What is your most prized possession

[Edwood]

My Wacom Cintiq.

-Ed

 

[Glod]

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Originally Posted by chadbang Well, I had an Uncle Sam recruiting poster autographed backstage by all the members of The Clash in 1980. A beautiful poster, "personalized" by the Clash. Mick Jones has drawn a Hitler mustache on it and Joe Strummer had drawn a swastika armband. Of course, I learned last month my mother was cleaning my room and threw it out. I won't begin to describe the tantrum I threw... So, until I learned that it's now decaying somewhere in a trash dump, that had been my "most prized" possession. I suppose there's a zen or buddhist lesson in there somewhere. But **** that -- I want that ******* poster back! Oh,yes, I forgot to mention in the same box was an original, first release "Eraserhead" poster. Value: $800-$1200

OMG - Strummer, Jones...priceless

 

[rickcr42]

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I learned last month my mother was cleaning my room and threw it out. I won't begin to describe the tantrum I threw... So, until I learned that it's now decaying somewhere in a trash dump, that had been my "most prized" possession. I suppose there's a zen or buddhist lesson in there somewhere. But **** that -- I want that ******* poster back!

my mom "threw out" my 1968 Barracuda when i was living out of state for a bit

375 HP street burner/daily driver that to her was just "an old car" even though fully restored cosmeticly and customised in the mechanicals.


The replacement in p*ss poor condition and requiring a ground up again project is running around $8,000 from what I have found so I am taking a pass even though I miss my "toy" that I lovingly restored to better than former glory as in new condition

 

[warubozu]

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Originally Posted by rickcr42 my mom "threw out" my 1968 Barracuda when i was living out of state for a bit 375 HP street burner/daily driver that to her was just "an old car" even though fully restored cosmeticly and customised in the mechanicals. The replacement in p*ss poor condition and requiring a ground up again project is running around $8,000 from what I have found so I am taking a pass even though I miss my "toy" that I lovingly restored to better than former glory as in new condition

Damn, she threw out your 68 Barracuda fastback

. I think I would've gone ballistic if my parents had done the same thing with my 69 Dart GTS that's currently sitting in my garage under construction. After nearly six years and in pieces my parents are having the same thoughts. "It not running, it's only taking up space and it's a piece of junk". "You should get rid of it." they would constantly tell me. It hard to make some one understand how much I value my car even if it's not running when they don't have any interest in what I'm doing to it, they only see it as a piece of junk.

 

[rickcr42]

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Damn, she threw out your 68 Barracuda fastback .

no.even worse it was a 2-door sedan "scoopback" which is to me better looking and way more rare to find in any decent condition.The old MOPARs had a serious rocker panel/unibody/back fender rot problem and most are no more than bondo that will pop as soon as the gas pedal is nailed

mine was all replaced with new metal a tack welded THEN bondo applied very lightly just to smooth the little crap after the weld was ground down then the whole deal was painted in lacquer and finally the reworked engine dropped in and the exhaust duelled out (heddman and mopar made for each other).i also took out the A-904 torqueflite and dropped in the beefier but longer tailed 727 which meant a driveshaft shortening and balancing job and a B&M shift kit installed for "slap" shifting.

the bone yard gave mom thirty bucks for the priveledge to cart my "junk" away.

crap happens,no big.Mom meant well and even gave me the thirty bucks (which did not even cover the five Crager SS mags counting the spare

)

 

[Mr.PD]

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Originally Posted by rickcr42 my mom "threw out" my 1968 Barracuda when i was living out of state for a bit 375 HP street burner/daily driver that to her was just "an old car" even though fully restored cosmeticly and customised in the mechanicals. The replacement in p*ss poor condition and requiring a ground up again project is running around $8,000 from what I have found so I am taking a pass even though I miss my "toy" that I lovingly restored to better than former glory as in new condition

Another Mopar guy!!???
I don't suppose your '68 Barracuda is a 383 car that needs some stock exhaust manifolds? I have a pair of those that I am thinking about selling.
I don't have a most prized possession.
I do have a 10/22 that I work on every once in a while over the last several years. I feel much better about my purchase of a Green Mountain barrel after reading crewchief's post. I bought the barrel before I bought the rifle

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I suppose I could say that my other 10/22 is a prized possession. Only because it was a Christmas gift from my first wife 20 some years ago, and a friend that was recently killed in Iraq, helped me cut the barrel down, and thread the end of it. A lot of fond memories are with that rifle. (yes, it is still of legal length)

 

[rickcr42]

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I don't suppose your '68 Barracuda is a 383 car that needs some stock exhaust manifolds? I have a pair of those that I am thinking about selling.

Small block man.Started out in life as a 318 but ended up a smoking corner rocket 340 when I bolted on some ported 340 heads and cammed up a bit

BTW-my favorite all time in my entire life (but never owned one)car is the 1968 Plymouth Road Runner Hemi

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet !



[size=medium]vrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooom....meep...meep......[/size]

 

[warubozu]

Yup, love the 340. It's a screaming small that will easily see 7000 rpm on the tach. Current I have two 340s, one is a stock 340 6-pack T/A block and the other is my race R block stroked, 60 over and topped with ported aluminum W5 heads. Much respect to the big blocks as I also have a 67 440 sitting on the side, now if I only could afford a Hemi.

 

[rickcr42]

I always seemed to have bottom end problems with the 440s but the 383s have always taken my abuse and kept on tickin'

Of course for pure inline torque and durability nothing beats the old slant 6 banger.you could pull trees out with those babies

 

[00940]

A gouache by Leon Haffner, roughly 40x80cm. It represents a pair of yachts. It was given to me when I was 5, I grew up with it. Wouldn't part with it for ten times its price.

Very similar to this one :

 

[rsaavedra]

I have a book entitled "Le Opere Di Dante, Testo Critico della Societa Dantesca Italiana", dated 1921 (check this thread with pics of it). It is certainly one of the most special books I have, for one thing, it has all the works of Dante in original Toscano.

The oldest and rarest book I have, however, is a hugely thick small volume (1500 old paper pages) entitled "The Reader's Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction, Allusions, References, Proverbs, Plots, Stories, and Poems, Together with an English and American Bibliography, and a List of The Authors and Dates of Dramas and Operas", by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. (Chatto & Windus, London, 1898).

I have no idea how much they cost, probably not much, but they are among my most precious possessions.

I also got my cardboard "Love Scenes" CD autographed by Diana Krall in person at the New Orleans Jazz Fest a few years ago. And three of Jacqui Naylor's CD's, also authographed in person at a recital she gave in New Orleans.

 

[The_Mac]

I have a pinky ring that I have attached a lot of emotions to, and I've got to say it's my most prized posession. I'll only take it off if it's going to be replaced by a wedding band.

 

[crewchief]

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Originally Posted by rickcr42 BTW-my favorite all time in my entire life (but never owned one)car is the 1968 Plymouth Road Runner Hemi Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet ! [size=medium]vrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooom....meep...meep......[/size]

I have drooled and pawned after my favorite car. I promised myself that by my 30th birthday I would own my dream car (I'm 26 now) and that would be a 1970 Chevelle SS with the LS6 454 option. The problem is, is that the few that are still alive with the LS6 option are very sought after and because of this prices have went through the roof.

 

[morphie]

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Originally Posted by crewchief No offence, but I would hardly call people and loved ones "possessions".

Yet your most prized possession is a gun... funny how life works out

 

[Jahn]

One of these Tube clocks would do the trick.