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Modest multi-story homes with a minimum of 1.800 square feet are beginning to have elevators built into them.
Until recently, usually homes with a minimum of 4,000 square feet had an elevator built into them.
Any elevator built into a home is the type that’s rudimentary that only features a gate as the elevator’s “door” (albeit the elevator having a safety feature where it comes to a stop if the gate is pulled open while the elevator is in transit), is very slow, has very basic controls; and is much smaller in size compared to the far more common commercial-style elevator in commercial buildings, apartment buildings; and the like.
Examples of modest multi-story home plans with elevators built into them:
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77437.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77263.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77026.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77026.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77460.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77450.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl68181.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl77091.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl76588.html?from=search
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl76755-1.html?from=search
The size of house that you would normally expect to have an elevator built into it:
http://www.eplans.com/house-plans/epl/hwepl75406.html?from=search
A multi-story home with an elevator built into it would make a multi-story home more desirable in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, and the elevator would be an asset to everyone traversing up and down the multiple floors, especially with my paternal grandmother and her arthritis; but then there’s the additional maintenance that comes with the territory of owning a multi-story home. And especially if we went in the direction of buying property located somewhere in Oakland Township, Michigan and built our own house.
So, for those aforementioned reasons; that still leaves owning a large ranch or a large tri-level home highly attractive.
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A photo from the early 1990’s that Greg Zipadelli had posted of Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Richard Petty together with their stock cars and the trophies that they’ve amassed.
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A photo that Greg Zipadelli had posted of a Ford that Darrel Waltrip had raced early on in his career during the early 1970’s:
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NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is also a car guy.
An example of how much of a car guy Ryan Newman is:
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The few NASCAR drivers and other NASCAR personnel these days who are true car guys are Rick Hendrick, Ray Evernham, Chad Knaus, Jack Roush, Greg Biffle, Tony Stewart, Greg Zippadelli, David Ragan, Clint Bowyer; and Joey Logano. It is questionable as to whether or not Travis Kvapil is a car guy.
This is why these NASCAR drivers and other NASCAR personnel are my cup of tea.
An example of how much of a car guy both Greg Biffle and Clint Bowyer are:
http://www.tundraheadquarters.com/blog/raptor-vs-tundra/
I must say, though; that I don’t have any tolerance for the so-called “rat rod” look of Clint Bowyer’s customized Toyota Tundra. I prefer a vintage automobile to be restored into like-new condition rather than that morbid “rat-rod”.
Examples of how much of a car guy Tony Stewart is:
Example of how much of a car guy Chad Knaus is:
Example of how much of a car guy Greg Biffle is:
http://www.velocity.com/tv-shows/car-crazy/video/greg-biggles-garage/
Example of how much of a car guy David Ragan is:
http://www.cmt.com/pictures/4652507/photo.jhtml?xrs=share_copy_email
Example of how much of a car guy Jack Roush is:
Example of how much of a car guy Rick Hendrick is:
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1
Example of how much of a car guy Ray Evernham is:
Example of how much of a car guy Joey Logano is:
Example of how much of a car guy Greg Zipadelli is:
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More photos of Ken Squier and his radio station:
Minivan owned by Ken’s radio station as it’s mobile broadcast vehicle:
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A Thomas conventional style School Bus on my favorite chassis & cowl-the Ford B-Series.
1991 Ford School Bus – Winchester Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1488214
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This generation of Blue Bird All-American, produced from 1989-1998; is what John Roeck should have ordered and bought instead of the Rear-Engine Thomas Safe-T-Liners in 1992 and 1993, and the Front-Engine Ward/AmTran Transit style School Buses from 1995-2001.
The Blue Bird A3FE had supplanted this generation of the All-American, and production of this generation ended in late 1998, and at the same time; it’s when production of the A3FE had begun.
John Roeck does buy this generation of All-American as the larger size buses in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”, and this is what my mother would drive in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood” is she ever took a larger size route.
My mother is the type of person that would be happiest taking a smaller size or wheelchair bus route, and that is what she does for most of her career in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
1989 Blue Bird 84 Passenger School Bus – Duchesne County School District Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1491790
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Some people may refer to Ken Squier as a Vermont broadcasting legend, up there with Marselis Parsons and the family of Charles P. Hasbrook-who has owned WCAX-TV since it’s inception in 1954, had purchased WCAX-AM from (now WVMT-AM) from the Burlington Daily News in 1939 and had later sold WCAX-AM to Simon Goldman and his James Broadcasting company in 1963, who had changed the call letters to WVMT-AM that year.
But I view Ken Squier as another man doing his job admirably as a race announcer and a radio and television racecaster at local and regional racetracks throughout New England, briefly for ABC; and notably for CBS for the longest time. Who happens to be from Vermont and owns his family’s own radio station in Waterbury. I wouldn’t necessarily call Ken Squier a ‘broadcasting legend’ in the normal sense. I wouldn’t put him in the class of people such as Walter Cronkite, Ed Murrow, Eric Severeid, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Curt Gowdy, Jim McKay; and Chris Schenkel. I’d put him more so in the class of Keith Jackson and Dick Enberg.
Ken Squier had inherited his radio station from his father Lloyd when his father had passed away in 1979. I’d love to find out which manufacturer of transmitter Ken’s station WDEV-AM currently operates on, and which transmitters it had operated on ever since his father Lloyd had put it on the air on July 15, 1931.
