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Mr horsepower of clay smith cams is smoking a cigar while thrush chicken is a non smoker
Otherwise they are similar birds

I always thought the Clay Smith bird was a woodpecker...

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Back in the 1980s a large Oldsmobile dealer in my area would not service an Oldsmobile that had a metal dealer plate from a small family owned country Olds dealer (in business since 1930s) where a lot of city folks went to get the best deal. I know because I took a used Olds Cutlass in for a recall repair and the service writer said the dealer I'd plate needed to come off before next visit. I never went there again!

If they had been reported to GM that would have changed real fast or they would not been a GM dealer any longer.
 
To the annoyance of multiple car dealers, I either remove their advertising number plate frames entirely or turn them around and put them behind my plate.
I hated the dealership frame, so I spent $10 on one that expounds my values. Yes, I'm a proud gas guzzler!

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This is about it. I like Cabela's hats. I've only ever had one old man at the gas station ask me where I got the green one.

I used to have a hat that said "Alaska". I could not walk out my front door without somebody asking me if I got it in Alaska. It went to the Goodwill
 
Guilty as charged Pete. When I drag raced my 68 Camaro, performance parts came with decals. Decals went on back seat windows. It's what WE did. This is 1987.

The only stickers that go on my race car are those required by the race series, contingency sponsors, or the ones I get paid to display.
 
Nothing on my car, unless you count the PA "Preserve Our Heritage" license plate that shows a Pennsy K4 steamer.

Typically I wear clothing my employer gives me (hoodie, t-shirt, hat). I also wear my FC jacket, t-shirt, hat etc.

That's about it. I mean my jeans say LL Bean or Levi's, but that's not the same as what I think the OP is getting at.
 
I generally avoid clothes with company logo's, with a few exceptions. I've got a bunch of Ford hats, but that's because I've got a bunch of Ford's. There's also a bunch of Victory Brewing hats, but the brewery is five minutes from my house and my Dad was responsible for getting them to move the brewery to our township.

The hat I wear 90% of the time is a Schwalms Babbited Bearings Model A hat. They are only 20 minutes away, and experts with Model A engines. My ten year old original is starting to fall apart, but I've got a new one ready to go.
 
To the annoyance of multiple car dealers, I either remove their advertising number plate frames entirely or turn them around and put them behind my plate.

When I bought my Tacoma, they had a chrome Beaver Toyota stick on badges on the rear of all the new cars on their lot. I had to wait a day for them to get the truck I wanted, told the sales dude I wouldn't drive it off the lot if they put one on it. He asked about the license plate frame, told him it was cool, but I'd be throwing it away as soon as I got home. They didn't put one on it.
 
I have fallen for the Harley tee shirt gimmick. My GF and I schedule our trips around where the dealerships are located. I have shirts going back 20 some years and from my first trip out west. I think of my shirts as a travelogue of places I've been.
 

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I have to be very careful how I say this but I believe that God As I Understand Him has decided that I shouldn't wear anything with a logo on it.

Because every time I do somebody feels the need to comment on it. Even the Cabela's hats.

I like that hoodie. It was made in Alaska and it's heavy, warm material but if I wear it outside my house somebody will get in my bubble and comment about it.

The last time it happened I had some lady following me around Dollar Tree telling me how much she loved the beer on it.

I have learned my lesson. I never took that hoodie outside my house again.



This is how I normally dress. In the winter I wear a flannel shirt with a fleece vest over it. In the Summer a Camp shirt.

I've said this a bunch of times, if you throw a rock in Colorado Springs you're going to hit somebody dressed like me.
 
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When I bought my Tacoma, they had a chrome Beaver Toyota stick on badges on the rear of all the new cars on their lot. I had to wait a day for them to get the truck I wanted, told the sales dude I wouldn't drive it off the lot if they put one on it. He asked about the license plate frame, told him it was cool, but I'd be throwing it away as soon as I got home. They didn't put one on it.

I don't know, I think I might have to keep the Beaver Toyota plate
 
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