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Exploring "forgotten" small towns via Rail To Trail. Many of them may be entirely gone within a generation now. Developers are eyeing the towns and adjacent lands and buying things up for gentrification today. So much history to be lost to in-migration.

How common are those recumbent trikes where you are?

 
dilettante said:
Exploring "forgotten" small towns via Rail To Trail. Many of them may be entirely gone within a generation now. Developers are eyeing the towns and adjacent lands and buying things up for gentrification today. So much history to be lost to in-migration.

How common are those recumbent trikes where you are?

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This was 100 times more interesting to me than I expected.
Great beard on that guy. Two very interesting people who know how and what to appreciate.
 
OldFeller said:
Munster Cars

I saw these at a car show, but this video is even better

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A lot of the Kustom Kars were not drivers because the engines had no internal parts in them. The whole idea was to build for "visual appeal " not driveability. My source ? A close friend from high school here in Toronto, Bruce Beddie spent about ten years working as a car builder in SOCAL, for Kurtis, and later Van Dutch. He was also a "road boss " who supervised a number of custom car caravans, that went out on the car show circuit for weeks at a time. The cars had to be pushed by hand into the car show buildings by the crew, because the engines were merely shells, with no moving parts in them.

The car builders were paid a set amount for each regional car show by the local show promoters, less the cost of transportation and paying the crew that travelled with the cars. Bruce criss crossed the USA for weeks at a time. His true calling was welding and body fabrication. He also did air brush T shirts at the car shows, as a side line money maker. His trade name was Color Me Gone. One of his 1966 shirts sells now for around $500 as a collectible hot rod item. Bruce died in 2017.
 
30 years ago when I brought my boys out here often, things were quite different. Mostly sand roads, hiking trails, rustic camping, and to the south a few small Alpine cottages.

Now it is way built up, and population shifts in the area mean you'll hear as much Mexican Spanish as English in use. Shacks selling ice cream, pizza, and lemonade have given way to permanent buildings selling churros, tacos al pastor, and Jarritos. The old Mac Wood's rides have been replaced by larger vehicles with the trees cut way back away from what used to be 2-tracks. Sandy campgrounds with small firepits have given way to paved safety go-cart tracks, fake springs and streams, water park rides, etc.

Everything has a coin and bill slot or a guy standing out front taking money. Cops all over, sirens droning all day long.

I was out there last Summer with my youngest and he remarked that it felt like a very different place, almost like another country. You can't hold onto your childhood any more. You just can't go home.

 
I posted a video by this couple above.

This one is earlier and features the recumbent trikes they used later in that other video.

 
I don't mean to drag the thread off topic, but here is the same couple again.

This video might come in handy if the Summer heat is too much for you right now:

 
I fussed over which thread this belongs in, but decided that it's entertaining enough to fit in here.

Cheapo, useless Chinese boat with a lot of money and time dumped into it to improve it:

Upgrading my $1,000 Electric Boat Ordered From China
 

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