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- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Movies
- Topic: Stormy Monday (1988)
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Stormy Monday (1988)
These clips from the movie focus on a rare 1959 "PlySoto" - a Desoto Diplomat Deluxe, built for the export market. This is one of those sleeper films, a good one that is not very well- known.....but should be. The movie has all the features of a good noir, most of all a feeling of impendin...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Movies
- Topic: Not Fade Away (2012)
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Not Fade Away (2012)
This is a movie about a band that DOESN'T make it. The movie starts around the assassination of JFK. Douglas (John Magaro) is a shy nerdy high school kid from New Jersey. He joins a neighborhood band to play the drums. With the encouragement of hot girl Grace (Bella Heathcote), he becomes the lead ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Movies
- Topic: Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
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Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Robert Blake has one of the best roles of his career as John Wintergreen, a dedicated motorcycle cop who yearns for more in life. What he'd really like is to be a detective - to wear a suit, a Stetson, and "get paid to think". He gets his chance when he discovers what first appears to be ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Movies
- Topic: Lilies of the Field (1963)
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- Views: 3914
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Homer Smith, an unemployed construction worker heading out west, stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a m...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Movies
- Topic: The Irishman (2019)
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- Views: 3892
The Irishman (2019)
IMDB wrote:An illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: How To
- Topic: Cast iron A-466 to A-727 conversion Forward Look 56 to 61
- Replies: 28
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Re: Cast iron A-466 to A-727 conversion Forward Look 56 to 61
My '63 Valiant wagon uses the rear drum braking system for emergency brakes, Rick (as well as having a park pawl for the transmission). That's consistent with your observation.
What did Mother MoPar do for emergency braking before 1949? Or are emergency brakes a post-WWII invention?
What did Mother MoPar do for emergency braking before 1949? Or are emergency brakes a post-WWII invention?
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Sport Fury
- Topic: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
- Replies: 4
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Re: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
In November of 2009, Aivar sent me some pictures of his 1958 Regal Lancer from a car show he attended with Filly 0n 9/27/2009. I don't know what the venue was, and I never posted these pictures. Perhaps they appear elsewhere, but here for the first time. Regal Lancer Aivar & Filly Sept 27 20...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Sport Fury
- Topic: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
- Replies: 4
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Re: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
These are some comments that were posted on Aivar's initial webpage, no longer extant. 8/20/2008 08:49 Pretty neat, Pops! I love that you have the classic car video clip included and photos of some of the other "girls" in your harem! Rumble on!!! 8/30/2008 23:19 I love your car. The 1959 P...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Sport Fury
- Topic: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2946
Re: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
Other cars in his stable!
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Sport Fury
- Topic: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
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- Views: 2946
Re: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
Aivar's pride and joy - his 1960 Dodge Polara D500.
...and a '60 Dodge convertible!
...and a '60 Dodge convertible!
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: Sport Fury
- Topic: Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
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Aivar Lejins - Duarte Mesa, CA, USA
This is a posthumous recreation of a webpage first posted for Aivar in 2007, scanned from photographs he supplied to me - so it is obviously dated. Filly appears in many of these photos - then his "sweetheart" girlfriend, she is now his widow... Condolences, Filly. In 2006, Aivar and his a...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Savoy
- Topic: Jason Melson - Poulsbo, WA
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Re: Jason Melson - Poulsbo, WA
Jason Melson had been friends with Ed for over 35 years. After Ed lost his first wife after 50 years of marriage, he got remarried to Peggy - and as a wedding present, Jason gave them a 1960 Plymouth he had restored ("Hope"), as a promise he made to Ed thirty years ago when his first wife ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Savoy
- Topic: Jason Melson - Poulsbo, WA
- Replies: 1
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Jason Melson - Poulsbo, WA
Ed Prichard bought this derelict Savoy in 2017 from someone in Georgia, and dragged it home to Madisonville, TN where he commenced work on it in earnest. It was powered by... a four cylinder Perkins diesel! How did Plymouths come to be diesel powered? That is in itself a bit of a mystery, which you ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Much Ado About Nothing
- Topic: Interview with Ex
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4583
Re: Interview with Ex
Interesting, to think that Schmidt had to be cautious about what he said, and to not contradict Exner, who was not only Schmidt's boss, but also an impediment to take over Chrysler styling as its VP Styling. The timing is also interesting, because it was about that time when Chrysler contracted wit...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Much Ado About Nothing
- Topic: Interview with Ex
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4583
Interview with Ex
[Excerpted from Popular Mechanics, January, 1959.] cover.jpg Taking part in the Popular Mechanics interview were Virgil M. Exner, Chrysler Vice-President and Director of Styling, and William M. Schmidt, Executive Stylist. Arthur R. Railton, PM's Automotive Editor, asked the questions. 1a.jpg 1b.jpg ...