I’ve never posted anything about this aspect of “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, and I’ve recently came into realization that I need to do so.
Another sunshiny moment in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, though it isn’t my cup of tea; are that Alison and her husband David, and Colin might watch professional Volleyball events televised by NBC Sports when they are their entire family, including Marie “Mimi” and Mary Ann; are over at our house.
If I had magical powers, I would transform the Property Brothers on the cable channel HGTV from being fit and muscular to being fat and overweight. I’d also transform the eldest brother-J.D Scott from being fit and muscular to being fat and overweight. And I’d also rush J.D Scott to a hospital to have his tattoos removed.
What a stupid, nonsensical picture of the Property Brothers. They wouldn’t be acting like that around me.
This person thinks he looks cool in this picture, but in reality; he doesn’t.
The Property Brothers are being just plain stupid in the photo below:
The Property Brothers would no longer be able to play icky, yucky Basketball. Or any other icky, yucky sport for that matter.
The Property Brothers also fail to comprehend just how awful and horrible Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida is.
The Property Brothers also shouldn’t be allowed to dress to the nines:
https://twitter.com/DarynJones/status/642524122635980800
https://twitter.com/ETCanada/status/646357949669969920
The Property Brothers would be forced to ride on a School Bus, in a Full-Size station wagon, in a 1973-1999 Chevrolet/GMC Suburban; or in a Volkswagen/Audi.
The Property Brothers would be forced to listen to Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening; and Jazz music with me. Particularly Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening; and Jazz music from the 1970’s, 1980’s; and the early 1990’s.
The Property Brothers would especially be forced to listen to Bertie Higgins’s song from 1982 “Key Largo”.
If I had magical powers, I would transform television personality and automobile racer Bruno Massel from being fit and muscular to be fat and overweight.
Bruno Massel would no longer be able to play icky, yucky Basketball; icky, yucky Baseball; and icky, yucky Football.
Bruno Massel would also no longer be allowed to dress to the nines, such as depicted in the photo below:
Then, once Bruno Massel had been transformed from being fit and muscular to be fat and overweight; I would give him a ride on my own, personal School Bus.
I’d also give Bruno Massel a ride in a Buick Roadmaster station wagon and he would be forced to listen to Adult Contemporary, Jazz; and Easy Listening music with me. Particularly Adult Contemporary, Jazz; and Easy Listening music from the 1970’s, 1980’s; and the early 1990’s.
Bruno Massel would especially be forced to listen to David Soul’s song from 1976 “Don’t Give Up On Us”.
I never knew that for some time during the 1970’s, the 3-door Range Rover was available with a Power-Take-Off unit; just like with the Series/Defender.
The PTO unit on the Range Rover was, however; only available as a Dealer-Installed-Option/Accessory whereas the PTO unit on the Series/Defender always has been available as a factory option.
http://www.range-rover-classic.com/Home/land-rover-brochures/range-rover-1970-s
Below are the surroundings of the BBC Dodford, England mediumwave transmitter site.
Dodford, just a short drive from Daventry; was were the mediumwave transmitter and tower was moved to sometime in the 1950’s to avoid any HF/shortwave interference from penetrating into the mediumwave station’s signal.
Arthur and his parents do visit this site frequently while they visit their friends at the Daventry shortwave transmitter site in the Arthur movie for adults.
Sure, these two-story house plans are nice; but as I’ve already said before in another post, there’s the territory that comes with owning a multi-story home.
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl66091.html
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77252.html
Sure, the studio in one of the house plans linked about would make a nice private suite; but there is no way my paternal grandmother would walk up that long flight of stairs just to get to what would be her personal suite. There’s no way my parents and I would ever want to walk up that long flight of stairs just to access that studio as well.
Similarly to how Jeep had produced the FC-150 and FC-170 Forward Control trucks, Land Rover, too; has produced a Forward Control model.
Land Rover’s Forward Control model shared many parts with the conventional Land Rover and with he Rover P3 & P4 saloon cars. In fact, the Land Rover Forward Control’s chassis was pretty much a conventional Land Rover chassis modified to accommodate a cab over wheels. The Land Rover Forward Control’s cab doors and windshield are also selfsame to the conventional Land Rover’s doors. This modified Land Rover chassis, though; was only available with large-sized wheels and tires that caused the vehicle to have a very high ground clearance.
