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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
A few days ago I was returning home to Magic Valley Ranch from a show. Of course, people here accept recording studios like a Zippy Mart, WalMart, or any other regular business. But I really knew I was in Sweet Home Alabama when in Vinemont, Alabama I saw a sign: "We Buy Used Race Cars".
That could only be Sweet Home Alabama! Owning a race car down here is like owning a golf cart. Why wouldn't there be at least one at your house? Want to sell your used race car? Bring it to Alabama. (We build new ones too!) Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
Chrystal Inner circle Canada/France 1552 Posts |
I've taken out my Fieros to the race track with my car club a few times and now too busy to continue. Know anyone that wants to buy two Fieros? One even has NOS! Guess I'd have to travel to Alabama to sell them...thanks Bob!
Chrystal |
Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Chrystal,
You are welcome in Alabama anytime. Today we even had SNOW! We have a race car mechanic here on the ranch if you need help too. Would you trade the cars for more pets? We are loaded with those too. Come see us! Bob |
Dr. Delusion Special user Eugene, Oregon. 733 Posts |
I like the idea of a place buying and selling race cars. I owned a stock car for several years, sold it and worked with a few other local teams as a pit crew guy. Alabama, the good old stomping grounds of the famed Alabama gang ! Bobby and Donny Allison, Niel Bonnet...those were the days.
Bob. |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
My Daughters been stationed all over the place...even Cape Cod but now they are in Alabama...she loves it! Been trying to talk me down there...
Bob you just might have enticed me...after a lifetime around motor sports I live in a place that wouldn't know a Fat Numbered car from bean dip. I haven't bench raced in years! I miss the talk.
Higley's Giant Flea Pocket Zibit
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ryansmagic Regular user Reading, PA 147 Posts |
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That could only be Sweet Home Alabama! Owning a race car down here is like owning a golf cart. Why wouldn't there be at least one at your house? Does everyone else down there have a golf cart? |
Dr. Delusion Special user Eugene, Oregon. 733 Posts |
We've got it bad here as well. I live in Eugene Oregon. Our local track was forced to close down a few years back. The next closest track is having a few problems as well. A lot of folks that have moved near the track are whining that it makes too much noise and want it closed down. The track's been there since the late fifties. Those folks don't have the brains of a mallard duck, if you move near a race track odds are you'll have noise on Saturday nights during the summer!
Bob. |
Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Wow! Folks, I never realized how much real culture there is out there. I bet there are women out there that can weld and paint. Some could even lock a spider gear! What a woman!
Having a heart like a wheel isn't a bad disease. Having brakes on all four wheels is for government vehicles and sissies. Down here, running moonshine was Drivers' Ed. However, I've never seen a sign that said, "We Buy Tankers". I was doing a show in Tennessee a few years ago and afterwards offered to buy a drink for a fan. He had to turn me down because he was still on parole. He explained that he raced cars and got caught acquiring parts via his "chop shop". Apparently magicians aren't the only ones who can make things disappear and we only have fast hands! Selma, Alabama is the resting place for stolen cars. You can drive forever there without a license plate. Why have a title? Drive through sometime and count the stolen cars. (Don't park or leave your car!) Selma might have some claim to civil rights, but certainly not property rights. Both are based entirely on the efforts of outsiders. I remember talking with the Allisons and being told by them how they came to Alabama from Florida by driving their wrecker and pulling a race car. They were so broke that they bought a basket of peaches and had peaches three meals a day. Alabama was better than Hollywood! Doug, when will you be here? Magic Valley Ranch is dead center between Montgomery and Birmingham. Come see us. You can bench race with the race car mechanic here at the ranch. (Bring your pocket knife. Whittlin' is required to have a conversation here. Mostly we just make wood shavings. But it keeps talking down to speed.) Ryan, golf carts are made here. Why walk to the fish pond? (Ask Jeff Foxworthy. Some folks get too drunk to fish. How will they get home?) The home office of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is here too. Some folks even play golf! The dogs like to sleep on the seats too. Bob, I thought that the only purpose of the brain of a mallard duck was to keep the eye balls from touching each other. I'm plum glad to find folks that understand luxury when they see it. Pete Biro and Whit should have some appreciation of this good life too. Bob Sanders Magic By Sander (Blood kin to Bubba Whodini!) |
Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Monday, history repeated itself and I drove back home from the north country.
There it was in Vinemont: "We Buy Used Race Cars" Sweet Home Alabama! Bobby and Donny Allison, Niel Bonnet etc. are street names in Hueytown, Alabama. (No joke!) Doug has got to get down here and learn what "class" is. (Proper attire requires a grease rag.) When I get back to the ranch, maybe Reggie will have his 39 Chevy ready to drive to the gun show Sunday. No state has more "A"s than Alabama for good reason. The women here can use a chainsaw too! Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Bob
Do they make planters out of those race cars when they are too banged up to race?
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Al,
I'm not sure that they can get too banged up to race. It is almost a badge of honor. Remember that some of them go to the race track hanging on the hook back of a wrecker! Since you are an old friend, I would advise you to be very careful what you buy! Another type of fast car they have here is a moonshine tanker. Among other things, they have a kill switch on the brake lights. (Bullet proof tires too.) Drivers' Education in Alabama is real interesting. Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
Michael J. Douglas Inner circle WV, USA 1645 Posts |
Al,
Blasphemy! As long as it's got tires, ain't no car too banged up to race! If it's on blocks, you honor it by scrappin' parts for more racin'! From Section 5, line 2 of the handbook - "Flowers, real or faked, shall be reserved for cracked crappers, sans tank (refer to 3:7b)." Section 3, line 7b - "Crapper tanks shall be used solely for the collection of sky water." Bob, The similarities between your folk and mine are amazing.
Michael J.
�Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.� --from Shakespeare�s �As You Like It� |
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