airports stations wagons

have you ever seen an airport station wagon?
thats special!



photo taken by my uncle in his last road trip aroud usa

 

Wow, an 8-door! I bet that thing gets really good gas mileagemg:.

 

How many parking tickets would you get if all 3 meters ran out?

You forgot the tailgate - 9 doors. That must weigh in at 7,000 lbs at least!

 

I know there was a service in Conneticut that used 8 door suburbans way about 10 or more years ago.

 

My favorite is the Tornado Centipede!

God, I wish I bid on it when it was on eBay!

Clark

 

Huuuuuge!!!

And people think my 86 Colony Park is HUUUUUGE!!! Like I mentioned at a different post,there are websites that sell that PVC sticker stuff,we've been calling woodie since the early Fifties...It'd probably cost a fortune to re-do this one,but it looks worth the effort.

 

Now, there's big wagons then there's BIG wagons!!! WOW! Looks like she's ready for a resto though!

 

resto-time

Yeah,I'm afraid so.It doesn't look like she's worked for the airport in quite a while...There's huge and then there's HUGE...The thing I liked about the 88 Acura Legend,my wife and I had for a while,was the steering wheel with four horn buttons...Why not four horns?One to go ahooga,one because some people need to be honked at,another because some people need to be HONKED at(think bigrig horn there)and one that wolf-whistles then says,"not you,your car" for when a nice old car drives by.

 

You're forgetting the General Lee dixie horn. I have one in mine.

 

horny cars

One of the projects I've had in my mind,since the early 80's,is to paint a 68 Charger or 69 Roadrunner Richard Petty Blue,put a Union flag on it's top and have the horn go "Glory,glory hallelujah"...They have an annual meet,somewhere,where dozens of General Lee's show up and dragrace.I thought it would be fairly cool to show up in a General Grant,and see how good I do...But,that's my California Yankee sense of humor.

 

I guess you could do that outside of the south. But if you showed up in certain parts of Dixie with that abomination...well lets just say it might as well say "f*&K all you rednecks" "death to the 2nd amendment" and be plastered with half a dozen Obama stickers given the reaction your likely to get. Especially around Vicksburg, MS where even up until 1945 the fourth of July was not celebrated due to fact that date coincided with the culmination of Grant's siege of Vicksburg.

 

For a few years,when I was younger(64 to 67)my family lived in Marrietta Georgia(my dad worked with NASA-JPL and that's where Martin-Marrietta was).While there,we bought a 1960 Country Squire.Also,you could buy blank license plates.Most people painted theirs up to be the Stars And Bars.My dad,a California Yankee,painted his up to look like the California state flag.One Sunday,while on our way to church in the Country Squire,someone tried to shoot the license plate off the front of the car.They used a .22 or a 30-30.Something lowball.It just dented the plate and knocked off some paint.But my Dad took it off the car...Thought maybe Southerners had grown up some,since then.

 

It has probably gotten worse due to the PC police and the black grievance industry groups making an issue about the Confederate flag when everyone knows it is an issue of pride to the south and should be best left at that. By the way the flag you were most likely referring to is the Southern Jack which is based on the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag that became part of the second and third national flags of the Confederacy. The Stars and Bars is the first national flag of the Confederacy and bears no resemblance to the flag most people associate as the Confederate or Rebel flag. Interestingly the current Georgia flag that was adopted in 2003 does bear a striking resemblance to that flag.

Also just an aside today is Robert E. Lee's birthday. So I guess this discussion is kind of apres peau.

 

those stars and bars

You are so right...I had never seen that Stars And Bars before...I usually say Johnny Rebel Flag.It's also my birthday today.And my wife's,and Dolly Parton's,and Robert Palmer's,and Janis Joplin's,and a few other people too...Another car I was thinking about building would be made of mid-70's GM products.A front end of mixed Malibu and Cutlass parts,a rear end of Pontiac and Buick parts,a multi-color paintjob,a California state flag on top and name it The General Confusion.I learned to spell it apropos,but I am a generally confused Californian.