Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

This popped up on my local CL:

SO MUCH 90's

In reply to 2_3 :

I went digging after it was originally posted and found out what it was.  Here's my post from page 3919

Adrian_Thompson said:

2_3 said:

Remember when this pic caused a lot of interest a few weeks ago and no one could identify it.  I got as far as possibly Fiat based but that was it.  Well, I went searching and asking on RetroRides and they found it.  May I present to you a low volume Argentinian car the Verela Berlineta based on the Fiat 600.

 

The only traffic light in America with the green on top, red on bottom is in Syracuse, NY.

Woody said:

I'm at work and on my phone. If I had more time I'd try to paste car images on the faces...

914Driver said:

The only traffic light in America with the green on top, red on bottom is in Syracuse, NY.

Heeeeeyyyyy, that's near me. It's because of the large concentration of Irish immigrants who lived in the neighborhood and wouldn't stand for the British red being over the Irish green, so they vandalized it repeatedly, until the city council relented and installed an upside-down light

Same Irish immigrants in Syracuse were also responsible for the invention of the salt potato. They predominantly worked down in the salt mines in Syracuse (they don't call it The Salt City for nothing) and would pack leftover potatoes in their lunch boxes and then used the pools of salt water down in the mines to reheat the potatoes. 

stanger_missle said:

This popped up on my local CL:

SO MUCH 90's

That might as well say COSTAS WAGON on the tailgate (yes, I know Tarantino's is a Chevy).

Which apparently has its own die cast (available at Wal*Mart no less):

stanger_missle said:

This popped up on my local CL:

SO MUCH 90's

Truck mullet!

In reply to NickD :

It is astounding how much technology progressed between 1850 and 1920 without changing the fundamentals.

NickD said:

Same Irish immigrants in Syracuse were also responsible for the invention of the salt potato. They predominantly worked down in the salt mines in Syracuse (they don't call it The Salt City for nothing) and would pack leftover potatoes in their lunch boxes and then used the pools of salt water down in the mines to reheat the potatoes. 

My grandfather was off the boat Irish, a fireman in a large city.  He could get up from eating a 7 course meal and eat a big bowl of boiled potatoes with butter,  S&P.

I remember sitting on the front porch and he would sing songs like "Ireland was Ireland when England was a Pup".  Salt potatoes suck BTW.

914Driver said:

NickD said:

Same Irish immigrants in Syracuse were also responsible for the invention of the salt potato. They predominantly worked down in the salt mines in Syracuse (they don't call it The Salt City for nothing) and would pack leftover potatoes in their lunch boxes and then used the pools of salt water down in the mines to reheat the potatoes. 

 

My grandfather was off the boat Irish, a fireman in a large city.  He could get up from eating a 7 course meal and eat a big bowl of boiled potatoes with butter,  S&P.

I remember sitting on the front porch and he would sing songs like "Ireland was Ireland when England was a Pup".  Salt potatoes suck BTW.

You just said those words to an Irishman

Salt potatoes with melted butter over the top are amazing.

In reply to 914Driver :

Somewhere I read that, before the potato famine, the average man in Ireland ate 14 pounds of potatoes a day.

Yeesh.  That'd give a man a stomach half the size of their abdominal cavity.