George Lane (britannique né vers 1904 ?) illustration représentant des scènes automobiles d'avant-guerre. - source Bonhams.

Ringo is such an empathic soul! My fav is Geoge. He was the introvert like myself. And he gave us Monty Python after all! In 1976 using the album list in Hunter Davies' autobiography that I borrowed from the school library, I began my album collection going backwards--Let It Be, Abbey Road and so on. That book noted HELP had a culturally problematic storyline but it ignited George's interest in Hare Krishna. I became intrigued with Hinduism.

George's compositions throughout his life always had a spirituality/message that appealed to my hippie heart. Oh why had I not been born at a time to experience Beatlemania!? (But then I wouldn't have become a roller skating disco diva🛼. Btw love the BeeGees but their Sgt Pepper film was a travesty except for Aerosmith singing "Come Together.")

When I cried over John's murder, my college roomies thought I was flakey. I have seen Paul/Linda/Wings & Ringo/All-Starrs in concert. Well, I have written too much to explain why Magical Mystery Tour is my fav album of theirs. But plz elucidate on "Which is your fav Beatles album?"

The George-Monty Python connection is SUCH a joy. Like the mentions of 'Loretta' in both Life of Brian and Get Back, hee.

HELP does indeed have a culturally problematic storyline but! As a Hindu in the diaspora I learned to take what I wanted from representations of my religion, and the version in Help! is honestly so ridiculous and farcical I barely connected it to actual Hinduism anyhow, heh. (Other Hindus' mileage may vary ofc but that's my experience 😌) Also I'm tickled that the year I was being born was the year you started your collection, how neat is that??

My high school years were steeped in the grunge scene but that's also when I started collecting/listening to Beatles in earnest. My whole friends group did. I think I tried to watch the BeeGees movie but was turned off pretty fast, ahahaha! In all honesty I didn't even really care for the Yellow Submarine movie (blasphemy, I know XD)

That's SO COOL that you've seen at least some of them in concert! Closest I got was a tribute concert lol. And for the longest time I would say that Magical Mystery Tour was my favourite too! Let it Be is a very VERY close contender but I would probably still choose Magical Mystery. The movie is a GONG SHOW but I love the mix of songs, and the videos they put out for it. Penny Lane Lennon is my favourite Lennon look of all time.

Aunt Anne has a birthday. Anne buys buns

Thurs[day] 26 March 1835

7 3/4

12 1/4  

No kiss Ver[y] fine morn[in]g F 44° at 8.50. Till 9 1/2 r[ea]d fr[om] page 227 to 254 end of ‘An Inquiry int[o] the

Nature of Sleep and Death, w[i]th a view to ascert[ai]n the mo[re] immed[ia]te causes

of d[ea]th, and the bet[ter] regulat[io]n of the means of obviat[in]g t[he]m. Repub[lishe]d by permiss[io]n of

the presid[en]t and council of the Roy[a]l Soc[iet]y, fr[om] the philosoph[ica]l Transact[io]ns for 1827

                                                29-31-33 and 34. Being the conclud[in]g part of the author’s experiment[a]l

           Inq[uir]y int[o] the Laws of the vit[a]l Funct[io]ns. By A.P.W.Philip, M.D.F.R.S, L & E

Fellow of the Roy[a]l Colleges of Physic[ia]ns of Lond[on] and Edin[burgh] etc. Lond[on]

Hen[r]y Renshaw, 356, Strand. 1834 ‘Lond[on] Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars.

Late J. Davidson’ – vol[ume] 800 pages 254.

Br[eak]f[a]st at 9.35 to 10 ½. A lit[tle] whi[le] w[i]th my fath[e]r, bet[ter] t[hi]s morn[in]g. Off w[i]th A-[Ann] to H-X [Halifax] at 11 1/2

V   down the o.b [old bank] 5 min[ute]s at the office of mess[e]rs P- [Parker] and Adam. A- [Ann] walk[e]d ab[ou]t whi[le] I w[a]s t[he]re, told  

Mr Adam

mere[l]y to reply to Mr Mitchell’s no[te] t[ha]t till he M- [Mitchell] h[a]d set a price on the Low[e]r- George est[a]te, they,

mess[e]rs P- [Parker] and A- [Adam], w[oul]d n[o]t bid a price. S[ai]d I sus[pecte]d t[he]re w[a]s so[me] trick[in]g und[e]r h[a]nd work. Mr A-

[Adam]

agreed w[i]th me and th[ou]ght a Mr Holroyd or so[me] s[u]ch na[me], a gr[ea]t build[e]r w[a]s ab[ou]t mak[in]g the purchase.

