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Paracretumbrion
Jul. 10th, 2004 06:40 amTime marches on. It's the 25th anniversary of Disco Demolition Day. I remember it well!
http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-07-09/1010052.html
They don't tell the whole story here. They blew the records up with real exploding dynamite between the double header, and the second game had to be cancelled because of the resulting riot. In general the 70s sucked, but now and again you had these brief moments of coolness. :)
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Suddenly, I developed the urge to build a model car. It's been years since I've done that, if we don't count the slot car body I carved from balsa last year. Now I wanted to put together a kit, though. Being a picky sort, I hoped for some sort of antique racing car. What I really had in mind was a Depression streamliner, like Wilbur Shaw's beautiful Red Lion, or something similar. What I actually got was a 1/43 kit of a Ford GT-40, which I suppose actually has become an antique by now, even though I really don't think of it that way. You can see the kit at http://www.testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=1873
A quick look around reveals that you can get the Penske Corvette too, in the same series :)
Anyway, I'll write a review of the kit like one sees online, just because I have little else to do ATM. I'll also put it behind a cut, just because...
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This week seems to be about cars. They're having this huge hotrod convention downtown. On the one hoof, it's neat getting to see all the hotrods driving about. On the other hoof, it kind of sucks because they're not actually going anywhere - they just want to wander slowly up and down the main streets, causing congestion and changing lanes a lot. Still, it's only for the one weekend.
I saw one tonight that had met his doom on the beltway, evidently in a pretty spectacular fashion judging by the pieces that hadn't yet been cleaned up. I have this idea that now all of his buddies will go down to the maltshop and play 'Deadman's Curve' on the jukebox or something.
http://www.ncbuy.com/news/2004-07-09/1010052.html
They don't tell the whole story here. They blew the records up with real exploding dynamite between the double header, and the second game had to be cancelled because of the resulting riot. In general the 70s sucked, but now and again you had these brief moments of coolness. :)
*****
Suddenly, I developed the urge to build a model car. It's been years since I've done that, if we don't count the slot car body I carved from balsa last year. Now I wanted to put together a kit, though. Being a picky sort, I hoped for some sort of antique racing car. What I really had in mind was a Depression streamliner, like Wilbur Shaw's beautiful Red Lion, or something similar. What I actually got was a 1/43 kit of a Ford GT-40, which I suppose actually has become an antique by now, even though I really don't think of it that way. You can see the kit at http://www.testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=1873
A quick look around reveals that you can get the Penske Corvette too, in the same series :)
Anyway, I'll write a review of the kit like one sees online, just because I have little else to do ATM. I'll also put it behind a cut, just because...
( Read more... )
*****
This week seems to be about cars. They're having this huge hotrod convention downtown. On the one hoof, it's neat getting to see all the hotrods driving about. On the other hoof, it kind of sucks because they're not actually going anywhere - they just want to wander slowly up and down the main streets, causing congestion and changing lanes a lot. Still, it's only for the one weekend.
I saw one tonight that had met his doom on the beltway, evidently in a pretty spectacular fashion judging by the pieces that hadn't yet been cleaned up. I have this idea that now all of his buddies will go down to the maltshop and play 'Deadman's Curve' on the jukebox or something.