Ken Squier had begun announcing races on television 1970 or 1971 with Chris Economaki and Jim McKay, a couple of them being the 1971 Greenville 200, and another race from Asheville-Weaverville, North Carolina that had aired on ABC. Ken Squier had also covered many different sporting events for CBS Eye On Sports/CBS Sports Saturday-Sunday, among them were (icky, yucky) boxing, track; and more pleasant skiing and skating. A lot of them were features like how Charles Kuralt would cover them-such as the North Carolina hollering contest and the Calaveras County Frog Jump.
In the years 1973-1974, CBS at the time wanted to try some racing, and they knew of Ken Squier’s background so it changed his value at CBS. They did several Indy car races like Milwaukee, Phoenix, Texas and at Brands Hatch in Britain. By 1976, Ken Squier was spending the majority of the summer in Europe with the Formula One on CBS, the year that Mario Andretti won the Formula One title. Mario Andretti had made the switch from NASCAR to Formula 1 in 1969. And CBS Sports had also covered Formula One for several more years utilizing Ken Squier. Ironically, also in 1976; Ken did the French Grand Prix on a Sunday and on the following Monday, CBS had sent him to Puerto Rico to announce the Pan American Games where he covered all kinds of events including (icky, yucky) weight lifting, roller skate hockey, (icky, yucky) basketball, track and field and some other things he vaguely remembers doing
By the late 1970’s, CBS had him also doing a lot of ski racing and ski jumping. It was actually in 1977 and 1978 that Ken Squier and Neal Pilson (then the head of Business Affairs for CBS) started working to get a Daytona 500 on the air as a “flag to flag” event.
The Golf events that Ken Squier did for CBS were the Colonial, the Heritage and the Masters in the year 1980.
How could yours truly not like a man who was a pioneer in television coverage of NASCAR in the sport’s good old days, had worked for my favorite network-CBS; and owns a radio station that he had inherited from his father?
Photo of Ken Squier:
Video about the life and career of Ken Squier:
Video about the history of Ken’s radio station in Waterbury, Vermont; WDEV-AM:
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NASCAR should continue to be engulfed and embossed in the culture that has made it what it is since antiquity (well, actually; since R.J Reynolds began sponsoring what was then called the Winston Cup and is now called the Sprint Cup beginning in 1971).
NASCAR should continue to be run by car enthusiasts for car enthusiasts, rather than trying to be as appealing as mainstream sports (icky, yucky Basketball, Football, Baseball; and Hockey), not employing drivers and pit crew members who had originally aspired to become ball-playing athletes but wound up becoming a stock car driver or a pit crew member instead, and don’t really want to be working there; but are because they have to. The pit crew members should continue to be full-time mechanics acting as part-time pit crews.
It also should continue to not matter if a potbellied, unathletic person serves as a driver or a member of the pit crew.
Although I am not fond of drugs and alcohol, as a traditionalist NASCAR fan-the sponsors should continue to be usually drug, alcohol; and tobacco companies, petroleum companies such as Mobil, Marathon, Quaker State, Pennzoil, and Valvoline; and auto part chains such as Checkers and Autoworks, sometimes companies like Kodak, Coca-Cola, and Hawaiian Punch (for many years a non-drug subsidiary of R.J Reynolds); and not odd things like promoting up and coming movies, cartoon characters, and such.
The fan base of NASCAR should continue to be dominated by car enthusiasts from the north and west, and Rednecks and Southern Belles from the Southeastern part of the country.
A NASCAR race that isn’t televised on CBS just doesn’t seem right. Watching a CBS-televised race just seemed to give you an anodyne feeling. No other television network or cable channel has ever done as good of a job of televising a NASCAR race as CBS-past, present; and future.
Not that I ever cared, and nor will I ever care about mainstream sports; but the production of all sporting events televised by CBS during the era of Neal Pilson at the helm resulted in a product that seemed to give you an overall anodyne feeling.
NASCAR has already changed for the worse by the time of this aberrant so-called “Pit Crew Challenge”, which has it’s roots in a more reasonable two-tire change exhibition event from 1967-1984, later superseded by the four-tire change exhibition event held at Rockingham Speedway from 1985-2003. The event was held at Rockingham Speedway earlier when it was the two-tire change exhibition event.
NASCAR has also changed for the worse by the time these videos were taken:
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I hope to assist Mike Brewer, host of the television programs Wheeler Dealers, “Driven”, Deals On Wheels, Pulling Power, Wrecks To Riches, a television show called Auto Trader; and a non-automotive television show called Frontline Battle Machines.
I would like to assist Mike Brewer in finding a Caprice/Roadmaster wagon, a diesel Suburban, a diesel K5 Blazer or 2-door Tahoe, a diesel Full-Size van, a Full-Size Ford Bronco, a Dodge Ramcharger/Plymouth TrailDuster; and an AMC Eagle to export back to Britain.
Then Mike would expect his mechanic Edd China to do the work refurbishing these vehicles once they’ve arrived in Britain and at Mike Brewer & Edd China’s workshop.
Video of Mike Brewer and his wife Michelle being interviewed:
Video of an episode from 1999 of one of the television programs that Mike has presented, Deals On Wheels:
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