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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #630 on: November 27, 2020, 09:07:14 AM »
Here's a map of Muffler Men and some other giant figures:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/map/theme/86

Probably one near you.  :)
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #631 on: November 27, 2020, 09:12:25 AM »
Unless they've gone to that great compost heap in the sky, I have pix of some that aren't on that map.. :smiley:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #632 on: November 27, 2020, 09:24:38 AM »
Unless Chuck get's there before I do, there is a Jolly Green Giant in front of a local green grocery that might work though it isn't a three dimensional giant.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #633 on: November 27, 2020, 09:34:01 AM »
I'm not going anywhere for the foreseeable future, BC.. :grin:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #634 on: November 27, 2020, 04:54:13 PM »
Outstanding location and story Charlie!  It gives me an idea for a future tag... 

Grab - A dog for the surfer dude:  It was in front of a pet store/farm store.


 

Did a 100 mile ride looking for a new tag and found 2.  Both seem pretty cool so you decide.
Submarine or seamonster/ municipal art. I thought it was super cool.  Everyone knows the movie, yes?

   


Or obsolete military establishment?
Old Navy seaplane base on Whidbey Island.  Complete with flying boat.   Flying boats, like rigid airships, spark the imagination - too bad they are not really practical.

Uncle Sam started building the base early in 1941 to patrol the entrance to the Puget Sound naval shipyard.  This PBY was stationed here in 1943 and did a couple tours up in the Aleutian Islands.

       



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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #635 on: November 27, 2020, 06:02:14 PM »
My dad did his apprenticeship on short Sunderland flying boats and Catalinas. He flew on them often and loved them.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #636 on: November 27, 2020, 10:13:00 PM »
My dad did his apprenticeship on short Sunderland flying boats and Catalinas. He flew on them often and loved them.

Great connection!  Thanks.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #637 on: November 28, 2020, 06:26:43 AM »
You have some luscious scooters, Shawn. It *is* Shawn, isn't it?
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #638 on: November 28, 2020, 10:37:13 AM »
You have some luscious scooters, Shawn. It *is* Shawn, isn't it?

Yes - Thank you Chuck.  The 650 Monza is delight - light and responsive.  Then yesterday I thought "Chuck's aero Lario must be a beast!"   
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #639 on: November 29, 2020, 03:18:26 AM »
Is it Shawn or Sean; I thought it was the latter. :undecided:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #640 on: November 29, 2020, 08:27:43 AM »
Yes - Thank you Chuck.  The 650 Monza is delight - light and responsive.  Then yesterday I thought "Chuck's aero Lario must be a beast!"

If I *had* to pare down the herd  :smiley: the AeroLario would be the keeper. It's not the fastest, best handling, or most comfortable, but it's a lot of fun. <shrug>
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #641 on: November 29, 2020, 12:08:47 PM »
Is it Shawn or Sean; I thought it was the latter. :undecided:

It sounds the same, but my parents always spelled it Shawn.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #642 on: January 01, 2021, 01:05:47 PM »
Does this count? Closest I can get to marine art in land locked Alabama!



 



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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #643 on: January 01, 2021, 05:29:05 PM »
I think it's great but I'm just happy to see that someone's out riding.  Nasty freezing rain here today.   :sad:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #644 on: January 01, 2021, 06:51:03 PM »
Looks good to me, Dave. What's the new tag?
(Not that I'm able to go looking for it at this time)  :sad:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #645 on: January 01, 2021, 07:02:02 PM »
New tag - your Guzzi at a olde tyme (not a national chain) drug store.



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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #646 on: January 01, 2021, 07:38:17 PM »
I know I've said this before but that's a damn good-looking bike.  Love that tank.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #647 on: January 02, 2021, 03:00:54 PM »
A rather boring building but it isn't a chain:


Tag is either an old school machine shop or a specialty tool or parts supplier:



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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #648 on: January 07, 2021, 05:49:33 PM »
Tag - Miller Machine and Welding in Tarrant, AL.

 
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #649 on: January 07, 2021, 06:50:24 PM »
New tag - County Courthouse with a clock tower/cupola

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #650 on: January 08, 2021, 11:15:37 AM »
New tag - County Courthouse with a clock tower/cupola

Hmmm.....this might be difficult for me.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #651 on: January 10, 2021, 01:46:57 PM »
New tag - County Courthouse with a clock tower/cupola

Hmmm.....this might be difficult for me.

Doesn't the old county courthouse on Palafox St. still have the old clock out front?  That would work!
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #652 on: January 10, 2021, 02:09:47 PM »
Doesn't the old county courthouse on Palafox St. still have the old clock out front?  That would work!

It does but It’s now an art gallery.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #653 on: January 14, 2021, 04:51:27 PM »
Old Courthouse that is now an art gallery



And the homeless guy who hit me up for a buck.



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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #654 on: January 17, 2021, 12:16:41 PM »
So, what's the new tag? Homeless guy on a bicycle?  :grin: :wink:
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #655 on: January 17, 2021, 01:50:37 PM »
So, what's the new tag? Homeless guy on a bicycle?  :grin: :wink:

That will work until I can come up with something else but I was looking for an OK on the first picture with it being an ex-government office.
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #656 on: January 17, 2021, 04:49:01 PM »
Works for me, BC.  Especially since it's freaking snowing here.  Glad to see people out riding.
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« Reply #657 on: January 17, 2021, 07:44:29 PM »
Fine by me.  I was an often visitor in that building when it was the County Courthouse and later Courthouse Annex. 
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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #658 on: January 17, 2021, 08:30:36 PM »
I can nail a homeless camp, but maybe not a guy "on" a bicycle. A guy "with" a bicycle or 5 yes :evil:

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Re: WildGuzzi Tag-O-Rama
« Reply #659 on: January 17, 2021, 09:50:22 PM »
I can nail a homeless camp, but maybe not a guy "on" a bicycle. A guy "with" a bicycle or 5 yes :evil:

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