| MORE NEAT STUFF THAT YOU DON'T NEED BUT BUY ANYWAY |
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| If you're from the west and old enough, you remember running across
the desert with a couple of these full of water and hanging from
the bumper guards or radio antenna base. My dad always carried three
for us. |
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| Look very closely at this: it's a bicycle. See the wheel in back
and peeking out from behind the plaque under the amplifier. The mikes
are the handle bars and the pedals are flat picks. I saw the guy
driving it around the grounds at one point. Pretty wild and a helluva
lot of work. Would be fun to ride to the market and raise eyebrows. |
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| Quarter midgets: one of these would fit in any living room. Hmmmmm! |
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| I love the oddball stuff you find in these swap meets: this is
one of the very earliest Lionel train transformers. |
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| Not a lot of folks recognized this and even fewer would be interested
in it: an electric cream separator. |
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| My theory about getting the best buy at stuff when they are out
of context and in the wrong kind of venue is shown here. The Singer
is $80 here and could be had for $60. One in this condition would
be two or three times that in an antique swap meet. The table, which
is really nice oak is $50 and would be four times that in an antique
store. |
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| The bolt is 2 inches in diameter. Would make great paperweights,
if my desk could support them. |
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| Everyone is looking for odd seats for their rat rods. Bucket seats
and tractor seats abound. Why not this. Couldn't find my initials
carved in it. I probably sat in the one ahead of it. |
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| "Calling Jed Clampett: you're double parked and about to get
towed." |
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| That middle mill was nearly four inches in diameter. Think how
much horsepower it takes to turn something like that? Damn! |
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| Whizzer City. The Simplex on this side would look good hanging
on a living room wall. |
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| This took a seriously big source of heat. Even a forge would have
to be big to handle it. Great for a rat rod, but I wonder how much
the geometry would have to be tweeked to make it work. Plus, it'll
be pretty narrow. Still, it's a really innovative idea. |
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| Ah, come on!
Gimme a break! |
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