DeanT - Posted - 03/04/2016:  06:23:47

Cash for clunkers got rid of a lot of perfectly good old cars

I just let my wife drive, that's the best solution!

dat - Posted - 03/04/2016:  07:10:59

yeah, cash for clunkers we destroyed some good trucks and cars, alcohol in fuel is hard on old cars. but guv regulations will get harder on them

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2016:  07:15:20

A lot of cars went to the crusher that restorers and customizers would love to have today.

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/04/2016:  08:33:28

That's why it's so expensive to restore classic cars. I do pass a lot of car wrecking yards with old ones back to the early fifties- there's a guy on acreage north of Minot, ND who has a lot of 1940's pickup trucks.

dat - Posted - 03/04/2016:  08:56:35

I would like to fins a willys jeep place like that, my 49 has been replaced with so many parts it isn't anything original left on it, most of them the titles don't match anything on them but the license plate

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2016:  09:51:33

There are some hidden gems out their but they're getting fewer and harder to find.

dat - Posted - 03/04/2016:  10:11:56

and more and more expensive when you do

OM45GE - Posted - 03/04/2016:  16:32:59

I'll say.

DeanT - Posted - 03/04/2016:  16:40:47

lots of old cars down in Cuba!

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/04/2016:  17:41:05

I wonder where they get parts

DeanT - Posted - 03/04/2016:  19:40:29

Trade cigars for them

dat - Posted - 03/05/2016:  07:00:30

every day on the way home I see convoys of old cars trucks and school busses on the highway being driven, trailered, towed, how ever they can get them moving towards Mexico

dat - Posted - 03/05/2016:  07:05:43

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Originally posted by DeanT

 

Trade cigars for them

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been 12 years or more since I've smoked a cigar, there was a guy I hunted with that would bring cigars to the hunting camp, he didn't smoke often but when he did they were expensive, he would give me and another guy both a cigar for after supper, usually a 20 to 40 dollar cigar from what he said.  I don't know much about cigars but they were better than swisher sweets

OM45GE - Posted - 03/05/2016:  09:35:55

I pretty much stopped smoking cigars and have a bunch of really good ones in the humidor. I don't have the heart to toss them but don't know any smokers. 

dat - Posted - 03/05/2016:  09:37:51

just open up the humidor every once in a while and smell them, then close it back up

OM45GE - Posted - 03/05/2016:  09:40:19

I do. 

dat - Posted - 03/05/2016:  09:54:05

a liquor store here has a pretty good cigar room, I used to go in when I bought a jug of whiskey and walk through the room just for the smell, haven't been in there in many years but I still remember the smells

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/05/2016:  13:31:45

If I'm downwind from someone lighting up, I get that old craving for a few seconds

OM45GE - Posted - 03/05/2016:  15:30:08

I crave them frequently, but I resist. 

DeanT - Posted - 03/05/2016:  17:30:59

I've never smoked a cigar. Just ciggys

OM45GE - Posted - 03/07/2016:  03:26:50

I started with cigarettes but quit when they raised the price to 30 cents!  Imagine. I got into pipes and cigars when I was older because I liked the smell so much. 

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/07/2016:  05:45:13

When cigs got expensive I rolled my own - usually Drum tobacco. Strong but nice aroma and flavour

dat - Posted - 03/07/2016:  06:08:43

I never could smoke a cigarette, but a cigar every once in a while I could.  somebody lighting a cigarette with a zippo, smells a lot better than it tastes

DeanT - Posted - 03/07/2016:  06:19:35

We still have disposable lighters in drawers all over the house, and haven't smoked in years

dat - Posted - 03/07/2016:  06:42:59

we have two zippos that we take camping, they are usually pretty windproof when you're starting a fire

OM45GE - Posted - 03/07/2016:  07:54:11

I didn't like the smell of lighter fluid when I was lighting a cigar or pipe. For some reason it never bothered me with cigarettes. 

dat - Posted - 03/07/2016:  08:19:24

some pipes smell good, I never tried one though, everybody smoking a pipe is lighting it almost every puff

OM45GE - Posted - 03/07/2016:  12:53:28

It is an acquired skill for sure.  I usually didn't Ned to light more than once. 

I know a fellow who designed an upside down pipe that he claims  you never have to relight 

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/07/2016:  12:56:02

It's all in how you tamp it down with your fingers. My Dad smoked a pipe once in a while.

OM45GE - Posted - 03/07/2016:  13:01:46

A lot of people pack them too tightly. You need to start with a loose pack and then pack it tighter as you fill the bowl. 

DeanT - Posted - 03/07/2016:  16:04:00

I never smoked a pipe either... My granpa did, he would blow smoke rings and we would chase them

dmiller - Posted - 03/07/2016:  19:55:01

OM45GE - Posted - 03/08/2016:  03:30:58

DeanT - Posted - 03/08/2016:  06:10:31

Cheech and Chong might have something to say about that

dat - Posted - 03/08/2016:  08:29:40

they were quite the conversationalists when it came to smoke signals

OM45GE - Posted - 03/08/2016:  16:38:38

Up In Smoke cracked me up.

DeanT - Posted - 03/08/2016:  18:45:58

It was a classic of our times

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/08/2016:  20:10:17

"Dave's not here"

dmiller - Posted - 03/08/2016:  20:58:05

Sister Mary Elephant, and Sargent Stadanko

OM45GE - Posted - 03/09/2016:  03:28:58

I wonder where they are today. 

dat - Posted - 03/09/2016:  06:09:33

ha, Tommy Chong is still supporting weed

OM45GE - Posted - 03/09/2016:  09:54:59

Fitting isn't it?

DeanT - Posted - 03/09/2016:  12:02:25

Willy would approve...

OM45GE - Posted - 03/09/2016:  13:59:12

Yes indeed.

dat - Posted - 03/09/2016:  14:35:06

reminds me of Robert Earl Keen talking about his trip to Willies picknick where he had so much fun, in the Willy way, that he had to take a nap

chuckv97 - Posted - 03/09/2016:  15:05:04

The weed got me thinking too deep, so I avoided it

DeanT - Posted - 03/09/2016:  16:28:25

I would laugh my head off, then eat a house, the fall asleep.  preferred whiskey any day.

OM45GE - Posted - 03/10/2016:  03:34:26

I haven't smoked weed in years, but I used to enjoy it a lot. Once my son was born I didn't want to get wasted any more. Same with booze. 

dat - Posted - 03/10/2016:  06:21:17

I stayed with alcohol, many friends smoked, and other things, I drank