Stretch limo, 454ci, 6-71 blower, TH400, narrowed 9-inch & tubs.
I can well picture Dear Leader behind the wheel of this, promenading in the Capital City down to the White Castle... Or staging into the 10.00 bracket at The People's Dragway. Alas... it has sold.
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@edsnova posted:Stretch limo, 454ci, 6-71 blower, TH400, narrowed 9-inch & tubs.
I can well picture Dear Leader behind the wheel of this, promenading in the Capital City down to the White Castle... Or staging into the 10.00 bracket at The People's Dragway. Alas... it has sold.
FOR TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!?!?!?
For a tubbed stretch limo with a blown big-block!?! There's nothing ratty about this thing. It's a jewel, a gem, a worthy conveyance for the Glory of the Republic!
Why, oh why does stuff like this not show up in my BaT emails?
@Stan Galat posted:FOR TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!?!?!?
For a tubbed stretch limo with a blown big-block!?! There's nothing ratty about this thing. It's a jewel, a gem, a worthy conveyance for the Glory of the Republic!
Why, oh why does stuff like this not show up in my BaT emails?
Probably because you have to set parameters for BaT to use for said emails to be sent to you which means you have to think of this kind of stuff in advance. And to set those parameters you'd have to get inside the head of every gear-head out there and see what they've thought ahead of time. That is a tall order of an immeasurable magnitude. That and BaT has no parameters in their system for anything of this caliber. Porsche, Ferrari, Chevy, Ford? Sure. Coupe, Sedan, Convertible? Sure. SUV, Truck, Wagon? Sure. Tubbed and stretched limo with a blown big-block? Forget about it. 
The picture of the rear tires from underneath is impressive.
Hmmm... A shiny black paint job to add the necessary gravitas and the addition of the flag mounts and it would have been perfect.
Hoonin' in style!
@Lane Anderson posted:The picture of the rear tires from underneath is impressive.
Hmmm... A shiny black paint job to add the necessary gravitas and the addition of the flag mounts and it would have been perfect.
My thoughts exactly. How much would a 14 gallon paint-job cost, one wonders?
I'm seriously kicking myself for missing out on this. Like, legitimately bummed. I guarantee I'd have given $27,500 or whatever.
The question is, How much higher would the other guy gone? Alas, I only opened my BaT email after 5 today.
I'm singing....... " Just Gigolo "
not a likely scenario for the dear leader @Stan Galat....but the tall men in suits could usher him away from "DISENTING PEASANTS" very quickly & stylishly if the situation was called upon in that equipment 
@Alan Merklin posted:I'm singing....... " Just Gigolo "
Oh.....MY....God.
Leave everything as-is, including the side 'step-flames' and big rear meats tucked under the trunk.
Have David Lee Roth singing "Just a Gigolo" blaring from the 27-speaker, 2,400 watt sound system while cruising to the local Dairy Queen for Blizzards all 'round.
I bet if you sent a photo of the car to Roth and told him of a good cruise night he would probably show up with his band at the DQ, too.
The DQs will never be the same in Fly-over Country.....
Ah, Diamond Dave in his prime.
As I recall, either he or the Van Halens had, at some point shortly after their eponymous debut smash-hit record dropped, a large four-door Mercedes Benz sedan with a 6-71 blower jutting through the hood.
I could swear I saw that thing on MTV, shot from the front with the whole band inside the car, obscured by that insane intake setup. But I can't find it on the innerwebs now...
It was probably this one; guessing he had the engine work done after he towed it off the beach.
So, full circle.
@edsnova posted:... at some point shortly after their eponymous debut smash-hit record dropped
That album.
Van Halen's debut album came out in February 1978. I was 14 years old, full of all the angst and swagger and bravado that is 14. I bought it immediately with money I'd made digging ditches for my dad.
