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.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Standing on the hood but not denting it. Times have changed.
She couldn't do that today without a harness and a safety net and no high heels. Besides that, the company lawyers wouldn't let them use the company bird because of mucho legalise that justifies their existence.
1927-28 Hudson Super Six, not many cars had a triangular emblem on the wheel hub. The Hudson hood ornament was called the Winged Goddess because "we aren't copying Rolls-Royce or Cadillac, no sirree". The plane is a Ford Tri-Motor but I can't figure the biplane out. Not many had that strut arrangement and a liquid cooled engine. Al_in_Ottawa
Standard Of California is now Chevron. Indiana Standard became Amoco. New Jersey Standard is Exxon. The Socony Vacuum Oil Company of NY is the Flying Red Horse these days.
Back then the steel was thicker and the women MUCH lighter....
ReplyDeleteOl' Remus sed: "You can drill and tap them fenders".
DeleteBeat me to it. I've got a pre-war Ford and what Remus said was true.
DeleteShe couldn't do that today without a harness and a safety net and no high heels. Besides that, the company lawyers wouldn't let them use the company bird because of mucho legalise that justifies their existence.
ReplyDeleteBecause it's a Rolls Royce?
ReplyDeleteI believe that is the Cadillac Flying Goddess.
Delete1927-28 Hudson Super Six, not many cars had a triangular emblem on the wheel hub. The Hudson hood ornament was called the Winged Goddess because "we aren't copying Rolls-Royce or Cadillac, no sirree".
DeleteThe plane is a Ford Tri-Motor but I can't figure the biplane out. Not many had that strut arrangement and a liquid cooled engine.
Al_in_Ottawa
Cars were made of thicker steel and the women cared about their Body Mass .
ReplyDeleteUnlike today where the reverse is true.
Standard Of California is now Chevron. Indiana Standard became Amoco. New Jersey Standard is Exxon. The Socony Vacuum Oil Company of NY is the Flying Red Horse these days.
ReplyDeleteAll Rockefeller companies.
My Nissans' body is made from aluminum foil I think.
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