"...the state of Kentucky has pretty generally throughout history been mocked; people look down on Kentucky," says Jones. "The thing this state has always prided itself on is we do one thing better than you, and that's basketball."

Get yer skates on, mate!

To Please a Lady, 1950. Not Clark Gable's best picture (they got too much Barbara Stanwyck in it) but the racing in USAAC sprint cars and at the Indy 500 was done well enough to make up for it. Check out this montage beginning with Gable running his qualifying laps under the edge of a thunderstorm, edited to "L'estasi…

That's the famous movie pilot Paul Mantz on the left and Amelia's navigator Fred Noonan on the right; looks like a microphone for Honolulu radio station KGU behind them.

Not impossible to do that and bring your wings with you...

I've had a few scary moments I've written about here before (the attempted swoop-and-squat insurance scam on the 605 where I missed the car trying to trap me but cracked up on the guardrail, the stuck throttle in my Crown Vic, getting trapped in a pack of cars doing 65 west of Flagstaff on packed snow, being chased on…

Aha! I stand corrected. Thanks for clarifying.

Chrysler products, to be exact. And there was some creative parts mixing as well - the cheaper series Firesweep used Dodge front fenders and hoods, and the more expensive Firedome and Fireflite used Chrysler units. (And in Canada and some foreign markets, you got a DeSoto front end bolted to a Plymouth.)

Jeanne Crain would soon have a more memorable experience with a Chrysler product. Here she is enjoying the ride of the 1961 Plymouth Belvedere:

Beat me to it!

Yes, and in his autobiography he referred to the grille as looking like a bad set of teeth.

I ain't even got a garage! You can call home and ask my wife!

I know a story like that - an elderly (about 75) friend of mine won one in 1989 in a contest sponsored by the company from where he bought monogrammed advertising pencils for his little print shop. It was a nice treat for him and his wife - their daily drivers at the time were a worn-out '70 Monte Carlo and a very…

This specific car. Sometimes an item about an unusual find will get promoted to the main page; worth a shot. It'll get noticed more there than here. In the meantime keep after that owner - worst he can do is say no. Good luck!

Yes - it might be worth doing a story about it.

That's a shame; looks like the original CA blue plate too.

The New Zealanders beat him to it; check out this P-40 (using blanks) from a year earlier. It's been the hit of the airshows down there:

Another great example of juxtaposition:

"There's a slow-pokin' cat, I'm gonna pass him on the right - "