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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Cool barbershop in LaMesa, Dapper Jays, hot rod style in every way

 I haven't been in m any barber shops, because about 1/2 of my adult life was in the military, and those military barber shops were without any adornment of humor, pride, or history
 I've never been in a shop that is a straightforward place for guys to hang out til a chair opens, have a beer, read a Playboy, Maxim, etc etc


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Can you see what is wrong in this picture?


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Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Carroll Shelby remembrance car get together, band and BBQ, with a "Rev It Up" hoorah, at JBA

All Carroll Shelby and Shelby American Enthusiasts....


JBA -  6PM Wed.


Carroll Shelby Memorial Celebration
 Wednesday May 30, 2012 
Band, BBQ, Remembrance... bring your car, parking will be tight but fun... or cruise JBA with your open headers or not.  We will Rev it up for Carroll at 6:55pm with the National Shelby Groups and the Petersen Museum.


 All Hot Rodders and friends of Carroll are invited.


 Info www.jbaracing.com or fb friend us at JBA-Bittle American or call 858-495-3395

JBA Performance Center
5675 Kearny Villa Rd
San Diego, CA 92123

jbittle@jbaracing.com

Please forward this to anyone that is a friend of Carroll Shelby… or competitor!



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Some cool things I found at Sping Fling 2012



 Tubs and huge Mickey Thompsons. Awesome



 the above is a 66 or 67 Charger speedometer, the design is unsual among speedometers, and looks so cool when lit up in the dark

















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Compliments to the guy that fixed up a 72 Barracuda... but why the cartoonish exhaust? Looks like something from "The Mask"


 Thank the car gods he didn't put on a wing of any design. This airfoil is fine


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Kenny Wayne Sheppard brought both Mopars to Spring Fling




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Memorial Day post #2 (even if I'm a day late and it has nothing in keeping with my normal vehicular philosophy) Beirut, 1983,

The Beirut Barracks Bombing (October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon) occurred during the Lebanese Civil War,

 when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—
 killing 299 American and French servicemen.

 The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing. Suicide bombers detonated each of the truck bombs.

 In the attack on the American Marines barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen:

 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and three Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured

 In the attack on the French barracks, the eight-story 'Drakkar' building,

 58 paratroopers from the 1st Parachute Chasseur Regiment were killed and 15 injured,

 The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor at the French building were also killed.

 The blasts led to the withdrawal of the international peacekeeping force from Lebanon, where they had been stationed since the withdrawal of the Palestine Liberation Organization following the Israeli 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombingc

 I specifically single out this loss of USMC by hostile forces not of a military force of any nation, not in a declared war between their country and that of those they killed. Not of a people oppressed by an occupying force (US revolutionary forces vs British forces).

My remembering the USMC and French military loss of 10-23-83, that is what the USA has a Memorial day for. That and many many more examples and losses of US military members, that is what Memorial Day is for. Not for sales at the grocery store, or Nascar races, or 3 day weekends. 

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