Close to Home by John McPherson for December 06, 2021

I wanted a Mustang for my first car. Mom and Dad tried to find one. Dad said if the saw one that was in good condition and look nice they couldn’t afford it. If they found one that they could afford dad said it looked like it had been road very hard and put away wet.

good thing he didn’t want a Pinto, dad would have set it on fire’

He wants Sally.

Impressive! But I’d still like to know how Dad cut those rounded corners using a table saw.

shoulda made it a convertible……

Mr McPherson is on break again. This is from 2012, pre-Bleeb.

It’s a Custom Roush 0.5 Mustang.

I wanted a TR 7, my parents gave it to me. 1/32 scale.

My Dad always said, “You should have the very best car you can afford.”

The Oreo of the automotive world???

Well it’s a start. Dream big

You cut all those curves on a table saw?

I owned one of the first Mustangs out =- a ‘641/2 (even tho’ Ford said 65 was the first). Lot of fun to drive unless the roads were slippery, then a death trap. Finally sold it with over 130,000 miles on it.

Dustin? Is that you?

This joke didn’t age well. If he can’t find a job NOW, he’s trying to avoid one!

I remember this from 2012, I thought it was BRILLIANT!

I got the idea that I wanted to do this for myself so I could drive a different car every week!

Then I remembered I was lazy… and didn’t have a saw… or lumber… or a car. シ

There’s an old Beach Boys song that starts out " Well I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes," before they purchased the 409 which was a Chevy with a big block 409 engine. Get a job; save your money up; don’t buy those $5.00 coffees or beers; stop spending hundreds of dollars on marijuana and you can have that mustang pretty quick……

Reminds me of a guy who parks his car in the bushes around the street while he works down the block. Every day he backs out of the bushes, which pulls off his rickety plastic bumper, gets out, bangs the bumper in place and drives away. It’s only a matter of time before it comes off on the highway and endangers someone.

When I was 12 I decided that I would purchase an automobile for my child when he or she turned 12 and then we would have 4 years to rebuild it and then he or she would have a vehicle in which he or she was able to repair and was proud of what had been accomplished. It did not go quite like that. When my son was 15 I purchased the perfect first car – Porsche 914. It is a VW with a Porsche design and attitude.There is no backseat from which a fried can distract the driver.There is enough power to get out of the way, but not enough to get killed.Great balance, handling, and braking.My son did not want it because it was not new.I gave it away. A friend’s minivan died and I told him to sell it and purchase something that would hold the wife and seven children.

With today’s lumber prices – that gag would cost a few hundred bucks. Cheaper to buy a plastic model and glue it to the junker as a hood ornament.

I guess Bleeb went back home to report his findings on his ongoing observations of Humanity.

my 66 Mustang was my third car and I bought one about 15 years ago too.