The Land Rover Forward Control was officially known as the FC101 (for Forward Control, 101″ wheelbase).
The engines installed in the Land Rover Forward Control were pretty much the same as in the conventional Land Rover: 4-cylinder gasoline/petrol and diesel engines, intake over exhaust (IOE) inline-6; and the Buick/Rover V8.
The Land Rover Forward Control was primarily designed and built for the British Military and the militaries of the Commonwealth nations; although some were made available to the civilian market on the British homeland and in Australia.
In the civilian marketplace, the Land Rover Forward Control was marketed as a vehicle that could carry a larger load off road due to the vehicle’s forward control design that allowed for increased cargo capacity and a tighter turning radius, a load greater than a conventional Land Rover pickup truck model; and the ability to go off-road that a comparable Ford of Europe, Bedford; or Leyland lorry didn’t have.
All-in-all, the Land Rover Forward Control was the end result of the brilliant work conducted by Rover’s Research & Development department.
The Land Rover Forward Control did spawn a newer successor in the late 1980’s called the Llama. The Llama was produced strictly for the British military, and Land Rover did not want to make the Llama available to the civilian market out of fear that the vehicle would compete with the Mercedes-Benz Unimog.
In the end, Land Rover did not win the order by the British Military to produce the Llama. Instead, Land Rover chose a vehicle that was originally designed and produced by what was Chrysler’s European division and later by Renault; and this Chrysler-designed and Renault-built vehicle suffered poorly in terms of reliability during it’s intended military service
Jeep had also marketed their Forward Control model as a pickup truck with Jeep’s legendary and unquestionable off-road know-how, and carry a larger load off road due to the vehicle’s forward control design that allowed for increased cargo capacity and a tighter turning radius. And indeed, the Jeep Forward Control model had a greater cargo capacity than the conventional Jeep pickup truck that was produced from 1947-1963; and even the Jeep Full-Size J-Series pickup truck that had just been introduced by Kaiser during the Jeep FC’s production run.
Pictures of the Land Rover Forward Control model:
Photos of the Land Rover Forward Control’s successor-the Llama:
This Ward/AmTran/IC Front Engine transit style School Bus is another example of the consolidation between chassis manufacturers and School Bus body manufacturers in the last 15-20 years.
In fact, IH/Navistar purchasing Ward/AmTran in 1991 kickstarted the consolidation in the School Bus manufacturing industry that would take off later in the decade.
Genesis International Bus – Graham Local Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1453213
A photo of a mockup if the 1st generation Land Rover Discovery, when it was known internally within the Rover Group as Project Jay. This mockup was done and this photo was taken probably during the years 1985, 1986; and 1987.
Notice the 2 different design exercises for the front end.
Another promotional video from 1980 for GM Medium-Duty trucks.
In this prior post https://mparij.wordpress.com/2015/11/29/nascar-indy-car-and-formula-1-drivers-who-should-be-magically-transformed-from-being-fit-athletic-and-mesoporphic-to-being-fat-corpulent-and-overweight/ I talked about NASCAR, Indy Car; and Formula 1 drivers who should be transformed from being mesomorphic to corpulent.
Elliott Sadler’s muscles are just as unsightly as the muscles on this man from Germany in the videos below.
Only if I had magical powers, I could transform both of these men from being mesomorphic to corpulent.
We would all be able to breathe a sigh of relief once both of these men were transformed from being mesomorphic to corpulent
Not to mention that this man from Germany was playing icky, yucky Soccer/International Football. Once again, who gives a… about sports. And also, fitness.
The reason as to why this School Bus was decommissioned so early in it’s life and is being auctioned off this soon should give you an idea as to how flimsy the 3 remaining body builders (Blue Bird, Thomas; and Ward/AmTran/IC) and the handful of chassis builders now left building School Bus chassis (IH/Navistar, Freightliner; and Blue Bird’s own, proprietarily developed and built in-house chassis) have been building School Buses and their components since the early 2000’s.
Special Needs Bus #31 – Saginaw Intermediate School District Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1491490
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