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Feb 21 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Happy Presidents Day
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New Presidents Day #DavePoll: favorite President, Semifinal Round 1
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Happy Daytona 500 day from #DavesCarIDService! NASCAR was born over drinks at the Ebony Bar of Daytona's chic Streamline Hotel in 1947, and the hotel still is in operation. This photo shows it right before its 1941 opening. Cars, L-R:

1940 Nash fastback
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stock car racing existed long before NASCAR. The impetus for its formation was disgruntled drivers cheated out of prize money by fly-by-night race promoters. At the Ebony Bar, Bill France Sr proposed an racing organization that insured drivers got paid, and NASCAR was born.
The first sanctioned NASCAR race in Daytona was 1949, the course basically 2 drag strips connected by hairpin turns: one on the beach, one on the A1A. It was dominated by 1937-40 Ford V8 coupes which were the hot moonshiner setup of the day. Kinda wish they had kept the course. Image
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Feb 15
Solidly confirmed now, so once again, crap. RIP P.J. O'Rourke, one of the funniest MFs ever to trod the earth.
If there is a Comedy Louvre, the National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody (written by O'Rourke & John Hughes) is its Mona Lisa.
Yeah, he wrote some very funny political books, but the deal with political humor is you never know if the LOLs are genuine or just cheap ideological clapter. The crucible is whether you generate funny non-political material, and he more than proved himself there.
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Feb 15
Six?
Just trying to get a quick check to see if I have a witch problem, please indicate your status
follow up question: what's the probability that an actual witch would click "not witch" in the poll above
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Feb 14
Stayed off Twitter during the Super Bowl, who won the most outraged world-is-ending reaction to the halftime show
immature children have always had disdain for the music of their parents' generation
Whether it's Up With People or Dr Dre, Snoop, and Eminem, the Super Bowl has always had entertainment with wide popularity among middle-aged suburbanites
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Feb 13
Happy Super Bowl Sunday from #DavesCarIDService! A sample of some SB MVPs of yesteryear and their car prizes:
1 Bart Starr, 1967 Chevy Corvette
2 Len Dawson, 1970 Dodge Challenger
3 Terry Bradshaw, 1979 Pontiac Trans-Am
4 Fred Biletnikoff <sad trombone> 1977 Ford Mustang II ImageImageImageImage
*in a cruel twist of small print fate, initially the Super Bowl MVP award cars were not an outright gift and had to be returned after after one year.

And today, a good condition '77 Mustang II like Biletnikoff's can be had for ~$5k, about the same as a ticket to today's game.
**maybe I'm dragging the Biletnikoff Mustang II too hard, it does have the deluxe landau vinyl top, and velour interior that will generate 200 volts of static electricity with his Quiana shirt.

Poll: which SB MVP car would you choose?
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Feb 12
Happy 100th birthday to Lincoln Motors from #DavesCarIDService!
1. 1928 Model K sport coupe
2. 1939 Zephyr
3. 1956 Continental (briefly its own brand; did not carry Lincoln name at time, but innards are Lincoln)
4. 1961 Continental
*Lincoln was acquired by Ford in Feb 1922, but was founded in 1917 to make Liberty V12 aircraft engines for WW1. After the war they retooled for cars, producing only a handful before bankruptcy and getting sold to Ford.

It was tale of Henry Ford's revenge over Henry Leland.
**Ford started the Henry Ford Co (not Ford Motor Co). in 1901; it went bust in 1902.
Leland bought Ford's assets, and created Cadillac.
Leland sold Cadillac to GM in 1909, remained at GM until his ouster in 1917.
Leland created Lincoln, went bust, and Ford got his revenge.
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