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Location: The Mile High City | Joe sent me this picture last week. A birthday ride in the Big Tailed Beast!
What a great way for the "Sonoramic Sage" to turn 39 
You, I, way more than half the fellas on this site, and Jack Benny - all the same age. Amazing.
Lookin' good, Joe. Now get out of the pitcher so we can see the pretty girl and the car!
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Location: northern germany | happy birthday from germany too! all the best to you joe! |
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| Mike and Sid --
Thanks.
I have to admit the BTB does photograph well, which is not true about me. If I smile, I look like a drunk "Hoss Cartwright" and if I don't, I look Like I'm posing for my official KGB picture. I wish I had a pic of the first Beast, but my dad was a bit superstitious (seems a lot of birdmen bought the farm shortly after they allowed themselves to be photograhed next to their planes -- a la Red Baron), plus Dad was somewhat of a gambler which also fed his superstitions. I guess the nut doesn't fall far from the tree because only in the past few years did I take any photos of one of my cars though I did take one of Mary Ann and the Vette which got her some coverage in a Corvette mag.
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Location: northern germany | no, you are a very good looking couple, so good looking i saved the picture. you can see at first glance you were made for each other, just like the girl on your side 
funny you mentioned superstitiousness. i am too. i wasn't born that way, it was life that got me into that.
never saw 60 plymouth skirts without a flared lower edge. mine are flared. i wonder what was oe, with or without flared edge. |
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I assume you're talking about the lower edge of the skirt. If so, back in the old days, the Foxcraft ones were flared to accomodate their mounting on fenders. Those jobs each had two L-shaped clamps which extended over the top of the each skirt and fit snugly over the bottom lip of the fender. They were tightened by pushing up on a lever that, in turn, pulled the skirt clamps tight against the top of the interior edge of the fender. With more pressure the lever then would lifted over the skirt's interior J-shaped flare where it would hold the clamps tight. This made it easy to remove the skirts (too easy -- I had three pairs swiped). The clamps of genuine imitation ones I have now are held on long bolts. I never saw any factory skirts in the flesh (or is it in the stainless steel?) so I know nothing about them. I think you once posted a pic of the MoPar box for them but I wonder if they were an assembly line option or a dealer item?
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Location: northern germany | Joe, you should have invested in this:
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I remember seeing some locking skirts and also locks for skirts, but only ex post facto. Also, I heard that some guys stuck razor blades along the edges in places where the unwary would learn the folly of their ways; however, I kinda felt this could invite some rather severe retaliation, but, again, I learned about it too late.
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Location: Perth Australia | The skirts I have are also flared, both the stainless and the steel ones
The steel ones are foxcraft (or whatever)
Apart from mine being a 4dht, Im pretty sure thats basically how mine is supposed to look if it had paint (and other various items) on it
Nice car Joe
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I never was much of a fan of fender skirts, but they were very appropriate for some cars. The '59 Ford Galaxy was first to have that same raised chrome extension of the rear rocker panel as the '60 Fury. A friend had a '59 Galaxy Skyliner retractable that he put skirts on and I just imitated him. The '60 Galaxy's also had the chrome, but the retractable was no more. That chrome on both Galaxy's and Fury's seemed to call for chrome skirts. The only other car I had with skirts was my '65 Medium Red Metallic Sport Fury 2-dr H/T. They were stock on that model and were the same color as the rest of the car.
Joe
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Joe Godec - Happy Birthday!
