Friday Night Picture Thread - Transportation Edition

[bluesbassman]

Post a pic of you or a family member and some kind of transportation. Or just your favorite kind of transportation if you don't have one with you in it.

Here's my grandson riding in "Papa's race car".:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Everybody's seen it, but...

[bluesbassman]

4. Love that car.

You driving it around SC?

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Yup

It's the same as the old homestead, too — see another vintage ride, flash the driver a 'V', he gives one back. I freakin' love that. :D

I wanna get a bike, though, as like 90 percent of my trips to the store 'n' whatnot, so far, are four blocks or less.

[Redstone]

2. Here's my transport:

Redstone

[bluesbassman]

5. Nice ride Redstone.

How are you doing?

[Redstone]

36. Doing fair, thanks for asking. You'd never know that car is eight years old, would you?

Redstone

[bluesbassman]

42. No way! She's a beaut, and looks very well maintained.

Volvo did an excellent job on that model, great lines.:thumbsup:

[taterguy]

3. Pic taken by relative of a boat with hole(s) in it

I've never actually been on a cruise ship, nor do I have much desire to. I just like this pic.

[bluesbassman]

6. Cool pic. Wasn't that near Greece?

I took a picture of the Hawaiian plane thad had the top ripped off when it was sitting on the tarmac in Maui. The FAA had it covered the next day.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Sailing with my Mom

about a brazillion years ago...

[bluesbassman]

10. Awesome.

Still sail? I sailed for the first time last summer. I'd been on boats before, but this was the first time that I was able to steer. I can see how it could be very addictive!:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Still sailing, 30 years later.

It's great fun.

[Forkboy]

8. er...

[bluesbassman]

12. Slick.

Those things never break down.

[NightWatcher]

9. good topic...my fav form of transportation..........

taken Wednesday

[bluesbassman]

13. Very cool.

That appears to be a lake. Have you ever done any salt water kayaking?

[NightWatcher]

16. that's the intercoastal waterway here in South Georgia

I kayak all over the place, whitewater, rivers, lakes, surf....

[flvegan]

15. My baby:

And someday:

[bluesbassman]

17. Sweet.

I think that's the first pic I've seen of the Mazda. Great color. How many miles have you racked up on it so far?

As for the Zonda..:wow:

[flvegan]

57. I've only put 8k miles on her in just over a year.

I telecommute, so I don't have a mandatory work drive every day.

[RetroLounge]

18. Milwaukee Road 261 going by my house

:hi:

RL

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Oh, sweet!

Man, I love that sound, that feel.

There's a Union Pacific spur about 200 yards from me, but only once have I heard a train on it. :(

A couple miles from here, it goes over this trestle:

[RetroLounge]

61. Nice bridge too!

I bet it sounds great being pounded by those steel wheels!

:hi:

RL

[bluesbassman]

31. Awesome! We had these guys come through last week.

Union Pacific's No. 844 steam engine rolled into the Bay Area last week. Crowds gathered between Pleasanton and Sunol, where No. 844 met two other steam engines. No. 2472 is a Pacific Class engine owned by the Golden Gate Railroad Museum and Tanker No. 3 belongs to the Pacific Locomotive Association, which operates trains out of Sunol. The No. 844 was UP's last new steam engine, built in 1944.

[RetroLounge]

60. Nice!

:hi:

RL

[Ptah]

19. I get on the bus, Gus

[bluesbassman]

40. Good on ya Ptah.

Use PT as much as I can around here.:thumbsup:

[Ptah]

45. I do wish for a corvette from time to time.

:thumbsup:

[lizziegrace]

20. Lelapin in OhioJoe's T-bird and my father's corvettes

The corvettes are now affectionately referred to as "man-bait". Pitiful when your parents think they have to bribe someone to go out with you with cars... x(

[bluesbassman]

33. Nothing beats a beautiful girl in a T-Bird!

Dad's Vettes are beauties too. Is that a '67?

