Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

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Sweet!

 

[Rickplaysbass]

Sweet!

Is $450 solid for those? Any known issues to look for? Anything to look at to prove it is what it is? Pics look like a 67 from what I found.

Are those genuine mudbuckers?

 

[Gaolee]

Did you mean, "Anchovies make everything taste like Anchovies"?

I guess I'm just not a fan or never had Anchovies done right.

Anchovies on pizza, anchovies in salad, anchovies in sauces... mmmmmm...

 

[Gaolee]

Car designs have come a long way since then. My 1965 Mustang was also a blast from 0-100mph and a white knuckle floater at anything above that. I’d guess top speed of that Mustang was probably only about 120mph (had the 289 HiPo engine, around 270hp in a very light car). Won many a light to light race in that car. Many of the 350cuin cars I went up against could give it a good run for the money, some faster, many slower, but pretty much anything less than a 350 was no problem at all to beat in light to light racing (yes, the stupid things we did on Friday nights in the late 1970’s).

By comparison, my 1997 Porsche 911 gets to 100mph much much faster and then just hunkers down in a full squat as it climbs well over 120mph, zero float, perfectly planted. Top speed is over 170mph in the 911 IIRC, never had it near that, just about 130mph, and it behaved perfectly.

My motorcycle goes as fast as your 911. Indicated, anyway. Not that I would know.

A 1972 station wagon with the fake wood on the side would go well over 100. Direction at any given moment was a guess. Noy that I would know...

 

[Rickplaysbass]

not as nice as mine, but still looks pretty good

1969 Kalamazoo KB-1 Electric Bass Guitar by Gibson Original | eBay

Is this a particle board bass?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Yep, that’s it.

Oh there was one more. A circa 2009 Cadillac CTS. Interesting story, GM was planning to reintroduce Cadillac to Australia way back then. They set up GM Premium (not sure of the right name now) dealerships for Caddy, Saab and Opel (GM had stripped the Opel cars from Holden and gave them Daewoo’s instead!). Then it all went arse over head when the GFC hit. There was the first small batch of CTS’s landed but they had yet to be launched. GM cancelled it all and went bankrupt, the Caddy’s were sent over to NZ and sold there. I bet it was one of those.

Now Australia is due for another Cadillac relaunch, an all electric range of SUVs starting with the Lyriq (?). Social media ads started some months ago.

The last official Cadillac’s here were in the 1930s/40s I think. Then false starts around 1998/2000 and the 2008/9 effort.

Cadillac, a historic timeline of false starts in Australia

Opel! That was my friend’s dad’s car.

so what odds are being given on this not being another false Caddie start?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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Sweet looking. I’ve always wanted to play one. I have a Kalamazoo 30w tube bass amp from the same period.

 

[Gaolee]

This is the way................

That one!

 

[GonePlaid]

Like the time I pushed the old PV544 to 100 going downhill coming back from a gig in Santa Maria. The girl riding with me thought it was fun. Until it wasn’t.

Had a 63 PV544. 82(?)HP, used to cruise it at 85 on I95. It didn't look fast so cops would pull over "hot" cars that were going slower. Hee-hee.

 

[Rickplaysbass]

Sweet looking. I’ve always wanted to play one. I have a Kalamazoo 30w tube bass amp from the same period.

That sounds pretty cool.

 

[GonePlaid]

Nice looking Bass! I have always had a Fender Bass or at least a Fender clone.
Probably the most modified, mass produced and copied Basses in the World...The Jazz and Precision!
I saw Mel Schacher play this Bass with Grand Funk and he sounded commanding and an amazing Bassist!

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Note the Gibson pickup.

 

[GonePlaid]

Actually just finished my brekky, Vegemite on toast and a cuppa tea

Ya know, I've looked for cuppa tea. None of the stores here carry it.

 

[GonePlaid]

everytime I read BLenheim I think of this....

Yup. That's where my mind(?) goes.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I’m reading Kim Gordon’s book “Girl in a band. A Memoir”
Early shot of her playing bass:
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BOC fan!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Is this a particle board bass?

My understanding is yes.

 

[RedVee]

Opel! That was my friend’s dad’s car.

so what odds are being given on this not being another false Caddie start?

No clue, but I think it will go ahead. Made in the US all EV range though…. ???

Especially as GMSV currently convert Silverados and have announced they are starting on GMC Yukons. I’d have thunk they’d just go straight to Escalades seeing as they are relaunching Caddy.

 

[GonePlaid]

Had a gig tonight(Friday)at a Greek Restaurant. Not much of a turnout. We didn't bother them; they didn't bother us. Got paid.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Had a gig tonight(Friday)at a Greek Restaurant. Not much of a turnout. We didn't bother them; they didn't bother us. Got paid.

yep, American Legion post 31 tonight….

 

[Stealth57]

yep, American Legion post 31 tonight….
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What they feeding you?

 

[MCF]

Had a 63 PV544. 82(?)HP, used to cruise it at 85 on I95. It didn't look fast so cops would pull over "hot" cars that were going slower. Hee-hee.

Yours had the B18B in it. 82 HP sounds about right. Mine was the ‘59, the fist year of the one piece windshield and first production car with seatbelts (shoulder belts only). It had the B16B.