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  1. Backwoods Savage

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    I came across this picture. It is the same car Judy and I had when we got married. A story goes with it too. I was working long hours so one day (before we got married) she told me she was going to town on a Friday with her mother. So I gave her $150; all I had at the time. I also clipped some ads from a paper and told her to check out a couple of cars. If she liked one and had enough cash, then buy it. She did. When I got home we took it for a drive and I liked it too. So I asked her if they accepted the $150. She said no, then dug into her purse and handed me $60. She had got them to come down in price after she told them we were getting marries and that was all the money we had right then (we never considered borrowing money). So they sold it to her for $90.00. Great! That car kept us going for several years.
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    Over the years, two different buddies had that car also; but paid a tad bit more for them.

    Regarding the soda pop machine, nothing complicated about it at all.

    A "resourceful" young man would carry a bottle opener and straw with him and drink his fill without having to pay the abhorrent rate of 10 cents per bottle!
     
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    We called em bear traps or bear claws. They felt great shredding your shins. :faint:
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    There's an A&W 1/2 mile from my house. Still had the car hops. It closed for the season in October 2024. From what I hear the owner died in the winter and it hasn't reopened yet. Don't know what's going on with it. There's another one about ten miles away that the brother of the one near me owns thats still open
     
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    There’s still one hour south of me
     
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    Is that the car in the picture where Judy is standing by the drivers door in her first maternity shirt?
     
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    This is the car we had before that other one. That was a Ford Fairlane 500. I also goofed. That was her second pregnancy rather than the first.
     
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    I spent quite a few hours playing that one.
     
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    Same here. LOTS and LOTS of hours...
     
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    Now I'm sad. I used to get some that were made in a garage about 5 minutes from home. They were silver.
     
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    I remember being able to launch a 5 gallon bucket above our house roof.
     
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    Neighbors emulated Luke & Bo and taped one to an arrow. Sent it straight up. Good times.
     
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    I'd have been all over that when I was a kid... I never had a bow and arrow (my parents were smarter than I give them credit for).
     
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    I lived in such a great neighborhood growing up. 10 houses, all had children within 5 or so years of each other. We had our own variation of hide and seek that we called Flashlight Army where there were 3-4 seekers and 6-10 hiders. The seekers were allowed flashlights (we played this at night). Entire neighborhood participated and was 'in bounds'. We had some epic softball games as well, (next door's dad was a USSSA Umpire) we had plates even.
     
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