I'm In Shock...(This thread has been hijacked!)

[dane]

I deleted my original post. The veer has completely taken over and what I had to say regarding a guitar is no longer relevant.

Dane

 

[JerryR]

Re: I’m in shock!

Or sell it on fleabay and buy a Guild

 

[dane]

Re: I’m in shock!

Post deleted by Dane.

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

Re: I’m in shock!

Or sell it on fleabay and buy a Guild

I didn't know that Guild offered a Resonator.

 

[adorshki]

Re: I’m in shock!

Apparently one of the benefits of becoming a geezer is that the stuff from your childhood increases in value.

Yeah, you should see what some of my traffic tickets are worth now. :shock:

 

[AlohaJoe]

Re: I’m in shock!

Apparently one of the benefits of becoming a geezer is that the stuff from your childhood increases in value.

Yeah, you should see what some of my traffic tickets are worth now. :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[taabru45]

Re: I’m in shock!

I think I have a couple of library books around from when I was a kid, fines added up would look like a retirement severance now.... :lol: Steffan

 

[fronobulax]

Re: I’m in shock!

I think I have a couple of library books around from when I was a kid, fines added up would look like a retirement severance now.... :lol: Steffan

On a slow news day people who return books after many, many years get written up. Perhaps you should return the books and carry a Guild with you so that when your picture appears in the paper...

 

[capnjuan]

Re: I’m in shock!

I had few Dinky Toys when I was a kid ... including one of these. Okay ... I realize the price is a 'C'mon Man'-style asking ... but still

In general praise of Reso guitars: (The opening is C, D, E if you want to play along at home :wink: )

 

[killdeer43]

Re: I’m in shock!

In general praise of Reso guitars: (The opening is C, D, E if you want to play along at home :wink: )

Classic Kinks. Thanks for the link. :wink:

Joe

 

[capnjuan]

Re: I’m in shock!

Yes; it's a witty ditty.

 

[adorshki]

Re: I’m in shock!

I had few Dinky Toys when I was a kid ... including one of these. Okay ... I realize the price is a 'C'mon Man'-style asking ... but still

Yeah, but it's almost lifesize! :lol: I should know, my grandfather had one! AS well as a high-school buddy. 4 of us could pick it up and rotate it when it made one of those occassional "off-road" excursions...

 

[capnjuan]

Re: I’m in shock!

A HS friend's parents had one of these ... a Renault 4CV ... not the Dauphine ... might have been a little later model; this one is a '59 ... sort of a VW dupe but with a water-cooled engine, 15" wheels, suicide front doors, and great ground clearance:

 

[Ross]

Re: I’m in shock!

A HS friend's parents had one of these ... a Renault 4CV ... not the Dauphine ... might have been a little later model; this one is a '59 ... sort of a VW dupe but with a water-cooled engine, 15" wheels, suicide front doors, and great ground clearance:

Reminds me of a Morris Minor

 

[capnjuan]

Re: I’m in shock!

... Reminds me of a Morris Minor

...very similar but without the suicide doors. Oh those English ... take the fun out of everything ... :wink:

 

[bluesypicky]

Re: I’m in shock!

... Reminds me of a Morris Minor

...very similar but without the suicide doors. Oh those English ... take the fun out of everything ... :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Thanks for the memories John..... Ahhh... the 4 chevaux! Post world war II French engineering at it's best, when we had to use evey bit of cables and screws left from the tanks to build cars for a broke population. It all started with the 2 chevaux though, an air cooled flat twin engine and a roll top (I own the utility version of the upgraded model from the seventies, the "Acadiane").

 

[capnjuan]

Re: I’m in shock!

Introducing: Le Deux-Chevaux! There was a network of Renault / Citroen dealers here but the biggies wouldn't let these in the country ... something about having good brakes ... Wildly popular with Euro college students in the '70s.

 

[adorshki]

Re: I’m in shock!

It all started with 2 chevaux though, an air cooled flat twin engine and a roll top (I own the utility version of the upgraded model from the seventies, the "Acadiane").

Y'know I was tryin' to remember what the Dauphin had...I know it was a four, and I'm thinking also flat, aircooled, since it was rear-engined..I can just see those french guys saluting Porsche with one hand raised in the air and the other palm slapped over the bicep :lol: ....Helped gramps rebuild it but at only 12 I wasn't really a car guy yet. Just handed him tools and stuff..

 

[capnjuan]

Re: I’m in shock!

Y'know I was tryin' to remember what the Dauphin had...I know it was a four, and I'm thinking also flat, aircooled, since it was rear-engined ...

The Wikis calling it a 4 ... about the size of a large motorcycle engine ... under 1,000 ccs

 

[bluesypicky]

Re: I’m in shock!

Wildly popular with Euro college students in the '70s.

You're not kidding John.... back then if you had a hundred bucks in your pocket, you could buy one of those off the classifieds. And now look at what a restored one sells for on Ebay!!! (See how I gracefully get back to the original thread topic? :lol: )

I can just see those french guys saluting Porsche with one hand raised in the air and the other palm slapped over the bicep :lol:

You know Al, growing up in France (and in Le Mans, one of the world's capitals of auto racing) I always thought: Why do we suck at car building?.... I mean you had the Italians with their Ferraris Maseratis Lamborginins etc...., the Brits with Rolls Royce, Jag, Aston etc...., Germans with Mercedes, BMW......and France with.....(drum roll) Renault, Peugeot and Citroen!!!! :lol:
And it's not like we can't build an engine, look at the F1 records of Renault..... But for some reason we stayed stuck on this post world war II approach of building the most economical car possible without the slightest concern for design appeal. So for the top of the line models (which had to be somewhat appealing for a buyer to accept the price tag) we had Pinifarina design the body! :lol: