Thunderbird Club

[StephnG]

Fried in a watermelon.

Don't forget the Tabasco

 

[MCF]

Still one of THE sexiest cars ever made.

It is. A clean design on the Ford Falcon platform. Brought to market by the same guy who gave the world the K car. Go figure.

 

[dagrev]

UPS is messing with me. My new to me VP supposedly landed at my local facility (9 miles away) yesterday morning at 9:23 AM. The tracking says “a mechanical failure has delayed delivery...“ This morning it was scanned at 2:57 AM and again at 3:09 AM at the same facility. The next scan was 9:58 AM as “out for delivery.” So it’s now 7:30 PM and hasn’t arrived. I think I’d rather just not know when they’re saying it should get here.

That can certainly be agonizing and you have my sympathies. Waiting for an instrument is no small deal! Soon and very soon...! Once you play the VP, you will forget all about the wait. I am so interested in your take on it after you get it to your liking.

 

[dagrev]

That's odd, when I enter it into google translate it comes back as...
The Queen has fleas. Bring fried chicken.
(Well actually it says barbecued parrot, but I think Chucky meant fried chicken)

What? Barbecued parrot is not actually a thing? Explains why people have been looking at me funny when I asked if they have it.

 

[dagrev]

Who was it that was asking about the Tom Petersson tone?

This is it.

 

[Engle]

Which wireless? Pros and cons (if any)?

Line 6 G30. The receiver sits in my pedalboard. I guess the cons are dealing with batteries. I have 3 pairs of rechargeable AAs (the 2600 mAh ones) and never have issues with them running out during a gig. One set is on the charger, one set in my transmitter and one set in my bag.
I thought it dropped out once on stage, but that might have been my Korg pitch black.
Pros are never stepping on your cord and being able to hear the bass tone (and mix) the way the audience hears it.

 

[BklynKen]

Cheap Trick always look like they're having way too much fun.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

It is. A clean design on the Ford Falcon platform. Brought to market by the same guy who gave the world the K car. Go figure.

and the Cherokee..the world's first SUV..

 

[bylar13]

Nice! Badass bridge on that t-Bird?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Nice! Badass bridge on that t-Bird?

stock two piece..

 

[GBassNorth]

and the Cherokee..the world's first SUV..

Actually the correct answer according to the bow tie boys would be 1935 with the Chevy Suburban...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Actually the correct answer according to the bow tie boys would be 1935 with the Chevy Suburban...
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4 wheel drives were around before that...nothing sporty about a ‘Burban..but I see your point...people refer to my Suburban as “Chuck’s truck”..

 

[Gaolee]

Nice color. Very close to the color of my old mustang...
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This isn't mine, this is a '66 I actually had a '64 1/2 That was a bit more gold than this.

My '68 Camaro was roughly that color when it was new and when I got it. It has subsequently been silver, red, and now yellow. It has not lived an easy life. And, I didn't like that color very much back when. It looks better now. I still wouldn't paint a car that color. But it would look good on a Thunderbird.

 

[Gaolee]

Cheap Trick always look like they're having way too much fun.

Isn't that the goal and why we play? The dirty little secret is that I always have more fun than the audience. There may be less flattering reasons for that in my case, but in their case, they radiate the joy of playing.

 

[GBassNorth]

4 wheel drives were around before that...nothing sporty about a ‘Burban..but I see your point...people refer to my Suburban as “Chuck’s truck”..

LOL - it's all relative. I had a 1986 Cherokee Laredo (great little SUV) but there was nothing sporty about it compared to either of my Porsche Cayennes, and the Cherokee didn't tow or haul as much either. I suspect the 1935 Suburban was considered a bit sporty in its day. Regardless, like I said, it's what the bow tie boys are claiming...
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I haven't looked into it but it could be quite possible that Lee first coined the term "SUV". But invent the segment, he did not. When I bought my Jeep Cherokee I looked at Ford Broncos and Chevy Blazers, all of which go back well beyond 1986 when I bought mine.

 

[TBird1958]

If it isn't a Subaru, no Queen

 

[GBassNorth]

My '68 Camaro was roughly that color when it was new and when I got it. It has subsequently been silver, red, and now yellow. It has not lived an easy life. And, I didn't like that color very much back when. It looks better now. I still wouldn't paint a car that color. But it would look good on a Thunderbird.

1968 Camaro, YUM! One of my favorite 1960's body styles.
Give me a '64 GTO, a '65 Mustang Fastback, a '66 Shelby Cobra, a '67 vette, a '68 Camaro, and a '69 AMX and I'd be in muscle car heaven!

 

[Gaolee]

LOL - it's all relative. I had a 1986 Cherokee Laredo (great little SUV) but there was nothing sporty about it compared to either of my Porsche Cayennes, and the Cherokee didn't tow or haul as much either. I suspect the 1935 Suburban was considered a bit sporty in its day. Regardless, like I said, it's what the bow tie boys are claiming...
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I haven't looked into it but it could be quite possible that Lee first coined the term "SUV". But invent the segment, he did not. When I bought my Jeep Cherokee I looked at Ford Broncos and Chevy Blazers, all of which go back well beyond 1986 when I bought mine.

[crank rant] SUVs are the worst of all possible vehicles. They combine the worst traits of a station wagon, a pickup truck, and a van, while having none of the advantages of any of them. They have the limited capacity of a station wagon, and often more limited than a comparable station wagon. But, they are far more inefficient, take up more space, are ungainly, and handle like crap. They have hard tops, so you can't load them like a pickup truck. They are enclosed, but do not have the short nose of a van, so visibility is limited by that long, often high, snout. They don't have the carrying capacity of a van and often take up more room. My old full sized Chevy van was actually shorter than a number of SUVs with far less usefulness. And it didn't handle much worse, if at all. SUVs typically handle like crap or are a bad joke in some other way. If you see a ding dong spiraling out of control on a snowy, icy hill in Seattle, the ding-a-link is nearly always driving an AWD SUV or a jacked up pickup truck. Useless writ large.[/crank rant]

For what its worth, I wouldn't consider a Subie an SUV. Those are station wagons that just happen to have AWD.

 

[Gaolee]

1968 Camaro, YUM! One of my favorite 1960's body styles.
Give me a '64 GTO, a '65 Mustang Fastback, a '66 Shelby Cobra, a '67 vette, a '68 Camaro, and a '69 AMX and I'd be in muscle car heaven!

It's a convertible to make it even better. It's hardly a competent vehicle by modern standards, and it's even less competent now because the motor is just sitting there. (and has been for just about ever...)

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

LOL - it's all relative. I had a 1986 Cherokee Laredo (great little SUV) but there was nothing sporty about it compared to either of my Porsche Cayennes, and the Cherokee didn't tow or haul as much either. I suspect the 1935 Suburban was considered a bit sporty in its day. Regardless, like I said, it's what the bow tie boys are claiming...
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I haven't looked into it but it could be quite possible that Lee first coined the term "SUV". But invent the segment, he did not. When I bought my Jeep Cherokee I looked at Ford Broncos and Chevy Blazers, all of which go back well beyond 1986 when I bought mine.

there would have been no Cayenne had it not been for the Cherokee...it definitely was not inspired by the Suburban or Land Rover...