The 'Cruise'

'Looks up from the screen'
Oh MAN .. it's 6AM already!! .. I need *SLEEP*!!

Happen to you now an then?
Did that last nite, I got 'sucked in' runnin into Tokyo Bay in early 1944 in my Balao Sub ..'Run Silent Run Deep' got nothin on me :) (altho I enjoyed Clark Gable in all his roles, this one was a paradigm of Clark Gable)

The game you ask?
Silent Hunter 4 by Ubisoft.
I think Kathy is gonna keel me quick one of these days for doin that whole 'stay up all nite' just playing a 'Game!'
Of course, it beats our early years of marriage, when I useda go 'cruise' Friday and Saturday nites. She hated it most nites.
Finally talked her into comin along, years *that* took!

Ahh .. 'The Cruise' ..

I always loved the cars and the people that ran 'em were a fascinating mix.
Will have to write about the Types I ran across, that would make a whole series in itself :)
The outright pleasure of listening to the highly syncopated mechanical music and base that goes right through your middle .. the Hemi, the Rat, the Mouse ... aye.
I was there.
Central Avenue, Phoenix.
Summer of '69, many returns there over the years when I was home on leave from the USAF.
Sad to see the demise of Cruising as we used to know it.
Van Nuys Blvd,
Man I would have loved to live there, only made it down there rarely,
..it was a SHOW every time.
Fremont Street, Las Vegas.
I did a burnout stationary with line lock on right there on the cobblestones just to stop that nimrod in his QuadraJet equipped Trans-Am eggin me on to race off every lite!
...NO ..
Your Trans-Am was NOT up to any task my 440 Duster could put to YOU :)
You couldn't see across 4 lanes at the stoplight when I finished,
..got a standing ovation and more than a few 'Day-YUM, now THAT's a BURNOUT!'
.. and the two cops at the McDonalds both gave me thumbs up :)

My '71 Duster, 440 powered, didn't play nice with others, FUN!

Built, Painted, Welded on, Lettered, Bracket Raced for almost 20 years, Cruised here an there an everywhere by me :)


Was always a good time, now and then you would hear about someone gettin their car really messed up, usually doin something extremely stupid.
Sometimes they'd get messed up themselves.
Darwin at Work.

I thought I was Invulnerable.
The Fact that I am still here Proves It -grin-

-GE