My hobbies are a 72 Malibu vert ,a72 ElCamino ss, a68 Malibu project, 55 Bel Air hardtop, an 81 Trans Am and also a 72 Chevy shortbox daily driver. Other hobbies include collecting plastic model kits, zippo lighters, Bud Steins,yardsales, home remodeling, working in my yard, cutting and splitting fire wood, traveling with friends to as many ACES Regionals as possible to see more Chevelles .

If I told you what my hobbies are, then I would have to ************http://bestsmileys.com/shooting1/3.gif

Besides the car stuff, Im also a model railroader, same as Chris. I model N Scale, pretty small but not the smallest. Besides that, I do stained glass and hot glass, such as fusing and slumping, bead making, etc. I teach adult ed classes from time to time at a couple high schools nearby.

Besides the Chevelle, I'm into Photography, Motorcycles, do some video gaming from time to time. I travel internationally a lot for work so I try to collect something cool from each place, i.e. a stein from germany, boomerang from Australia, etc. Here's a link to some photo stuff

http://picasaweb.google.com/bad.sama...eat=directlink

I travel with work also and was in Stuttgart Germany for a month this past summer.
Also spent about a month in Milano Italy.

Looks like Brazil and Argentina this yr.

Also, very cool pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks! I was in Amberg which is a small town Near the Czech Border. I absolutely loved Germany, I was there for 3 months from Sept-Nov of '06. Got to head down to Munich for Oktoberfest that year and did waaaay to much :beer: How was Milano? Haven't made my way to Italy yet it's on the list,

Cars are my main hobby, next is camping and fishing with my family. I love taking my 4yr old little girl in a ride in my loud car.

I can say I loved Germany as well. I plan on going back sometime just for vacation. Yeah I hear oktoberfest is a kick.
Milano was nice but was there in July and it gets hot and humid.
I think if I go back to Italy I will go to Venice or along the beach somewhere.

Great hobbies you all have.
Chevelle is my #1 time consumer. Fishing, Deer Hunting, Harley Riding, kind of take up the rest. Family stuff is always top priority though. Grandson is 8 and wants to do the outdoor stuff....he loves it all including my chevelle and the harley.
I lived in Ulm and Heilbronn Germany as a kid. My mother was from Heilbronn. She passed on when she was 38.
I have a 68 Mustang coupe project I have to start on sometime.....Wife's car. She wants me to paint it a Mopar color.......Panther Pink. We'll hope she changes her mind.

well, I've got the cars. The Buick is so nice it needs it's own category though so,

classic cars
classic Buicks :)
cycling/fitness
racing (contemplating getting an SCCA competition license)
classic music (I like combing thrift shops for old albums)
thrift shops/flea markets

These all make lots of sense now. When did your hair turn blue Andy? :D

Jeff

about the same time I got faster than you on a bike. I'm thinking, a year ago June :p

Nice to see another record collector here. Waving

I wonder if Dave can change my title to read "Crushing the hopes and dreams of Andy with every stroke of the pedal!!" :D

I hope you're not basing my speed on a bike on the one ride we did, as I was definitely slowing down so as to keep your slow ass caught up with me so you didnt get lost!! :D

I may just have to try to make it down to CB10 this year with the bike and then we will settle this once and for all, or at least for this year

Jeff

What are you going to race, the minivan? :p

this is just from two stores last week

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/albu...6fd/681018.jpg

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/henr...ff_jan2008.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dRvS2_8Gea...+DSO+cover.jpg

http://tiptopmusic.com/pinkblog/wp-c...Famecvr-sm.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/cont...42073xbvry.jpg

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/we...vers/257-1.jpg

and more:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qFgmPelbHL.../jack+paar.jpg

http://userpages.monmouth.com/~riodude/LPS~1.53.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zioJB6lp3F.../front_sml.jpg

http://cdn3.ioffer.com/img/item/111/769/332/IR4N.jpg

http://goingdigitalmusic.com/images/...fe%20gdmac.jpg

I think there's only one way to settle this.

What was the time on your fastest regular century? :D :D

I was going to trade it for this:

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/classifieds/1645/

you can get in pretty cheap, though:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/1989-Volkswagen-G...item414ab39c60

you can't convert a regular car for that

This may have to wait until the whole tuition deal plays out though, so I can see how much extra money I'm going to have.

I'd take a swinging safari,for sure. Safari if the wife would let me.

Hobbies
 

Oh boy lots of them,

Nitro Rc 4x4 trucks. unbelievable speed and destruction.

Golf well in my case hacking

Off road in my Cherokee.

Flight simulation tried the RC stuff to much money when that crash

Fishing and camping.

[QUOTE=Andy69;2251]and more:

Oh so you like the

Shaded dogs
living presence
Red seals
Decca

and London's do ya ?

I am more of a Blue note, Verve, Pacific jazz and Prestige person myself.

Very cool stuff there. What years your cherokee ?

Pacifica jazz sounds good.;)

Just picked up a couple of cool Les Mcann's that are sweet. :)

[QUOTE=grumpy;2269]Decca and Columbia have some pretty cool stuff. You can't ever have too much Xavier Cugat, I tell ya.

