And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lots of those out there. Roy Rogers, Kid Rock, Buck Owen, all Pontiac conversions. Buck's is mounted over the bar at his Crystal Palace in Bakersfield.
It's a Pontiac Bonneville Nudie-Mobile. Nudie Cohn was the famous Nashville tailor that created the kind of suits for country music stars (you see Pierce wearing one), but he also created a string of ostentatious cars. A classic American rags-to-riches story, a Ukranian Jew (born Nuta Kotlyarenko) that was sent to America as a child to escape the Soviet pogroms, and made good.
Looks like a silver dollar nightmare!
ReplyDeleteDoes his main squeeze sit up on that center saddle for some high speed interstate highway diddlin'?
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many MPG it gets?
ReplyDeleteThat car is in country music hall of fame.
ReplyDeleteDidn't George Jones own it at some point?
ReplyDeleteIt was made for Hank, Jr. I recall they had it in Pigeon Forge up into the '90s. It's a pontiac Bonneville, lotsa pics out there.
ReplyDeleteLots of those out there. Roy Rogers, Kid Rock, Buck Owen, all Pontiac conversions. Buck's is mounted over the bar at his Crystal Palace in Bakersfield.
ReplyDeleteIt's a Pontiac Bonneville Nudie-Mobile. Nudie Cohn was the famous Nashville tailor that created the kind of suits for country music stars (you see Pierce wearing one), but he also created a string of ostentatious cars. A classic American rags-to-riches story, a Ukranian Jew (born Nuta Kotlyarenko) that was sent to America as a child to escape the Soviet pogroms, and made good.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Hank Jr. made that kind of money when Webb Pierce was selling top records thru the 50's! I might be wrong tho...........
DeletePimp my ride, Mister!
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