Eric thanks for the read, reply and continued friendship and support.
Humanity as a whole across this planet is waking up to the fact that governments are organized criminals doing nothing more than lining their pockets and screwing the common man. We are not very far away from some major changes coming ; just look at France these last few days.
As for the USA ; we have people who rely to heavily on government hand outs but even those people are starting to realize that "things aren't right" but I'm not certain that we'll see the massive protests like France is having right now unless the govt stops the hand outs.
The peace time flag of the United States came about back in 1799 and was mainly flown on US merchant ships to distinguish them from being part of the navy. Then some stores started flying the peace time flag as well to signify that the stores were operating under the common law and were not controlled by the military. By the early 1920's the flag pretty much disappeared since WW1 had such a devestating effect on the country & the world. Our history books won't mention it , out of sight - out of mind, and we have been at war damn near continuosly since then so ..... no need for a peace time flag.
That Corvair you showed the picture of is beautiful.... why on earth they didn't produce it is beyond me. That does incorporate the best of the early Corvette and the old Porsche. I had never seen even a picture of it until your reply.
It is really sad that cars have lost all style and personality ; with the use of computers to design now a person would think that would be the easiest thing to do. I had a neighbor back when I was a teenager who had an Opal Kadett from the early 1960's and he did a lot a fiberglass work to it ... from memory it kind of reminds me of that Corvair picture.... I wonder if he had seen the picture of that Corvair prototype?
I will surely check out that link to the story.
The family is doing well and I hope the same can be said for you and yours.
We did get the Corvette started last weekend and moving under its own power so that is really good.
Still plenty of work to do on it... but the engine and drive train worked perfectly.
The car only has 45,000 original miles and has never been wrecked. I will do a blog on it when we finally get it back on the road.
Take care and keep praying,
Sult