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..thanks - I just love these old cars - must have been great to drive one !
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You're welcome, and it sure was a pleasures to drive the old Packards. Some friend said it had an orthopedic ride.
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...thanks .... have a cigarette.
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Back in the day...but not today....
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Excellent, and somehow they always made the two-tone paint job work well.
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..yes - I came across this old beauty just walking through the local neigborhoods .... it's like stepping into a time machine -old car - old house and garage ... and - yeah - two tone paint job was something that just kind of subliminaly registered in my admmiration for this plump beauty - thanks for pointing it out.
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I will be doing more car shots, now that the flowers are all kaput.
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... I find old cars fascinating - but trying to photograph them in some unique way is quite a challenge ... so I will study your car shots .
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Oh, now it's unique we want! lol. I love the fact that this Packard is so bright and shiny. Makes me feel like a thievin' magpie. Good thing it's safely up in Canadia.
I don't know if I've ever taken a unique shot of a vehicle, I just try and show some aspect of the design that especially catches my eye.
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..well . I'm expecting unique - so set the bar high.
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o.k. they'll all be on slides, upside down and inside out.
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What? You want unique. o.k. unique it is.
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...I was hoping you'd see it my way ( looks down ...files nails )
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lol. Must admit I was just being contrary on general principles. I cannot sustain my contrariness, I'm posting pics.
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This is sweet. I love old cars too. I used to have a Rover P4 called Humphry.* Sigh * He had a Viking Badge on the front and lovely red leather bench seats and was built like a tank with a stopping distance of one mile.
Just like this one in fact.
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..... now why was your Rover called Humphry ? ... ( my last name is Humprhries ..by the by ) ..thanks for the link ...your car looks more upper class with that grill than this old more plump and rounded Packard ( don't take that wrong )...but it's like I could see Humphry dropping off the Prime Minister at #10 - whereas this Packard would belong to some cigar chomping construction company owner ( I am right in saying that aren't I ? )
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Heheheh! You are spot on.
Thats why he was called Humphry ..its the kind of name that tends to bring to mind some kind of stuffy civil servant or Bank manager.It was quite incongruous as my hair was all different colours and spikey at the time.
What a beautiful car though. The engine was so quiet that when waiting at traffic lights it was difficult to know if the engine was still running.It had a lovely walnut wood dashboard and lots of dials and knobs and it smelled amazing.*sigh*
A friend of mine had a Morris Minor
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He fitted a Klaxon underneath the bonnet which made a terrifically loud...HHAWWWOOOOGGGHHHAAA!!...noise.Great for scaring innocent pedestrians who wre very confused as to where the noise had come from and obviously not from that tiny little MM.
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" as my hair was all different colours and spikey at the time. " .... this is what jumps out of the paragraph ... I assume you are currently more mannered and tamed ... the wild and wooly 'Humphry' days behind you - driving a sensible car , wearing sensible shoes - with no incongruities apparent.
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Heheh...well not quite. I have never worn sensible shoes and don't intend to start now. I have worn Docs for 30+ years until last year when they gave up the ghost in Poland and I had to buy the local equivalent...which are much superior actually but don't tell that to the Doctor.
As for my hair ..well we do all kinds of things in our youth..that was the result of being a hairdressers model.
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...hmmm -- you are definately out of the mold .
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You don't know nuffin yet.
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...hmmm --- MysteriousFalseMaria --- you do have a pretty good sense of humour --- but I think you must know that already.
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You seem to have fairly well developed sense sense of the ridiculous too ....which is a good thing in my book.
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it is my curse to only speak the truth.
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...and you bear the responsiblity well , so far.
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I can only tell the truth ..so shucks.. I know.
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... I can't get past your line "You don't know nuffin yet." ...I think that's cute.
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..cat got your tongue ?
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No ..stoopid computer keeps freezing ..I hate technology.
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...me too .... give it a rest -- go eat that Wimpy burger --- clear the frozen carp out of your pool.
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I thought you would be a technophile ..what with all your digitally manipulated pics. I think I am the only person in the Westernised world who does not own a mobile(cell) phone.
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..add me to that list ( really )
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Seriously? I had heard that there was another but I had assumed it was just an urban myth.
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..... we are 'out there' .... there are others ....... waiting .....just....waiting.
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Really? Really?Oh joy! Oh rapture!
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..... keep calm - we'll notify you by passenger pigeon.
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I'm allergic to pigeons ..but penguins are okay ..they cast less.
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...yeah - and what is the penguin to do - buy a ticket on the Queen Mary ? ...you will kindly acquiesce to the pigeon plan ...( it's free - we don't pay the pigeons you see. )
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Okay ...carry on. I don't think I will be much use to the revolution though due to a severe anaphylactic reaction to aforesaid pigeon.I will swell up to such a degree I might not be able to fit through the door....but I will cheer you on through the keyhole.
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....stiff upper lip Scottish girl ....carry on .
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Wheeeze ..."gus"......wheeze ..".sur!".....wheeze. I can't do the stiff upper lip I am sorry as my lips are pursed and blue due to my imminent respiratory collapse.
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.... you're not going to become a problem are you ? ....jeezus jennies --- OK --- we'll switch to penguins ( can you say "fish breath" ? )
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I'm okay now ..I just stabbed myself in the heart with an adrenalin shot. Penguins????Whose stupid idea was that?
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.... and you did make it - I just repeated it .
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never was much into cars, but this certainly is a piece of art, rather than a means of transport ...
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...kind of reportage photography ...you may not be into cars - but you have to appreciate the form and beauty of these old autos ..they truly are works of art.
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