/09

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Wautoma! I spent an entire month there in the summer of 1989. There used to be a resort right off of Highway 21 on Bughs Lake, and the show-band I was in had a month-long gig there. I remember seeing the Milty-Wilty Diner but I don't recall ever going in (our meals were comped by the resort). A sleepy little town, it seems like Wautoma's main notoriety was that it was just down the road from Plainfield - home of Ed Gein. I could imagine Ed hanging around the diner "play area" watching the children...(shiver).
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Novaload
08/23/09

@tonyola: Nah, children don't have enough meat on their bones. Ed went after the bigger game.
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Franzouse
08/23/09

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The close-up shots of the Chevy's rusty front fascia are just awesome; the car looks like some evil anime monster (no I'm not on shrooms).
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BRAWNDO_POWERED
08/23/09

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What? No photographs of the "play area"?
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Novaload
08/23/09

@BRAWNDO_POWERED: Agree; because if I had to choose, I think I'd need to buy those signs instead of the cars--the cars I could find somewhere else, but I'm pretty sure the signs are one-of-a-kind. For good reason.
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Novaload
08/23/09

@BRAWNDO_POWERED: And I think it looked like this:
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Murilee Martin
08/23/09

@BRAWNDO_POWERED: I was so fascinated by the "miniature golf course" (a muddy field with random Astroturf lanes) that I forgot to shoot photos.
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MushyHeirloom
08/23/09

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I say both of 'em are restorable.

You'd have to leave the IH foundry sticker on the Plymouth, though.
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HoonThatFerrari
08/19/09

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Today she's gonna take her car into the shop & the conversation is gonna go something like this:

MECHANIC: "I've never seen a brake pedal bend like that - how'd that happen?"
LADY: "Adrenaline."
MECHANIC: "Also, all your window seals are blown out."
LADY "People on the bridge told me I screamed rather loudly."
MECHANIC: "Well, there's also what appear to be permanent divots in your steering wheel, and... Oops, I think you're gonna need a new front seat, too."
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