Hemigeno, hows the resto going?

[41husk]

Hey Geno, just thinking of you yesterday and was wondering how that wing car was going, I remember from the last photos you posted, I figured around Thanksgiving for he return to MO.  I know you are in no hurry, just wondering.  Hope all is going well.  Allen

[xs29j8Bullitt]

  Yes... we need an update, AND PICTURES !!!

Allen 

[moparstuart]

Yes... we need an update, AND PICTURES !!!

Allen 

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

[hemigeno]

Hey Allen,  (edit:  Allens)

Sorry for the drought between updates, but there has been no major advances in the restoration.  There's a much longer explanation for why that is than anyone would honestly care to hear - but it has nothing to do with my desire to get the car done.  I have one large and one small batch of pictures to post on the other thread, but I have just been too busy at work to take the time to organize and write up a decent explanation of the pics.

The car is still in the block-fill-sand-seal stage, but they are getting it done right.  An example of this is that they have dug ALL of the lead filler out from around the window plug, and carefully welded the plug in solid so that they could smooth out that transition perfectly.  They also dug all the lead out and welded up the joints at some of the other problem areas on the exterior to make sure that there is never a problem.

I hope to have some time here soon, and maybe I can get the two batches of pics posted with some half-way coherent comments to go along.

[hemigeno]

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

 

I was wearing TopSiders and carrying a backpack around Columbia the last time I was this interested in a football game.

[moparstuart]

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

 

I was wearing TopSiders and carrying a backpack around Columbia the last time I was this interested in a football game.

thanks for that lovely vision LOL

[hemigeno]

  thanks for that lovely vision LOL

At least I never had a "Flock of Seagulls" hairdo...

[BigBlockSam]

i had a big afro in the 70's 

[moparstuart]

  thanks for that lovely vision LOL

At least I never had a "Flock of Seagulls" hairdo...

darn i was picturing you with that dou gene you ruined it for me

[PocketThunder]

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

 

I was wearing TopSiders and carrying a backpack around Columbia the last time I was this interested in a football game.

Topsiders?      http://www.redskyatnight.com/directory.cfm?CategoryID=6



Must be these

[moparstuart]

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

 

I was wearing TopSiders and carrying a backpack around Columbia the last time I was this interested in a football game.

Topsiders?      http://www.redskyatnight.com/directory.cfm?CategoryID=6



Must be these

i would imagine the first ones    I dont see gene in the granola sandels, but i could be wrong

[hemigeno]

Closer to these, except the sole was an off-white.

Boy we sure cover a lot of ground in this forum, don't we?   

[hemigeno]

i would imagine the first ones    I dont see gene in the granola sandels, but i could be wrong

Give me about 20-30 years and I'll probably be wearing those with black socks    

[moparstuart]

Closer to these, except the sole was an off-white.

Boy we sure cover a lot of ground in this forum, don't we?   

some of us need a life i think

[PocketThunder]

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

 

I was wearing TopSiders and carrying a backpack around Columbia the last time I was this interested in a football game.

Topsiders?      http://www.redskyatnight.com/directory.cfm?CategoryID=6
  i would imagine the first ones    I dont see gene in the granola sandels, but i could be wrong

Granola Sandals!!             

I didnt know what Topsiders were so i did my homework and googled it, then it came up with a page full of different types.  I didnt figure you would be climbing hills in Columbia with beach shoes.  Thus the assumption of sandals came to mind. 

Anyways, yes we cover it all here in Aero Cars. 

[moparstuart]

he's too busy thinking about and getting ready for the big MU game this weekend

you must be young  it was a big fad/fashion thing in the 80's along with gene's big hair style



 

I was wearing TopSiders and carrying a backpack around Columbia the last time I was this interested in a football game.

Topsiders?      http://www.redskyatnight.com/directory.cfm?CategoryID=6
  i would imagine the first ones    I dont see gene in the granola sandels, but i could be wrong

Granola Sandals!!             

I didnt know what Topsiders were so i did my homework and googled it, then it came up with a page full of different types.  I didnt figure you would be climbing hills in Columbia with beach shoes.  Thus the assumption of sandals came to mind. 

Anyways, yes we cover it all here in Aero Cars. 

you must be young it was a big fad/ fashion thing in the 80's along with geno's big hair style 

[PocketThunder]

I came to life in 1975.   

[69_500]

You came to life in 75? I didn't come to life until 78 so I guess I totally missed out on those awsome shoes and hair do's.

Its funny but I can still picture Gene walking around with a backpack though.

[hemigeno]

Its funny but I can still picture Gene walking around with a backpack though.

Old habits die hard, I suppose...   

[69_500]

Okay so Gene spill the beans what kind of a hair style was it then when you wearing those topsiders? I'm guessing a mullet. 