A- [Ann] and I t[he]n w[e]nt to Whitley’s so[me] ti[me] t[he]re. Booth offer[e]d to pay b[a]ck the 5 guin[ea]s p[ai]d to h[i]m 20 Oct[ober] last

and by h[i]m p[ai]d to Longman and co[mpany] to be p[ai]d to mess[e]rs Pickford’s, waggoners, for tak[in]g my carr[ia]ge up to Lond[on]

V-Visit

1835

M[ar]ch.  b[u]t Pearce the c[oa]ch mak[e]r who has done up my carr[ia]ge hav[in]g p[ai]d Pickf[or]d £6+ I told Booth t[hi]s sh[oul]d

be settled on pay[in]g my c[oa]ch mak[e]rs bill and I took the 5 guin[ea]s out in books. One p[ou]nds worth

for mys[elf]. Brown’s Zoologist’s Text b[oo]k etc and the remaind[e]r for A-[Ann]. The Encylop[edi]a of geog[raph]y complete

+   and Sharon Turner’s sacred hist[ory] of the world, t[he]n to Nicholson’s shop to buy Nanroot muslin

V  for child’s frock to be work[e]d to gi[ve] to L[ad]y V.C [ Vere Cameron], t[he]n ret[urne]d by the N[orth]g[a]te. Called at Batty’s the  

confect[ione]rs

to congrat[ulate] h[i]m on hav[in]g b[ou]ght the adjoin[in]g cot[tage] of mess[e]rs Bateman and co[mpany], hoped B- [Bateman] w[oul]d n[o]t  

sell

his purchase to an[y] one b[u]t mys[elf] b[u]t gl[a]d he meant to keep it, he ga[ve] £380 – told me of Greenwoods purchase, t[he]n in pass[in]g

the Raff yard saw Greenw[oo]d, saw the gr[ea]t cedar of Libanns arriv[e]d a lit[tl]e whi[le] ago fr[om] Kampsale

n[ea]r Doncast[e]r. Congrat[ulate]d h[i]m on his buy[in]g the prop[ert]y adjoin[in]g my Sheep Croft for the cot[tage]s and

f[iel]d h[a]d giv[e]n Mr Chamberlain £2100 and for the oth[e]r side winding Lane £1100

a Mr Lister of Bradford has b[ou]ght the bot[tom] of the f[iel]d d[o]wn to the brook mean[in]g to build a mill t[he]re.

Greenw[oo]d shew[e]d us ov[e]r his purchase, s[ai]d I w[oul]d ta[ke] it off his hands if he liked and s[ai]d I h[a]d

just made the sa[me] offer to Batty, begg[e]d J [ John] G- [Greenwood] n[o]t to sell to any one b[u]t mys[elf], he will n[o]t sell

at all b[u]t will do an[y]th[in]g to accom[o]d[a]te me. All right, ret[urne]d up the new bank, ho[me] at

2.20, a few min[ute]s w[i]th my a[un]t, h[a]d wish[e]d h[e]r man[y] hap[py] ret[urn]s of the day just bef[ore] go[in]g

to H-X [Halifax] and now br[ou]ght her so[me] lit[tle] buns fr[om] Batty’s, she is 70 today. Fr[om] 2 1/2 to 4 A-[Ann] and

I sat look[in]g ov[e]r Washington and Arnold’s plan of H-X [Halifax], plann[in]g new st[ree]ts etc. I w[e]nt out

again at 4.05.  1.10 h[ou]r w[i]th Ch[arle]s How[ar]th in the workshop talk[in]g ab[ou]t coal and Mr Rawson’s engine

on the top of the hill, his pit is 120 y[ar]ds deep and at t[hi]s depth his 2 engines are set and

his galloway-gate commences, w[hi]ch after going ab[ou]t 200 y[ar]ds long tow[ar]ds the chicken, divides

int[o] 2 branches, one lead[in]g to the bot[tom] of the old bank, the oth[e]r to Swan banks. The engines

pump the wat[e]r fr[om] the depth they do pump it be t[ha]t depth wh[[a]t it may int[o] the level

commenc[in]g at the 120 y[ar]ds pit bot[tom] and running out just bel[ow] Thief Bridge. Ch[arle]s H- [Howar]th knows

t[ha]t 6 y[ar]ds of level is lost for e[ver]y 100 y[ar]ds breadth of coal-bed ∴ [therefore] as many ti[me]s 6 y[ar]ds