I'll buy most anything jazz/lounge/big band/latin from the 50s-70s that's in good shape, though.

Even the stuff in bad shape can be salvaged for the music. I wash a lot of LPs in the kitchen sink :) then once they are on the computer, I use the magic razzle dazzle to get rid of the clicks and pops and the hiss.

I have my turntable, amp, and laptop set up in the basement, as it's the only place the records don't skip.

here's the type of stuff I can't get enough of. Most peopel throw this stuff away

http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/u...38-500x490.jpg

http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/u...22-498x500.jpg

http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/u...nt-500x500.jpg

http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/u...14-494x500.jpg

but no one, and I mean no one, holds a candle to this lady:

http://www.auralexploits.com/ebay_im...istingue_1.jpg

Here is a really bad pic of my turntable.

I can't tell, is that a Sota?

I've got an old HK T-35 I bought years ago when I was in college. I was looking at that and an AR, both demo models and the same price, in an American in Appleton, and like a dummy I bought the wrong damn one.

Still, it's been a good unit. I have an Audio Technica cartridge with their "line contact" stylus (same as Shure's hyperelliptical).

So, what do you clean your LPs with?

With that kind of playing equipment, I'm guessing one of these:

http://www.discomusic.com/images/pho...ingmachine.jpg

alas, with my budget, I'm limited to one of these, which is still better than a Discwasher:

http://www.henryk.ca/Inventory%20Image/cfb80.jpg

Toy train guys are after the sort of things they had when they were a child. Stuff like Lionell and American Flyer. The larger sized trains with 3 rails if you remember that. There were all sorts of accessories you could buy seperate to make your trains do more and interact with the children.

Scale model railroaders want to make thier trains look like the real thing. And not just the trains. The citys, towns, mountains, rivers, etc. They are after a minature world that looks real. Most modelers will also take thier locomotives and rail cars out of the package brand new and paint rust, soot and dirt effects onto the fresh paint to make them look as if they have been out in the elements for several years. Plus they will even tag thier cars with grafitti. Afterall, there isnt a whole lot of real life railroad cars or locomotives that arent dirty or rusty. Even brand new stuff gets grime on it after a few days.

They even go as far as to operate like the real thing with industries and businesses on thier layouts with comodities that are served by a rail road. Passenger train schedules. They use time tables just like the real railroads runs thier trains across the continent.

Also, around the early 90s. Computers have finally entered the hobby in a big way and now instead of controlling the polarity of the track. You are controlling the locomotives. In the old days, you either moved forward or backward and if you had 2 locomotives on the same track. They both either moved forward or backwards. Now, locomotives are available with a micro chip inside that allows you to operate it individually from the rest of the locomotives no matter where the others are. For the first time since the old days, actual head on, or any sort of train accident is potential now. These type of systems require a system to operate the trains instead of the old transformers that connect to the track though. As its a computerized system that you connect to the tracks. Instead of the old small transformer box like in the old day.

Dont get me started on the hot new thing the last few years. Sound equipped locomotives. Companies are using professional sound equipment and recording the real locomotives to use for sound in the same make of minature locomotives. Right down to the idle sounds, horns, air brakes, etc.

Just a few pics I had saved to kind of show what its all about. This is not my work personally.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...road/CNWF7.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...lsonbridge.jpg

that's something I got into as a kid, but dropped it after I got into cars.

Those are pretty effing sweet, Chris.

I used a VPI 16 for years until I broke down and got the 16.5

To put how much I like vinyl in to perspective. My turntable costs more then the car I drive. Mind you not our chevelle but our daily driver. Gotta have your priorities straight ya know.


Nothing wrong with a disc washer but you may want to try one of the mofi brushes.

pff, if you were really serious, you'd have one of these :D

http://www.dccblowout.com/product.aspx?pf_id=odyssey

Lat time i got a record from DCC it cost close to that much :eek:

I guess I know what to keep my eyes open for at thrift shops :eek:

http://www.dccblowout.com/product.aspx?pf_id=parkenight

1995 4.0 with 255k runs like a top..

Just joined recently....
Big game hunting; especially in Africa. Been on two safaris and going back July 2011. Hunted Canada for bear, moose. Deer in a mess of states. Pig, dove, you name it.
Love shooting. Retired homicide detective and have owned my trophy company for 16years after retirement.

I actually was a car guy first but have been into trains since around my early teens. I have been in to cars before I was 10, if you can really call it that. All I wanted up till then was hotwheels and matchbox cars for christmas every year. Started getting hooked a little more in the HO scale model train stuff in the mid to late 80s. Then when I got my 66 in 1993. That hobby pretty much took over and just recently started getting back into the train stuff along with the cars.

I totally forgot to add another picture I found which was the whole reason I wanted to post some pictures in the first place. Found this picture online a few months back and had to save it. Model Railroaders are car guys too. I know several car guys whom are also in the model RR hobby.

Gotta put something here Chevelle related.Waving

The hoods open on many of these small cars so thats why it looks like its not closed all the way.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/h...ChevelleSS.jpg