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David Burge Profile picture
@iowahawkblog
Jun 4, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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My new favorite movie of all time: High School Confidential (1958). It has EVERYTHING: switchblade fights! Mamie Van Doren! Reefer addicts! Jerry Lee Lewis! Midnight hot rod races! Vampira beatnik poetry! And non-stop hep cat lingo galore, daddy-o! ImageImageImageImage
I literally can't believe I never saw this movie before last night on TCM. Should be available on TCM on demand soon
Plus it has my late great pal Norm Grabowski (uncredited) as one of the Wheeler Dealers, the hoodlum gang that runs the reefer biz at 35-Year Old Student High School Image
And Michael Landon as head honcho of the Rangers, the high school's top hot rod club Image
And Charlie Chaplin Jr as undercover narc busboy at the beatnik jazz club owned by local reefer kingpin "Mr A" played by Jackie Coogan - whose movie career started as child costar of Charlie Chaplin Sr in "The Kid" and later became Uncle Fester on The Addams Family Image
And two chopped lead sled 48 Chevy coupes built by George Barris. Note: no one will be seated during the shocking lead sled flip scene ImageImage
In short: this is not a movie, it is a 1 hour 25 minute xray of my brain
Footnote: here's a Jackie Coogan tangent I went off on, prompted by a car ID request

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Apr 23
Not a single citation from the legacy press after I did all the work for them, smdh
They even got this wrong, the mystery wasn't whether it was a 1940-41 Ford Deluxe woody, it was whether it was a *1941-42* Ford Deluxe woody. It obviously isn't a 1940, and I conclusively determined it was a 1941 per the fender top marker lights. Again, smdh Image
Just when you though you couldn't hate the media enough Image
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Apr 22
The mystery USS Yorktown car is a 1941-42 Ford woody wagon, I have spoken
Sir you picked the wrong fight
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You are looking at the rear of the car, the stainless steel trim ring still on the rear spare. the wooden top and wooden exterior of rear gate rusted away. You can see the stainless deluxe bumper guards are jutting up at bottom of the photo. You can see the front bench seat and steering wheel, partially covered by torn remains of rubberized top.

Ford woodies were widely used at US naval bases. There absolutely no reason why a German Kubelwagen would be on a US aircraft carrier.Image
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Apr 18
cc: @NobelPrize
"Let's bring down inflation with 150% tariffs and 0% interest rates" is perhaps the most galaxy brained economic theory I have ever attempted to ponder
High interest rates are good because they encourage people to save and invest

Low interest rates are bad because they encourage people to rack up debt and buy stuff with money they don't have Image
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Apr 17
I live in Austin TX which, as you might have heard, has a few California transplants. I know a lot of them, and without exception they are painfully aware of why they they left CA and do not want those mistakes repeated here
"Those damn California libruls moved into Austin and turned it blue" is probably the most clueless reaction I get on this site. Austin has always been lefty, and if anything Cali transplants have made it less so.
1. Austin has always been lefty because it's always been a magnet for native Texan weirdos fleeing their conservative home towns.

2. There are some lefty transplants from CA and other places. But in metro Austin they're typically tech workers, many of Asian descent with families, who move to the suburbs for lower single family housing prices and non-insane school curricula.
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Apr 16
Having lost my beloved Kum & Go baseball cap, I would be deeply indebted to you for a replacement.

I will never forgive the Mormons for the calumny of destroying America's most trusted Kum-themed brand name
This is like when the changed the name of Marshall Field's to Macy's, only one billion times worse
Oh well at least we still have Spunky Dunkers Donuts Image
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Apr 10
I see a lot of commentary on this, but as a car-type-of-person I will offer my $0.02 (a thread)
First, yeah, Boomer Bait. The Nova SS in race #1 and 1940 Ford pickup in #2 are both highly modified. Stock form, the Nova would've had ~14 second 1/4 time rather than 10. And stock 1940 Ford wouldn't even had broken 20 seconds.

But the modification is *the entire point*.
Secondly, while the Nova is probably street legal the Ford probably isn't. But there is a benchmark for street legal old American muscle, the Hot Rod Magazine Drag Tour. Participating cars have to be registered, licensed, and must drive on the road between 6 or so drag strips where their ETs are recorded. They are allowed to swap DOT tires for slicks for their runs. There are dozens and dozens of these cars with electronically timed ETs under 9 seconds (A stock Tesla S Plaid is somewhere in 9.3-9.4). Some under 6 seconds.

Here are class records:
hotrod.com/events/hot-rod…Image
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