BitterSweet is home.

[commando1]

I get 1,000 times more everything from this car than my first '67.
But I would not love this car as much if I didn't have my first 67 in the first place.
It's a philosophical catch 22.

Oh, a set of duals and glasspaks are going on Wednesday :-D

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[tallhair]

I get 1,000 times more everything from this car than my first '67.
But I would not love this car as much if I didn't have my first 67 in the first place.
It's a philosophical catch 22.

Oh, a set of duals and glasspaks are going on Wednesday :-D

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You should call it Yossarian instead then

Glasspacks sound awesome.

Would you mind sharing why you like this one more? Obviously the original 67 affected you very strongly or, as you say, you wouldn't have this one ... so it was strong indeed.

 

[detmatt]

Good stuff Stan! That car is gorgeous, you should be proud.

 

[commando1]

Would you mind sharing why you like this one more?

You know me. I'd share them if I could. I never shut up.
But I can't because there's no real answer and trying to come up with one is too hard right now.;-)

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[70NPORT]

All the Snowbirds are gone.
The Love Bug season is gone also.
Sebring has returned to normal.
US27 is empty. You can go out and stand in the middle lane blindfolded and still not worry about getting run over.
Saturday night. Empty. Quiet. Serene. The setting sun
Stop in at the local watering hole and there's only a dozen people there. '70's music playing. The best part is every one in there is a local.
The way it should be.
You pay your tab and step outside. All the cars are gone. And there's your gorgeous gal waiting for you.
Drive real slow home, all the windows down, arm out the window...
Heaven. I live for dusk in the summer.

Beautifully put, beautiful pic.

 

[tallhair]

You know me. I'd share them if I could. I never shut up.
But I can't because there's no real answer and trying to come up with one is too hard right now.;-)

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Good enough for me brother

 

[commando1]

Thank you guys for appreciating my feelings tonight.

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[70NPORT]

That pic of yours reminds me of rt.13 s in Maryland...headed along the eastern shore. Couple of quite country towns along the way with only one or two intersections across 13. Usually they have yellow blinker light hanging across the roadway.

 

[commando1]

I can picture it exactly. We're seeing the same thing I bet.

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[Big_John]

Great picture and great words.

Times like that remind us why we do this.

 

[70NPORT]

Looks like the kind of town where ya can hear the CSX slowly passing thru at 2 or 3am in the morning.

 

[commando1]

Damn you sure nailed that one Gary. I can hear the train as it goes through the crossings in Avon Park, six miles away at 2:00 A.M.
I bet the image of tumbleweed going down Main St. in The Last Picture Show is burned into your memory.

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[Big_John]

When I was a kid I could hear the train horns way across town in the middle of the night if all the windows were open and conditions were just right. I loved the sound.

Now I hear them at night every once in a while... and I still love the sound.

 

[70NPORT]

Damn you sure nailed that one Gary. I can hear the train as it goes through the crossings in Avon Park, six miles away at 2:00 A.M.
I bet the image of tumbleweed going down Main St. in The Last Picture Show is burned into your memory.

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There's a barely used freight line not 1/2 mi down the road from me. Occasionally the train will pass through at 1 or 2 in the morning. The horn blasts lift me out of the depths of REM sleep JUST enough to think I'm dreaming. Then the sound of the horn and the "clacking" of the wheels on the rails getting further and further away, echoing off the landscape and thru the trees lulls me back into REM. It's a surreal thing. I'd hate living in the city.

 

[tallhair]

I lived in a small town so we could all hear the train, which runs through the middle of town, at night .. to me it's a very peaceful and lonesome sound that's somehow comforting

Probably why Johnny included it in those famous lyrics

 

[70NPORT]

I lived in a small town so we could all hear the train, which runs through the middle of town, at night .. to me it's a very peaceful and lonesome sound that's somehow comforting

Probably why Johnny included it in those famous lyrics

Indeed. There is something comforting about it.

 

[tallhair]

Here's a version to play us out for the night

 

[commando1]

I would have killed to see Johnny Cash in concert.
And Roy Orbison.
Just those two.

 

[tallhair]

Now that's a cool pair of men in black

 

[detmatt]

My shop is is about 150 yards from a busy line, Amtrak and freight many times a day and I love it!