*     but he can pump wh[a]t ev[e]r depth he h[a]s pow[e]r for. T[he]n if he pumps 42 y[ar]ds he

can get by it 7 x 100 br[ea]dth of coal = 700 y[ar]ds br[ea]dth fr[om] his engine pit w[hi]ch will ta[ke] in the who[le] of

Mr Sam[ue]l Hall’s coal. They say they can loose d[o]wn as far as Brookfoot – yes! if

they ha[ve] pow[e]r to pump up fr[om]so gr[ea]t a depth as t[hi]s w[oul]d require. They are now driv[in]g

in Sandstone go[in]g to spend their level in the coal. I und[er]st[oo]d John Mann they h[a]d on[l]y

25 y[ar]ds of level to sp[en]d, vid[e]…. i.e 25 y[ard]s to pump: but 25/6 = 4 1/6 ∴ [therefore] they can

on[l]y get a br[ea]dth of 400 + 100/6 or n[o]t 420 y[ar]ds br[ea]dth of coal. Fr[om] 5 1/4 to 6 1/4 w[i]th Pickells and his broth[er]

Nat[han] do[in]g up wall t[ha]t h[a]s fallen in John Mallins[o]n’s f[iel]d n[ea]r Breakneck, and sett[in]g out bit of new

Brook course. Din[ner] at 6 1/2, ½ h[ou]r w[i]th my fath[e]r and Mar[ia]n, the form[e]r bet[ter] tonight. Coff[ee] at 7.40 sat d[o]wn

N  st[ai]rs talk[in]g till 9. I suggest[e]d a plan for a priv[a]te school in Lightcliffe to be call[e]d the Cliffhill school, t[he]n

look[in]g ov[e]r b[oo]ks co[me] tonight fr[om] Whitleys. 1/2 h[ou]r w[i]th my a[un]t till 10.20 t[he]n wr[ote] all b[u]t the 1st 11 lines of today  

till 11.5 at w[hi]ch h[ou]r F[ahrenheit] 49° ver[y] fine day.

V- Visit  N- Note  + - referring to book/text * Highlighting Mr Rawson’s coal and loose

Enneagram List Updated

I went through and added a bunch of Enneagram types today. Will update the archives on and off, focusing on the ones that are instantly recognizable first.

