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CharlieH.
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Avatars....

It was only a matter of time before someone asked this - Where exactly does your current avatar come from?

Here's my current one:
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From the Merrie Melody Hair-Raising Hare

Now, let us see other enlargements&#33;


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Deja Voodoo
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My avatar is from a series of photographs of my grandfather taken on his honeymoon in Florida circa 1948-1949. He died shortly afterwards and needless to say I never knew him. We found the pictures recently and I realized that I looked eerily like him - all this time I looked neither much like my mother or father and then BAM&#33; all of a sudden it&#39;s like I have roots or something. I can&#39;t explain it but looking at those photos made me extremely happy so I used one of my favorites as my avatar&#33;

I Love the vintage car he&#39;s sitting on&#33;

You can view the full size version of it and many more like it here: 1948-1949

Enjoy&#33;
Peace,
Pete


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Jennwaslikeum
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Nice pictures Pete&#33; I love finding photos of family members and being like wow now I see where I got my nose from&#33; big_smile

I changed my avatar, it is now a picture of my Vovo and my Aunt Donna

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FunkyButt
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mine is from the cool site www.rockscissorspaper.com it&#39;s atomic AND seattle. smile


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66FordFalconClubWagon
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I wonder how many folks can guess the year, make and model of the vehicle in my avatar?  wink  Hint...look at my nickname for these forums.  smile  Basically, when I finally got around to putting up an avatar, and considering my nickname here, I simply resized one of the better pictures of my old van, and parked (pun intended) it in my mac.com space. If one day in the future the avatar changes, slightly, that means I&#39;ve finally started to make progress on spiffying it up, a bit.

Matt


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Lindy Laura
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mine&#39;s one of my favourite pin-up pictures:

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Bigcheese327
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I scanned mine off the cover of a book I checked-out during college about fashions of the 1920s as found in Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogues.  That&#39;s me - trying for class with off-the-rack.

I wish I could find a scarf like that&#33;


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MissRoulette
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who is the pin up by Laura?

Mine are just pics of film stars or film posters that I stumble accross on the internet or on a very rare occasion of me in some strange stage outfit&#33;

Generally they tend towards Diana Dors.....


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Lindy Laura
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tis a vargas smile


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Bigcheese327
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Charlie, what was the bellhop that you used to use?

Laura, I hate to say it, but even though I&#39;ve seen your pin-up (and it&#39;s definitely nothing to scoff at) I&#39;ve come to identify you with that Vargas girl&#33;


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Lost Soul
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Hmm, Laura, I&#39;ve never seen your avatar as you&#39;ve hotlinked it from photobucket. That&#39;s a no-no on my rubbishy laptop.  roll

Mine speaks for itself really&#33; Just the gearhead logo from the gearhead records website. I also have it as a patch on a workjacket and a denim jacket.

I like to change my avatar every couple of weeks anyhow.


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Serina
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I&#39;ve just changed mine, as I wanted something a little more retro. So I found Steamboat Willy. I&#39;ve never seen Steamboat Willy though, as it&#39;s not available in the UK at the moment. sad
Just have to be patient and hope to see it grace our shelves in the future. smile


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CharlieH.
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Bigcheese327,Feb 8 2006, 05:59 AM wrote:

Charlie, what was the bellhop that you used to use?

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It came from this scene:

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From the Merrie Melodies cartoon Page Miss Glory.
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Looks like Carole Lombard to me...


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ZillaFina
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my avatar is me, but it looks so blurry and nothing because it&#39;s too small. I should have chosen a better picture...I&#39;m off to find one&#33;  big_smile


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The Bubbler
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Mine is custom drawn by another forum member (young Charles).

It&#39;s of my favourite car, a BMW Isetta, and it was inspired by me mentioning I felt like a prawn after all the seafood I&#39;d consumed whilst on holiday in the Balearics.  smile

Andy


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Bigcheese327
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The Bubbler,Mar 7 2006, 01:13 PM wrote:

Mine is custom drawn by another forum member (young Charles).

It&#39;s of my favourite car, a BMW Isetta, and it was inspired by me mentioning I felt like a prawn after all the seafood I&#39;d consumed whilst on holiday in the Balearics.  smile

Andy

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You know, until you mentioned it, I never noticed the seafood getting out of the bubble&#33; That&#39;s neat.

Speaking of bubbles.  I went to the Detroit Autorama this weekend and there was a BMW Isetta there - I instantly though of you.  It really stood out against the Detroit-made beheamoths.

Were they all that pale yellow color?


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deadpan-diva
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Mines just a picture of me. I was inspired by the how to tie a bandana thread. I change my often though and it&#39;s usually a picture my screen namesake, Virginia O&#39;Brien.


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ZillaFina
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ok, I changed mine, it is still a picture of me...it just seemed like a more appropriate pic for this forum than the other one  big_smile


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TMBC
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Looking at that picture I&#39;m tempted to sing "If you&#39;re happy and you know it, clap your hands&#33;". 

I&#39;m BAD.


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ZillaFina
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HA  lol

I have had a few glasses of wine, but I JUST GOT IT&#33;


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Mine is a mystery to me. I remember stumbling over it years ago, in a college news paper article about students who smoke, written in the 1960&#39;s, posted online. I thought the picture was brilliant, and have used it for an avatar on many things ever since. Just wish I knew where the article was now&#33;

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The Bubbler
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Bigcheese327,Mar 7 2006, 08:44 PM wrote:

I went to the Detroit Autorama this weekend and there was a BMW Isetta there.

Were they all that pale yellow color?

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Nope. They came in all different kinds of colours.

Various shades of red, blue, yellow, green and white. Many cars were available in two tone paintwork- this seemed especially popular in America. No doubt the additional expense was easily afforded by the well-heeled US market.

As far as I know metallic paint was never an option, which I think is just as well, because the small curvy shape doesn&#39;t really carry that kind of finish off very well.

All US market cars were built in Munich, Bavaria. The Canadian market was supplied with cars built in Brighton, England.

These differed from the German cars in their specification. They featured Girling brakes in place of ATE, Lucas lighting in place of Bosch, chassis by Rubery Owen and Dunlop wheels and tyres.

These changes were necessary for the car to be considered as British built.

Probably more than you&#39;d ever care to know, but there you are. smile

Andy


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Bigcheese327
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The Bubbler,Mar 8 2006, 03:57 AM wrote:

They featured Girling brakes in place of ATE, Lucas lighting in place of Bosch, chassis by Rubery Owen and Dunlop wheels and tyres.

These changes were necessary for the car to be considered as British built.

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Not at all more than I wanted to know.  That kind of arcane detail is a lot of what fascinates me about old cars.

I couldn&#39;t help but read the bit about Lucas electrics and think "those poor Canadians."  Lucas - Prince of Darkness&#33;


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The Bubbler
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I&#39;ve owned three cars with Lucas electrics- no problem at all.

Ducellier on the other hand, embodies all that is evil&#33;  lol

Andy


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