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Re: Oddly Appealing Site of the Week: HouseTrucks.com
Wait!!! Doesn't Beagle have a bus?
BANGSHIFT HOUSE TRUCK!!!
Ours will have to have a fold out garage thing like a Top Fueler trailer and 220V electrics for the welder and compressor. Engine hoise on the back with an assembly room in the rear maybe?Central TEXAS Sleeper
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Re: Oddly Appealing Site of the Week: HouseTrucks.com
It strikes me that these HouseTrucks and the old CarHaulers had more in common than you'd think at first glance.
Hmmm....Of all the paths you take in life - make sure a few of them are dirt.Comment
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Re: Oddly Appealing Site of the Week: HouseTrucks.com
The site and Wikipedia article is all information I expect to be spending much of my evening with tonight. Best get a six-pack on the way home...
Does anyone remember Stan Midgley or Don Cooper? These guys would putt around filming travelogues and then show them to church/college audiences in the '50s - '70s. These featured an amateurish style, live narrating, and lots of goofy sight gags. As a child I saw what I believe was a Midgley one where he was travelling in a Model T-cabbed truck with a good-sized wood-shingle house built on the back.
The crackup was that it towed a matching outhouse behind.
I can't find any pictures, it's said the films were never "released", as such. Midgley (a chemist and Princeton graduate who switched to making these movies) died in 2000....Comment
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Re: Oddly Appealing Site of the Week: HouseTrucks.com
kso4...you just made my entire month!!!!! My Dad insisted that we watch the travelogues on the George Perrot show every day at 4:30 on WDIV Detroit. Stan Midgely was always a must. We never missed a show! The funny tricks he would pull with an old 16mm wind-up camera were outstanding. His delivery was hilarious, and left a permanent impression on my life. Thanks for remembering!
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