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Richard Hamilton
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Evansville, Indiana
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 12-03-2011 07:40 AM
Monte, It was just over 3 tons. Smooth as hell, luckily it had good brakes so I could stop the beast ![[beer]](graemlins/beer.gif)
Mark, on a good day driving downhill I maybe averaged 15MPG. I usually only put $20 bucks a day in it. 1 day I splurged and pulled into the little gas station near home. I went in, gave the cashier 2 hundred dollar bills and told her I was filling it up. I don't know if you've ever seen a grown man cry at the pump, but I was sobbing and stopped at $140.00. The girl was kinda shocked when I went in to get my change. I told her I had a road trip, she asked where, I replied "downtown". Downtown is about a 10 minute drive. About an hour later I stopped there again and topped off the tank, about $10.00. The cashier freaked, I just told her I wanted to make sure I had enough gas to get home. She asked were I lived, and I told her "about 1/2 mile up the road" and just turned and walked out. For that brief second, I was a quote: Monte L Fullmer
rich and famous(wannabes)
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-14-2011 11:34 AM
OK, you guys are keeping this thread going so I'll jump in. I was never a "car guy" when I was a teenager. They held only passing interest for me. In my early years I used public transportation and my thumb; back then, hitch-hiking was a viable and even reliable mode of getting from point A to point B (it wasn't illegal and you didn't even have to worry about being murdered someplace in between by a serial killer!). And in the wastelands of Texas, it was the ONLY means of transportation.
Anyway, when I moved back in NY, I really hadn't even thought of getting a car given the NYC public transit could get one withing a few blocks of anywhere you wanted to go. But then I saw THIS with a 4 Sale sign on it --  
-- a 1939 Fleetwood Cadillac (Towncar model) similar too the one above except mine was gray. That was in 1978. I didn't even have a license at the time, but it was love at first sight and I knew I HAD to have that car.
And I didn't even need to get a license because there were enough of my friends and stagehands from the theatre with licenses and all I would have to do is say, "Anyone want to drive the Caddy?" I never wonted for to be chauffeured anywhere I needed to go, nearly any time of the day or night. It became such a joke that I bought a chauffeur's cap and made my driver wear it while I sat in the rear seat with the partition rolled up (yes, it had a glass window between the front and rear seats that could be rolled up and curtains that would be pulled across it for privacy). I drove thru Prospect Park like Brooklyn royalty. Once I began waving at passersby; my friend Paul, yelled back, "Stop that or I'll throw your ass out."
The car was in MINT condition. It was one of Paramount's "practicals' and was used in THE GODFATHER. I freakin LOVED that car. Owned it for only 3 years until what the police said were probably about 4 or 5 thieves broke into the garage where I had it parked and stripped it of every conceivable part -- the fenders the bumpers, the white wall tires, motor parts, etc. It was a professional job -- people in the antique car trade pay huge $$$ for parts. The police told me that had I just parked it out on the street, I would have probably been better off. Parking it in a garage shut off from view gave the thieves all night to do their dastardly work. It was heartbreaking.
After a long time getting over that, it was on to much less esoteric motor cars -- a Toyota Corolla, then a Honda Accord, then a Saturn, now a 2005 Corolla again, all of which get me from point A to point B, but none of which I love as much as my first love, that awesome Caddy.
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Tom Petrov
Five Guys Lover
Posts: 1121
From: El Paso, TX
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 12-14-2011 11:14 PM
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OK, you guys are keeping this thread going so I'll jump in. I was never a "car guy" when I was a teenager. They held only passing interest for me. In my early years I used public transportation and my thumb; back then, hitch-hiking was a viable and even reliable mode of getting from point A to point B (it wasn't illegal and you didn't even have to worry about being murdered someplace in between by a serial killer!). And in the wastelands of Texas, it was the ONLY means of transportation.
Anyway, when I moved back in NY, I really hadn't even thought of getting a car given the NYC public transit could get one withing a few blocks of anywhere you wanted to go. But then I saw THIS with a 4 Sale sign on it -- - -
-- a 1939 Fleetwood Cadillac (Towncar model) similar too the one above except mine was gray. That was in 1978. I didn't even have a license at the time, but it was love at first sight and I knew I HAD to have that car.
And I didn't even need to get a license because there were enough of my friends and stagehands from the theatre with licenses and all I would have to do is say, "Anyone want to drive the Caddy?" I never wonted for to be chauffeured anywhere I needed to go, nearly any time of the day or night. It became such a joke that I bought a chauffeur's cap and made my driver wear it while I sat in the rear seat with the partition rolled up (yes, it had a glass window between the front and rear seats that could be rolled up and curtains that would be pulled across it for privacy). I drove thru Prospect Park like Brooklyn royalty. Once I began waving at passersby; my friend Paul, yelled back, "Stop that or I'll throw your ass out."
The car was in MINT condition. It was one of Paramount's "practicals' and was used in THE GODFATHER. I freakin LOVED that car. Owned it for only 3 years until what the police said were probably about 4 or 5 thieves broke into the garage where I had it parked and stripped it of every conceivable part -- the fenders the bumpers, the white wall tires, motor parts, etc. It was a professional job -- people in the antique car trade pay huge $$$ for parts. The police told me that had I just parked it out on the street, I would have probably been better off. Parking it in a garage shut off from view gave the thieves all night to do their dastardly work. It was heartbreaking.
After a long time getting over that, it was on to much less esoteric motor cars -- a Toyota Corolla, then a Honda Accord, then a Saturn, now a 2005 Corolla again, all of which get me from point A to point B, but none of which I love as much as my first love, that awesome Caddy.
Awesome read Frank
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And in the wastelands of Texas,
Where are the wastelands of Texas?
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