Type / social instinct / character / show

1w2 self-pres Elsa Frozen 1w2 sexual Felicity King Road to Avonlea 1w2 sexual Ruth de Witt Bukater Titanic 1w2 sexual Vincent Griffith Originals 1w2 social Albert Victoria 1w2 social Claire Dearing Jurassic World 1w2 social Clarice Starling Silence of the Lambs 1w2 social Eleanor Dashwood Sense and Sensibility 1w2 social Elijah Mikaelson Originals 1w2 social George Knightley Emma 1w2 social Hermione Granger Harry Potter 1w2 social Marmee March. Little Women 1w2 social Meg March. Little Women 1w2 social Mrs. McCarthy Father Brown 1w9 self-pres Levin Anna Karenin 1w9 sexual Geog von Trapp Sound of Music 1w9 sexual Hetty King Road to Avonlea 1w9 sexual Mycroft Holmes Sherlock 1w9 social Clarisse Renaldi Princess Diaries 1w9 social Marilla Cuthbert Anne with an E 1w9 social Thanos Infinity War 2w1 self-pres Andy Sachs Devil Wears Prada 2w1 sexual Alec King Road to Avonlea 2w1 sexual Clark Kent Smallville 2w1 sexual Fitzwilliam Darcy Pride & Prejudice 2w1 social Emma Woodhouse Emma 2w1 social Frollo Hunchback of Notre Dame 2w1 social Kerra Britannia 2w1 social Margaret Hale North & South 2w1 social Mary Stuart Reign 2w1 social Peter Pevensie Narnia 2w1 social Richard Cipher Legend of the Seeker 2w1 social Scott McCall Teen Wolf 2w3 self-pres Janet King Road to Avonlea 2w3 sexual Jenny Lind Greatest Showman 2w3 social Esmeralda Hunchback of Notre Dame 2w3 social Rebekah Mikaelson Originals 3w2 sexual Amy March. Little Women 3w2 sexual Lady Felicia Father Brown 3w2 sexual Porthos Musketeers, The 3w2 social Becky Sharp Vanity Fair 3w2 social Cal Hockley Titanic 3w2 social Lydia Martin Teen Wolf 3w2 social Marcel Gerard Originals 3w2 social P.T. Barnum Greatest Showman, The 3w2 social Philip Mountbatten Crown, The 3w2 social Princess Margaret Crown, The 3w2 social Trish Walker Jessica Jones 3w2 social Vicomte de Valmont Dangerous Liaisons 3w2 Michaela Pratt How to Get Away With Murder 3w4 self-pres Ralph Thorn Birds 3w4 sexual Philip Carlisle Greatest Showman, The 3w4 sexual Scarlett O'Hara Gone with the Wind 3w4 social Cardinal Richelieu Musketeers, The 3w4 social Emily Charlton Devil Wears Prada 3w4 social Jackson Whitmore Teen Wolf 3w4 social Ron Weasley Harry Potter 4w3 self-pres Emma Bovary Madam Bovary 4w3 sexual Edmund Pevensie Narnia 4w3 sexual Marianne Dashwood Sense & Sensibility 4w3 sexual William Shakespeare Shakespeare in Love 4w3 social Anna Karenina Anna Karenina 4w3 sexual Edward VIII / David Crown, The 4w3 sexual John Hammond Jurassic Park 4w3 social Anne Shirley-Cuthbert Anne with an E 4w5 self-pres Theodore Lawrence Little Women 4w5 self-pres Viola Shakespeare in Love 4w5 sexual Bella Swan Twilight 4w5 sexual Belle Beauty & the Beast 4w5 sexual Gillian Holroyd Bell Book and Candle 4w5 sexual Mary Shelley Mary Shelley 4w5 sexual Miranda Priestly Devil Wears Prada 4w5 sexual Rose De Witt Bukater Titanic 4w5 social Erik Phantom of the Opera 4w5 social Wally Winthrop W.E. 4w5 Jughead Riverdale 5w4 sexual Athos Musketeers, The 5w4 social Hannibal Lecter Silence of the Lambs 5w4 social Ichabod Crane Sleepy Hollow (Burton) 5w4 social Stephen Hawking Theory of Everything 5w6 self-pres Beth March. Little Women 5w6 self-pres Jasper Dale Road to Avonlea 5w6 self-pres Remus Lupin Harry Potter 5w6 self-pres Rey Star Wars 5w6 social Alan Grant Jurassic Park 5w6 social Sam Carter Stargate SG-1 5w6 social Sherlock Holmes Sherlock 5w6 social Stiles Stilinski Teen Wolf 6w5 self-pres Franklin Webb Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 6w5 self-pres Willow Rosenberg Buffy 6w5 sexual Victoria Victoria 6w5 social Anne Wheeler Greatest Showman, The 6w5 social Chris Argent Teen Wolf 6w5 social Mrs. Thornton North & South 6w5 social Susan Pevensie Narnia 6w7 self-pres Finn Star Wars 6w7 self-pres Jennifer Keller Stargate Atlantis 6w7 self-pres Rapunzel Tangled 6w7 self-pres Veronica Mars Veronica Mars 6w7 self-pres Xander Harris Buffy 6w7 sexual Allison Argent Teen Wolf 6w7 sexual Ben Solo / Kylo Ren Star Wars 6w7 sexual Brett Maverick Maverick 7w6 self-pres Annabelle Bransford Maverick 7w6 self-pres Ernest Victoria 7w6 self-pres Ian Malcolm Jurassic Park 7w6 self-pres Kol Mikaelson Originals 7w6 sexual Anna Frozen 7w6 sexual J.M. Barrie Finding Neverland 7w6 sexual Louis Musketeers, The 7w6 sexual Maria von Trapp Sound of Music 7w6 sexual Sara Stanley Road to Avonlea 7w6 social Buffy Summers Buffy 7w6 social Charity Barnum Greatest Showman, The 7w6 social Eleven Doctor Who 7w8 self-pres Aramis Musketeers, The 7w8 self-pres Han Solo Star Wars 7w8 self-pres Jack Dawson Titanic 7w8 self-pres Sid Carter Father Brown 7w8 social Alexei Vronsky Anna Karenina 7w8 social D'Artagnan Musketeers, The 7w8 social Josephine March. Little Women 7w8 social Moana Moana 7w8 social Spike Buffy 7w8 Ciri Witcher, The 8w7 self-pres Derek Hale Teen Wolf 8w7 self-pres Jessica Jones Jessica Jones 8w7 self-pres Victoria Argent Teen Wolf 8w7 self-pres Zia Rodrigaz Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 8w7 sexual Catherine de Medici Reign 8w7 sexual Kate Argent Teen Wolf 8w7 sexual Klaus Mikaelson Originals 8w7 sexual Marquise de Merteuil Dangerous Liaisons 8w7 social Freya Mikaelson Originals 8w7 social Lois Lane Smallville 8w7 social Poe Dameron Star Wars 8w7 social Rhett Butler Gone With the Wind 8w9 self-pres Gerard Argent Teen Wolf 8w9 self-pres Hester Appleyard Picnic at Hanging Rock 8w9 self-pres Thomas Shelby Peaky Blinders 8w9 social Harry Potter Harry Potter 8w9 social Hayley Marshall Originals 8w9 social Leia Skywalker Star Wars 8w9 social Owen Grady Jurassic World 9w1 sexual Anne Musketeers, The 9w1 sexual Christine Daae Phantom of the Opera 9w1 sexual Frederick Bhaer Little Women 9w1 sexual Jane Bennet Pride & Prejudice 9w1 sexual Kahlan Amnell Legend of the Seeker 9w1 sexual Lucy Pevensie Narnia 9w1 sexual Matthew Cuthbert Anne with an E 9w1 sexual Quasimodo Hunchback of Notre Dame 9w1 social Elizabeth II Crown, The 9w1 social Ella Cinderella 9w1 social Joyce Byers Stranger Things 9w1 social Oz Osbourne Buffy 9w8 self-pres Mia Thermopolis Princess Diaries 9w8 social Father Brown Father Brown 9w8 social Gilbert Blythe Anne with an E

