ParadiseRoad
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...Dove hunting in south Texas, 1961...
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vonn
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Very popular around here . Some large gatherings in good areas.
garddogg56
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The way it should be.
I think they're shooting the line insulators.
One doing the hokey pokey, another in dire need of a Johnny-on-the-Spot and the lady with the flower pot on her head...?
Any day throwing lead with family is a good one.
One doing the hokey pokey, another in dire need of a Johnny-on-the-Spot and the lady with the flower pot on her head...?
Any day throwing lead with family is a good one.
4barrel
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They are all getting off at the same time except for the one with the flower pot hat. Is that a 1961 Valiant?
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...Dove hunting in south Texas, 1961...
They look like a family of clowns to me. Wonder it the circus was in town and they were on their lunch break or something. Judging by the way they're dressed, these people don't bear the slightest resemblance to serious dove hunters or any other type of hunter. And I guess it was legal in Texas to park and shoot from a road fifty-eight years ago. If they got caught pulling that stunt today, they'd be ponying up several hundred dollars in fines and maybe even getting their guns seized. And that woman dressed in that outfit made from granny's tablecloth? I don't even want to think about what she might be doing.
OFT II
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It sure looks like a Valiant to me. Kinda makes you feel sorry for them.
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It's a Valiant, not sure what year. Funny thing about the Valiant. When the body style shown in the photo came out, a lot of people thought the styling was ahead of its time, even though you could still see hints or holdovers from fifties design elements. To me, it looked like the designers had taken elements of Studebaker design and took it to the next level. The car looked longer and sleeker (from the side) than it actually was. The little almost Cadillac-looking angular rear fins contrasted sharply with the rounded trunk.
It was an interesting little car, but then the engineers had to keep fooling with the design, rounding it off and stuff...and they ruined it.
My first car at 16 was a 10 year old 1964 two door Plymouth Valiant in red with a non-factory painted white top. Snazzy, lol. Three on the column, rusting through in places, but started every morning, got me everywhere and anywhere I wanted to go. About a year after I started college I think my dad was able to sell it basically for salvage for $100 and was happy to get it.
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You know, you could get a '64 Valiant with a 4-on-the-floor transmission designed by Chrysler for big block V-8s, with gear ratios more suited to the slant six. A Sure-Grip rear axle could also be ordered. Most of the floor shifters were ordered with slant sixes.
Must have been a community event. There is another group in the background that appears they could be doing the same thing.
My dad didn’t allow dove hunting. He claimed that when growing up in South Dakota they were considered a song bird and that he never lost that perspective.
Our large group hunts were for Sage Grouse when there were large numbers of them here. We would get 5-10 people lined up and walk across the sagebrush hillsides for them.
I have fond memories of seeing up to 100 of them a day. Today there is talk of putting them on the endangered species list.
My dad didn’t allow dove hunting. He claimed that when growing up in South Dakota they were considered a song bird and that he never lost that perspective.
Our large group hunts were for Sage Grouse when there were large numbers of them here. We would get 5-10 people lined up and walk across the sagebrush hillsides for them.
I have fond memories of seeing up to 100 of them a day. Today there is talk of putting them on the endangered species list.
LOL, after 10 years it was too late to order! I remember seeing push button automatics for those as well! There was a sporty looking Valiant model, but mine wasn't it. Had a little black box looking thing down under I thought was for storage, haha, until I opened it and realized it was for dusty ventilation. Oh well, at least there wasn't a stupid console and my girlfriend could slide over and ride next to me and when the guys were around the little side vent windows allowed me to tap my cigarette embers out the side in the winter without cracking a window. Mine had an inline 6 as I recall, did my own oil changes and pretty reliable. Darn, this is getting way too sentimental!
RobertJ.
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I sure get annoyed by thread drifts.
LOL, they should have driven a Suburban!
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The best way to get over your annoyance at thread drift is to just stop reading that particular thread.
You know, this is just an Internet forum, and this is just a thread based on a run-of-the-mill black and white photograph pulled off of some archival website. It ain't the World Court or the halls of Congress.
RobertJ.
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The best way to get over your annoyance at thread drift is to just stop reading that particular thread.
You know, this is just an Internet forum, and this is just a thread based on a run-of-the-mill black and white photograph pulled off of some archival website. It ain't the World Court or the halls of Congress.
I was actually making a reference to the "Annoyed at Thread Drift" thread that ran for a couple of years, and many here had a great time at.
The response to my comment that I was really expecting was:
"I like chocolate chip cookies"
A link for those unfamiliar with what I'm talking about: http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge...rift-post137721938.html?359368=#post137721938
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I miss Phil.
Sorry, I'm relatively new but didn't take it as a negative!
