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Re: Avatars.... 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! all of a sudden it's like I have roots or something. I can't explain it but looking at those photos made me extremely happy so I used one of my favorites as my avatar!
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Re: Avatars.... mine is from the cool site www.rockscissorspaper.com it's atomic AND seattle. |
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Re: Avatars.... I wonder how many folks can guess the year, make and model of the vehicle in my avatar? |
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Re: Avatars.... 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's me - trying for class with off-the-rack.
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Re: Avatars.... Hmm, Laura, I've never seen your avatar as you've hotlinked it from photobucket. That's a no-no on my rubbishy laptop. |
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Re: Avatars.... I've just changed mine, as I wanted something a little more retro. So I found Steamboat Willy. I've never seen Steamboat Willy though, as it's not available in the UK at the moment. |
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Re: Avatars.... Mine is custom drawn by another forum member (young Charles).
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You know, until you mentioned it, I never noticed the seafood getting out of the bubble! That'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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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'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'd ever care to know, but there you are.
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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't help but read the bit about Lucas electrics and think "those poor Canadians." Lucas - Prince of Darkness! |
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