Strange beast, now at home

[RHPConsult]

kps

When you have an '86 and an '89 Cad in your garage you just smile benignly to any Hummers in the neighborbood                  
 
 [ 04-28-2003, 01:50 PM: Message edited by: RHPConsult ]

[Paddy]

Er...not if you have one of  THESE Dick!!!  

Just got back from the Bahamas, and our last night was spent in Nassau, where we saw a white one cruising around Paradise Island. Just added to the culture shock of going from 11 days in Eleuthera to one afternoon in the Caribbean equivalent of Disneyland (Atlantis).

[kps]

Yup, only in CA can you keep cars that long and probably have them look like they came out of the dealer's showroom yesterday...those two would have rusted away up here already.      

Whoa! Paddy's Hummer Limo is...hmmm, don't know what to call it exactly...        
 
 [ 04-29-2003, 02:00 AM: Message edited by: kps ]

[RHPConsult]

C'mon now, Paddy:

I know how important a 16 seater would be to you, your family and all those refurbed Macs you need to tote along, but . . but . . . do you really need the fog machine and the laser light show?

Is that just a bit much?

[sandbox]

Dick, that machine is the same type I tested before I was talked into buying a G3 233 Tower by a MacGuru in Maryland. It still runs next to the iMacs at the local high school, as a matter of fact it has Bernie’s Memory in it. ( and you were wondering where it went?)  

As an old collector of fine Detroit Steel, I can say the 1986 Caddy was the last of it’s breed, 1987 was a transition year for GM. Since I just sold three of my collectables, I’ve been lOOking at some more........ one was a 1970 Caddy convertible, Yella as Jen would say, with a Saddle colored leather interior. I was going to buy another Conversion Van but my older dog can’t get up in them anymore. Sure would like to find an old Barely Used Woody Station Wagon.  

As far as Hummers go, they can’t compete in off road testing, and getting two side by side in a two car garage is no picnic, a neighbor applied for a building permit to stretch his garage to fit His and Hers. He would always turn his head when he drove by my place, to lOOk at my 1972 El Camino    (Picture is just an example)

[kps]

What do you think of  THIS. SB?

I'd love to have a 1960 Impalla convertable, but I see the prices are in the 35-45,000 range, man o' man the car brand new cost what...$2000?

[jwboyd]

Thanks, kelly for your information on the introduction date fpr the "Molar" G3 all-in-one.

While it is true that I retired in 1993, and that I installed two of these machines in our local school district, those two events could not have been the same year.

For a few years following my retirement, they would often call me back in when there was computer work to do. Then the BOE bought into the fiction that the only "real" computer was one that would run Windows. A few teachers have tenaciously held onto their Macs, so those teachers call me occasionally. The district refuses to update or repair the few remaining Macs out in the schools.

CURIOUSLY, the superintendent and the rest of the central office staff still use Macs for everything except their district accounting. It is a proprietary system provided by a contractor, Management Advisory Computer Systems. Some of the systems installed by that company use desktop Macs for front-end input, but not here.
 
 [ 04-29-2003, 02:49 PM: Message edited by: jwboyd ]

[RHPConsult]

You're sooo right about the '86, Sandbox, which is why I dread the day it may no longer be my "pal"

If a car ever had a  personality this one does . . .its color, in '86 (no matter what Jen might say) was/is called Chamois! The "little limo" profile was a winner.l

Ah! marketing . . .    

PS: Say, this is becoming some thread . . . Macs called Molars, Cads vs Hummers, Hummers vs. traditionallly-sized garages, unwise school administrators and their equally unwise decisions, effects of salting Canadian highways on metalic surfaces . . . is there any chance TS newbies reading this might think we've lost our "bearings" in more ways than one!

[jwboyd]

Hey, sandbox, I share some of your nostalgia for the woody wagons. In my youngeer days I drove a '48 Ford woody thousands of miles doing PR work for a small college here in Kansas. Wasn't that the last of the "real" woodies? I think in '49 they went to wood panels over steel (or was it fiberglas over steel?).

Where has the time gone?
 
 [ 04-29-2003, 09:05 PM: Message edited by: jwboyd ]

[sandbox]

Hey KPS, great site thanks! Yes, on a Wing and a prayer (you didn’t back into someone) were great rides. A friend has a Black and White 59 El, he figures it’s worth a $25,000.

Well Dick, memories have a tendency to merge in the horizon when passions for machines flair,  A collectables is a collectables after all, and were not going back that far. I still want a Molar!  

On a story note the most valuable car I ever had, and didn’t know it, was a 1958 Caddy El Dorado, bought for $100.00 in a junkyard in New Hampshire in 1966. I saw the same car, not to long ago, in Las Vegas for $120,000. Even my Stuebaker Avanti wasn’t as desirable, it would seem!

I’m not sure JW, 48-49? but here’s a peak at a few.  
Ahhh....... the woody

If I could find a nice one, I might try the last attempt at a woody.  
I just can’t get my heart around a mini-van, (neither can the dog) they just don’t Feel like a Real-moble.

[whisper]

I had an Artemis, bought it from a school teacher. It was cool for it's time what with the floppy, zip and cd and hard drives all there together in one desktop. One day there was a big zap crackle and pop and that was the end of that puppy     the monitor arc-ed out big time, fried everything inside except the drive, That was back when a 6 gig drive was  big floppies were fairly common  and zips were the way to go for back up.

[RHPConsult]

"We" will hope to be able to avoid all zaps, crackles and/or pops!

The new drive and memory arrive on Friday, so it will then be off-to-the-races time for the young operator and his  "new" Mac.

If we encounter, sometime in the future, a disaster of Whisper's proportions, at least my trusty beige G3 DT could use the added memory and larger drive.  
 
 [ 04-30-2003, 11:05 AM: Message edited by: RHPConsult ]

[kelly]

To get back on topic.  

Yesterday I was behind an early 50s automobile.

I was trying to figure out what it was.

i was looking at the Decals and such but wasn't sure.

Then I noticed the one foot square sign  on the trunk that said 53 Oldsmobile.  

 

http://www.gbiznet.com/ebay/olds-50s.htm

The one I saw was Blue and White.