THE PERFECT GIFT

[Bill Greenwood]

Yes, I know it is not warbirds, but you got to see this.

There is a magazine, a big booklet at the grocery store, HEMINGS MOTOR NEWS, which is like Trade A Plane, but for cars. It is great to look through, some normal junk like Edsels, some great stuff, 1948 Maserati open wheel Grand Prix factory race car, a museum stored 1929 Rolls Royce all original even the interior leather in good shape, price is (well if you have to ask you can't afford it). So after you get past drooling over everything that you'd love to have, that is if you had any money to start with and you hadn't blown it all on airplanes; there is a section in the back for miscellaneous stuff. Some of it is cool real estate, want your own island or castle? But the most unique one I came across was this:

Human Skeleton, authentic, complete and original in six sided antique wooden coffin, formerly belonged to a medical school.

Now, you can give the common sweater or even a new car or maybe a ride in a B-17 or a P-51, of if you are patient for a year or so, maybe in a dual control Spitfire. But cool as those are, they have been done. If you give this skeleton (all original, doesn't say how many miles on it) then you can be pretty sure they don't already have one like it, and your gift will be remembered as unique among all the fruit cakes.

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[Airplanejunkie]

Human Skeleton, authentic, complete and original in six sided antique wooden coffin, formerly belonged to a medical school.

Probably just some unfortunate airline passenger after an extended delay.....




edit: added smile because deadpan doesn't work so good in writing...

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[Dan K]

Many thanks for that, Bill...just blew some Cherry Coke out my nose....feel the burn.


Still laughing.


See you for beers and deviled eggs at OSH.


HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

[TAdan]

I picked up the latest copy of Hemmings for my father as a Christmas present. It is already wrapped... so I'll have to look for the ad tomorrow.

[Bluedharma]

Good one Bill!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
-Paul

[jet1]

I think I'd still like an L-59 more...no offense of course!

[K5DH]

Dang! That's me, on my last day of work for the year, just before I managed to escape out the back door! Funny, I don't remember having my picture taken. Must've been something in that Christmas cookie that I found abandoned in the conference room. . .

Merry Christmas, everybody!

[Chris Brame]

Hey Moderators! Bill finally offended me!!

some normal junk like Edsels,

Leave my poor old Edsel alone, it's pouting:



(just kidding Bill - now let's get off the board and go have ourselves a merry little Christmas )

[bugazon]

That is pretty funny! About the Edsel though.....you got to admit, that grille does look like a toilet seat. -keith

[Chris Brame]

I just like to think of it as a narrowed F-86 intake... better that than the proverbial "Oldsmobile sucking a lemon"

[PJ]

One time Hemming's had shrunken heads advertised.

PJ
PV-2 Harpoon "Hot Stuff"
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[Bill Greenwood]

Is there any chance that the Edsel and the Gannet were designed by the same guys?

[b29flteng]

Is there any chance that the Edsel and the Gannet were designed by the same guys?

McNamara designed the Gannet?

[Bill Greenwood]

Did McNamara design the Edsel ? I knew he was with Ford, but I thought he was in accounting and finance, not styling.

I know he was one of the major planners of the escalation of the Vietnam War. He was here in Aspen about two years ago speaking, and he was in ill health, looked bad and I think he knew he was dying. He beat around the bush a lot, ( that is with a small b and no pun intended) but he never got around to making a real apology. I'd hate to go to my grave with that much blood on my conscience, assuming he had one.

[ZRX61]

2 or 3 years back some guy in the magazine was selling his home in (I think) Georgia... & it had a 1.5 mile road course in the front yard...