Geoge Floyd Death

3 More “Coward, Racist, Bigot and Ignorant Minneapolis Officers” Charged in George Floyd Death, Derek Chauvin Charges Elevated

BREAKING: 3 other former Minneapolis officers involved in death of George Floyd have been charged with aiding and abetting murder, according to criminal complaints; charge against Derek Chauvin elevated to 2nd-degree murder.

The three former officers are charged with aiding and abetting murder. The fourth, who placed his knee on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, now faces a second-degree murder charge.

— June 3, 2020 | By Doha Madani | NBCNews

Thomas Kiernan Lane, Alexander Kueng, and Tou Nmn Thao. Hennepin County Sheriff

Three more former Minneapolis police officers were charged Wednesday in the death of George Floyd, five days after charges were brought against a fourth officer who was seen in a video kneeling on Floyd’s neck.

The three former officers, Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng, were charged with aiding and abetting murder, according to criminal complaints filed by the state of Minnesota. The murder charge against the fourth, Derek Chauvin, was also elevated to second-degree, from third-degree.

Chauvin, who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes while detaining him on May 25, was also initially charged Friday with manslaughter by the Hennepin County prosecutor. He still faces both the third-degree and manslaughter charges as well, according to an amended complaint.

All four officers were fired on May 26, after a video showing Floyd's arrest went viral.

An attorney for Kueng said in a statement that the former officer turned himself in at about 1:35 p.m. local time. Kueng, Thao and Lane were all in custody with bail set at $1 million Wednesday night, according Hennepin County Jail Records.

All four of the men face a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, according to the criminal complaints.

The Minnesota Fraternal Order of Police did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the elevated murder charge against Chauvin or the charges filed against the other three officers Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if Lane and Thao had retained lawyers.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asked the community for continued patience on Wednesday as his team of prosecutors investigate the case, noting that prosecution of police officers for such a charge is a difficult task.

