The "Google Image Search" seems to be a snappy item to use when chasing pics down on the internet. A week or so ago someone posted an old B&W pic of a movie star from by-gone times, and it worked great. Sorry I can't remember what her name was...
But it apparently isn't fool-proof. I found this image on the internet, but the Google Image Search doesn't work on it:
Any ideas as to the identity?
Could have been your avatar 25 yrs ago ?
Chr.
no...I wasn't that clean-cut in the late sixties and early seventies, but thank you for the compliment!
Perhaps a young ...
Dick Elgin?
Money Penny???????;-)
I think he posts here...
from time to time. Let's see if he 'fesses up.:snarky:
I think he posts here...
Looks a lot like a bunch of my fellow engineering students back in the old days when the hippies were squatting in the trees while some of us actually went to class.
The swish of hair across the forehead is a clear indication of the foreboding baldness in the future for that young fellow. Probably fairly grey by now.
Wild guess is Chris Wickern.
Kent ?
Kent probably looked a lot like..
this young lad:
Wendell?
Kent probably looked a lot like..
> this young lad:
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In fact, Kent looked EXACTLY like that young fellow. I'm thinking it was in 1968 or 1969, though. Couldn't have been 1970 because the seniors were expected to wear TIES for their photos.
Found it in..
the 1969 "Comet", SFA H.S.
Found it in..
> the 1969 "Comet", SFA H.S.
Yes, 1969 sounds right for that. Austin High School had just gotten air conditioning that year (as I recall). I was driving a 40-hp 1961 Volkswagen Beetle with Wolken Weiss paint, an enameled emblem from Wolfsburg, and a little lever that you flipped with your foot to switch to the reserve tank instead of a gas gauge. I'm thinking the radio (not a Blaupunkt - what make was it?) was mainly playing Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
I think he posts here...
Not Chris (?!)..but I think you were spot on about everything else.
Found it in..
> an enameled emblem from Wolfsburg
Ah, the enameled emblems. A confession about my misspent youth: as a young teen (actually a bit pre-teen), my best friend and I learned that the emblems could quickly be separated from the VW with the aid of nothing more than a butter knife and a flick of the wrist. Within a few weeks of acquiring that knowledge, something on the order of 30 or 40 VWs in the area became emblemless.
We were partial to the pre-1963 (as I recall) full-color emblems, though the later stylized version also fell victim to our senseless youthful indiscretions.
I'm not proud of that bit of my history, and would undo it if I could. Still, I can't help but wonder if our sack of emblems still resides in the cubbyhole between the joists of my friend's basement ceiling where we stashed it almost 50 years ago.
Edit: I looked up the Wolfsburg crest, and learned that the design change happened in 1960. The 1963 date that stuck in my head apparently marks the first year that the VW was produced without the hood emblem.
Found it in..
> Edit: I looked up the Wolfsburg crest, and learned that the design change happened in 1960. The 1963 date that stuck in my head apparently marks the first year that the VW was produced without the hood emblem.
Well, somewhere among my things I still have that emblem off the '61. They were the nicest thing on the car. Everything else was sensible and appropriate to the purpose (with possibly the exception of the latch on the front hood.
I have fond memories of that bug because everything on it could be taken apart and repaired with surprisingly few tools. Such minor mechanical skills as I possess came from doing things like replacing a wheel bearing, rebuilding a carburetor, or diagnosing a burned out coil by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.
I'm not sure where the mechanical skills of a generation without such things will come from.
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> Any ideas as to the identity?
Cliff Mugnier. Has to be.
Wendell (Pic)
Wendell...1974.