I pulled the cellophane off the cover, dropped the 33 out of the sleeve, put it on the Panasonic turntable in the basement, and rattled every piece of China in mom's cabinet upstairs. The opening 40 seconds were rapturous. I felt like there was no way anything would ever compare, and Eddie hadn't done anything but play power-chords yet.
Nothing came close until High and Dry came out in 1981, a month after my HS graduation.
Ain't talkin' 'bout love, Stan.
@edsnova posted:Ain't talkin' 'bout love, Stan.
4th track, “A” side.
It was every song. Every. Last. Song.
I was 13 when the first VH album came out. I was BLOWN AWAY by their awesomeness. You're right, Stan. Every single track.
Def Leppard never caught on for me. But Dire Straits and Styx we totally agree on(these two groups were some of the best of the 70s and 80s, but are somehow underrated).
I was a fan of Joe Jackson(still am!) and The Clash(Combat Rock) among many, many lesser known groups.
Yeah, we wore it out too in Tiffany's basement. Also on heavy rotation: Led Zeppelin, Aero Smith, Rush's "Permanent Waves" and AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" and then "Back In Black," which is another sublime opening riff.
Yeah, Ed and Danny. All that. One magical summer at the Kon Tiki resort on Lake of the Ozarks when I was 12 years old, I found Stairway to Heaven and Walk This Way on the same jukebox, both songs for a quarter. I spent a lot of time in that arcade. I had never heard of an album at that point, but I made up for lost time. I wore out the first Boston album and then the first Van Halen. I bought two copies of both over the course of a couple of years.
Def Leppard didn't age particularly well, but in '81 High n Dry mashed a lot of buttons for where I was. The never-ending ending of No No No in particular, and of course Bringin' On the Heartbreak, which was the theme-song of my HS romantic experiences (along with the J. Geils Band's Love Stinks). It was worth my Columbia House Record Club selection.
I was playing a game with my son a few months back. The subject was "opening riffs" (not the song or album in total, but only the opening). Choose one of the following, and remember - it's just the opening:
The songs are not equal, and the opening riffs may not even be the strongest out there, but we were trying to closely match competing songs. Everybody's got an opinion, and it's kind of a fun game for men of a certain age.
The second game is, "Strongest Two-Song Coupling":
That one is particularly hard for me, but I've got to go with Van Halen.
Yeah, but nothing stirs the soul like The Heimatdamisch cover of Highway to Hell. It has to be heard to understand what modern technique can add to these quaint oldies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_gtGfAail4
Ok that’s freakin’ hilarious, but it needs just a bit more accordion. 🤣
(They also do one heck of a job on "Sweet Child O' Mine".)
Oh thanks for that Michael. It's brilliant.
@Lane Anderson posted:Ok that’s freakin’ hilarious, but it needs just a bit more accordion. 🤣
More accordion, you say?
Or is it bagpipe, you really want?
Aye Laddie, it's the pipes for me!
@Stan Galat posted:More accordion, you say?
Or is it bagpipe, you really want?
Two brilliant finds, Stan. I love what artsie humans come up with in their spare time!
@Michael Pickett posted:Yeah, but nothing stirs the soul like The Heimatdamisch cover of Highway to Hell. It has to be heard to understand what modern technique can add to these quaint oldies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_gtGfAail4
Fantastic !!! more beer and sausages please !!!
not the swing sultans or grunge, but could likely find it's way into Stan's mix... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...xIdIgPw&index=25
To some of Stan’s post, half of the J. Geils Band went, for a while, to the same college that my wife and son attended (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) although they were a few years ahead of my wife.
John Giels transferred in from Northeastern around 1966 and picked up a couple band members from WPI. They were already legends when my wife arrived in 1969, but for different reasons:
Apparently, at the end of Spring semester in 1967, they put on a free concert in front of their fraternity house, ΑΕΡi. This was when they were called the j. Giels Blues Band (after calling themselves “The Sopwith Camels”). AEPi, when seen from above, looks like a giant “T” and is one street over from the college library in a neighborhood of student rentals and private homes.