"I feel a tremendous sense of weight, I feel that this is a very serious moment," Ellison said. "I can tell you I feel no joy in this, but I do feel a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility."

The attorney general insisted that public pressure was not a factor in his decision to elevate the murder charge or charge the other officers involved in the case.

Ellison explained Wednesday after the charges were announced that first-degree murder would require proving premeditation, which the facts do not support at the moment. Instead, his team will assert that Chauvin committed a felony assault which unintentionally resulted in Floyd's death, which fits the requirements for second-degree murder, Ellison said.

"To the Floyd family, to our beloved community and to everyone that is watching, I say George Floyd mattered. He was loved," Ellison said. "His family was important. His life had value and we will seek justice for him, and for you, and we will find it."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said in a statement that Wednesday's developments were a significant step forward, but the anguish on display following Floyd's death goes beyond a single incident.

"George Floyd’s death is the symptom of a disease," Walz said. "We will not wake up one day and have the disease of systemic racism cured for us. This is on each of us to solve together, and we have hard work ahead."

While certainly progress on civil rights have been made over the course of American history, Walz said in a press conference on Wednesday, he truly believes that this is the country's "last shot" to fix these systemic issues.

"Progress didn’t keep George Floyd alive and progress didn’t keep those people out of the streets," Walz said. "They’re not looking for just progress, they’re looking for transformational change."

Multiple videos have been released on Floyd’s arrest, with one showing him pinned down by three different officers near a patrol car while a fourth stands near his head.

"Please, please, please, I can't breathe," Floyd begged in one video caught by a bystander. "My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Please, please. I can't breathe."

He died while in custody that day.

The Bouncing Souls Close 30th-Anniversary Tour at Brooklyn Steel

The pogoing punk quartet the Bouncing Souls—original members Greg Attonio (vocals), Bryan Kienlen (bass) and Pete Steinkopf (guitar) with Geoge Rebelo (drums)—have been delighting fans since rising up out of New Brunswick, N.J., three decades ago, thanks to their anthemic, shout-along songs and euphoric stage presence. Their most recent full-length album, Simplicity (stream it here), arrived three years ago. “Reflective and sentimental, yet unabashedly inclusive, the 10th studio long-player from the Jersey pop-punk veterans is both a wistful walk down memory lane and a nourishing plate of road trip-ready comfort food,” says AllMusic. “They’ve traded in the encumbrance of cultural relevance for the sheer joy of music-making, which is, honestly, pretty punk.” This past spring, the beloved four-piece put out a new EP, Crucial Moments (stream it here). “This album represents every aspect of the Bouncing Souls that people have come to know and love,” reports Dying Scene. “This album is a six-song reflection on the band’s legacy, one of lighting our darkest times while reminding us to enjoy the good times with the people around us.” To celebrate their 30th anniversary, the Bouncing Souls launched a world tour that comes to a conclusion on Friday night at Brooklyn Steel, with three like-minded acts, the Bronx, Strike Anywhere and the Bar Stool Preachers, opening the show.

1975 Duster: A Real Deal 10-Second All-Motor Street Car!

We’ve all been there. You spot a nice looking car at a cruise night and decide to dive in for a deeper look. As you are looking at the car you strike up a conversation and ask the guy if he has ever raced the car and if he has, what it runs. Then the dreaded response comes back. “It’ll run 10s in the quarter!” The safest response in this situation is to nod you head and move along, otherwise it’s just going to get weirder. We’ll never understand why people take this line of thinking and the good news is that there are some people out there whose word you can trust and the owner of this 1975 Plymouth Duster, George Kavounis, is one of them. When he tells you that the big-block—powered A-Body runs 10s, you can believe him!

The Chrysler A-Body platform was one of the company’s most successful, and in some respects, longest lasting. The cars were also very diverse in terms of image and performance. From the high-winding, high-performance small-block cars of the early 1970s to the economy themed models of the later part of the decade, the A-Body entries were certainly an effort to appeal to the different interests and needs of customers at the time. For guys like George Kavounis, they are more than that because they represent a vessel to invest time, effort, and finances into personalizing and modifying.