[hemigeno]

To be honest, I was never a mullethead.  It was time for a haircut (for me, anyway) by the time hair started touching the collar or coming over the ear.  Always been that way, but I don't know why. 

80's fashion remembrances aside, I need to get some captions made up and post some pics.

[daytonalo]

DISCO !!!!!!!

[hemigeno]

Disco was passe by the time I was hollering myself hoarse at college football games anyway (thank goodness).

BTW,

GO MIZZOU!![/b]

[69_500]

Okay, but I bet you were the type that was wearing sunglasses at night.

Or better yet one who wore a suit jacket over a plain tshirt right? Come on you can admit you loved Miami Vice. 

[learical1]

You came to life in 75? I didn't come to life until 78 so I guess I totally missed out on those awsome shoes and hair do's.

Its funny but I can still picture Gene walking around with a backpack though.

Young punk! Get off my lawn!

I graduated from college in 1977.  So I guess I have to say:

       Go Sun Devils!           

[hemigeno]

You came to life in 75? I didn't come to life until 78 so I guess I totally missed out on those awsome shoes and hair do's.

Its funny but I can still picture Gene walking around with a backpack though.

Young punk! Get off my lawn!

I'm sure that comment was hurled in my direction more than once - but I was probably on a banana-seat buzz bike then (with the "Wide One" rear tire of course). 

If you'd have seen me walking around either Carlisle or the 'Nats you'd know what Danny was referring to - I still have a backback that I use to carry around reference material while I'm at the swap meets / shows.  No TopSiders though...

[gtx6970]

You came to life in 75? I didn't come to life until 78 so I guess I totally missed out on those awsome shoes and hair do's.

Its funny but I can still picture Gene walking around with a backpack though.

such a pup,
Thanks , Now I feel old...... I graduated High School in 78'

Oh , and I can vouch for Genes backpack is still with him

[moparstuart]

You came to life in 75? I didn't come to life until 78 so I guess I totally missed out on those awsome shoes and hair do's.

Its funny but I can still picture Gene walking around with a backpack though.

Young punk! Get off my lawn!

I'm sure that comment was hurled in my direction more than once - but I was probably on a banana-seat buzz bike then (with the "Wide One" rear tire of course). 

If you'd have seen me walking around either Carlisle or the 'Nats you'd know what Danny was referring to - I still have a backback that I use to carry around reference material while I'm at the swap meets / shows.  No TopSiders though...

i had a schwinn orange crate bike with a big banana seat W/struts attached to the sissy bar , and wide rear tire and small front tire with chopper/ springer forks .   cool ride


l 

[BigBlockSam]

I graduated High School in 78' 

i graduated High School  in 77

had a schwinn orange crate bike with a big banana seat W/struts attached to the sissy bar , and wide rear tire and small front tire with chopper/ springer forks .   cool ride 

my next door friend had one of them . i had a cheap stingray bike . that i put angle forks on the front and made it a chopper . Rene

[moparstuart]

I graduated High School in 78' 

i graduated High School  in 77

  had a schwinn orange crate bike with a big banana seat W/struts attached to the sissy bar , and wide rear tire and small front tire with chopper/ springer forks .   cool ride 

my next door friend had one of them . i had a cheap stingray bike . that i put angle forks on the front and made it a chopper . Rene

i did that too on an earlier bike cut fork off another bike and jammed them on my forks and got a smaller tire
    was cinda squirrly turning tho    and man your old 77  I gradiated in the 80's  LOLl

[BigBlockSam]

man your old 

[moparstuart]

  man your old 

I will be 40 in march ,Im regretting i said your old

[learical1]

We have rather thoroughly hijacked this!    

[hemigeno]

We have rather thoroughly hijacked this!

Entertaining, nonetheless.   

Here's a couple of pics from back in late September -  just so Troy or Chris don't move this thread to OT on us...

[moparstuart]

We have rather thoroughly hijacked this!

Entertaining, nonetheless.   

Here's a couple of pics from back in late September -  just so Troy or Chris don't move this thread to OT on us...

look at that the moderator took car of us and kept our thread going   thanks geno

[BigBlockSam]

 

[69_500]

Hey where did the nostalgic conversation go to? Ah what am I talking about, I wasn't around then to put my  in anyways. Even though you all are older, I'm not sure who loved the wing cars first though. I can say that from day 1 I loved them as I came home from the hospital in a Daytona. Okay so maybe not from day one, but at the latest by 1979.

I wasn't aware of any of your ages though until this thread. And yeah I know I've heard plenty of "YOUNG PUNK, get off my lawn" comments in my life. Seems everywhere I've gone, I've always been the youngest in the group.

I did have a hand me down Schwinn that was identical to the one Gene mentioned. I can say though that by the time I was riding it, it was no longer the "in" bike. It was probably the cool bike to ride years earlier though, but in 1985 if you didn't have a BMX you weren't cool. And well I wasn't.