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Topic: Trip to Vegas next month
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Paul G. Thompson
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posted 04-04-2003 01:46 PM
Hoover Dam is always a nice place to visit but unfortunately, the Hard Hat tours have been discontinued because of security reasons. So, don't expect too much when you visit Hoover, but it is still worth the effort to go there.
The Roller Coaster ride on top the Stratosphere is nothing more than a mere Sunday Afternoon ride as compared to the other one on the west side of town.
The car show at the Imperial Palace is kind of a bummer, especially if you have been there several years ago. Not worth the visit. Many extremely rare vehicles used by Presidents FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Eisenhower, and other classics such as Liberace's Bentley (equipped with candles), Hitler's Mercedes, and Nikita Kruschev's Limousine are no longer on display. Come to think of it, I didn't see any historic cars that were used by any world leader on this most recent visit.
Plenty of Duschenburgs are there, though.
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Gerard S. Cohen
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posted 04-04-2003 04:29 PM
Andrew,
Paul probably meant to write Deusenburgs which were open-top sportcars of the 1920s-'30s, with very long hoods, powerful, many-cylindered engines, wire-spoke wheels,some with flexible metal exhaust manifolds poking through the sides of the hood. Expensive and very fast, they were favored by the rich, playboys, and show-off gangsters.
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The present-day Tiffany, Excaliber and Corral are re-creations.
Gerard
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Gerard S. Cohen
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posted 04-04-2003 06:27 PM
Paul,
I think the smaller ones, the carriage lamps, work on calcium carbide and water, like the old bicycle lights. I guess they were used for parking, because the headlamps drew plenty of current from the battery, or if there wasn't a battery, from the magneto (generator). So when the engine wasn't running, great-gramps would still have lights on to prevent moving traffic from colliding in the dark of the unlit streets.
Gerard [EDIT:] Looking more closely, I don't see electric bulbs in the big headlights, so maybe they were carbide? But there has evidently been much reconstruction on this antique, and they may not be operational. So I can't really tell.]
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