Car Thread

[rogruth]

Alright Wayne, tell us.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's where the buzzards sit, waiting for their meal...to float by

Maybe you have hit on something there. Perhaps they are for a variety of tired birds to rest upon. The ones without arms have had them stormed away by rough weather or are designed for use by smaller birds?

[webenda]

Aha! Some answers.

This answer is exactly correct:

The towers are for people who are always fashionably late.

They are called rescue towers.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Exactly correct? What's "fashionable" about their lateness? (Just a rhetorical question.)

[webenda]

Fashionably Late

The refined art of being just late enough (5 minutes to an hour) to give the impression that you are a busy, popular person that was held up with other business.

Read the parable of the ten virgins, Matthew 25:1-13, and relate it to the plight of those who have to climb one of the rescue towers.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

There's nothing fashionable about being stranded , possibly due to not paying attention to the signs, and having their vehicle ruined.

[webenda]

...possibly due to not paying attention to the signs...

Or not having enough petrol for their lamps, err, I mean automobiles.

I agree, not being prepared with petrol, tide tables and enough time to be ahead of the tide can be disastrous.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

They are called rescue towers.

And where they collect meals for passing sharks and other predators from a pool of Darwin Awardees.....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"Darwin Awardees." Now, THERE's an expression worth jotting down for future use.

[rogruth]

How about defining "Darwin Award and Darwin Awardee" so we all have the same idea of what it is?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

How about defining "Darwin Award and Darwin Awardee" so we all have the same idea of what it is?

http://www.darwinawards.com/

[rogruth]

That'll do it.

[John Webster]

My friend Tony passed away last month. I used to sit with him on the town square on Friday nights and watch the cars at the local cruise-in;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZv3fLKgWeQ&t=51s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBoE5bgJWk

He's in the heavenly library now, finally finding a picture of a Vulcan dashboard.

[healey36]

Sorry to hear it John...condolences to you and to Tony's family. Been going through a bit of that here as well. Hopefully his gear finds a good, appreciative home, but I worry about the long-haul prospects of the old car hobby. In another twenty years or so all the grade-A cars will be in museums and the much-loved beaters will be here:



The younger generations don't seem to have much interest.

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

... I worry about the long-haul prospects of the old car hobby. In another twenty years or so all the grade-A cars will be in museums...
...The younger generations don't seem to have much interest.
Healey

I've noticed that, too, not just in reference to possessing antique cars, but also in reference to teenagers and 20-somethings getting their own vehicles for everyday use. I just don't see the urgent desire and devotion held for having a car as my generation did in the 60's & 70's. I could be wrong in my observation, however. Murph