A huge crowd of students formed out in the street in front of the house to hear the music - they were pretty good, even back then. Most of the kids were a little spacey from two weeks of final exams and “Bennies”, and proceeded to block off the street. The cops were called and when they arrived, the crowd started chanting some derogative slogans either from “1984” or from a very recent Beatles album. Remember, this was 1967, at the start of the Vietnam War Protests and such. Public things got out of hand pretty quickly.
All hell broke loose, the cops were swinging batons, the kids were throwing beer cans (usually full) and the band was still playing - Until some enterprising person (we’ll never know if it was a cop or someone from the Fraternity) pulled the plug and the amplifiers went silent. Chaos ensued for a short while until the cops got reinforcements, ushered the band from the front lawn and proceeded to disperse the quickly dwindling crowd. The college was not pleased.
But that’s not what got them thrown out of WPI.
Remember the AEPi building, shaped like a giant “T”? John Giels was in a room, on the second floor, on one side of the hat of the “T” with a room mate, and his drummer had a second floor room on the other side of the “T”. All four room mates had queen or king size waterbeds (Remember…. It’s still 1968 or so). That building was never designed or built to hold up that much weight on the second floor. All that water weight caused the entire hat of the “T” to settle and separate from the rest of the building, causing a giant crack two stories high with a gap at the top of over 6”.
THAT, among other things, is what got the J. Giels Band kicked off of the WPI campus. I can’t remember if AEPi was terminated after that or later, but that fraternity is no longer affiliated with WPI (it always had a bad rep for being a “Party” Frat and caused other problems for the college, so no one was particularly surprised when they were thrown out).
The J. Giels Band returned to Boston and got a lot of coverage and endorsements from WBCN (“The Rock of Boston”) along with a LOT of gigs, first local and then national as they caught on. I think they finally fell apart in the late 2010’s or so, and John Giels died in 2017.
It is hard to believe that 2 water beds would cause the whole T-hat to settle. But, you were there.
You have been inspiring me to get my Speedster back on the road.
I had to run the numbers......A California King waterbed is approximately 6 x 6 water, has 235 gallons of water @approx 8 lbs. per gallon =1,880 lbs , add in 175 lbs for the wood bed itself plus 2 occupants "we'll just assume it was in use") at 150 lbs. each = 300 lbs. Grand total on 36 sq ft floor = 2,355 lbs divide that by 36 sq ft and the load per sq ft is 65.4 lbs. A 2x 8 live load rating is 40 lbs. max inclusive of other load bearing factors inclusive of furniture, activities etc. Considering that the same combination is just 8' below the top floor waterbed, the entire The T' section should have parted like the Red Sea. I can hear it now " We ARE Farmer's and we covered it " Bum di bum dibum bum bum ! .@ Gordon Nichols Pls have Engineer Mrs. Nichols run my numbers, I should be in the ball park :~)
I can understand how the weight could cause a floor failure in the region of the waterbeds. I wouldn't have thought it would bring down the whole T-top.
@Wrenn Smith posted:not the swing sultans or grunge, but could likely find it's way into Stan's mix... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...xIdIgPw&index=25
That is quite something, Wrenn.
I never thought I'd hear a scream-o version of Sultans of Swing, but they certainly rocked it with verve and enthusiasm, and something that pretty much puts the cherry on the top of the original theme of WAY over-the-top things.
This site is everything I ever imagined it might be... and a little bit more.
I was trying to tell if it was the same guy on drums, guitar, and singing.
@Michael McKelvey posted:I was trying to tell if it was the same guy on drums, guitar, and singing.
I believe so, yes. Bass too.
@Michael McKelvey- Both Leo Morachiolli and Mary Spender are 1 person bands and do some neat stuff, separately as well as together. And yes, I learned this through the magic of Youtube as well. 
It's too bad you missed it, @Stan Galat, that limo would be so befitting as the official ride of the Beloved Leader of the Republic of Stanistan!
Some nice black paint, flags, et voilá!
