Yes I am Proud Of my Daughter

[Starman]

A few pics:

The girls from UNCW Wilmington and Dr. Bennet

My wife Becky, and daughter Lauren

My Daughter

Me.........Just for laughs !

 

[Wild Bill]

It was a helicopter, and I fell off the skid. the good lord must have plans for me. I made it from Panama City to Birmingham in two hours and forty minutes and stopped for gas in Montgomery (305 miles on two lane roads back then) Did that trip many times. John Law did not like getting left behind so they set a trap for me one weekend. Those AMXs they had would run on the top end, but did not handle the curves as well as the vette'. I had to go to a big block Trans Am with a 2.70 gear ratio and speed rated tires to beat the Florida HP with their 440 Dodges with overdrive trannies. Florida boys can sure drive too! Their cars were pretty trick for the day, speed rated tires, bonded to the rims, extra ballast to lower the center of gravity, and they sent them to driving school too. They would shoot at you back then also. Ahhhh the seventies!

Chris,
I was one of those Florida Troopers back then. But, I was assigned to Duval and Nassau counties.

 

[Gunsmoke]

Nice pics: You SHOULD be proud of your daughter, poppa. I'm sure she's proud of you too. Give her a great big hug, and say Thank you GOD!
regards
gunsmoke

 

[Starman]

Gunsmoke,

I do every day I see her and Thank God for her.

I hope and pray your daughter is doing well on her way to recovery.

 

[Diver Down]

Thank God she looks like Mama! Congrats Paul.

 

[egaito]

I had to go to a big block Trans Am with a 2.70 gear ratio and speed rated tires to beat the Florida HP with their 440 Dodges with overdrive trannies. Florida boys can sure drive too! Their cars were pretty trick for the day, speed rated tires, bonded to the rims, extra ballast to lower the center of gravity, and they sent them to driving school too. They would shoot at you back then also. Ahhhh the seventies!

Ahhh, I remember those 440's....the sleepy little town of Pinehurst had them. Twin 4bbl's and dual exhaust. They had a very distinct exhause rumble, so when we were hanging out where we were not supposed to, we got plenty of warning. There weren't many that could out run them once they spooled up, so we always dove into the local neighborhood roads, or the dirt fire roads when it became necessary to dissapear.

 

[Rickysa]

....the sleepy little town of Pinehurst.

We actually have traffic jams at the circle now that can last for three minutes!

 

[egaito]

We actually have traffic jams at the circle now that can last for three minutes!

Oh, how I loved that circle....my first cage was a Toyota, that I did what I could with, but still only had 4 cylinders...coming out of the high school, heading up toward the circle, I could never keep up, until we got there, and I took the inside lane. None of the heavy iron could hang on like that little car, on that circle, or on the fire roads.

It has changed quite a bit, and the traffic has indeed gone nuts. I can't imagine a bypass or something is too far out in the future, but I hope they keep the circle somehow.

 

[Rickysa]

Oh, how I loved that circle....my first cage was a Toyota, that I did what I could with, but still only had 4 cylinders...coming out of the high school, heading up toward the circle, I could never keep up, until we got there, and I took the inside lane. None of the heavy iron could hang on like that little car, on that circle, or on the fire roads.

It has changed quite a bit, and the traffic has indeed gone nuts. I can't imagine a bypass or something is too far out in the future, but I hope they keep the circle somehow.

Yep....I like tearing around it in our old Mini...

 

[Boss Lady]

Chris,
I was one of those Florida Troopers back then. But, I was assigned to Duval and Nassau counties.

You were safe, I ran from Pensacola to Tallahassee back then. You had to get far enough ahead to hit a dirt road and hide or the radio would get you. LOL My high school buddy's dad was a Trooper at the time, and owned a service station at the beach. We did most of our mechanic work in his shop. If we got ID'ed he would turn us in, I got a few tickets that way, but he got to rag his buddies about getting outrun by a bunch of teenagers. I was home on leave once and went for a ride along with him, with the obligatory stop at the Waffle House, two other Troopers were there eating dinner and the discussion came up about a one of their buddies getting outrun by a redneck in an old El Camino the night before on HWY 231. Right before we left the restraunt the Trooper showed and man did they rag on him. They asked him what happened and he said that this guy pulled out in front of him in a primered up El Camino with no tag, and with no hood and nailed it, he hit the blue lights and the guy never let up, we all asked well what happened, he said "well, his tail lights just got smaller and smaller and then disappeared"! LOL We all had a good laugh, he said that El Camino ran off from him like he was tied to a stump. A few months later they found out who the guy was, and it had a monster motor big block in it. As it turns out the boy was known to run a little shine down from Alabama. He was a real wheel man. Bring back any memories? LOL

 

[Capt.Erich]

My daughter may be a little younger than the others but I'm just as proud of her. She 6 months old and is full of personality.

I'm actively interviewing in-law candidates. All successful candidates must be Hatteras Aficionado's, able to accurately perform a three point fix in the dark without the aid of electronic navigation hardware, tell an excellent fish story, cut bait, bleed a fuel line while bobbing around in the gulfstream in a 6 foot swell, own a Hatteras >/= twice the length of what ever Hatteras I happen to own at the time of the marital agreement between our offspring, understand the finer points of why a good cigar goes well with cocktails and a sunset on the water, and all other attributes as defined my me at the time of the interview. Feel free to submit your resume here at the Sandbar.

 

[Avenger]

I am Proud Of my Son Too

A hijacking we will go, hijacking we will go.....

Here is a picture of my future Hatt driver at six months. He just turned two. At the risk of sounding like a chauvinist, what is your daughter bringing to the party?

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Everyone says he looks like me !! At six weeks and 2.5 lbs trying to fill dads cap !! ws

 

[Capt.Erich]

Scrod...

She's being raised by two parents (Mommy and Daddy... not some other variation) who love her and promise to give her the tools she will need to be successful in life.

 

[Avenger]

Sounds like a winning plan Capt.Erich. Enjoy every minute of it.

 

[Rickysa]

Erich,

Beautiful young lady (and great pic!)

Rick

 

[smoothmove]

Everyone says he looks like me !! At six weeks and 2.5 lbs trying to fill dads cap !! ws

OOPS, Don't look now but, I think he just did!

 

[yachtsmanbill]

NA !! Thats just a shadow, HOWEVER, I did feel something squishy as I was taking this picture in my bare feet ws

 

[ThirdHatt]

YachtsmanBill, That's a real cutie! I bet he can't WAIT to run around the Hatt Trick's deck at about 100mph!!!

All this talk about speeding is getting me back into that mode again....BULLRUN begins in about 7 weeks! Montreal to Key West. That's only about 1800 miles, so who knows where they're going to send us to get 3,000+ miles. It should be quite interesting this year with all the publiucity & advertising of the silly Spike TV reality show that is "loosely" based on the real BullRun rally. So much for flying below the radar!

 

[Freebird]

My daughter may be a little younger than the others but I'm just as proud of her. She 6 months old and is full of personality.

I'm actively interviewing in-law candidates. All successful candidates must be Hatteras Aficionado's, able to accurately perform a three point fix in the dark without the aid of electronic navigation hardware, tell an excellent fish story, cut bait, bleed a fuel line while bobbing around in the gulfstream in a 6 foot swell, own a Hatteras >/= twice the length of what ever Hatteras I happen to own at the time of the marital agreement between our offspring, understand the finer points of why a good cigar goes well with cocktails and a sunset on the water, and all other attributes as defined my me at the time of the interview. Feel free to submit your resume here at the Sandbar.