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I didn't exactly like Mickey Thompsons, but I liked the size of them. Being a kid I built a full race 289 for my '65 2+2. I had more in that engine than the car cost new. When I fired it up the building shook so bad lights and windows were in danger of falling! The speedometer was marked to 120...

There was a table with theater seats around it in Atlanta. Been a generation ago, probably gone. Buffalo has tables of every pocket size to play on I believe. He likes crawling on a table to reach a shot so everyone can. That doesn't mean his room isn't well kept. Hurricane forced me to move...

When the Goodyear fiberglass wide oval came out in the late sixties or early seventies it was the thing. I was a dealer so I put them on everything I owned plus my entire family's vehicles. I was paying $19.95 up for them! I think the biggest I used only cost about $35. Even my little ol' lady...

I assumed wood CF hybrids would come along. I just heard about a cue that had 10" CF at the tip, another with 20". Interesting. If you could get the transition to work the CF section might be possible to make true zero taper. Then again, I can picture them becoming an abortionist's nightmare if...

The ball barely rolled down towards the foot end of the table. The lighter broken piece of shaft didn't go eighteen inches either. It was broken along the grain, some indication it was hit wrong. The break was clean with no sign of old damage. The stick hadn't been making a noise either. One...

Lesson learned the hard way: Don't lend what you can't afford to lose! That applies to the house cues you are letting people play with. If their expensive cue is at home you might loan them an equal cue. However, if they are used to playing with one piece house cues in bars they are going to use...

I don't claim to know all of them but there have been some impressive players behind anonymous handles too. Avoids the unnecessary flack. Unfortunately death is claiming the old time posters. Rumor has it I only have a few years left myself. Got that opinion from a doctor. I'm going find an old...

Despite his questionable dealings, I regret losing Dean. A lot of pool history went with him! Hu

In my early days of gambling, young and dumb, I broke house cues by the dozen, not mad, to get out the door. The cues weren't but twelve bucks and I would have a twenty in my shirt pocket to throw on the bar or counter as I left. I was usually welcome back in a few weeks or months. The only...

Ya never know! In the early seventies I had a sixty=five 2+2. A kid that was a customer had a 65 GT-350. It had been in a high salt area and the body was shot. He had bought it for $125! Had he decided to sell it to me I would have scrapped it to put the disk brakes, bubble quarter windows, and...

I was working for the things I wanted by the time I was knee high to a short grasshopper. When I was tempted to smash something I saw the dollar signs, shut me right down. There was this kid in the pool hall, must have been close to ten years younger than me! Yeah, it has been awhile. Anyway...

Makes sense to me! I once offered a spruce wood rifle bolt knocker since most bolt handles were just silver soldered on. Beating the action open with a hammer often peeled handles off. The spruce knockers were somewhat sacrificial, but they had a lifetime guarantee. The new knocker was $34.99...

Here's one that Floyd Tolston wrote and performed. Came within a gnat's ass of going national. He wrote some serious songs too. Somebody else that opened for some big acts but this was after retirement and the agents told him he was great but not marketable! He made two or three CD's before they...

I like country and rock&roll. I think they both died decades ago though. One friend was part of the Texas sound long before Waylon and Willie. He opted to make a good life for his family, became a school teacher and principal. Was well liked. I visited him well after he retired and past students...

That is my picture in my avatar. I learned early to stay away from judged events of all kinds! First time I earned a checkered flag I didn't shut down for another lap. People asked why I didn't. I sat far enough back in my car that they threw the flag after I couldn't see the flagstand and I...

Great Story! I had similar happen. I was low on funds to put it mildly and bills had to be paid in about three weeks. I had perfect credit and meant to keep it that way. Packed my bags, rounded up my road partner, planned a couple week trip. Stopped at a place my partner knew was good for small...

Pick a game or sport, any of them! It is a longshot to become rich. Players in the NFL have an average two year career the last I knew with a lifetime of pain and minor injuries at best. Maybe one in a million or less that dream of playing in the NFL make it, and that might be your best chance...

I admired the folks that lived in an old wood frame house for decades. When the Tuscaloosa Trend came through they didn't build a faux antebellum home like some although they were almost across the highway from Cherie Place, a tastefully done home that just looked over a hundred years old...

I have fired an air barrel twice. Once I was broke and two days without eating. That was a carefully played game. Another time I walked into a low dive over towards White Castle. It's six in the morning, I have been out all night, so have the two guys playing a hundred a game on the challenge...

Yeah, the way I would try I think the five is probably the hardest shot on the table. Four to the five and shape on the six. I can run that table once, walk it twice, and kinda hobble around gasping for air another time. Getting old! Hu