Back in 1970, George had the Mopar bug bad and with the help of his dad, bought a 1970 Plum Crazy Duster with a 340. Being into horsepower and drag racing, George built the car into a Super Stock/I Automatic runner and had great fun with the car until 1975 when he sold it. “I had been into Mopars all through my childhood,” George said. “My dad was a Chrysler guy and while he never had muscle cars, I took to them. I would read every magazine I could find and when the 1968 Hemi Darts and Barracudas came out I was just head-over-heels for them. I bought the Duster and drove it on the street while racing it until I got out of high school and with a friend set the car up to go Super Stock racing. We did that for two years until the index we were racing on got bombed pretty hard by John Lingenfelter and then I sold the car.”

Just because he was out of the racecar game didn’t mean his love for cars or Mopars had gone away. The first time he laid eyes on the ’75 you see here, it brought him right back to the days of excitement and fun he had with his ’70, and it had the same tough look to boot. “I met Allen Hall at a cruise night and we just started talking and became friends,” George said. “I would see him at the track and I worked with him on the car. I liked the car because I have always been a Mopar guy and Allen’s car was really well kept. When Allen’s health started to get a bit rocky he moved to Florida and before he left I told him that if he ever wanted to sell, I had to be the first call.” Amazingly, after not hearing from Allen for two years, the phone rang. “He told me that this was my call and my shot to buy the car,” George said. “I asked for a couple of days to get the money together and he said OK. I bought the car and he delivered it to me.”

When George got the car, it was a dedicated race car and he wanted to put the thing back on the street. “I knew that there were some things I needed to do in order to get the car back to a point where I could drive it on the road,” George said. “When I got it the car ran on race gas only. I took off the steel heads, changed the intake and carb, and generally went through the engine to make it a really healthy but driveable piece.” A 446ci RB engine that makes torque like a tug boat and still has manners good enough that it does not need race gas to survive is the end result. Using a 1976 model year 440ci block as the foundation, C&C Motorsports took it from there. The build plan involved a stock crank and stock rods with a .030-overbore to make sure everything was round and true. TRW forged pistons were used to get the compression ratio to a healthy 11.0:1, and the camshaft was sourced from Ray Barton who followed up with a mild, street friendly .590-inch lift, 284/296 duration (at .050) bumpstick. The theme of simplicity continues to the upper end of the engine with a set of Hensley Racing ported and polished Edlebrock Performer cylinder heads. Those heads use a 2.14-inch intake valve and a 1.81-inch exhaust. An Edelbrock Victor intake manifold sits atop those heads and a 1,000cfm double-pumper Quick Fuel 4150 carb feeds the whole beast.

With an engine built to make loads of torque and lots of usable power, the rest of the drivetrain has to match it to make the car both happy on the street and a stormer on the strip. The transmission is an ATI Performance built 727 equipped with a manual valvebody and fronted by an 8-inch diameter torque converter with a stall speed of 3,500 rpm. The converter makes or breaks this combo on the street, and with a 3,500 stall speed, it is loose enough to keep the engine happy but not crazy for street operation. Rearend gears are 4.57 ratio Mosers and while you are probably thinking that those cannot be street driven for any time, remember that this car wears a rear tire that is 31 inches tall.

When George said he built the car to drive it (obviously not cross-country but on the street) he meant it. “I cannot stand to see the car sit. I love driving it. I will get it out all through the year. For instance, if there is a warm day in the winter and I can take the car around town, to the hardware store or whatever, I’ll do it. I will take the car on decent trips to cruise nights and events. I don’t like to buzz the motor too badly so if I am on the highway I stick to the right lane and let traffic by me. I really love driving the car.” We love this guy!

The stance of this car is pretty great. There are lots of times where cars using a ladder-bar style rear suspension sit higher than normal to clear larger rear tires, but in the case of George’s Duster, that’s not a problem. Tucking just a touch of front tire and a healthy chunk of the tall and fat rears, it maintains a level appearance until George hammers the gas on the starting line and those big tires bite the track. You can see how well the suspension works in the launch photos where the front of the car is heading up and the rear tires are wrapped up and working hard!

Perhaps the best part of this whole story is the fact that George has spent a load of time working on the car with his sons Nick and Drew. That’s the good stuff. This car that brought Allen so much pleasure when he owned it has landed into the hands of a man who loved it as much as the previous owner did, and has even been able to transfer that experience and passion to his kids. Like we said, this car and George Kavounis are the real deal!

