This was owned by a friend of mine Todd when we were teenagers. Story I recall was that a man walked into the Mercury dealer and said he would buy the Comet if it had a BOSS 302 and was told they didnt offer it. He said you sell them in the parts department don't you? And so the car was born. Who knows the real story? Todd would never talk about selling then one day he tells me he needed some money and sold it as a loan for $6000 to a then brother in law or relative and could buy it back when he had the money. He never got it back. And yes it went out of state. Don't know if Mississippi or Louisiana. Side note: saw some action at Martin Road too!

 

in the early 80`s when i worked at the gulf service station on whitesburg drive he would come by once a week and fill up .. also the guy with the yellow HEMI Rt would come by ..

 

went and spent some time with some old family members today ..in my last trip i had only looked for and taken pictures of those kin who had perished in the civil war ..today i went there with a dozen rebel flags to put on their graves and any others who had passed in that war ,, i very quickly ran out of flags ..i found 5 more moons who had survived the war and died years later .. and many more other folks from the area ..after i had ran out of flags i found one veteran who had an american flag on his grave .. i had mixed feelings for a few minutes .. this fellow did not die fighting for america ..but since i had already run out of flags i did not want to pull a flag from a fellow i had already decorated ..

 

Wow! John Moon lived a long life for someone born in the early 19th century

 

as i am reading thru the family tree i recently discovered i have many dozens of distant relatives who fought in that war .. one moon family in georgia sent 8 sons and the father to war ..

 

I grew up hearing my mother say "Save your Confederate money, the South shall rise again!"

 

as a child my favorite swimming hole had a huge tree that we had a swinging rope tied to..this tree was forever old and rotted away in the middle .. fast forward 45 years and my neighbor tells me of the time he found an old satchel in that very tree 50 years earlier .. it was a satchel filled with confederate money over 100 years old .. he said he didn`t keep it .. it was just old money .. it just so happens that a civil war skirmish happened at that very area and a northern general was killed ..i cant think of his name but i will get a picture of the plaque on the hiway commemorating the event ..

 

here we go .. General Robert McCook .. Frank Gurley ( whom the town of Gurley alabama was named after was charged with murder after the war for killing McCook and spent a year or so in prison was but pardoned later .. what is war but legalized murder ? .. anyway this old limestone road dead ends within walking distance of the swimming hole and the old tree that the money was found in ,,i wonder if anyone has done any artifact hunting in the area ?it`s just a grassy cow paster now .

 

That is some awesome family history. Thanks for sharing

 

nice story of a rare barn find 68 cobra jet factory race car on MSN news .. i dont know how to bring it here ..

 

Some of these definitions fit so well they should be in the dictionary


ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in
the middle.


BEAUTY PARLOR
A place where women curl up and dye.

CHICKENS
The only animal you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

HANDKERCHIEF
Cold Storage.

INFLATION
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN
A grape with a sunburn.

SECRET
A story you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES
Something other people have....similar to my character lines.

OLD
I very quietly confided to my friend that I was having an Affair.
She turned to me and asked, "Are you having it catered?"
. . . and that, my friend, is the definition of 'OLD'!

 

This poem was written by John Saxon (an author of math textbooks).

((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0


Or for those who have trouble with the poem:

A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared and not a bit more.

 

it`s a small world after all .. one of my neighbors is a bit new to me yet i`ve known him and vice versa for many years from a distance ..he new some of my family members and i knew some of his .. we got to talking recently about the sports we played as kids and it comes out that we played against each other .. i went to walnut grove JR high and he went to Big cove ..i explained that i rememebered ( spelling ? ) that we beat Big cove for the only win we had one year in little league baseball .. i pitched that game .. i remember they had a one armed pitcher .. my neighbor said yes they did .. he named his name .. i remembered we scored 10 runs in the last inning to beat them 11 to 10 .. he remembered that ..i also remembered they had a midget on the team about 3 feet tall .. i remember striking him out to end the game .. it`s hard to pitch to a 5 inch strike zone ... this was 47 years ago

 

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trying out my new mower ...
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Get to know your dash board

 

interesting /
It just dawned on me why Mayberry was so peaceful and quiet....nobody was married.

Here are the single people that come to mind. Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Ernest T Bass, the Darlin family, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara...

in fact, the only one married was Otis and he stayed drunk.

 

having a whale of a time shooting bottle rockets at my neighbors horses .. ( did i tell you i hate horses ) .. i know charlie would have a coniption fit but its a blast ...