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Well, okay, I think Ed touched upon it too

We used to, poor Jack Paler, the fellow always wanted something in his publication

You know, he was always begging for something. So I don't know, I start writing something about Rust Buster, Duster, Cheap, Fugley, the whole shebangs, you know

And he really, Jack was more conservative. of, I think he wanted something more to affect about, you know, lug nuts or, you know, detail in the car

You did some cartoons for detail in your car, things like that

And Ed and I would go off on a tangent. You know, it was never the serious stuff

We'd write something because we thought it was a lot of fun, you know, that way people could enjoy it

So that's where a lot of that started. I would just come up with things like Ampage, Rampage, which I sold that three years ago

all those different things like that. It was just something that came in my mind

you know, you know, my parents did my children. They had me instead, so I'd never been quite right

you know. Isn't the first chapter about where you go to circle

and then you come back and you go to the McDonald's and the kids pointing at

We did it twice. I mean, we were grungy. I mean, that poor little kid

looked at us and started crying. You know, go, oh, yeah. So that it was just like I said and what we did we did it We went in the restroom and tried to clean ourselves up the best we could You know but then we did a redux of it

Oh, I can't remember. There's a picture. It's in the book. In fact, you put it in the book with us at the McDonald's, but much cleaner, nicer looking

Yeah. Yeah, it's just, I like the way you compiled the book because it's fun

It's not, it's nothing serious, you know, it's nothing. And you and I recall one person, he put, he's put the derogatory remarks about Jack

Taylor and say, well, the poor man has passed away and you put this stuff in there and

go, what the heck, you know, so I'm glad you agreed not to put that article in there

You know, it was about him going to junkyard and all, but he goes on a tangent about Jack

because Jack was, you know, he was always late with the, with the, uh, man

magazine, but the poor fella, he did everything pretty manually. And I'm looking at a couple of them right here in my room

He did an excellent job. I mean, it is already amazing. I mean, I've got a bunch of them only recently, and I'm looking at it

And you can't tell it was done by the old-fashioned sheets and the wax

Right. No, he took over. I always, is it Harry owns? Is that how you pronounce his name

He started the club. So he took over to club. But like I told you the articles that you got in the book they came from that from his publication So I never even dreamed of putting out a book with these articles you know

That was something you came up with. I thought that you were doing the book

No. No. I'm too cheap. Gosh. Come on. It's cheaper to do the book

No. No. I seriously would have never thought to put out of it

a book. You could probably ask Ed the same thing. We never thought it would be compiled into a book

And no, it was your idea. I mean, so, and you know, the thing about it is, Ed and I had, we had

we had really had fun doing it. I know Ed did. He really enjoyed it because that's his forte

He did a lot of, you know, marketing, publicity and stuff like that. So I would submit the article to him

and he would embellish upon it or whatever. And I said, that's fine because, you know, so that's how it started

We just, poor Jack didn't have anything to fill his publications, so he'd write something

There's that one, oh, gosh, well, you featured the shirts. What the heck was the other thing

Oh, we did, Ed and I tried to do a, Slant Six Nationals

and water country in Williamsburg. And so I drew up a cartoon for that

It was 225. You could have all, I what I call it

free access to water country for the whole weekend a nice motel and I think dinner for 225 We got I would say a respectable maybe 35 45 vehicles

That was it. Because he thought we'd get a lot more than that. So that was a one-time thing

And Jack put the ad in his book, in his magazine about it

So it was stuff like that and the flying alibi. Poor Jack, he probably wondered where these characters came from

Because he was more famous thing with Jack is he always told us

do not have the hoods open when you take pictures at the meets. So what do we do

We need the hoods up. And I'm thinking, Jack, this is a slant six thing

Don't you think we ought to feature the engines? You know? So, poor Jack, he suffered from Mark

narcolepsy. And you'd be talking to him on the phone day, and then you hear

and you'd be snoring. And you go, oh, well, that's so much for this conversation

A majority of them are sold around here. I'm running out of people from church. I'm running out

of friends, neighbors. You know? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm looking forward to triple digits

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