Not R65 but still German

[Bob_Roller]

I lived in the mid-cities area (Euless) for about 4 months in 1978 when I was going through training at Bell Helicopter International in Hurst, TX.

I was in Houston for about 6 months when I started work with Southwest.

I'm very well versed in Texas beers !!  [smiley=1drink.gif]

I'm just amazed that since then, that Texans have realized that there is another universe outside of the great state of Texas !!! [smiley=wink.gif]


When I started working for Southwest Airlines in 1993, when I was asked where I was from, I said I was from a northeastern suburb of Dallas, Chicago !!!! [smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]

[not-so-fast-ed]

By the looks of your cardboard beer holder, there might have been a few frustrations along the way that need to be taken care of.    

Nice looking top.  Can't see any wrinkles.  How'd the liner turn out?

My Goat didn't have a liner (thank you GM),  But I restricted myself to only removing the parts, disassembling the frame, and refubishing/painting the metal parts.  I'm too clumsy to even consider putting a top on.  So after putting the top frame back on with new hydraulic lifts, I bought the , springs, cables, pads, tackrails and let a top guy do the installation.

Ed

[montmil]

By the looks of your cardboard beer holder, there might have been a few frustrations along the way that need to be taken care of.
Nice looking top.  Can't see any wrinkles.  How'd the liner turn out? Ed

What's the game called? Truth or dare... The beer shot was...ohmygawd...staged. There. I said it. Hello. My name is Monte... and I'm a prankster.

Just replaced the top skin as that was the only thing damaged by the hail. If it ain't broke...  Counting my time at nada, the top job cost me $179.00 plus a little change to make DIY side cables, upholstery adhesive, and a few cold ones.

I would love to have an old Goat... not the livestock variety, Justin, so hold off on any cute replies. I'm on to you. Saw a fairly nice rehabed 1966 model outside a Hooters in Richardson, Texas. I was there only for the fried pickles.

[not-so-fast-ed]

They have fried pickles??
I'll have to try them the next time I cruise in that direction for a nourishing experience....
 

[montmil]

They have fried pickles??
I'll have to try them the next time I cruise in that direction for a nourishing experience....
 

Yeah, they do... and they're GOOD!  Our local Denton Hooters made the news the past couple days.

Seems a couple of their female "servers" rescued a five-year old boy from the restaurant parking lot after he slipped away from a daycare facility about a mile away. He had already crossed a major off-ramp from I-35, boosted a pack of gum and a soda from a big fuel station and then drifted over to Hooters. Went in, checked fried pickle prices, then ran out. The ladies snagged him as he was trying to cross the I-35 service road, heading for the interstate! The restaurant called police about the same time as did the parents from the daycare joint.

The State of Texas CLOSED, shut down and buried the daycare facility the next day - Wednesday, 30 July. Good going, there.

This was a very near thing. I'm heading to Hooters and plan to leave an extremely large tip. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[Justin B.]

I always go to Hooters for the hot-wings - about the best deal in town.  I loved the headlines on the evening news the other day, "Toddler escapes from day-care center..."  I can just hear the little ankle-biter now, "You dirty screws ain't gonna keep me locked up, see?  You're gonna have to go to the can sooner or later and then I'm goin' over the wall..."

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

I have five of the tall glasses, and one of the small, in a box, somewhere.  Courtesy of Dad from Texas...




Heck!  I was replying to the bottom of page 1!


The daycare degradation is way better than the beer one!

[Melena]

Heck!  I was replying to the bottom of page 1!

The daycare degradation is way better than the beer one!

   Oh well, it's an off-topic topic anyway, sort of.  It really is now!!  

Little ankle biter?  He probably is and that's how he got away.       Unbelievable, but some of these kids have a roaming spirit.  If he survives he'll probably be riding motorcycles when he gets into his teens.  

[montmil]

Heck!  I was replying to the bottom of page 1!

The daycare degradation is way better than the beer one!