While loads of other cars got big and fat during the 1970s, the Plymouth Duster did not suffer the same fate. Those A-Body lines kept nice and tight when the rest of Detroit was going to flab.

In today’s world it seems like everyone wants to overcomplicate things and that’s why this 446ci big-block is a breath of fresh air. With 11.0:1 compression, a Barton-spec’d camshaft that does not kill springs, and torque for days, it rockets the Duster to 10-second elapsed times with ease. Winning!

A couple of buckets, a nicely padded dash, and a killer Winters shifter make this the office that Geoge Kavonis attacks the drag strip from. Functional and tasteful, we’re fans of its business-like environment.

Here’s a great look at the Duster going to work off the starting line. Note the weight transfer onto the sticky Mickey Thompson rear tires and the fact that this thing is a hair away from yanking those front tires. The car works.

What really spins our crank about this particular 1975 Plymouth Duster is the stance. Ladder-bar cars can have that old-school, high-riding stance but this one doesn’t, and it works great off the line. The wheel tubs allow the car to sit down and take the 4×4 look out of the equation.

While 1983 was not the greatest year for Mopar performance, this Duster’s color was from that year’s palette. Called Aqua Pearl, we dig its classy look in the sun. Oh, and how nice are the lines on this car from this angle?!

Non-car people have no idea what this is but we consider it the Mona Lisa of high performance. A mighty Dana 60, ladder bars, a Moser spool, and 4.57 gearset along with those AFCO coilovers and steam roller Hoosiers mean business and quick 60-foot times.

While we all like to talk about horsepower, it is really torque that gets a 3,700-lb car moving off the starting line. With an Old Testament thick stack of 10-second time slips powered by 446 cubes, a stock crank, and stock rods, George knows all about it. Is there anything better than a car you know you can take to the strip and have fun with without worry?

FAST FACTS

1975 Plymouth Duster George Kavounis; Centreville, Virginia

ENGINE Type: Chrysler RB-series big-block wedge V8 Bore x stroke: 4.35 (bore) x 3.75 (stroke), 446ci Block: 1976 Chrysler iron factory Rotating assembly: stock factory forged crank, TRW forged pistons, stock connecting rods Compression ratio: 11.0:1 Cylinder heads: Edelbrock Performer cylinder heads ported and polished by Hensley Camshaft: .590-inch lift, 284/286 degrees duration at 0.050 Valvetrain: 2.14-/1.81-inch valves, Cloyed double-roller timing chain, Crane 1.6-ratio roller rockers, Crane pushrods, Crane valve springs good to .750-inch lift. Induction: Edelbrock Victor intake manifold, Quick Fuel 4150 series 1,000cfm carb Fuel system: trunk-mounted fuel cell, Holley electric fuel pump Exhaust: CPPA Headers with 3.5-inch exhaust to the rear axle

Ignition: MSD crank trigger, MSD 7AL ignition box, timing locked at 30 degrees Oiling system: Milodon 7-quart oil pan with Milodon wet-sump oil pump Cooling: BeCool aluminum radiator with twin Spal electric fans, CSR electric water pump Fuel: Holley black electric fuel pump Engine built by: C&C in Manassas, Virginia Best e.t.: 10.73 at 124 mph Weight: 3,750 lbs

DRIVETRAIN Transmission: 1971 vintage RB-spec 727 manual valve body built by ATI Performance, 8-inch torque converter with 3,500-rpm stall speed Driveshaft: fabricated by National Drivetrain Rearend: Dana 60 with Moser spool and 4.57 gears

CHASSIS Front suspension: aftermarket upper and lower control arms, torsions bars, 90/10 drag shocks, sway bar delete Rear suspension: ladder bars with AFCO coilover shocks Steering: rebuilt stock Brakes: stock disc/drum combo Chassis: frame connectors and NHRA-legal roll cage installed by owner

PAINT & INTERIOR Color: 1983 Chrysler Aqua Pearl paint with silver peal bottom strip Painter: Papo’s body shop; Annedale, Virginia Interior: JAZ bucket seats, dash pad done by Ernie’s Upholstery, Manassas, VA, AutoMeter gauges, Grant steering wheel, custom carpet

WHEELS & TIRES Wheels: Bogart 15×4 (front), 15×14 (rear) Tires: Mickey Thompson 26×7.5×15 (front), Hoosier 31×16.5×15 (rear)

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