Off Season Time Kill

[nefansince75]

What is your favorite childhood memory?

Really simple one. My grandmother was a hard-ass. I really didn't like her.... But when I was about nine I had my tonsils out at the hospital where she worked. I woke in a anesthesia haze and saw her sitting by my side wanting to hold me. I didn't really want to be held but could see in her eyes how much she wanted to hold me, so I let her. From that day forward I saw her in a different light.

As a kid my family didn't have much. My father had difficulty keeping a job. My grandparents did a lot to help support us and give us perceived luxuries like soda and snacks. I was jealous of what other kids had, but knew one important reality... I had the best grand parents.

 

[BigKen]

What is your favorite childhood memory?

My mother's father died in 1925 of pneumonia, so I never met him.

My father's dad was a giant of a man for his time. He was born in 1888 and by the time he was 15 he was 6'7". You have to know that the average man was about 5'8" in 1900. He was a fisherman and he died in 1952 at 74 years. I was 2 years old but I can see him as clear as day, sneaking me Canada Mints through the wood bars in my playpen. I can hear my mother screaming at him that I would choke to death and he'd laugh and say, he'll only choke once. My father's mom died in 1940's of lung problems.

Her mother was loaded, I mean loaded. She owned about half of the property (land) that is today Saco, Maine. When she died, she left nothing to her children. She left the land to the town of Saco and all of her money to the Methodist church. I tried to contest the will in 1978. Like trying to pick up a diesel locomotive with one hand. All of her direct children and their children were all dead.

 

[Southieinnc]

Let's kick off the weekend with a second question.

What is your reasonable ie attainable dream car?

For me a 55 or 56 Nomad Wagon. Completely okay with with full resto mod

1978 Yamaha RD400
I had one in 1978. Had to sell when I lost my license.....

 

[nefansince75]

My mother's father died in 1925 of pneumonia, so I never met him.

My father's dad was a giant of a man for his time. He was born in 1888 and by the time he was 15 he was 6'7". You have to know that the average man was about 5'8" in 1900. He was a fisherman and he died in 1952 at 74 years. I was 2 years old but I can see him as clear as day, sneaking me Canada Mints through the wood bars in my playpen. I can hear my mother screaming at him that I would choke to death and he'd laugh and say, he'll only choke once. My father's mom died in 1940's of lung problems.

Her mother was loaded, I mean loaded. She owned about half of the property (land) that is today Saco, Maine. When she died, she left nothing to her children. She left the land to the town of Saco and all of her money to the Methodist church. I tried to contest the will in 1978. Like trying to pick up a diesel locomotive with one hand. All of her direct children and their children were all dead.

Was your great grandmother a Dyer?

 

[BigKen]

as your great grandmother a Dyer?

Her married name was Patrick

My grandmother was Hattie Mae. I'd have to find the Family Bible to my great grndmother's maiden name.

 

[Draft Crazy]

Her married name was Patrick

My grandmother was Hattie Mae. I'd have to find the Family Bible to my great grndmother's maiden name.

NEM?

 

[BigKen]

NEM?

What?? Not sure what that means

 

[Yankee Traveler]

What is your favorite childhood memory?

Boat yards with my dad.
The smell of fuel, old grease, fish and the cold north Atlantic...

 

[YankeeRebel]

My mother's father died in 1925 of pneumonia, so I never met him.

My father's dad was a giant of a man for his time. He was born in 1888 and by the time he was 15 he was 6'7". You have to know that the average man was about 5'8" in 1900. He was a fisherman and he died in 1952 at 74 years. I was 2 years old but I can see him as clear as day, sneaking me Canada Mints through the wood bars in my playpen. I can hear my mother screaming at him that I would choke to death and he'd laugh and say, he'll only choke once. My father's mom died in 1940's of lung problems.

Her mother was loaded, I mean loaded. She owned about half of the property (land) that is today Saco, Maine. When she died, she left nothing to her children. She left the land to the town of Saco and all of her money to the Methodist church. I tried to contest the will in 1978. Like trying to pick up a diesel locomotive with one hand. All of her direct children and their children were all dead.

So mints amazing you can remember that from age two.

 

[YankeeRebel]

Mine was fall day's when the air temp was really cold but if you found a filed with rolling winds you could lay down so the winds would not chill you but the sun would warm you.

 

[YankeeRebel]

What are your top five songs all time

 

[YankeeRebel]

What are your top five songs all time

No Special Order:

Tangled Up In Blue
Lives In The Balance
Riders On The Storm
Better Things
Fountain of Lamneth.

 

[BigKen]

So mints amazing you can remember that from age two.

I swear, I can remember seeing his hand wrapped in a bandana coming at me with that white circle of sugar.

The bandana was holding his hand together. He split it in half with a hatchet chopping kindling. Tough bastard.

 

[Rex Racer]

Let's kick off the weekend with a second question.

What is your reasonable ie attainable dream car?

For me a 55 or 56 Nomad Wagon. Completely okay with with full resto mod

Many of you fellas know that I am a certified car nut and there are so many classic cars that I love that it makes it difficult to choose just one........................... however, the last 4 or 5 years I have been jonesing for one particular vehicle.

1967 Pontiac 2+2 ragtop. 428c.i. V-8, 360 - 400+ HP depending on the carb option, 4 speed MANUAL transmission, 8 lug turbine rims and every available power option. Probably cost me upwards of 50K to get one fully restored in mint condition, but I'm not interested in a trailer queen so I'd be happy with a clean, solid driver for just over half of that.

 

[BigKen]

1967 Pontiac 2+2 ragtop.

My father had one of these and it was the ugliest yellow ever. We loved it. It shit the bed in '71 and I traded it for 1967 Ford Fairlaine so that he could get around when I went back for my fourth tour. I traded it in October, went back and my father died in April '72. My mother never drove and my brother and sister were too young. I traded the Fairlane for a 1970 Torino GT.

 

[Rex Racer]

My father had one of these and it was the ugliest yellow ever. We loved it. It shit the bed in '71 and I traded it for 1967 Ford Fairlaine so that he could get around when I went back for my fourth tour. I traded it in October, went back and my father died in April '72. My mother never drove and my brother and sister were too young. I traded the Fairlane for a 1970 Torino GT.

My old man had a some big GM sedans when I was a kid and they were plain Jane, no frills models, but they all had the bad ass V-8 option. Pontiac Star Chief, Buick Wildcat, Buick Special convertible. He must have enjoyed going to the gas station.

 

[BigKen]

 

[BigKen]

 

[YankeeRebel]

Sharp

 

[BigKen]

My old man had a some big GM sedans when I was a kid and they were plain Jane, no frills models, but they all had the bad ass V-8 option. Pontiac Star Chief, Buick Wildcat, Buick Special convertible. He must have enjoyed going to the gas station.

When I got drafted in 1968, gasoline was $0.16 a gallon. That Pontiac had a 20 gallon tank. $2.00 would just about fill it. Then again, I was making $55 a week and taking home $47.

This was my baby when I was inducted on 9/23/68

1970 Chevy Impala SS. Mine had red trim , not blue.