   Oh well, it's an off-topic topic anyway, sort of.  It really is now!!  

Little ankle biter?  He probably is and that's how he got away.       Unbelievable, but some of these kids have a roaming spirit.  If he survives he'll probably be riding motorcycles when he gets into his teens.  

"If he survives he'll probably be riding motorcycles when he gets into his teens."
. . . And meeting up with the old geezers, that be Justin and me, for a basket of wings and fried pickles.

The Pearl glasses are nice looking. You could put some BMW stickers over the logo and have a decent drink!  

Monte

[aussie]

Umm - nice job on the roof - but just a silly question - how the hell do you see out the rear window?? (And by the way if you want a nice drop of beer try Coopers Pale Ale - proudly manufactured and bottled in the fair city of Adelaide).  

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[Altritter]

From Justin:  << If you'd ever tasted Lone Star you would understand! >>

From Monte:  << The ONLY good thing you can say about Lone Star beer is that they maintain a really neat attraction in ol' San Antone, their Hall of Horns. A taxidermist's delight with all sorts of Texas critters. My wife calls it, "that horny place". >>

First, the beer: I have a kind of love-hate reaction to Lone Star. Love the memories associated with it, hate the taste of the stuff.    Now, Shiner Bock is another matter altogether!   8-)

When I first got invited to the Army, I had to report to Fort Bliss, TX. (For our overseas friends, Ft Bliss is in El Paso, next door to Juarez, Mexico, 300 miles from the nearest large US city (Albuquerque, *New* Mexico), 4000 feet above sea level, and 800 miles from the nearest natural body of water of any size. With mountains in it, and near it, and being the gateway to the Conquistadores' "Jornada del Muerto" ("Journey of Death" - hope I got the Spanish case ending correct, for it's been a long time), it's great training for Afghanistan.) The Lone Star brewery, ~550 miles away, was our only source of beer other than the stuff in Juarez (that some of us thought at the time was the product of diabetic horses   ). Anyway, The Fort Bliss Officers Club Annex had Beer Call at noon every Saturday. A pint cup of Lone Star draft cost $.05!! The challenge was to ingest a sufficient amount of the stuff while suppressing one's disgust for the taste.  

Now, the Lone Star Hall of Horns: It wasn't the horns I saw there that I found remarkable, but some of the other mounted species. The Hall of Horns has a small display case containing the only two mounted passenger pigeons I've ever seen. (Passenger pigeons were slaughtered to extinction about 1911.) They are beautiful, and I've seen or know of nothing else alive that remotely resembles them.    

OT Question: Montmil, I gotta ask you, knowing you're in Denton. What, if anything, did they rename TWU, now that it's no longer "Texas Women's University" in reality, if not in name? My Ex is a TWU grad. I was there once in an unairconditioned Datsun 510 (black vinyl seats!) on the most hellishly hot day in 1977 one can imagine. (My standard of comparison is El Paso, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Vietnam.) I heard a funny story when I was in Denton. Supposedly TWU built a new dorm at some point in the 1960s. On the final acceptance walkthrough, the inspecting party for the state university system realized that the dorm's bathrooms had urinals and not a single bathtub (all showers). The new bathrooms had to be renovated. (I've often wondered if the architects became disoriented & thought they were designing for NTSU (or whatever the neighboring former North Texas State University is now called). Is this story real, or is it urban Texas legend?

John

[montmil]

Umm - nice job on the roof - but just a silly question - how the hell do you see out the rear window?? (And by the way if you want a nice drop of beer try Coopers Pale Ale - proudly manufactured and bottled in the fair city of Adelaide).  

Installed the window a day later. Was overly anxious to get the top photos taken. Good eye and good catch. Don't know if anyone else caught it.

