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He says he's not dead.

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Old Pio said:
Doc, your beetle may have been equipped with the famous auxiliary gas tank, which IIRC, held one liter (the cars had no gas gauge). So when it sputtered to a stop. And you reached down to flip that handle to give yourself the extra few sips of gas, you IMMEDIATELY headed for a gas station and did not pass go.
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Yup!! I had the reserve tank and needed it often. The trip to Troy was just far enough that I could not do it on a full tank unless a drafted behind a big Greyhound bus or a Trailways bus for most of the trip. Interestly-I only had the car for a couple years an put about 60,000 miles on it-and then sold it for $100 more than my dad had paid for it.
 
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SteveP said:
Oh yeah - my buddy had one with the "heater" that usually blew cold air. Made for some miserable drives home after skiing.
I bought a well used Subaru wagon in Denver. Driving it home to Glenwood Springs it was all I could do to coax it up to the Eisenhower Tunnel. It had the engine that was a clone of the VW engine. But, in 4wd it could climb a tree :)
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Oh it blew hot alright-but only when you were up to speed and warmed up. You pulled up those two levers between the seats in front and you could fry eggs. Until of course you stopped at a light and then it blew cold enough to freeze your caboose off and coat the inside of your driver's windshield with ice!!
 
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walrus said:
Their might be a hand full of new cars that I might turn my head around to look at, probably none made in the USA but a 64 Fairlane, I'm all over it. A 64 Fairlane with a Drag Pak, I'm drooling. There were so many cool muscle cars, I've ridden in many, some that are now so valuable people don't drive them. A buddy had 64 GTO 389 tri power, their was no way possible to get enough tire under it back then to make it hook up, a true tire roasting machine:D. You coud order anything you wanted back then, family sedan with a 426 Hemi, Station wagon with a 427.
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Also (mid sixties) had a Plymouth Belvedere with a 426 Hemi in it for a short time. The engine was marvelous-but the body just turned to rust and fell apart on me. But it could snap your neck back when you stepped on it!!
 
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Carroll Shelby....that one really sucks. :(

edit: but I picked him in the dead pool, bittersweet
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Son of a *****, the great ones are dropping like flies.

BB King needs to look over his shoulder.
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BB King's in town this Friday at the State Theater. There's a handful of tickets remaining. I'm thinking about going, was thinking about it before Dunn's death and I'm thinking about it even more now.
 
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St. Clown said:
BB King's in town this Friday at the State Theater. There's a handful of tickets remaining. I'm thinking about going, was thinking about it before Dunn's death and I'm thinking about it even more now.
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I bought you a brand new Ford, you said "I want a Cadillac."

I bought you a 10 dollar dinner, you said: "Thanks for the snack."

I let you live in my penthouse, you said it was just a shack.

I gave you 7 children, now you want to give them back.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
If he's been missing for almost a week, there are only so many other possibilities, really. Probably too late for next year's death pool.
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The death pool is a crapshoot though. Who knows if he will be pronounced dead or just still missing in a few months. Everyone thought that Zsa Zsa was a sure thing the death pool...2 years ago.
 
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