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Winter Woman

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"Meet the Millers."

I think you will enjoy these pictures.
Just shows you how weird you can be
AND not be institutionalized???

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AK Miller's Front Yard


Consider the strange story of Alex and Imogene Miller of East Orange, VT. They eked out an existence on a small farm. Alex would scrounge rusty nails from burnt buildings to repair his roof. He drove a ratty VW Beetle, and when it died, he found another even more ratty, and another...the rusting carcasses littered his yard.


Alex died in 1993, and Imogene died in 1996. The local church took up a collection so they could be buried in the churchyard, and the state began the process of taking the farm for taxes.

That would have been the end of a sad story, except.....


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Forget the VW: a '28 Franklin ($4500US) and a '23 HCS($14,500US)lurk inside
While preparing the estate for auction, the sheriff discovered a cache of
bearer bonds taped to the back of a mirror. That triggered a
comprehensive search of the house and outbuildings. The estate auction

would eventually be handled by Christies, and it would bring out collectors

from all over the world.

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1913 Stutz Bearcat went for just $105,000US. Must have been the bad tire.
It seems that Alex Miller was a Rutgers grad, son of a wealthy financier.
He lived in Montclair, NJ, where he founded Miller's Flying Service in
1930. He operated a gyrocopter (look it up, it's too much of a digression)

for mail and delivery service through the 30's. But the Millers had a

secret, and they moved from Montclair when they needed room for it.

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Step behind the wheel of a 1916 Stutz Bearcat. ($155,000 US)
Choosing to live low profile, and paranoid about tax collectors, Miller
moved to the farm in VT, and took his collections with him. Most of his
cash had been exchanged for gold and silver bars and coins, which he buried

in various locations around the farm. He carefully disassembled his

gyrocopter, and stored it in an old one-room schoolhouse on his property.
he then built a couple of dozen sheds and barns out of scrap lumber and
recycled nails. In the sheds he put his collection.

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Have to remember to clean that '20 Bearcat out of the shed. ($50,000 US)
Alex Miller had an obsession with cars. Not just any cars, but Stutz cars.
Blackhawks, Bearcats, Superbearcats, DV16's and 32's. He had been buying
them since the 1920's. When Stutz went out of business, he bought a huge

pile of spare parts, which was also carefully stored away in his sheds.
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A Springfield Rolls Picadilly Roadster ($115,000US). Made in Illinois.
Sometimes, he would stray, and buy other "special cars", including
Locomobiles, a Stanley, and a Springfield Rolls Royce. He never drove them.
He'd simply move them into his storage sheds in the middle of the night,

each car wrapped in burlap to protect it from any prying eyes. Over the

years, the farm appeared to grow more and more forlorn, even as the

collection was growing.
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A snappy car: 1921 Stutz Bearcat. ($58,000 US)

Occasionally he would sell some parts to raise cash.


Rather than dipping into his cache, he would labor

for hours making copies of the original parts by hand.

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Stutz factory spares. Cylinders and pistons from a brass era Stutz in foreground. Collectors knew him as a sharp trader, who had good merchandise but was prone to cheating. His neighbors had no clue at all, they thought Alex and Imogene were paupers, and often helped out with charity.

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Wheelbarrow blocks a '28 Stutz Blackhawk Boattail Speedster ($78,000 US) The auction was a three day circus, billed as the "Opening of King Stutz Tomb". It attracted celebrity collectors, as well as thousands of curiosity seekers. The proceeds were in the millions, some items went for far more than their value in the frenzy. In the end, the IRS took a hefty chunk of the cash for back taxes, which proves the old adage about the only two sure things in life...
DEATH AND TAXES !!!
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A vanilla '31 SV16 Stutz Sedan ($10,000)
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Bargain of the show: a '29 Stutz Blackhawk sedan for $7000 US
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A beautiful Stutz DV32 Sedan ($27,500)
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Anyone need a new Stutz engine? Still factory fresh
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A'23 HCS ($12,000 US) lurks in the darkness of the barn
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A Lebaron dual-cowl Stutz from 1929 ($68,000US)
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A '27 Stutz AA Sedan for $6500US
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1925 Stutz Speedway Six ($9000 US)
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T-Head engine in a '21 Bearcat
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Build a '22 Stutz touring car from this pile of parts for just $10,000US
 

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StonedPony

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Ok lol think they are still in business?

[video=youtube;vnOyMSEWNTs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOyMSEWNTs&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 

Winter Woman

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Thanks, I once, in my youth, spent a summer traveling the back roads of KY. And just outside of Horse Cave we found if my memory is correct a 2-dr Royal Phantom 8 in this old mans barn, this reminded me of that.
 

Winter Woman

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I was eating lunch today with my 10 year old grandson when his mom asked him

"What is tomorrow?" He said "It's President's Day"




She asked "What does that mean?" .... I was waiting for something profound...




He said "President's Day is when Obama steps out of the White House and if he sees his shadow, we have 2 more years of unemployment and stupidity."




I almost snorted my iced tea.
 

woodsmaneh!

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One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn't too luxurious. When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the president's secret service if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged and Michelle had a conversation with the owner.
Following this conversation President Obama asked Michelle, why was he so interested in talking to you. She mentioned that in her teenage years, he had been madly in love with her. President Obama then said, "so if you had married him, you would now be the owner of this lovely restaurant" , to which Michelle responded, "no, if I had married him, he would now be the President".
 

unorthodox

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Mondays WTF brought to you today by Japan....
[video=youtube;0W8fBsLYHcE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0W8fBsLYHcE[/video]
 

DST

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death by ninja vagina bubbles from hell!!!

doesn't really sound like that bad a way to go, beats dying in your sleep I guess.

WTF Japan WTF
[video=youtube;kWBOWbAzfuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBOWbAzfuM&feature=player_embedded[/video]
 

Winter Woman

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Unbelievable. This is a good story, but you'll need some tissues.
[video=youtube;UeV0KFgXvO8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeV0KFgXvO8[/video]
 

Winter Woman

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Don't be depressed. Kyle is doing well, here is the rest of the story.

[video=youtube;8GFhN4Qncyk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GFhN4Qncyk[/video]
 

Winter Woman

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This girl can rock. Wow, she's living the life we can only dream about.
[video=youtube;s0x9HAFcvG0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0x9HAFcvG0[/video]
[video=youtube;sb3v1DD5ki0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb3v1DD5ki0[/video]
[video=youtube;-mJH_pg-meM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJH_pg-meM[/video]
[video=youtube;pNU9ibpKzqg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNU9ibpKzqg[/video]
 
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