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[Edo]

Thank you gentlemen!

But all the credit goes to John&John who provided me with that T. which, one day, will beat with ease the Big Stars and their boring D3s on the Buena Park King (that is if I ever get to LaLaland again)!

Watch out guys, better buy Evil Dokk's parking lot motors by the bunch and get ready for it!



E

[Horsepower]

Beautiful car! Chassis...motor...everything ... That color is awesome

Hey Gary...how ya doing? The Green Manalishi is a song (early 70's) by Fleetwood Mac, and later Judas Priest...

Thanks, Tom! I don't remember that song at all. Too much beer and ______ back then, I guess!

[Dooner]

It's on Youtube.

[One27ray]

Hey Edo,

Cool Thingie Howmet is the Man

You are going to have the best " Modern Thingie Museum" around

i-ray

[Howmet TX]

Judas Priest???? Oh no... there goes another good song.

Sorry chaps but I'm a loyal Peter Green fan. He wrote 'the Green Manalishi' in the depths of existential angst and drug-fried paranoia, and it's about the evils of money.....

[Howmet TX]

And I forgot to say...

Thanks for all the kind comments about the car. I'm just trying to emulate the cool stuff by inspirational builders I see on this forum. Who are often the same people who were inspiring me when I was sixteen.

'I can't sing, I ain't pretty and my legs are thin.'

Name THAT tune......

[HarV Wallbanger III]

SUPER! Super Scooper Guys!

[68Caddy]

Original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, Oh Well?

Nesta

[Howmet TX]

You are tonight's prizewinner, Nesta. Three pounds of broken biscuits....

[Tex]

MONSTER song!!!!!

[Maximo]

I saw them at the Jam Factory in San Antonio Texas just before they went to LA and Peter Green split with the religious freaks... I remember how amazed I was that had happened! Oh well.... bet Peter Green never had a thingie so he never had a chance.

[68Caddy]

Maximo
I saw the original Fleetwood Mac in late 60's-early70's just when they release Oh Well, I was standing like two feet away man that was cool, small club
in Gotenburg Sweden.
After Peter Green left, Fleetwood Mac became commercial crap or should I say Am radio material, sorry to say this.
I apologize to say this, and it has nothing to do with Edo's beloved Thingies.

Nesta

[Maximo]

I agree with you! I loved the earlier FM's sound, not the commercial stuff that came later!

Mick Fleetwood loved Edo's beloved thingies and that is why he made music so that he could get some too.
That should satisfy the thread.

[Edo]

....I apologize to say this, and it has nothing to do with Edo's beloved Thingies...

No need to aplogize Nesta.
I used to listen to Peter Green when he was playing with John Mayall.
I still have the "Hard road" record!

BTW Look what I still have:


(Chappie 2F repop by One27ray - paint job by Jairus)

A rarissime Hendrix's Electric Ladyland record!

How is this for a bit of Rock History?

[TSR]

I say it rocks!

[Tex]

Uh.... Chappy?..... must've missed it.

[Horsepower]

I bought my copy of Electric Ladtland 40 years ago but it didn't have THAT cover!

[havlicek]

Yeah Gary...I never saw that cover either! That must be a european version or something, as I would NOT have forgotten that! Anyway, I was just looking at this thread again and wanted to say that this car is almost as nice as the album cover (and that's saying something!). I'm going to have to start checking the "Thingies" forum more often!

-john

[Howmet TX]

And the funny thing is, I was one of the models for that shot. Before I had my operation.

[Tex]

I know it's not the original "album" cover, but I've got a CD of Blind Faith with "that" cover.

[Edo]

I know it's not the original "album" cover...

Dear Tex,
not that I want to contradict you or anything like that, far from it, but that IS the original album cover (at least the European version of it!) which I bought back in 1968, when it came out.
I'm ready to bet my Thingies collection against one of your cute D3 something contraptions, as of now!

Ready?

Here we go:









Ooops, sorry, you lost!

....but I've got a CD of Blind Faith with "that" cover.

It is possible that the record company released, at a much later date, Blind Faith's CD with that photo at a time where such a picture would no longer be scandalous in the US.
But as you can see from the album's front picture they would've retouched it and take off Jimi's other pics which some of the girls are holding. Or not?
We need proof, dear Tex, or else we will confiscate all of your toys immediately!

Ta ta for now, gotta go!
E

[n.elmholt]

Blind Faiths only LP was apparently released in two versions: the UK (european) version had a skinny nude girl holding a thingie-sort of aeroplane model on the cover and the US version had a picture of the four guys in the first "supergroup"

I have never seen other versions

UK version

Baker and Clapton ROCKS!!!!!

Niels (fossiled Cream-fan)

[proptop]

I always thought that looked like a hood ornament she was holding (Blind Faith album)?
Kinda looks like something from the 50's era vehicles. GM product maybe?

[TSR]

It is... It was modeled after a Douglas Skyray, and was available as an aftermarket accessory in the J.C. Whitney catalogue in 1955...

[Tex]

Your Highness King-Dood,

My comments were ONLY referring to the Blind Faith LP album cover. May I humbly apologize most PROFUSELY for causing any consternation in the inner workings of your gray matter!

I am sure you are correct that the previously SCANDALOUS Blind Faith album cover is now available due to social mores having changed in the U.S.

Also, I am reasonably sure that the BF album cover in question DID hit the U.S. market however briefly before the morality cops blew the whistle and had it yanked from the racks.

Speaking of such "questionable" album covers, they apparently never picked up on an album cover for the band Free. On the cover is a picture apparently taken by a photograher laying on the ground and taking the picture as a naked young lady leapt over him! The cover was fairly dark in color(muted purplish/bluish), so the details of what the picture actually was wasn't easily discernible..... unless you were a teenage boy!