Hot Rod Poetry

[Couper]

Yep all those fine memories .... they all get tucked away in a special place. They've made you what and who you are.

Family, friends, loves, things you've built, folks you've loved, the children you have taught, you guys.

I've always felt if my time came tomorrow they would flicker thru my mind and I would die peacefully with a smile on my face. It's been a good life despite all the mistakes I have made along the way.

[smallfoot]

Beat that covid like ya beat on steel Couper!

[Old Stuff]

Originally Posted by MercuryMac

Ya Small, even though I was a way too tame for her, I must have had some redeeming qualities.
About fifteen years ago I met her daughter, a tall girl with dirty blonde hair. She seemed to know more about me than any other stranger would. She hugged me, called me uncle and asked me when I dated her mother. I said, "a long time ago", but that wasn't good enough. She then asked, "exactly when". I wracked my brain and came up with a couple of years. I watched her face as she did some math and then let the disappointment show. She really wanted me to be her Dad, but alas I had poor timing. ------- I could have been reading it all wrong, too.

That deserves another "wow". Can't imagine how that "TV movie" scene must've affected you then. The campfire stories we gather along the way.

[Couper]

Originally Posted by smallfoot

Beat that covid like ya beat on steel Couper!

Will do! Thanks Small!

[MercuryMac]

You guys, my memory is getting old I guess. Today I remembered some more details on the 'Joy in the Super Bee' story. One night, fifty years ago, Joy took her earrings off in my car. --- They're still hanging on the sun-viser. [first pic]
I took a few shots of the inside of the old Super Bee. In one shot you'll see the 'T' handle of a four speed shifter, well, the very next girlfriend in my life hated that standard shifter that was partly worn out. She sometimes had to drive the car, but she grumbled a lot. She was determined, I guess, because she's still with me.

[MercuryMac]

A few months ago, Earthman generously put up some prize money for this poetry contest. He sent it to me. I was to get something 'hotroddy' with it. I bought some tools. Two hole saws and a driver. These are 'extreme material' ones with carbide tips. They look the same as the ones that are supposed to cut metal but don't last very long if you do. Anyhow, I used the smaller one today to cut some tin and it worked.
Thank You E-man.

[lazarat]

Wow missed a lot. Merc, Love the shoebox Ford.. I always wanted one of those coupes, good catch.

.. and the Superbee as well as the love lost story.

BobW, happy future B Day, I just turned 70, hard to believe it, still kicking. Are you going to make it to Strawberry this year?

And Smallfoot, nice ode to the W.

Couper! Hope by now you got rid of what I call the China Demon.

I shall return with a crazy story and poem or two. Had some recent car issues. Film at 11. I will see if I can poeticize recent boondoggle.

[Couper]

Originally Posted by lazarat

Couper! Hope by now you got rid of what I call the China Demon.

Thanks lzarat! It's on the way out! Hope to get back in the garage in a few days

[23crate]

while crate works upon the fleet beans
his faithfull sidechick grows her beans
many plants grow huge thick trunks beans
long tender and many many green beans
we eats the beans every night beans
the alternator on the stude is dodgy beans
charging is all over the place beans
yet when i crank the engine over beans
the voltage drops from 12 to 10.5 beans
im frightened of green poo thanks beans
when i go to town errands to run beans
often on my journey to town last week beans
the stude sounded like 'no start' again beans
but eventually she would fire up beans
another thing i forgot to add beans
was courgettes and pumpkins squash beans
beans if anyone could suggest a fault repair
on crates alternator - a chromium gm beans
and a new recipe for beans beans beans

[bob w]

Crate, you had to use the ole bean to think up that one.

Cool beans, Man.