yer first car...and or hotrod...

[Kevin A]

Doug, I see a hitch on the back of that Maverick, what the heck happened to the tear?

[doug hodder]

no tear then...pulled a couple of 1971 SkiDoo 340 TNT's behind it...and for you fair weather people out there...we're talking snowmobiles....I was quite the "hot thumb" in C class stock and modified back in them days....Doug

[asianflava]

I was pickin' fun at a dude we fish with. He was talking about snowmobiling back home in Alaska so I asked him, "How come you don't call them snow machines?"

He said that when he went to school that people gave hime such a hard time about it, that he started calling them snowmobiles to save the trouble.

[doug hodder]

I can't believe you posted that!!!....excellent pick up on that one....I thought about that word Snowmobiles when I put it up....I always called them snowmachines....just thought I would cut out some of the trouble....when you lived in Alaska...they were snowmachines....everyone in the lower 48, or "outside" called them Snowmobiles....thanks for making be be aware of my ex-Alaskan political correctness...you spur me on to be more politically or geographically incorrect.....Doug

[asianflava]

I was watching a show on Discovery channel and all the kids called them "snowmachine" which I thought was funny. Isn't a snowmachine a machine that makes snow?

The guy I fish with is from Kodiak. He also told me that when he took a driver's ed class he was told to beware of the "one eyes". One eyes are people driving around looking out of the hole made by the defroster. The whole windshield is still covered except for that hole.

Even I'm guilty of that but the rest goes away pretty quickly considering that it is just barely below freezing.

[doug hodder]

Best salmon fishing I've ever had in my life....Kodiak Island....Doug so to get back on thread...gotta photo Asianflavia of a "first car"???

[asianflava]

Yeah but "photos" are all I have, no scanner. I guess I could take a picture of the photo?

[doug hodder]

go for it!!!! and for all you others out there without a scanner but have access to a camera...we don't care about the quality...in the words of Madjack...we just want to see da Pics....a photo of a photo works.... doug

[DoWopBox]

Yeah but "photos" are all I have, no scanner. I guess I could take a picture of the photo?

I think that most Walmarts have scanners in their 1-Hour photo centers. They'll even put them on a CD for you.

[bledsoe3]

You can buy a scanner for next to nothing now. Look at this one. http://tinyurl.com/8wzf4

[asianflava]

Where did it go I posted this but it didn't show up.

I forgot that I have another website. I have this exact question answered on it. You will notice that the pics are really small, I made this webpage over 7 years ago, back in the days of dial up. I don't even remember how to update it.

http://hometown.aol.com/moshead/Page2.html

[Bigwoods]

Thats kinda funny. Polaris and Artic cat are made around here and everyone calls them SnoCats.

[jbbooks]

My first car was a '55 Chevy, 6cyl, 3 on a tree. Found a 283 out of a wrecked Corvette that had been bored to 302. Installed that and a floor shifter for the 3 speed and I loved it. Lost the hood one night drag racing on I-74 outside Danville, Il. The hood wasn't down all the way, and the safety latch didn't hold. Hood popped up, and went over the roof, lucky it didn't come thru the windshield and kill me.

[Laredo]

jb,

one real cold night between Levelland and Brownfield the hood on a '71 Dodge pickup did that to us.

heavy mothers, those old Dodge hoods. Bent into about an H-shape ... no money for a body shop. Put it in the bed and waited for warm weather to hammer it back out so it would latch....

[DoWopBox]

My first car was a '55 Chevy, 6cyl, 3 on a tree. Found a 283 out of a wrecked Corvette that had been bored to 302. Installed that and a floor shifter for the 3 speed and I loved it. Lost the hood one night drag racing on I-74 outside Danville, Il. The hood wasn't down all the way, and the safety latch didn't hold. Hood popped up, and went over the roof, lucky it didn't come thru the windshield and kill me.

Same exact thing happened to my '55 Chevy. That hood went about 50 feet in the air before it came back down. I ran without a hood for a month or so before I located another one. When I went to look at it, It turned out to be my destroyed hood that somebody else had picked up.

I kept lookin'.