[LadyoftheRabbits]

54. Yep (this is LG, Lelapin's logged into my computer...)

it's a '67 big block, completely restored and winner of many show awards in the Portland area. The convertible is a 2006 he bought on a whim.

[Aristus]

21. This is the only pic of me driving. The mode of transportation is a little extreme.

Dude! Like, I'm TOTALLY driving a tank, okay?

[lizziegrace]

29. *swoon*

:wow:

[Aristus]

68. Hop in, lizzie. Let's go for a drive!

This thing handles like a dream... B-)

[bluesbassman]

37. Now that's some heavy metal.

You drove 'em, I fixed 'em. 62Bravo, 2nd Armored Cavalry.:patriot:

[Aristus]

56. I'm sorry I kept breaking it...

Thanks for being there! :patriot:

[Orsino]

22. Obligatory Prius.

You can almost see me hating the troops:




Boat and I (I'm on the left):

[bluesbassman]

44. Well, I can sure see you flying by the gas stations. LOL

Is that a saliboat?

[Orsino]

102. Oh, heck, no.

Just a pseudo-kayak sort of thingy, perfect for utter amateurs paddling around on a small lake.

[Shell Beau]

23. An oldie but a good one! Me on my bacherlorette party in New Orleans.

And me on the Amtrak on the way back. The party still went on!! FUN!!

[bluesbassman]

39. A bike and a Babe!

Yowsa!:D Great pic Shell.

[Left Is Write]

24. My 20th birthday, June 27, 1986.

Wearing the most hideously unflattering sweater ever put through a knitting mill. :puke:

The car is a midnight blue 1985 Toyota Cressida.

[bluesbassman]

35. You make them both look good.

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Here I am, in my (then new) Camry Hybrid!

[bluesbassman]

41. Did they give you a shoehorn to get in the garage?

Wow, that looks like a tight fit! :)

Pretty car, I remember when you got it. How's it working out for you?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

43. LOL!

It's actually not a tight fit at all...

When we were building, my husband requested that my single garage be made several feet bigger in both directions...

I have plenty of room!


It's working out very well...I usually get gas about once a month, and am getting around 30 mpg. It's the nicest car I've ever had!

:hi:

[S n o w b a l l]

26. My dad and his boat - Early 1960's

He died in 1988 and I miss him every day.

[bluesbassman]

46. What a cool boat.

Sorry you lost him. Was your dad a sailor all his life?

[S n o w b a l l]

51. Thanks. so much.

:hug:

Yes, he was. He was in the Navy and thereafter had a boat through our whole lives. He was the Captain. At his funeral we played Captain and the Kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0LLT2CxC6I

[Dystopian]

72. (((S n o w b a l l)))

I love the photo of your father...beautiful memory....
I just listened to the song and it brought tears to my eyes.:hug:





peace~

[SoxFan]

28. Legislative Day, NH National Guard

UH-60, 1159th Medical Company (Air Ambulance), Concord State Airport


Arriving at Pease Air National Guard Base, Newington, NH


KC-135, 157th Air Refueling Wing, view from tail boom operator station


A-10 "Wart Hog" from Mass. ANG flying alongside us, somewhere over northern NH or Vermont

[bluesbassman]

48. Awesome pics SoxFan!

What a thrill to take that flight!

[vard28]

30. I'll play

Here's my husband driving one of our pulling tractors.




Here's the boy clearing the cow manure after we milked the cows.

[bluesbassman]

32. Dad looks like he's having way more fun than Jr.

:)

[vard28]

38. It's funny

Jr. absolutely LOVES to work. He'd rather scrape the shit out of the lane than go to school, for real. :rofl:

Jr. gets to drive the competition tractor when he's 16. For now, he helps wrench on them.

[Inchworm]

34. On break - my kayak

:hi:

[bluesbassman]

49. Beautiful scene Inchworm.

What river is that?

[Inchworm]

53. Few miles from where The New River comes out of the ground

Starts in my county heads north throughVA then WV, where it's famed for real kayaking, then The Ohio...

