Archive for Automobilia
Slick 50 Team Pontiac Gift Bag
I think I got this from Slick 50/ Team Pontiac gift bag the Indy 500, but I may have got it at a drag race.
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Indy 500 Gift Shop Bag 1991
This bag is from the 1991 Indianapolis 500, which was the 75th running of the famed race. What I don’t get is 1991 was the only time I was in Indianapolis, so why is The Brickyard 400 on the bag when the first race wasn’t until 1994? Mysteries of life.
My Past Halloweens
I grew up in Independence, Kansas, a town of about 10,000 in Southeast Kansas. Every year around Halloween they have Neewollah and the town swells to about 100,000. There’s a week long carnival down town, a pageant (Queen Neelah), a play, famous musical acts (Roy Clark’s manager used to live there and I had signed up to usher for Roy Orbison, but he got throat polyps or something and was replaced by Merle Haggard or someone like that), and on Saturday, a big parade. And by big, I mean two hours long. I have no idea if it’s as big as it used to be. Here’s a shirt from it. I found it stuffed in the rag box. Not sure how it found its way there, but I’ve rescued it. I also have some belt buckles that are numbered.
Here’s some photos of me during Halloweens. First is 1972 and my Hot Wheels costume. I’ve always been a car guy and my sister’s always been a… never mind.
In Junior High, when I was too old to go trick-or-treating, I dressed as a mad professor. I had an over-sized plaid shirt that I used as a smock, I drew a goatee on my face and darkened around the eyes. I handed out candy looking like that and scared many a little kid. Unfortunately, I only have one picture: a cracked up Polaroid that won’t scan. The year I got out of the Army, I went to a Halloween party as a punk/zombie.
The next year in college I did the same thing and talked some clean-cut friends into similar outfits. They were surprised how much the change in dress affected their attitude.
That night we did a scavenger hunt and these cool looking boots I had were killing my feet. I was exhausted and in pain. I’m holding the balloon for a pretty girl who continued on the hunt.
Hound Family Photos #3
A few more of the family. We had a 1949 Plymouth Coupe that had been my grandfather’s. By the way, I hated bow ties then, and I hate them now. My mother apparently loved them.
My Mom knows how to sew. She sewed these pillow patterns onto shirts and aprons for Christmas in 1976.
Here’s me in another stinkin’ bow tie, Easter 1974.
Spinwelder from Mattel
Spinwelder Race Car Builder, Weld a dragster and a Can-Am special! Rev them up and run ‘em! Cool toy from Mattel No. 7331. Copyright 1974. Runs on a 6-volt lantern battery, that’s a big flashlight. My grandfather still uses one like that. One of my boys picked this up, but he hasn’t built it. It’s probably worth more if he doesn’t, but I won’t stop him if he decides to do it.
Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe – with a Corvette on the cover?
Beach Boys, Little Deuce Coupe, Pickwick SPC-3562. 1976. Well, at least there’s a deuce coupe (1932 Ford coupe) on the back. This appears to be a “greatest car-song hits” album. Well, except for “Little Honda,” which is about a dirt bike. Here’s the earlier version of a Beach Boys album called Little Deuce Coupe.
Don’t forget to donate to help out storm victims in Joplin and elsewhere. More happened in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas last night. Been a crazy couple years around this big blue marble.
