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Antique miniature pool table
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Jason,
You are absolutely welcome anytime!
If ever you are traveling to/through my area, just contact me.
I would enjoy the time.
Will Prout
You noticed the Ferrari Whitten case!
I’ve got a really special cue resting in that one!
I did the Kling design in the room because of the history of Kling tables being designed by Brunswick for Johnny Kling’s massive poolroom here in Kansas City.
Johnny Kling lived in Kansas City and was a ball player for the Chicago Cubs when they won the World Series. A Chicago hero in Brunswick’s home city. He was injured, missed a year,
and opened his pool room in KC with his great friend and player Benny Allen. The Kling and Allen room was fully stocked with tables designed and made just for Johnny Kling.......
seemed appropriate to give the room a Kling feel.
I have a fully restored Brunswick Arcade (kinda an enhanced Kling) in the adjacent room, along with several more of the small antique pool tables and other stuff.
Will Prout
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Thanks Tommy! Will Prout
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That's is one heck of a collection and display room.
You should have a rap battle of collections with Danny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bM3L1ZGiJA&feature=youtu.be
I’ve known Denny and his family for many, many years.
He has a magnificent collection, much more than is shown in the video.
The most amazing billiard collection on earth...and a wonderful family.
He and his brother have visited our home a couple times.
But....I might be able to outrun him with some other stuff......
Will Prout
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...................one more. I like Mustangs....:thumbup:
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Wow!! That is some garage with not one but two Calloway Corvettes:thumbup:
I think you play with mini cues with tips that have a small diameter.
Do people actually play on these tables or are the just for display?
Years ago. That spot has seen some serious upgrades since then.Just noticed you have Showman and Searing "originals" in your garage
Here's the playersIn some ways that table may be challenging to play on actually. Adjusting to the tiny playing surface and smaller balls would be quite weird. Somebody should start the mini table US Open!
I like the Mustangs too! My first toy was a sixty-five 2+2. Being a kid I did terrible things to it. One of my customers bought a 65 or 66 GT 350 that had been in the salt for $125. I kept offering him more and more money for it, not to restore it or do something smart, to cannibalize it for the side windows, disk brakes, and I forget what all.
I had built a full race engine for my street car like a dummy. That 289 in a stripped down Mustang would fly, the worst thing about it. At 160 or so it would just touch the road now and then! It pegged the 120MPH speedometer in third still pulling hard and I would shift down into fourth. Probably fortunately for me a huge limb out of an oak tree fell on it and crushed it. As Ralph Nader would say, it was unsafe at any speed!
Hu
It’s funny but in 1976 I was regularly racing a 65 mustang with my 69 Lamans. I had the 350 with an auto transmission.
My buddy’s Mustang had the 289 with a manual.
He would always get me off the line and I would catch him around 65 mph, after that it was a crap shoot who would win.
I always thought I had the faster car but he would win his share.
I never lost a street race with the Mustang. There was only one car on the street in the area I would have ducked, there was a black Ford with the 735HP Nascar single overhead cam 427 in it. That engine and the other factories reaction to it is what caused NASCAR to shut down the factories.
This was a hemi engine, Chrysler actually made every component to put out a double overhead cam 426 hemi too. The other factories weren't far behind and NASCAR realized that there would be a few factory cars out front and nobody without a factory deal would have any chance of being competitive. Can you picture Richard Petty in a Superbird with a double overhead cam hemi under the hood? Could any of the tires and chassis have handled this kind of horsepower? We were fixing to top 1000HP in those big heavy cars on a closed course. Lord knows how many great drivers would have been killed.
I remember a few years later a lady wanted a record. Fastest lady on a closed course. Best I recall she got it with the Superbird at around two hundred. They just drug it out of the museum and put it on the track. It had a dead cylinder, no problem.
Hu