----A friend of mine is currently painting serial No.1 Tucker or possibly the last one produced right near me (can't remember which). The owner has owned several Tuckers and restored this one once already, but not in the original color. My friend is correcting that and then the owner is putting it back together! Not sure but it may be this one as it looks like the incorrect color I saw on the car....Bill S

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No offense to anyone who likes these, but in my opinion, one of the ugliest cars ever produced, easily.

No doubt about it. But then, much of what we do is pretty crazy.

Went to court this morning in a little county in Southern OK. Never been there before.
You know you are in a small town when the flag pole bases are made from a piece of pipe, a round steel plate, an old brake drum and rebar.
Courthouse was built in 1914. Some genius decided to wood panel this courtroom, probably in the 60s or 70s.
Pics will probably show up sideways, as they were taken with my cell phone, and apparently PCs don't like Apple devices.

Hopefully the judge gave you a “brake”:hmmm:LOL

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Did you know a Loofah is a fruit made on a vine (like grapes, cucumber, watermelon etc)? And that the Navy used them for engine oil filters in WW2?

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1964 Tour de France

#187 CSX2300 Bob Bondurant /Jochen Neerpasch D.N.F.
#188 CSX2299 Maurice Trintignant / Bernard de Saint-Auban D.N.F.

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WAM Architecten Studio - Inntel Hotel, Netherlands, 2010

From the description, I thought it was an artist's rendition. It's not. It's a real hotel:

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I once had a connection to musician Frank Zappa. Well sort of . . .

Normally my business took me to either New York City or Long Island. But one of my long standing clients had taken a new job in New Jersey. We scheduled a lunch date.

As I was getting in the car to go back to Lynbrook (L.I.) my cell phone rang. It was our office manager.

"Lee - are you done with your lunch appointment?" I responded that I was getting ready to leave NJ and would be back in the office by 4PM.

"I have an emergency appointment for you and it's only a few miles away from where you are. Can you get over there right away? Just ask for Bob"

15 minutes later I entered the company where the emergency was and announced my name and I was here to see Bob.

"Oh thank god you're here! I'll take you to his office."

We are walking through a very large open area with at least 50 people and all Hell has broken loose. I can easily see why. None of the computer screens are working properly. The images are either rolling or tearing. And everyone is frantic. She introduces me to Bob who is the VP in charge of Info Tech.

Bob grabs my hand and shakes it vigorously. "Thanks for coming on such short notice. I don't know what's wrong. Everything is brand new and nothing is working. I am a good friend of, he mentions one of my best client's name, and he told me to give you guys a call."

As I sit down in front of his desk, he has a name plate on it: BOB ZAPPA. In sales school they taught me never to talk about the fish on the wall as almost all sales people will. Rise above them. But I was super curious so I filed it for later - after I figured out what went wrong.

I asked about rebooting and power issues - none applied so I went out into the bull pen and just started looking around. And low and behold, I see the problem immediately.

"Folks, would everyone please take their seats. I can fix this immediately but you will have to make some adjustments to working."

I went back to Bobs office and asked him to turn all the lights off in the work area. As soon as he did, all the computer screen snapped into their regular operational mode. A huge cheer was voiced.

Bob and I went back to his office and I asked him a very serious question:

"Who did the installation?"

"The cousin of the owner. It was a big job money wise."

The IBM System 36 which Bob's company bought used very special connectors to attach the terminals to the mainframe. You had to use a special crimping tool, sold only by IBM for $5000, to make the connection. The cousin either didn't know that or tried to save the money for himself. He used black electricians tape. And because they weren't crimped properly, the over head florescence lights were interfering with the data signals. Turn off the lights - works fine. Turn them on - chaos. How did I know this? I had a friend who worked for IBM and while having lunch he made me aware of the issue telling a funny story.

"Bob, the cousin fuc*ked up the installation. You can work with the lights off but you really need to get it fixed. Call Forest Electric and mention my name. They will take care of you."

He didn't waste any time. Got on the phone right then and there and scheduled them to come out the next morning.

Work is done - problem fixed or at least on it's way. Time to socialize.

"Bob, are you any relation to Frank Zappa?

"He's my brother."

Bob weighed almost twice as much as Frank but he did have the thick jet black hair and moustache. We spent the next hour talking about his childhood, his brother and other people we knew in IT.

3 days later my office manager calls me.

"Lee! Forest Electric sent us a very large gift certificate to The Palm in NYC (my favorite restaurant) - when are we going?

Awesome Lee

Frank Zappa (left) with Jason Zappa (centre), the son of Bobby Zappa (right).
On 8 December 2018 Dweezil Zappa announced on his Twitter page that his Uncle Bobby Zappa had passed away.

Thank you for posting that.

If you work smart and stay true to your mission of which mine was to offer my clients the very best service and support that was possible, sometimes, the stars align and luck appears.

I was in the right place at the right time and had the right knowledge to instantly solve the problem at hand.

BTW . . . LUCK stands for Limited Use of Correct Knowledge. :laugh:

The PostScript to the story . . .

The following week I was having dinner with my client who was Bobs friend. I told him the story and expressed my appreciation in his faith in my company to get problems solved.

He told me Bob had called him to thank him for referring us and even though it cost his company $50,000 to permanently fix the problem, he came out looking like a hero to the owner because he did not want the owner's cousin to do the installation in the first place. He had no faith in his ability to do it right and wanted a professional company instead.

Then I told my client about the company dinner at The Palm we were planning for all of us and the spouses and girlfriends thanks to Forest Electric. He was VERY pleased to hear that. The gift certificate was for $2500.

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This Unrestored, Canadian-Built 1968 Chevrolet SS 427 Only Has 18,000 Miles On The Odometer

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