:hi:

[MrScorpio]

47. Me and my Benz in Holland

[bluesbassman]

50. Cool.

Were you on active duty then?

[MrScorpio]

52. Yep, Four years in Germany

Holland was just an hour away

I left just a little over ten years ago


I still miss the place

[flvegan]

58. That's a 280CE, right?

Nice ride.

[MrScorpio]

62. It was a '79 230C

It looking like this, only silver

[flvegan]

64. Soooo close! I was wrong based on the engine.

Dammit. So close.

[MrScorpio]

66. I wish that I had the 280

It would have been a lot better on the Autobahn

[GCP]

55. Me and Mr. GCP on 'Maid of the Mist' at Niagara

[bluesbassman]

59. Neat. Looks damp. LOL

One of my "bucket list" things to do.:thumbsup:

[mth44sc]

63. It don't get no faster

than my little back to the future boat...

[bluesbassman]

67. What a great photo.

I can hang with that speed! :)

[buzzard]

65. My daughters favourite mode in the Galapagos wish I was there.

[bluesbassman]

70. Me too.

The Galapagos is another one on my "bucket list".:)

[Dystopian]

69. My rear end....

This is all I have on hand...


:hi:


peace~

[bluesbassman]

71. I love your rear end.

What?:)

[Dystopian]

73. Thank you : )

I haven't heard that from a hot grandpa in ages!:o


I loved your picture, also....sweet!:hug:

peace~

[sohndrsmith]

74. I was supposed to meet my date for a romantic weekend in DC. He canceled a few days before

the trip (this was Dec. 2000). I informed him - okay - but he was paying for my trip as I intended to take it anyway. I had a blast, made friends, did things I might not have normally thought of, like ask a bus driver if he would let me pretend to drive his bus (while parked) and take my picture, too (bad as it is). He was a sweetie. I had a blast that long weekend. I'm so glad I didn't fall apart, mope around and cry.

Not sure if this counts, but it was all I could think of... : )

[bluesbassman]

78. A great trip that includes you driving a bus, sure it counts.

:hi:

[sohndrsmith]

101. Well, the bus didn't move - but even so, it was a blast.

As were the other things I did (within reason and without compromising my own safety, of course - zany as they may have been).

What I'd really like to drive is a plane. A jet. Like a 737. I don't want to fly it - that's way beyond me. I just want to drive it around the runway - or park it at the gate or something. I'm sure it's more difficult than I imagine but I'm thrilled by the idea anyway. Man, I would love to do that... I love planes and I love flying.

I'd be a lousy pilot, but it'd be a blast to just drive one of those awesome birds a few hundred yards or so. (I know - dream on, dream on...).

Somehow I think my chances of actually being able to do such a thing are pretty slight. : )

(sigh...)

[DS1]

75. Yut

[bluesbassman]

79. I've always been intrigued by amphibious vehicles.

Especially serious hardware like that. Cool rig.

[DS1]

96. It was a blast. Most passengers saw their lunch twice, but none of our guys

It's got to be mostly mental. Once you're committed to driving these things, I guess you just have an immunity to sea-sickness. Just about the time the grunts would start puking, I'd bust out an MRE and start eating, just to fuck with them. There's nothing like an Omelet with Ham with the smell of diesel and vomit and about 120 decibels of a 900 cubic inch turbo-diesel engine. We would be nice and pass out plastic bags beforehand, nobody would ever take them, so they'd have to puke in their helmets if we couldn't get them one in time. Puking on the floor was a huge no-no, because it would foul the bilge pumps and possibly sink us. :) The Australian Marines we trained with at one point were a different breed, they loved throwing up in their helmets, and took pictures of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_Assault_Vehicle


and don't get me started on night-ops, heheheh in the back it was nothing but :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: 20 foot swells in total darkness while driving back to the ship, good times!

[bluesbassman]

97. A 20 foot swell in one of those things?

Hell yeah! Find out how strong your stomach is quick fast and in a hurry!

