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A body shop owner in Idaho who also built custom cars, grafted the roof of a 1965 Olds Vista Cruiser onto a 1962 Ford Thunderbird.

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I would drive that car. Looks pretty cool, especially the S shaped B piller, kind of like the tri-five Nomads.

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Austin Clagett filed a lawsuit against Morrilton Country Club, because when he played in the club’s “Tournament of the Century” on Oct 8, the Country Club promoted a 2022 Ford F-150 4x4 Supercrew as a prize for the first person to hit a hole-in-one of the course’s 10th hole. That truck had a sticker of prize of $53,595

Clagett went out and aced the 10th hole. According to reports, it was a good, clean ace. It didn’t happen on a provisional. It didn’t happen out of turn. A letter-of-the-law "one." When Clagett went to claim his new ride after round, however, Morrilton Country Club wouldn’t turn over the keys.

I learned that these promotions are only done when dealerships buy insurance to cover the loss if someone wins.

This time, this dealership didn't get insurance!

Jay Hodge Ford says they were unable to secure the necessary insurance for the vehicle in time because they believed the vehicle was for display purposes only. Without their knowledge, Morrilton Country Club promoted the pickup as a hole-in-one prize, perhaps thinking no one would actually make a hole-in-one, a decision which has now backfired spectacularly.

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Hurricane Ian's 150-mile-per-hour winds took one billboard back nearly three decades, peeling off years of ads to reveal “The New” 1996 Dodge Caravan

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Sunfish Weighing 6,000lbs Is the World's Heaviest Ever Bony Fish

Also known as a Mola Mola, Females of the species can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate, up to 300,000,000 at a time.

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New highway sign the NMDOT just put up. It's ALBUQUERQUE

Still loving this thread Lee!! Thanks for posting. I hope you are feeling better.:headbang:

As a matter of fact I am! My recovery has been frustrating slow but I have made progress. I am now averaging between 85 and 90 for my O2 level. 93 or better is normal. Not as tired as I was doing anything. Back behind the wheel (Yipee) and joining my son grocery shopping. Only use the O2 machine once or twice a week. Hoping I can get rid of it at the end of this month.

Of course my appetite came roaring back but I am controling my food intake so at this time I have lost 15 pounds since I went into the hospital.

Thank you for your inquiry and of course for the kudos for the thread. Lots more to come.

Could be worse -

K

Hey, at least she got her toy Yoda...:biggthumpup:

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What is it? Though there is an R/T emblem on the front grille - there is no such car as a 1970 340 Magnum Challenger R/T. Unlike the 'Cuda which did offer the 340 (you could sub out the standard 383 for it). Dodge made a special Challenger option: A66 which included the 340 and that's what this car is. Just need to remove the R/T emblem - no big deal.

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Why put an option on such a valuable car that was never available? Those are real "recall wheels" BTW not repops.

You would think with all the speed enhancements, the Daytona would have been the car to beat on NASCAR tracks. But the facts say different. Only two wins during the 1969 racing season. Yes it did win the inaugural Talladega race and yes it's the first NASCAR racer to average 200 MPH but truth be known, it's accomplishments were sorely lacking.

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Escondido sergeant Jeff Valdivia thought a sickly 6-week-old girl would die if she wasn’t taken away from a drug house in 2000. Last month, he pinned a deputy badge on her at her police academy graduation ceremony 22 years after rescuing her

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the Walter Taylor Bridge is the only habitable bridge in the Southern Hemisphere, it's in Brisbane Australia.

The original toll master and generations of his family lived in the unusual family home in the pillar on the Indooroopilly side of the bridge for 74 years. The pillar on the Chelmer side of the bridge contains another dwelling, as well as a ballroom underneath the bridge.

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Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the fill for most life preservers and flight vests came from the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies, harvested from the pods of the ceiba tree. A cotton-like fiber called kapok also was water resistant and buoyant, but the Japanese captured Java soon after Pearl Harbor, cutting off the supply.

The "Kapok" life preserver vests used by the Navy and Marine corps during WWII, and were in many ways easier to use than the "Mae West" type, as they did not require inflation and were easier to secure. This type of preserver was intended more for "General" use

Tests by the U.S Navy had found 1 pound of milkweed fluff was as warm as wool, but six times as light, and it was six times as buoyant as cork.

A pound of milkweed fluff could keep a 150-pound man afloat for more than 40 hours.

How cool is that! This is what America needs more of! Great job Jeff!!!

I agree, what a great story.

On Nov. 2, 2000, Escondido police officer Jeff Valdivia was called in to help with the arrest of a parole violator at a known drug house in south Escondido.

Valdivia was in his mid-20s and just four years out of the police academy.

Inside one room, he found a sickly 6-week-old girl that had barely been fed after her birth and three pounds below her birth weight, along with her teenage mother, a daily crystal meth user, and a used methamphetamine pipe. (crystal meth capital of the world, Escondido California, about 20 miles north of San Diego)

Valdivia had never taken a child into protective custody before, but he feared that if he left the baby with her mother that day, she wouldn’t survive. So with the support of his fellow officers and a juvenile detective, Valdivia decided to file the paperwork that would forever change the life trajectory of the baby who became Natalie Young. But he never knew how important that decision was until six weeks ago.

Natalie was 6 years old in 2007 when her family left San Diego for Colorado Springs, in search of more affordable housing and the small-town life, with good schools, plenty of churches, horses to ride and lots of pine trees. In Colorado, Natalie gradually began to thrive.

Over time, Natalie’s health improved and she became very strong, eventually earning a black belt in tae kwon do.

Inspired by her daughter’s passion for law enforcement, Shelley Young enrolled in the El Paso County Sheriff’s academy herself about five years ago. She graduated and has been working for the department as a dispatcher ever since. It was through her work with the sheriff’s department in August that she finally found Valdivia. She called the records department at the Escondido Police Department and asked records technician Sandra Ferrer if it was possible to find a case file from Nov. 2, 2000. Intrigued and moved by Natalie’s backstory, Ferrer was able to retrieve the record from a digital database, and she immediately tracked down Valdivia with the news.

“Sandra approaches me in the hallway with a report in her hand and said, ‘Do you remember this?’ I see the name of the birth mother and I said, ‘Yeah, I remember this case really well,’” Valdivia said. “Then she said, ‘Well, that little girl was adopted, and I’ve been talking to her adoptive mom and she’s about to graduate from a sheriff’s academy.”

That’s when Valdivia — now the sergeant for Escondido Police’s community-oriented COPPS division — got a call out of the blue from Natalie’s adoptive mother Shelley Young, who had recently tracked him down through a records search. She told him that Natalie had grown up to become a healthy and happy 22-year-old who was about to graduate from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Academy in their hometown of Colorado Springs.

Shelley and her husband, Jeff Young, wanted Valdivia to know that his decision to save her had inspired their daughter to become an officer, and they wondered if he would fly out to pin on Natalie’s deputy badge at her graduation ceremony on Sept. 23.

Valdivia was stunned by the news and said it was the first time in his 26-year career that he’d had the opportunity to see the long-term results of his work.

Natalie said that from the time she was old enough to ask her parents where she came from, they told her the story of her rescue by a police officer. By the time she was 8 years old, she knew she wanted to follow in this unknown officer’s footsteps someday. “It changed my whole life and I wanted to change other people’s lives in the same way.”

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