SciFly

bring the steel drums instead. Ah just don't mistake -me- for a 55 gallon dru


oWw! Dang!



Do you know or can you imagine what this TRND guy sounds like if you fake a right turn towards that grassy field?
WHOOA mon! Don't be going there! That ain't no place for a Box






Anyway... I'm still spoiled by the model T years when I could drive almost anyplace that a four wheeler would dare go: even into the deepest dry sawgrass trails of the Florida Everglades at 2 AM, no cell phone. I never ever got stuck and I bopped along in high gear at 4 mph.. it was sweet. The xB, however, has much of the Model T in it: infinitely customizeable and rugged and...oh so good looking

TJandBOXCARWILLIE

Wait. What about those of us, who have an xA and a xB?

What does that make us?

SciFly

ans: x-a-b-c-d



?

meaning:
xA, xB seedy

TJandBOXCARWILLIE

^^, oh, I get it. I had to read it out loud to get that. Neat.

SciFly

really meant in a nice way: you plant seeds in cars and.. in people's minds.
That is why you're popular, Rev. O' Solutions
(pun on revolution. TJ is a reverend in real life)




better let this sink for a while or people
will be scratching match heads on my butt-
er car thread

SciFly

I wondered how the RS2 crew would like my experimental yellow steelie paint job.
the process and inputs are over here:
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...=770478#770478

To start off I called over the toughest RS2 critic that I know to see if the "look" passes muster




Yeah, that's Ray, the main star of this thread and the oldest RS2 buyer that we know about.


this picture got snapped fifteen minutes ago.
fresh

gs_is

Great story!! Wow, didn't realize that these boxes came in that fire truck yellow.....

SciFly

Hi, they are a limited release: see the FAQ sticky thread atop this list.

If you ever should want a new one this is the time to buy because only 2500 are made in this color.


ScionLifers: It was a busy day here. Me helping take care of a friend's 4 week old baby girl. Paint one wheel between bottle feedings, burps and puffy diapers. (and that was all -my- stuff, not the infant's! ha ha, joke!)

So I did call Ray to come over to show him the sample wheel. He did sit down here at this computer and spend about 45 minutes reading through every first and last entry. He is really touched by all the attentions you've given to him.

Or as Ray really said:

"I feel kind of energized. A lot of very nice people. Good people."



-=thank you all=- for all this encouragement

enough for now in this thread; talk to you later,

reid

Davestoaster

I vote this is the best thread yet. It's this kind of reading, that make these kind of sites.......The greatest !!

Joehnn

He doesn't look older than 65! Outstanding!

Your xBs look sweet.

I've had a couple of youngsters at my American Legion thinking about getting one.

They are only in their 70s or 80s.

SciFly

much obliged again. thank you guys!


The Mooneyes brand chrome plated full disk wheel covers arrived at last on Thursday afternoon.

I'll probably run baby moons some day, but not right now because I'd like to live with the yellow wheels and bB covers for a while and see how well the pleasure lasts.

What to do with the new Moons, then? Maybe.. think... what to do? Any ideas?

Ray goes to the Elks Club Friday at 8:30 for a special entertainment sketch presentation by a group of retired Eastern Airlines pilots. Some sort of skit where they play their former selves in various roles. Ray will play captain because he is the most senior and pretty darned affable.

Got your lines down, Ray?

"Lines? Don't know any lines. I guess I'll just be ad-libbin'... 'Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Captain speaking'."

It will be even more fun when that group sees Ray's unusal new car. I'll put up another picture tomorrow.

Meanwhile here is Ray and my friend, Kim. They'd just met on Wednesday when this was snapped. Her baby girl is four weeks old.

I play nanny this week, because Kim is the world's most beautiful handy(wo)man, with vast interest and experience in all thing mechanical and automotive. She and her mate are sprucing up our home.

"I'm really a guy inside, I really think like a guy more than a girl". (oh, yes, but looks do deceive us, Kim) She's really beautiful and sweet in unique ways that make men's eyes sparkle for her naturalness.

Back to the sketch:

This week's Captain of Stylin' Airlines, ladies and gentlemen, is Raymond. The most senior youth of us all.

SciFly

there are 1999 reads of ray's thread so far





the picture was snapped only twelve minutes before it was posted here

scionspecialistvegas

this is jonny and mike they are in thier late seventy, with thier new car a rs 1.0 Xa, the have a lincoln town car and a avalon also, great people.

SciFly

May 23, 1914.......born by light



1924.... learns to drive his dad's



1934... he had hitched to Nashville from ND two years earlier. Now he's an amateur boxer.. and ballroom dance instructor....and college student


1938... 23 year old Raymond sees a poster in a store window

he joins right up


1940.... furloughed because war had not yet begun, Ray is recruited by

and flies in the private sector until Dec. 1941 when he is recalled to service by the Army Air Corps. He becomes a test pilot, working in California, mostly with the Lockheed Corp.

Ray is the last man living that flew this one-of-a-kind: the first SuperBomber, the B-15. It was scrapped in 1945.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/I/img/AAF-I-9.jpg

Ah, but Ray is not scrapped. He's still here.

I'll take a picture of Ray again today because Raymond is 91 years young today and he is as bold as ever.



picture will go here-- he does not know about this yet--- or that those Moons in older posting above are a b-day present to him. but now you know they are. In fact, the thrust of this entire thread has been a lead-up to this birthday surprise: that he is valued and honored by a lot of people he does not even know. Thank you for all this attention for the guy. I'll be erasing this blue part before he sees this thread in a few days-- I want to let you add what you like and then show him his best present of all: your words.

You guys made, and make, another guy happy. And so I and we thank you all for that

DawgOnU

Great story!! My hats off to u both.

SciFly

see the previous page for a pictorial of Ray's early life, birthday portrait, and for the lead-in to this new page

I turned 51 yesterday and Ray turns 91 today

-this verse I wrote for our b-days
applies to you all, to everyone:


What we are we gained by trying
What we know we learned by failing
What to expect ? To fail again

What we learn by turns at night
may prove a gain next day

Again we dare to do it different
A gain we get by striving thought
Again we make || Don't buy store-bought

A gain must start by dreaming
for dreams do lead to
concrete gains again and again

To reiterate yet again:
Gain by failing
It is quite all right
It is all good
and that is all

u83rp5ych0

you should take a picture of the box and that old car side by side with ray in the middle. That would make for an awesome photo

sciontoaster

your never to old for a box

FLECOM

hey he sold me my box too

his brother works at highway toyota which is where i test drove the scion on the palmetto... ya they are a great pair of guys over at kendall toyota

SciFly

really great to have some Miami people say hello! If Kendall Toyota is following this thread I hope they will pop in to say hello.


Taking the suggestion of u83rp5ych0 above, I thought- GREAT IDEA! to make the old, wrecked Model T that I used to drive, to make it serve one more time for a public pleasure!
We'll use it for a photo prop!



Kim voluteered to give the shattered old gal a final scrub! Thank you, girl! You are so fine a person.




all this is going on in real time--- we have the pics now but I'll post them asap. All made in the past half hour. thanks.