Thumpalumpacus
Major
No bacon for you, brotha.
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Hudson or AMC Hornet?
Did you rent if from Enterprise car rental?I once had a vehicle named after a damned aircraft carrier.
Bacon for the first correct guess.
Did you rent if from Enterprise car rental?
Apparently Jack Taylor, the founder, served on board CV 6 during WWII and named his company as a tribute to the old girl.
I remember driving my friends fathers 1968 full size Mercury. It handled like an aircraft carrier.I once had a vehicle named after a damned aircraft carrier.
Bacon for the first correct guess.
Could be either a Ford Ranger (USS Ranger CV-4) or a Lincoln (USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72).I once had a vehicle named after a damned aircraft carrier.
Bacon for the first correct guess.
IntrepidNah, it was the vehicle's name, and no,SaparotRob , it wasn't a name I gave it, it was the badge name.
Could be either a Ford Ranger (USS Ranger CV-4) or a Lincoln (USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72).
Which is why I rent from them. I thought he had served on CVN 65.Did you rent if from Enterprise car rental?
Apparently Jack Taylor, the founder, served on board CV 6 during WWII and named his company as a tribute to the old girl.
He was an F6F pilot, serving aboard both Enterprise CV-6 and Essex CV-9.Which is why I rent from them. I thought he had served on CVN 65.
Hi,I remember driving my friends fathers 1968 full size Mercury. It handled like an aircraft carrier.
AhemHi,
Hopefully not getting too far off topic, but my first car was a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere. Its name doesn't have any avaition or nautical connections, but I used to jike that its trunkwas big and wide enough to land a helicopter on it, and on more than a few occasions wondered what it would look like if I painted the trunk dark gray with landing markings
New one for me.
Ooops, my mistake
Curtiss actually used that name for several of their types, just as they used the name "Hawk" for several types.And the Curtiss A-12
Post WWII, GM took over Kansas City, Kansas' B-25 plant, located on Fairfax Field, next to the Missouri. Come Korea, the government wanted it back and GM countered by offering to build an adjacent plant, in less time and cost, upgrading logistics to handle both.Incidentally, Bristol must be unique in building both car and aircraft with the same name.
Obviously those such as SAAB, FIAT, Mitsubishi etc have built cars and aircraft but I think Bristol is alone in that one accolade.