[DS1]

98. Hawaii

No continental shelf, so we got the worst of it. I only kept my helmet after it was knocked off by a wave 3 feet over my head because the comm cable was strong enough to keep it attached to our comm gear. Needless to say, our electronics required a lot of maintenance. Salt water and all that.

However, we could use those swells to our advantage, and literally surf our tanks to the beach. Catch a wave, idle the throttle, ride that sucker home then kick in the tracks just before hitting ground. It was going out that was a bitch :D

[sohndrsmith]

76. Now THIS is (was) the best car in the world...

Car saved my life. I'd love nothing better than to have another just like it.

[bluesbassman]

81. Wow! That looks serious.

Glad you walked away from that.:hug:

[sohndrsmith]

99. almost didn't. Damn well-made car. Designed so that the engine

wouldn't crush the driver/passenger. Hit a tree at 45 mph. The engine was obliterated but you can see that the "smushing" stops, almost dramatically, at the dash line (sort of - I don't know the formal words to use). They had to pry my passenger out. He seemed to be more seriously injured but I was the one who almost died from internal injuries/massive bleeding. Even so, we were still incredibly lucky to have been in that car for that kind of impact. I had no time to brake or decelerate.

Had we suffered the same impact in a different car, I likely wouldn't be sitting here writing about it. The design of that engine brace - in particular (or whatever) that kept the engine from ramming into interior is what saved our lives. Even the doctors were amazed. They kept asking what kind of car I was driving.

I'd rather have my old '92 Volvo than just about anything else - even if I could afford any car I wanted. Drove like a truck and I loved every bit of it. All teenagers should run around in old Volvo's. : )

Thanks for the hug.. : ).

[Heidi]

77. My favorite car ever,

and the last car I owned before I moved to Switzerland.

[bluesbassman]

82. A muscle car girl.

:woohoo: Probably be a hassle to drive in Switzerland.:)

[Heidi]

91. Yep.

It would have been more of a hassle to have it shipped here. :rofl:

I kinda prefer public transportation these days, anyway. :)

P.S. :*

[bluesbassman]

94. I had a Triumph Spitfire when I was stationed in Nurnburg.

I can't imagine trying to navigate some of those streets in a muscle car. Would of went broke replacing the side mirrors I knocked off.:)

P.S.S. :loveya:

[Heidi]

95. CMW is convinced that his mom is frittering away his eventual inheritance

on side mirrors for her Volvo station wagon. In the time I've known her (and her parking skills), she has replaced both side mirrors twice, and we've lost count of the number of new brake lights and headlights she's replaced on that boat car. :rofl:

[Bennyboy]

80. This thread needs a BOAT CAR!

Or a woody!

[bluesbassman]

84. Love it!

I always thought how cool it would be to just motor up to a boat ramp and take off!

That's a sweet woody too.

[Bennyboy]

83. All aboard...THE MAGIC BUS!

[bluesbassman]

87. The original Magic Bus

Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters

[Bennyboy]

93. The bus come by and I got on...that's where it all began.....

I have been on the newer version of Furthur. The one Kesey tried to give the Smithsonian.

The bus i posted hs a sad history. it got pulled over coming back from BurningMan and (of course) there wre things on the bus. IMPOUNDED and and never head of it since. used to be a regular thing. nice bus too, outdoor showeres, solar water and electricity, great kitchen.....

[denbot]

85. I think I'm dong this wrong..

[bluesbassman]

90. You're supposed to head the other way!

Man there's enough kayakers in the lounge to start a small navy! :)

[enigmatic]

86. Riding The Rails

[Bennyboy]

88. Then there is the Nevada Car!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

89. My favorite mode of transporation --

[bluesbassman]

92. And an excellent choice it is.

:hi:

[sohndrsmith]

100. oh yah... in the desert - at sunset - no fences, no boundaries... just take off

and run. All could do was hang on and enjoy, going so fast I couldn't see because of the tears in my eyes from the wind... He'd stop after awhile. Had I been a better rider I might have had more say over the whole situation. : )

Man I miss that.

Good call.

What a beautiful horse in the photo you posted...