I once owned a big green 71 IMPERIAL with a very home made looking black paint job. I was at the time planning on gettig some local punks to tag up the car to make it look realy scary. The effect being that nobody would dare cut you off or give you the finger on the hiways, I knew I wasn’t scared if you accidently bumped into me because I wasn’t getting out of you way in your brand new SUV lest you get a scratch or buy ME a new car, a much cheaper way to keep others away, even Hummers scare away.
So get any old beater and have it tagged up and you’ll own the road cheap, don’t spend big money on expensive crap that puts holes in your pocket and still doesn’t realy dominate the road.
440cuin,
thats funny. I had a cadilac beater one time that I decorated with a 12 guage shotgun, It had the same effect. Im suprised I never got pulled over and hasseled over it.
come to think of it, It even had some grafitti on it too.
For bullet-hole decals,which are more removable and quieter in execution, go to http://www.bullsballs.com/. After you cringe or laugh at the site’s namesake offerings, scroll down to the bullet-hole decals. You too can amaze your friends and arouse the suspicions of neighbors, police and the Department of Homeland Security. What their other products might arouse is purely speculative and none of my business, but if I saw them on the road I’d know I was in or near a trailer park, the Borough of Queens, or Tijuana.
You could call this self-…or how about…auto-grafitt!! Auto-grafitti with it’s connotations of decorated sedans, book and baseball signing, biography, etc. By Jove!!! My dictionary says grafitti is the plural form of grafitto: an inscription or drawing on a rock, wall, etc. Goes back through Italian and Latin to the Greek Graphein.
Self or autografitti is ok, defacement of public or private property is not, but brazen wit is…PRICELESS!!! The nicely blocked letters L I O N E L on a PRR girder bridge outside of Philadelphia with Paoli locals whizzing back and forth was a revelatory sight back in the early 60’s. Whoever the auteur was, he set my whole view of reality careening in a new irrevocable direction, and I’ve never looked back. Today I am certifiably wacko. I could pause here to discuss my theory of primary and secondary reality, but my clearest example involves female breasts in two short tales and is not suitable for this forum.
Anyway, if you had a million bucks wouldn’t it be fun to repaint freight cars in their fallen flag or even “American Flyer LInes” motifs? Respecting of course, the reporting marks and vital data of their current owners. You could pay the owner for the privelege. Or imagine if
you owned an extensive factory with a secluded siding. A load comes in and empty, goes out in MoPac “Route of the Eagles” livery to the applause of countless railfans across the country. Hooray!!!
I went to railroad days in Galesburg Illinois this year and there was 10 CEFX cars with reporting plates that were less than a month old and had grifiti written on the side, the same on each car.
I took a photo of them, and the closest cars number was 84198. Althought they were not in consecutive numbers because the next one was a 82000 series. I also have a photo of the grifiti.
No. not lately Q!! But I’m travelling with my son this summer and may get out that way.
Guess I’ve raised him right 'cause he wants to revisit EBT!!!
I’m long due there myself. If you are coming East from Indy let me know, and we’ll try to find some Welsh Rarebit at a HoJo on the pike!!
Knock Jean Shepherd and Indiana into your pad and join the bugs on Indiana lakes.
Yer pal Rick/
…Gee that sounds familiar…HoJo on the pike…They were the best. Sorry places now compared to the originals. I’m out of EBT a loooong time too. Last time there was 1960…! But it was fun…We rode in the car with the wicker furniture.
OH boy… now Graffiti sometime may look cool but if you noticed on some cars some jobs were takened a little too far?[:O] on a rack car painted from top to bottom with the words “G-UNIT” even on one car “…Or Die Tryin!”[xx(][8][B)][(-D][(-D] same thing on my fictional lines reported a BBE hopper car with paint top to bottom sayin "The Lone Byrd Lines… They really taste like Chicken![dinner][(-D][(-D][(-D][:-^]
Quents, Welsh Rarebit was one of those signature HoJo things you could buy at the cashier station on your way out. It was a melted cheese type thing served on toast and packged in a can for take-away. It was great, and along with PRR navy bean soup, a tasty blast from the lamented past.
My dad tryed to order one in the late 60’s and after describing it to a clueless waitress got mayonaisse and ketchup mix on toast,.
Kevin, tale two is about imagining a cold rainy day (imagine yourself in a duck blind in March) and the application of hair spray or artist’s fixatif on each nip. It’s good for hours, even under hot studio lights.
Tale one is about amazing, bountiful (fill in what you are thinking) parts of anatomy hovering above your glazing eyeballs.
Tale three is jest ol you living vicariously!!!
Can’t report any cool grafitti recently, but am always on the lookout and may have a Fall project of my own. The PRR paint in my area could be freshened up a bit. Conrail and Amtrak haven’t touched the stuff since 1976.
Faithfully, Rix