Thunderbird Club

[Bent77]

Thunderbird Thursday!!

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Also makes my pants fit funny...

 

[JIO]

TBT

 

[GBassNorth]

For our Queen, front cover of this months Porsche Club of America magazine called Panorama….

haven’t had a chance to read the article yet but there are some really sweet pics of the train (and car). No Tbirds unfortunately.

 

[TBird1958]

I don't know the Porsche, but an EMD (Electro Motive Division) (of GM) F-7 in Santa Fe colors is about the most famous U.S. train, Lionel kinda helped with all those O scale trains they made in '50s -'60s. Once there were thousands, now just a few preserved happily. The nose was constructed one at a time on a series for formers with plate steel being welded and ground into shape, an expensive process that eventually lead to the more angular ugly crap we have today.

 

[JIO]

It's a beat up Road Warrior to be sure - the "it" in this one is amazing, I haven't changed the strings out because it sounds so good just the way it is and I'm not going to mess it up! The pickup is basically flush with ring and it's still quite loud, maybe not as much as the Lull or the Greco, but close and I have the pickups on those basses raised closer to the strings. I think it was a bit ahead of it's time 58 years ago, music wasn't quite ready for what Gibson created.

My 'bought from a pawn-shop' '63II was a road warrior - lots of nicks and dings and indications of it being played in the 15yrs before I owned it. Don't have much of a memory of specifics regarding it - but when I got my '64II a few months after my '63 was stollen - I recall it being essentially the same bass.., but in a bit better condition!

 

[GonePlaid]

This pic sure makes a mint headstock look very used...
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Hmm. Doesn't look 'mint' to me. Looks more like black edged with brown.

 

[GonePlaid]

I don't know the Porsche, but an EMD (Electro Motive Division) (of GM) F-7 in Santa Fe colors is about the most famous U.S. train, Lionel kinda helped with all those O scale trains they made in '50s -'60s. Once there were thousands, now just a few preserved happily. The nose was constructed one at a time on a series for formers with plate steel being welded and ground into shape, an expensive process that eventually lead to the more angular ugly crap we have today.

The E and F noses were beautiful, but the PA was my favorite.

 

[GBassNorth]

I don't know the Porsche, but an EMD (Electro Motive Division) (of GM) F-7 in Santa Fe colors is about the most famous U.S. train, Lionel kinda helped with all those O scale trains they made in '50s -'60s. Once there were thousands, now just a few preserved happily. The nose was constructed one at a time on a series for formers with plate steel being welded and ground into shape, an expensive process that eventually lead to the more angular ugly crap we have today.

Love the back stories. Always had a soft spot for trains, had a few Lionel (both two and three rail) trains in my day along with various and sundry HO and the little tiny N (?) gauge trains. I was also interested in slot car and HO cars. Somehow the cars won out and I followed that path the rest of my life. But still very fond of trains just not well versed in them. The Deco era is my favorite.

which gets me thinking, I’d bet @JIO could come up with some smashing Deco inspired Tbird or bass builds!

 

[PhR75]

What brand is that? Interesting bridge/string-stop.

It's a custom built by a friend in 2010 if I remember correctly, I think he is here under the name MPU. The bridge is a Schaller roller bridge.

 

[GonePlaid]

12 for me.

7 to ~16, piano; 11 on, clarinet and sax; went into Navy music program on sax(1964), started playing bass in 67. Kept up the multi instruments 'til ~10 years ago, I 'hung up' the horns and keys. Still f---* with them occasionally. As a matter of fact, just got the tenor sax playable again; might go 'sit in' with our regular band Friday night(gig's being done as a trio-my turn to be off). See if I still remember how to play the effing thing. Back at same place Saturday night playing the 67 TBird.

*ool

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I don't know the Porsche, but an EMD (Electro Motive Division) (of GM) F-7 in Santa Fe colors is about the most famous U.S. train, Lionel kinda helped with all those O scale trains they made in '50s -'60s. Once there were thousands, now just a few preserved happily. The nose was constructed one at a time on a series for formers with plate steel being welded and ground into shape, an expensive process that eventually lead to the more angular ugly crap we have today.

by far one of the most beautiful locomotives ever built…..they look fast at any speed….didn’t know they were as old as they are….

 

[GonePlaid]

by far one of the most beautiful locomotives ever built…..they look fast at any speed….didn’t know they were as old as they are….

The EMD(GM)FT was built in 1939-the forerunner of that body style-built until 1960 in models F2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 with internal and external updates.

 

[Stealth57]

The EMD(GM)FT was built in 1939-the forerunner of that body style-built until 1960 in models F2, 3, 5, 7 and 9with internal and external updates.

An interesting trivia note. Intel patterned their fab reliability around the question, “what would we be able to accomplish if all our equipment was as reliable (predictable availability) as diesel locomotives? Of course, the smart arse response from equipment manufacturers was you don’t ask the Southern Pacific to stop on a micron.

 

[KaraQ]

First in on Thunderbird Thursday…
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I suppose I'm near the end ThunderbirdThursday, at this point -- nothing new to see here, move along......

 

[TBird1958]

Love the back stories. Always had a soft spot for trains, had a few Lionel (both two and three rail) trains in my day along with various and sundry HO and the little tiny N (?) gauge trains. I was also interested in slot car and HO cars. Somehow the cars won out and I followed that path the rest of my life. But still very fond of trains just not well versed in them. The Deco era is my favorite.

which gets me thinking, I’d bet @JIO could come up with some smashing Deco inspired Tbird or bass builds!

My brother and I got an AFX HO slot car set about the time the movie "Le Mans" with Steve McQueen came out, those Gulf 917s and Ferrari 512s were so bad @%#, it was really fun to have the same thing on our set. We bought a lot of track and took over the garage floor in the summer time, still have that stuff too.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

crunching a power chord? how did you get them to flash like that?….

no flashing!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Exposure setting or editing?

My best guess.

Whatever phone camera some years ago.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

We play nothing but covers. That's what our crowd wants to hear-memories. Plus, none of us writes.

Can’t write!?! Can you print?

 

[Stealth57]

I suppose I'm near the end ThunderbirdThursday, at this point -- nothing new to see here, move along......

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I like the one with invisible strings and pups. Need to get me some.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was 13 when I picked up an electric bass for the first time.
It took a while to grasp.
But from that very moment.
There was no turning back.

I was 13 when mom gave me her old acoustic guitar and I hand wound a pickup(it sucked) for it. No turning back indeed, even if it took a while to get to bass.