Monte

[montmil]

From Justin:  << If you'd ever tasted Lone Star you would understand! >>

From Monte:  << The ONLY good thing you can say about Lone Star beer is that they maintain a really neat attraction in ol' San Antone, their Hall of Horns. A taxidermist's delight with all sorts of Texas critters. My wife calls it, "that horny place". >>

First, the beer: I have a kind of love-hate reaction to Lone Star. Love the memories associated with it, hate the taste of the stuff.    Now, Shiner Bock is another matter altogether!   8-)

When I first got invited to the Army, I had to report to Fort Bliss, TX. (For our overseas friends, Ft Bliss is in El Paso, next door to Juarez, Mexico, 300 miles from the nearest large US city (Albuquerque, *New* Mexico), 4000 feet above sea level, and 800 miles from the nearest natural body of water of any size. With mountains in it, and near it, and being the gateway to the Conquistadores' "Jornada del Muerto" ("Journey of Death" - hope I got the Spanish case ending correct, for it's been a long time), it's great training for Afghanistan.) The Lone Star brewery, ~550 miles away, was our only source of beer other than the stuff in Juarez (that some of us thought at the time was the product of diabetic horses   ). Anyway, The Fort Bliss Officers Club Annex had Beer Call at noon every Saturday. A pint cup of Lone Star draft cost $.05!! The challenge was to ingest a sufficient amount of the stuff while suppressing one's disgust for the taste.  

Now, the Lone Star Hall of Horns: It wasn't the horns I saw there that I found remarkable, but some of the other mounted species. The Hall of Horns has a small display case containing the only two mounted passenger pigeons I've ever seen. (Passenger pigeons were slaughtered to extinction about 1911.) They are beautiful, and I've seen or know of nothing else alive that remotely resembles them.    

OT Question: Montmil, I gotta ask you, knowing you're in Denton. What, if anything, did they rename TWU, now that it's no longer "Texas Women's University" in reality, if not in name? My Ex is a TWU grad. I was there once in an unairconditioned Datsun 510 (black vinyl seats!) on the most hellishly hot day in 1977 one can imagine. (My standard of comparison is El Paso, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Vietnam.) I heard a funny story when I was in Denton. Supposedly TWU built a new dorm at some point in the 1960s. On the final acceptance walkthrough, the inspecting party for the state university system realized that the dorm's bathrooms had urinals and not a single bathtub (all showers). The new bathrooms had to be renovated. (I've often wondered if the architects became disoriented & thought they were designing for NTSU (or whatever the neighboring former North Texas State University is now called). Is this story real, or is it urban Texas legend?

John

Wow, John... you're almost a local, or "loc" as the home boys say.

Shiner Bock is most excellent. I enjoy it often.

TWU, Texas Woman's University, was originally known as CIA; College of Industrial Arts. Later, Texas College for Women. I'm married to a former TWU student with her bachelor, master and doctoral degrees from her school across town from my alma mater, the University of North Texas.
  
Formerly known as North Texas Teachers College, North Texas State College, North Texas State University, it's now the University of North Texas... Or, as she calls it, "That trade school."

Yep, the all-female TWU dorm was actually condemned because there were too many cracks in it. Your question and my respons are both urban legends.

Datsun 510? Me, too. Bought a brand new two-door sedan in 1969 for $1400.00. Great runner but the sheet metal was sorta like a recycled Prince Albert tobacco can.

I know lovely Fort Bliss in charming El Paso. My youngest son is career USArmy and was posted there with the 3ACR before they, fortunately, moved the regiment to Fort Carson, near Colorado Springs. Funny you mention Afghanistan as my son is now training up with a Special Forces bunch of rabble rousers for a tour in the 'stan. His fourth visit to S'West Asia.

Thanks for the memories!   Monte

[Altritter]

Montmil wrote: << North Texas State University, it's now the University of North Texas >>

Whatever its name, the North Texas Jazz Lab Band is about the best big band I ever heard, with the possibility that Berkley School of Music's in Boston might be as good. (I've heard both, and was was about equally impressed.

Re "Texas Woman's University":  Sorry about that. I grew up in a town that (formerly) had an all-women's college, Randolph Macon Women's College, and used the plural from force of habit.