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this is me an my best friend from 4th grade all through school standing in front of my dad's old geo tracker.
there was a time right after 8th grade our phone was cut off at home and my dad for some reason didn't have a phone at his place a few blocks away either. BUT he had a car phone. haha! me and willie would sit in the garage listen to wu tang and the chronic and call up our girlfriends.
i think it said "low emotions" on the window. My older adopted brother Tony did all the work. OH, my pops had a little night club in the city if your wondering why he would have a car like this. you could hear the bass from the system about 4 blocks away. BOOM!
A follower of Louis Farrakhan delivering the newspaper The Final Call, formerly known as "Mohammad Speaks".. Maybe I should have titled this "Throw it back".
This isn’t a Corvette. It’s the Equus Throwback.
Okay, so it is a Corvette, sort of.
But this Corvette has been restyled, and given a little bit more grunt by Equus Automotive, creator of the Bass770.
The retro-inspired Throwback is a limited model, with only 25 planned by the Detroit-based company, which utilises the ‘Vette as a basis to create a “significantly upgraded” muscle car.
The Corvette’s supercharged V8 can be tuned to an output of 746kW and 1114Nm. Equus says it’s capable of a 2.5-second run to 97km/h (60mph), and has a top speed of 354km/h.
Equus Autmotive’s goal with the Throwback was to inspire a sense of nostalgia in muscle car fans while providing a car with modern-day usability.
“The Throwback model uses unique styling language in its outer skin to create a breathtaking vision of the ultimate Corvette. Equus takes the customer down memory lane to an era when Corvettes were synonymous with performance and class.
“The Throwback can be personalized for the design orientated drivers or for the fastest paced performance centric customer, always emphasizing the original love of an icon, desire for innovation and uncompromised quality.
“Just as companies like Brabus and Alpina focus on European brands, Equus Automotive is focused on providing American Sports car lovers the ultimate interpretation of todayʼs designs.
My son has been designing his own desktop computers the last few years for gaming purposes. When he mentioned his latest updates my mind flash backed to 1982 and my first computer, a Commodore 64. I am embarrassed to admit that I still own it.
This is what my desk would have looked like back in 1982 as a student at American University. At the time I was in American's journalism program and I was working for a Republican Senator from South Dakota.
If you look closely enough you will see the Commodore 64 black and white monitor, keyboard and floppy drive. Also in the picture is a .20 cent FDR stamp (the postage rate back then), my American University ID (I have blocked out my student ID number which back then was my social security number), a Marvin Gaye 45 which I almost wore out listening to, and the first USA Today newspaper ever (September 15, 1982). At the time that paper made a huge splash because of its colorful format and national coverage. The newspaper machines were even designed to look like television sets, at least that is what the A U journalism professors claimed.
I had the privilege to meet Ronald Reagan at a 1982 fundraiser and I received the autographed photo a few days later.
My current iPhone is thrown into the photo to add a little perspective. :-)
Item 179282, Historic Building Survey Photograph Collection (Record Series 1629-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.
Throwback Thursday at KU: “This is Lawrence. This is Lawrence, Kansas. Is anybody there? Anybody at all?” On Oct. 12, 1983, about 2,000 people heard that line from actor John Lithgow during a sneak-peak showing at KU of ABC’s “The Day After” made-for-TV film. The film, seen by 100 million TV viewers on Nov. 20, 1983, presented the aftermath of a fictional U.S.-Soviet Union nuclear exchange.
Lawrence was picked as a typical American town near the center of the country to dramatize the aftereffects of a nuclear blast — radioactive fallout, burned, maimed and blinded citizens, mob rule, and no escape for anyone.
About 2,500 local residents were in the movie, including KU students and faculty. Scenes were shot in Allen Fieldhouse, Spencer Art Museum, Memorial Stadium, Spooner Hall, and on Jayhawk Boulevard.
The film put Lawrence on the map. In the words of one local newspaper columnist, “The town William Quantrill burned down has become the city ABC blew up.”