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3-8-20:

All of my kids rode with, including the baby.  She immediately fell asleep.  Here we are meeting my wife at Jack's Bar & Grill for supper.  Got lots of waves today.  Car ran great.  My older daughter was telling me how the Meadowbrook is the only car we have that she can read in and not get car sick ?

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13 hours ago, Worden18 said:

3-8-20:

Main Street 1 block ahead ?

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Hi , Worden

Question about the licence plates (tag),,  you can drive around with an original plate from the 50's in Minnesota??? 

and the other , up front , is from VFW,,  are you a Vet??

 

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1 hour ago, lepic56 said:

Hi , Worden

Question about the licence plates (tag),,  you can drive around with an original plate from the 50's in Minnesota??? 

and the other , up front , is from VFW,,  are you a Vet??

 

 

Some states allow us to register the car with an original YOM (year of manufacture) tag. I purchased mine on eBay and the cool thing about it in Alabama is that there is no yearly property tax or tag fee assessed against the car. The tag doesn't expire and the fact 1948 tags had a black background was a pleasant bonus. The 1974 tag on the Beetle also matches the color of the car.......clean livin' I guess.....  :)

 

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2 hours ago, lepic56 said:

Hi , Worden

Question about the licence plates (tag),,  you can drive around with an original plate from the 50's in Minnesota??? 

and the other , up front , is from VFW,,  are you a Vet??

 

Yes, you can use a YOM (year of manufacture) in MN as long as the plate has one letter amongst the numbers.  You only need one plate...on the rear.  Yes, I'm a Desert Storm Vet.  I bought the VFW plate on eBay for that reason, and also because it has the perfect patina for the car.  

The YOM plate is treated like a collector plate; one time fee.  

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1 hour ago, Worden18 said:

Yes, you can use a YOM (year of manufacture) in MN as long as the plate has one letter amongst the numbers.  You only need one plate...on the rear.  Yes, I'm a Desert Storm Vet.  I bought the VFW plate on eBay for that reason, and also because it has the perfect patina for the car.  

The YOM plate is treated like a collector plate; one time fee.  

wow!!  what great & simple way to register cars , very ecological lol!! , 

and What a coincidence , I'm a gulf war vet also,,  90-91, and I drive a 51 Dodge,, lol  what a small world.

her a pic during the war,,  at Doha, Quatar  ,, Air Forces Weapons Crew Chief..

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1 hour ago, Sam Buchanan said:

 

Some states allow us to register the car with an original YOM (year of manufacture) tag. I purchased mine on eBay and the cool thing about it in Alabama is that there is no yearly property tax or tag fee assessed against the car. The tag doesn't expire and the fact 1948 tags had a black background was a pleasant bonus. The 1974 tag on the Beetle also matches the color of the car.......clean livin' I guess.....  :)

 

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WHAT A GREAT IDEA,, Like we said up here in The Great White North  ''Only in the States'' 

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5 hours ago, lepic56 said:

wow!!  what great & simple way to register cars , very ecological lol!! , 

and What a coincidence , I'm a gulf war vet also,,  90-91, and I drive a 51 Dodge,, lol  what a small world.

her a pic during the war,,  at Doha, Quatar  ,, Air Forces Weapons Crew Chief..

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Ya look good man!  Thank you for your service. 

I was an operations specialist aboard the USS Worden CG-18.  I was the surface/sub-surface warfare coordinator/weapons operator. Weapons operator meaning Harpoon missile programmer.  The ship's primary mission was anti-aircraft though.  We had the longest range missiles of any ship deployed there.  We protected the carriers during their flight ops and other ships that launched Tomahawks at land targets.

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10 hours ago, lepic56 said:

wow!!  what great & simple way to register cars , very ecological lol!! , 

and What a coincidence , I'm a gulf war vet also,,  90-91, and I drive a 51 Dodge,, lol  what a small world.

her a pic during the war,,  at Doha, Quatar  ,, Air Forces Weapons Crew Chief..

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In the Navy we called our Aviation Ordnance men BB Stackers...lol, I was Aviation hydraulics....bubble chaser. Went to Yemen to work on A4 Sky hawks for the Egyptians as a civilian contractor during and after that time.....gotta love the tax free money when you stay out of the USA for over a year.

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8 hours ago, keithb7 said:

Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Worden_(CG-18)

Cool. Now we know the name association!

Keith

Yep, that's the one!  I cried when I watched the YouTube video of her sinking (target practice) ?

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3-24-20:

Drove the Meadowbrook to work today.

Ran out of gas 7 miles from home!  Wifey came to the rescue with a gas can.  I was only half an hour late for work.  ?

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On ‎3‎/‎9‎/‎2020 at 10:55 PM, keithb7 said:

Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Worden_(CG-18)

Cool. Now we know the name association!

Keith

Double cool, built at Bath Iron Works right here in Maine.  "Bath built is better built."

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I read book recently @Worden18. It was about the Charles Lindbergh flight in 1927.

 

I learned there was also a 1919 US Destroyer named USS Worden (DD-228) It escorted the ship that carried Charles and his plane back to the USA in 1927. They steamed into Chesapeake Bay together. Then Charles was delivered up the Potomac to Washington.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Worden_(DD-288)

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