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Hot Rods!
So! Anyone think Don will take up building hot rods in S3? His interest in what the guys in CA were doing was more than just nostalgia over having sold them in the past. So could our white collar guy start having some blue collar fun? Would that cause tensions among the socialites in his future? You know - behaving "improperly" among the golf set... showing up at the country club with grease under his fingernails... that just got me thinking... Don it seems has made a decision to embrace his reality, instead of trying to invent a new one (like he would with each woman "Let's get married" to the beatnik, running off with Rachael, etc). Now what if he's pushed too hard into this country club set? I think that could seriously push him over the edge and back to his escapist ways. But maybe something like tinkering with hot rods would be his escapism.
Could anyone picture Pete, Roger or Burt actually doing such dirty manual labor? I wonder how that would go over with Betty who likes all the towels to be just so and probably likes moving towards the country club set, although I suspect she's not as shallow as some of them, and has her own rogue ways (pigeon, anyone?) as well. Any thoughts on all this? Also, if he got into building hot roads, any speculation on the style of his work or what sorts of mods he'd do?
Also... Don is sexy no matter what he does, and certainly rocks the Cadillac, but Don in some really cool souped up old rod in Candy Apple Red would sure be easy on the eyes, too!
Don is hitting his mid-30's (considered middle age in the 60's) and ready for some earth shattering change. I think we will see him caught up in a mid-life crisis, but not with a hot rod. The scene with the cars was letting us know about the life he left behind. And leaving it behind is what Don does best. Cheers.
It's a cool hobby, fixing up and pimping out old rods.:) I know several guys who still pursue that hobby.
It's hard to say with Don, but I could see Roger with some sort of model airplanes or even boats. Now with Pete I just don't know where to begin.
Chrome....lots and lots of chrome....flashy....
And Don in his rolled-up sleeves T-shirt ~~ and jeans! (called "dungarees" in the '60's) and a revisit to that Elvis pompadour from his used car selling days.
Cool cat Don!
SCfan -
Nitpicking. As a child of the fifties and sixties, the only dungarees I knew of were the denim trousers sailors wore. (Dad was in the Navy.) Everything else was jeans. Maybe denims. Appelations such as Levi's, Wranglers, etc. came later.
If Don had stayed in California he could easily have gotten into hot rods, seen the races, gotten into NASCAR... And its advertising. But back in NY, hotrodding just wouldn't fit the persona he was living in the early '60's.
My father used to call any jeans "dungarees". He was in the Navy, but I think it was also a regional thing. He grew up in NJ and moved south after the war (where I was raised), where everyone called them bluejeans.
That's probably right, Ritt1 & Mambo...probably is a regional thing...down where I live they seem to be called either just jeans or Levi's...one or the other.
I'm a car guy, have three 60s-era Mercurys, so personally I'd love to see more of the cars of the era.
And my Mom always called jeans "dungarees" when I was growing up in the 1960s in Pennsylvania.
...how 'bout plain ol' "britches"....that would cover all areas of pants, no?
denim britches....howzat?
I still like "jeans" best, though....JMO
.....Yeah - more cars! Good luck with that one unless we end up in California.
My dad loved his cars - he had them all, but the last one was a '69 Mercury Monterey, which was like a real child to him.....it was "Moon Green," I think, or some similar name, which looked white but really wasn't.....all original with leather interior.
That thing was a serious boat and rode like a dream.