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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    He's a really fit looking 71. I told him I was going to tell him I hope I looked like he does when I'm 71, but then said I don't look that good now.
    He certainly looks young for a 64-year-old in that video.

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    The Kentucky Horse Park has a display like that every year. I have gone through it a couple times.


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    Quote Originally Posted by curly sue View Post
    I don't know if it was that brand but we had a sled styled like that one.
    I never had a sled as a kid. Living in GA there really wasn't much need for one. If it did snow that heavy you just used a garbage can lid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    I never had a sled as a kid. Living in GA there really wasn't much need for one. If it did snow that heavy you just used a garbage can lid.
    We never get much snow. We once had a half inch of wet snow and I got it out and drug it around, with high hopes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    I never had a sled as a kid. Living in GA there really wasn't much need for one. If it did snow that heavy you just used a garbage can lid.
    Quote Originally Posted by curly sue View Post
    We never get much snow. We once had a half inch of wet snow and I got it out and drug it around, with high hopes.
    I cant imagine kids from warm country would even know what a sled is.
    Trash can lid is creative. We never did that. Our favorite was bumper hitching during lunch break in high school.

    My dad had me sit on a shovel, he would pull me around while I hung onto the handle. He enjoyed that more than I did. Farmers would take a junk hood of a car, flip it over, everybody jump in and be towed by the old John Deere.

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    About 3 blocks from our house is an antique store that is shutting down. THAT is a picker's dream. Except for a select few items so marked, everything is 70% off...
    Cool find! I love picking too whether its estate sales, yard sales or even some curb treasures like John recently posted. By chance were there any vintage blow molds there? Some are worth grabbing and reselling, there's quite a market for them especially this time of year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Cool find! I love picking too whether its estate sales, yard sales or even some curb treasures like John recently posted. By chance were there any vintage blow molds there? Some are worth grabbing and reselling, there's quite a market for them especially this time of year.

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    Maybe? I dont usually look at that stuff. My wife may have some of those things (it's all coming out in a few weeks).

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    I cant imagine kids from warm country would even know what a sled is.
    Trash can lid is creative. We never did that. Our favorite was bumper hitching during lunch break in high school.

    My dad had me sit on a shovel, he would pull me around while I hung onto the handle. He enjoyed that more than I did. Farmers would take a junk hood of a car, flip it over, everybody jump in and be towed by the old John Deere.
    My grandpa used to pull all us kids around the country side on an old hood pulled behind his pickup.

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    My most exciting sliding experiences is on a toboggan. I had a 3-seater that a group of us high school guys took to Nub's Nob at night when the skiers were gone and before the groomers came out. We climbed "Scarface" which is the steepest gain this side of the Rockies. Brutal. It was a dare to see who chickened out first or just plain blown off the sled. The speeds were blinding, you could not breath. With good sense you would let go at the bottom before you hit the ski racks and lodge foundation. One guy didnt. He was never quite right after that. He came up from Indiana and stayed weekends with his folks our family friends. We also slid on cafeteria trays and a local invention call a "bumpjumper" from Petoskey. I had one of those.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    My most exciting sliding experiences is on a toboggan. I had a 3-seater that a group of us high school guys took to Nub's Nob at night when the skiers were gone and before the groomers came out. We climbed "Scarface" which is the steepest gain this side of the Rockies. Brutal. It was a dare to see who chickened out first or just plain blown off the sled. The speeds were blinding, you could not breath. With good sense you would let go at the bottom before you hit the ski racks and lodge foundation. One guy didnt. He was never quite right after that. He came up from Indiana and stayed weekends with his folks our family friends. We also slid on cafeteria trays and a local invention call a "bumpjumper" from Petoskey. I had one of those.
    Yes, tobogganing is the real deal, we had a dam with a steep slope that leveled and then went steep again, it was essentially a ramp system. Very few would go over the ramp, you would just be moving too fast so standard procedure was to ditch just before going airborne. One night 3 of of us decided to just do it, go full tilt off the ramp. The first two chickened out and ditched, my turn came and I just held it steady, I couldn't see anything about halfway down due to snow blowback so I just closed my eyes, relaxed and all of a sudden, whoosh, total silence, in the air. We landed nicely and I still couldn't see anything so I ditched it. But yeah, some of those rides are unforgettable.

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