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Updated
09/17/2011 (reviewed 09/17/2011 bnh)
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Jeff, Linda, Michelle, Andrew, Sara Jane and Billy at NASA
Links to our facebook photo album.. feel free to view or copy…
facebook.com/album1
facebook.com/album2
facebook.com/album3
facebook.com/album4
facebook.com/albumLex091111
(note you do not have to have a facebook account to view these photos)
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Billy
and Sara Jane House
Sara's:
Band:
Barry Mandilow
TV show:
CSI (all), Dancing with the Stars and 2.5
men
Movie:
Gone with the Wind and Seabiscuit
Book:
Seabiscuit
Sports team: Dallas Cowboys - (because Billy says so)
Food:
Salads and Heath Bar Blizzards (no wheat glutten
please)
Billy's:
Band:
ZZ Top and Steppenwolf
Denny Freeman -- "a guitar player"
TV show: SPEED channel (any
motorsports racing)
Movie:
Friday Night Lights (about Permian High
School)
(they haven't made a good movie since JOHN WAYNE died
and thank god for Clint Eastwood))
Sturges.
With Yul Brynner, Eli
Wallache, Steve McQueen --
is the
best non-John Wayne
movie ever made -- followed
by the
007 series of movies and now Grand Torino with
Eastwood >>
Book:
(I don't read -- just photos or graphics
please)
Sports team: Nascar's Tony Stewart
Team is now my favorite (RCR was my
favorite when DaleSr.
was alive -- DaleJr. is
my favorite driver)
Food:
Bar-B-Que at Rudy's or Smoley'sMOs, Hobo Cafe, Ross' Ole
Favorite Quote: "Life is tough, but
it's tougher when you're
My Quote: "Retirement
is 6 Saturdays and a Sunday"
Billy House
Favorite Beer: the
NEXT one (or Bud if I get to choose - I am drinking BUDLite
Sara Jane and Billy with
her 2004 Le Mans Blue Commemorative Special Edition Convertible
Corvette:
(Billy gets to wash, wax and
maintain Sara's Corvette and ever since totaling the 1978 Dark Blue
L82 Corvette in 1994 Billy has been trying to get out of the
dog house so to speak -- also notice in this photo Billy still has his
pony tail, July 2004 )
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Sara
Jane with her 2004 Corvette at the Mill Pond, San Saba, Texas
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Sara's
Corvette
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photo
is with longhorns just west of our house on HWY 29
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In December 2008 Billy brought a 2009 BMW 335I
Artic White with Chestnut/Black interior, premium, sport
and cold packages. This replaces Billy's pickup and for the
first time in many, many years (30+) neither Billy nor Sara have a truck unless you count the Yukon as a truck. Billy made this
decision after studying many luxury and performance oriented
cars. Billy finally decided on the BMW 135I which is a modern
muscle car but Sara insisted on 4 doors, hence the 335I. It is
very fast, has great brakes and like all BMWs is a driver’s car.
The 335I is a 3.0L twin turbo, double cam OHV straight six
with 300hp and 300 ft pounds of torque.
The 335I has larger brakes and sport suspension plus the sport
package adds additional handling to an already great car. The brakes
are 13.7 inch front and 13 inch rear disc with dual piston
calibers. The wheels are 18x8 front and 18x8.5 rear with 225/40R
and 255/35R run flat tires. The transmission is a 6sp automatic with a sport or full manual modes with paddle
shifters. BMW claims 0-to-60 in 4.8 seconds and 13.5 ¼ mile
times. The top speed is electronically limited at 155MPH. I’ve
had it up to 133 MPH clocked on the GPS… Oh, it also gets close
to 30 MPG on highway…
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These
Longhorns are on a ranch just west of our house west of Georgetown, TX
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At
home of Pat McDonald in Salinas,
CA. -- where I purchased the car.
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1963
409CI/425HP, Richmond
5-speed, Ford 9inch, 4 wheel disk brakes.
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Body
& interior is original -- repainted in 1988 and red/white seat
covers about same time.
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In
front of backyard garage at our house.
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Being
offloaded.
