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Who'd have thought this guy would live to be 100 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Mike_Hoare

Spotted recently in the Dominican Republic by a vacationing friend...

Sounds like a good candidate for a Darwin award.....

RIP to Gahan Wilson, whose monster/horror cartoons were wonderful in the '70s to '90s - he had one in every copy of Playboy for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gahan_Wilson

Thanks for the info, I'll drop by again in a couple of days...

I stopped by Double Kiss @4:30PM yesterday and it was closed....walked through the back way to Camel Toe and 3Ways and they were open...

As one who lives north of the 60th parallel, I have no desire to spend another whole winter in that part of the world and as long as I am financially and physically able to do so, I will be absent for at least the months of December and January, and Xmas be damned....it's not so much the cold, which in my part of the north is rather dry and not nearly as bone-chilling at moderate temperatures as that experienced by those living in more humid climates - such as the UK and our own coastal areas in Canada - but it's the dark AND the cold that really gets to me - it's having to commute in that dark and the cold with the nervous drivers amongst us holding up everyone else because they are scared shitless as soon as the first snowflake falls; it's having things break on your vehicle in the cold just when you least need to deal with something like that; it's going out every day for seemingly days on end to clear snow off your walks and driveways; and it's also having to live in a virtual police state in the "holiday" season when the local Gestapo have check stops all over the place to make sure we don't have too much fun...nah, you can have the "white winters", I am heartily sick of them and am happy to be back in Pattaya again for the duration of this one....

Just finished firing up my woodstove for the first time this year; at -10C it's just cold enough for it to burn efficiently. I'll only enjoy its heat for the next two days before jumping on the plane, mind you:

This guy was nuts - talk about riding on the ragged edge...

I'd love that Lotus Europa but I doubt I'd fit in it, lol...

Yeah, I was reaching a little with the "Starsky and Hutch" but I haven't seen the Clint Eastwood movie; also, if the black Ferrari is the one used on "Miami Vice", it is actually a replica built on a Corvette C3 chassis but I'd still love to have it...

1) Dodge Challenger - "Vanishing Point" 2) Ford Torino "Starsky & Hutch" 3) Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Spyder and you've lost me here...but what a gorgeous car.

Two out of three here - the 2002 is nice but doesn't look right with the modern ultra-low profile wheels and tires; I love the BMW "shark nose" 6 series; and the Firebird suffers from the later "safety bumper" look - yet the earlier '70 to '73 were beautiful cars - here is my old '70 Formula 400:

1968 - 1973 were okay, but then in '74 they f**ked them up with the ugly rear safety bumper, and in the years after that they were increasingly choked by emissions regulations to the point that they were gutless....

Nice threesome there, BarryL - good taste in classic '60s cars. Personally I like the '64-'67 Vettes the best and always wanted to own one but today they are asking silly money so no deal....as for Shelbys and Dinos, even worse...

Certainly appears to be a cut above your usual Pattaya accommodation, lol.....

Since it's Halloween:

Well, I know the guy who originally brought this car north from California in the '70s - not the present owner because he was forced to sell it through divorce, along with other interesting cars he owned - but I figure he probably added these "defacing" safety features so he would feel more comfortable giving his small daughters and her friends rides around town in the car; then again, perhaps the car already had them thanks to a former owner who had similar concerns - do you want a museum piece or do you want a driveable car? I think you are the real "airbag" here.....

And now for something completely different....this lovely old 1937 Packard was in my buddy's autobody shop for a touch-up the other day:

I left my dirt bike a little too late to put away properly for the winter and had to warm it up to start it, using this old tent and heater I salvaged from my workplace years ago; the joys of preparing for winter....

I've been favouring this brand of spiced rum for some time now as it is much cheaper than Kraken, Bayou or Sailor Jerry but still tastes good - I went to our local gov't run liquor store to pick up a bottle last weekend and found it with the fancy new label and paper advertising sleeve and sure enough, it's now $3 more than it was before....

Just relaxing at the end of a good and productive day and feeling happy that the flu that has dogged me for the last three days or so is finally lifting....

288 GTO, very rare indeed at only 272 examples manufactured...

Now we're talking - never mind the bloody choppers or equally ugly modern crotch rockets, this bike is MY definition of two-wheeled nirvana....would love to hear it run and I'll bet it drives as well as it looks...TFP.....