My 2nd favorite year in my favorite color with my favorite wheels!
my garage full of Korea (ok ones Mexican)
In reply to Appleseed :
Looks like a podracer on the jackstands
My wife and I drove separately to dinner.
Weber "A" style mandolin
In reply to procainestart :
For some reason, I have always wanted a Martin "F" style mandolin. Not really an F-style, just a pointy A style.
And since that picture wasn't on my phone, I'll share these that are on my phone:
Providence Mandolin Orchestra. Or a version of it, at least:
A couple of them had a Bluett mandolin:
Not directly related, but this is a picture of my wife. We were in George Gruhn's office. Gruhn is zoologist who became arguably the world's foremost expert on guitars.
Powar said:
My wife and I drove separately to dinner.
What a Saab story. 
Sorry, I'll leave now.
In reply to mtn :
That Gibson is really neat. I've always been an A model guy and, to be honest, don't love the F style, but the "double-pointy" looks great.
I've heard of Gruhn guitars but not Bluett. What an interesting background.
Do you play in the orchestra? I've recently gotten back into playing and played violin in orchestras through adolescence, but a mando orchestra is intriguing.
Here's mine, a 1915-ish Gibson A model I've had for 40 years now. It's apparently a bastard: has a laminated neck that wouldn't have been fitted at the factory, so the original had been broken at some point. It's also had numerous other repairs since I got it, and is due to have the fretboard removed to straighten the neck (it predates truss rods). Time for an adjustable bridge, too.
Powar said:
Details on the headlights, por favor?
In reply to procainestart :
I do not play in the orchestra - I don't live in Providence! Or have near enough talent, or ability to read music. I happened upon them completely by chance - I was in Providence for a hockey seminar. My airbnb turned out to not exist, so I had to find whatever hotel I could. I finally found a room on the 4th hotel I called, and only because somebody cancelled that same night. They happened to be having a concert in one of their meeting rooms, I saw the sign, and wandered down. Afterwords I talked with some of them, they invited me to stick around and jam for awhile - luckily, a few had some oversized and understringed mandolins for me to play since I'm a complete hack on the mando and decent at guitar.
Turns out that there was someone there who took lessons from Jethro Burns and studied with Don Steirnberg, whom I'd had a couple of lessons from when I was a teenager. Great experience, one of the happy accidents of my life.
I don't have a mandolin currently - I am pretty sure that my brother still has the one I last had, an Orpheum by Tacoma. I can't remember exactly though - I know I've traded it to him twice and bought it from him once...
procainestart said:Details on the headlights, por favor?
Those are GE Nighthawk LEDs. Unfortunately NLA and were way overpriced in their day, but the Trucklite copies are supposedly just as good (and cheaper). I've not used the Trucklites personally, but I have a few sets of Chinesium knockoffs for my truck and some other C900s in the past. They're 90% of the function at 1/8th the price. These: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074LT5B1M/
These are the Bicyacos:
The bread was toasted just the right amount.
In reply to mtn :
Just learned who Don Stiernberg is (listening now). Cool that you were able to take some lessons from him. He's got the "double-pointy" thing going on:
I saw this Fiero at the Giant Eagle
I think you could roll a cat turd in this stuff and it would still taste awesome. So good. Love Tonys seafood.
In reply to procainestart :
That one is a Nugget. I don't know what they run new, but I know on the used market they regularly pull 5 digits - they usually are advertised over $20k. Don was Jethro Burns' protege... And that is probably why he plays the 2-point style. I just think they look really cool.
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