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Billy with his 1961 Impala 409 SS and the 3rd place award
voted on by the other drivers at the 2005 Texas Classic Car Show for
Make-A-Wish at Rudy's on 183, Austin,
Texas. Also at the October, 2005
Marble Falls Texas Hot Rod and Muscle Car show Billy's got a top five
drivers choice award. Since this event Billy has been in two
events where drivers vote and in both he has been awarded a top 5. Marble Falls
in October, 2005 and Red Poppy, Georgetwon, TX., April 2006. Got a top three in classic
60's car class at Hooter's on 183, Cedar Park, TX
on July 15th, 2006. Got a top three in class for classic/customs at
Sun City Car Show, May-2007 and a 2nd place for muscle cars at the
Jarrell FFA Show and Shine car show October-2007... 2nd place for Chevrolet
full size cars at Longhorn Corvette Club Fall 2007 car show Wolf
Ranch, Georgetown,
TX... Sponsors Choice at Freddy’s
Car Show, December 4th, 2010 in Pflugerville, TX…
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3rd
place drivers choice award at Texas Classic Car Show 2005
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Billy's
1961 Belair in 1961 and then in 1963
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1st
phote is at Hobbs NM
drag strip May 1961and 2nd is with trophies won in 1963
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Our
1970 Corvette LT1 at Little River Drag Strip
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This
was a mid/low -13 second car on BFG T/A Radials -- not bad for a "stocker"
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Our
1962 Corvette NCCC Record Holding Drag Car
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This
was at Texas MotorPlex in 1988 and we both
won Top Eliminator --
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Photos
going to Little River for Nostalgic Drags
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At
LittleRiver Nostalgic Drags about 1992 -- Won
$1000 for 11:00 to 12:99 Bracket
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Our Grand Kids -- Andrew and Michelle :
 Our
grandkids parents are Jeffrey and Linda (Cude)
House. Jeff and Linda are Texas A&M graduates. They live in Marlton,
NJ which is about 15 miles east of Philadelphia, Penn.
Andrew was born February 29, 1996. Michelle was born April
21, 1999. Both were born in Philadelphia.
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Jeff works for Campbell
Soup Company in Camden,
NJ. Linda until recently worked at Temple
University also in Philadelphia. In 2003 Jeff graduated
from Drexel University
in Philadelphia with a Master’s
Degree in Operation Research. Both Linda and Jeff are Texas A&M
graduates.
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Link
to Gabriel's Overlook (includes a map)
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In
the past we actually had green grass -- well some grass.
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Our Cats -- the real bosses -- Pilar and P. Newman:
These were two of three abandon cats found in NJ by our daughter-in-law,
Linda. At the time with all the animals that Jeff and
Linda had Sara and I "decided to
bring two of the three home with the one already promised". This is
our first time in a very long time to have pets and now we
can't live without these guys. P.Newman,
the male, was brought home when he was just a few weeks old. Pilar was a couple of months
older when we brought her back to Austin
and she flew with me returning from an east coast business trip. They are
brother and sister as if you cannot tell. Newman is 20+ pounds and Pilar is about 13 pounds, big for cats. SAD TO
SAY BUT PILAR PASSED AWAY SEPTEMBER 2011.
For those of you who know me well, when I talk about my
drinking partner it is Pilar. She goes out on
the front porch of our house with me and sits in the chair as I have
my beer-30. Newman comes out also but he tends to wander like an alley
cat will and I don't want the have to chase after him so he ends up back
in the house, mad of course. In any case, these are my regular AA
(Altitude Adjustment) drinking partners now that I am a full time retiree
from IBM after 39 years, 5 months and 18 days but whose
counting. For the past 4 years I had been a full time W@H (work at home) employee of IBM so
that part hasn't changed but finding something to do all day may be a
challenge.
POST NOTE to retirement::
retirement is 6 Saturdays and a Sunday --- if you have to think about
this then your not ready for retirement.
Favorite Links: (use
at you own discretion)
Longhorn
Corvette Club
Longhorn Corvette
Club Inc., Austin, TX
National
Council of Corvette Clubs, Inc. (NCCC)
National
Corvette Museum
Tejas Chapter of BMW Car Club of America
(BMWCCA)
Central Texas Classic Chevy Club
The
Donut Gang
Austin
Area Car Club
GeorgeTown
Area Car Club -- Georgetown, Texas
Texas
Classic Car Show at Rudy;s, 183
BMW
USA web site
Georgetown,
Texas
Liberty
Hill, Texas
Williamson
County, Texas
ZZ
Top
Steppenwolf
Denny
Freeman -- a friend and schoolmate in Dallas in the late 50's
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