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BigB427

Good music never gets old!

About Me

I live in sin city, Las Vegas, Nevada, but grew up and lived in Columbus Ohio most of my life. My passions are College Football - GO BUCKEYES!, restoration/preservation of classic Ford muscle cars(see my pics), NASCAR & NHRA auto racing, music, and my Bernese Mountain Dog "Brutus".

I've been an Ohio State football fanatic ever since watching a young running back by the name of Archie Griffin started making news in the world of college football. In Columbus, Super Bowl Sunday isn't anything compared to the week before and day of "THE Game".


As a long time member of the Mustang Club of America (MCA) and Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC). I am looking forward to taking my current project, the 18th 1969 Shelby made, a GT500 convertible to many of their car shows in the future. My car is the actual Shelby used by Ford Motor Company in 1969 for all print media and advertising and was on display at the 1969 Detroit Auto Show


Some of my other interests: Amateur backyard astronomy with my 10 inch Meade LX200 telescope, SciFi on the big and little screen, vintage warbirds & military airplanes, Motorcycles - preferably Ducati. Harley needn't apply- my last bike was a Ducati ST4, and lastly music.

I love classic rock, grunge, heavy metal, and some types of jazz, and a few classic top 40 type bands. I hate country, rap, anything whiny like REM, and I trully despise almost all 1980's hair-metal bands from L.A. (all show & no go - like a 1978 Trans Am or '78 Mustang! I am a firm believer that 95% of ALL new music played on the radio over the last 7-8 years sucks (too damn generic). A few of my favorite bands: Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith (old school), Rush, Queensryche, Van Halen (only w/ Michael Anthony), Faith No More, Creed, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Zombie, Metalica, Tool, Audioslave, and Velvet Revolver


My Interests



Carroll Shelby Goes Racing with Ford!

I'd like to meet:

Woody Hayes, Phil Clark, Jim Tressel, Hugh Hefner, Jack Roush, Bob Glidden, Joe Perry, Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, All the members of Rush, Geoff Tate, Any one with similar interests!

Movies:

Auto Themes:
"American Graffiti", "Tucker:The Man & His Dream", "Vanishing Point", "Viva Las Vegas", "Spinout", "Cars", "Heart Like a Wheel", "Gumball Rally", "Gone in 60 Seconds" (2000), "The Great Race"

War/Military:
"The Great Escape", "Apocalypse Now", "Flags of our Fathers", "The Deer Hunter", "Patton", "Midway", "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", "Hart's War", "A Few Good Men", "Letters from Iwo Jima", "Blackhawk Down", "Pearl Harbor", "Enemy at the Gates", "The Dirty Dozen", "The Big Red One", "Donovan's Reef", "PT109", "McHale's Navy", "Kelly's Heroes", "Von Ryan’s Express", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Stalag 17", "Platoon", "Empire of the Sun", "Fat Man & Little Boy", "Band of Brothers", "U-571", "K-19:The Widow maker", "Memphis Belle", "Das Boot" (1981), "The Hunt for Red October", "A Few Good Men", "Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb"

Comedy:
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World", "Major League", "The Breakfast Club", "House", "Amazon Women on the Moon", Austin Powers: "The Spy Who Shagged Me", & "GoldMember", "My Cousin Vinny", "The Dream Team", "The Burb's", "Airplane", "Animal House", "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", "The Jerk", "Dude- Where's My Car?", "Cool Runnings", "Click", "The Water Boy", "Tommy Boy", "Beverly Hills Cop" (1 & 2), "Coming to America", "Naked Gun" (1, 2, 33,1/3), "Dumb & Dumber", "Back to School", "Trading Places", "1941", "A Night at the Roxbury", "Innerspace", "Men in Black" (I & II), "American Pie" (1 & 2), "Caddy Shack", "Kingpin", "Throw Momma From the Train", "Death Becomes Her", "Happy Gilmore", "National Lampoons Vacation", "Fletch" (1 & 2), "Ground Hog Day", "Neighbors", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Bill & Ted's: "Excellent Adventure" & "Bogus Journey", "The Wedding Singer", "Wedding Crashers", "There’s Something About Mary", "Risky Business", "50 First Dates", "Wayne's World" (1 & 2), "Half Baked", "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", "Blazing Saddles", "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation", "Bedazzled", "Bowfinger", "A Christmas Story", "Young Frankenstein", "An American Werewolf in London", "Munsters Go Home", "Mars Attacks", "The Return of the Pink Panther", "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", "This is Spinal Tap", "The Big Lebowski", "Wild Hogs", Pretty much all Jerry Lewis and Martin/Lewis movies

Adventure:
"The Blues Brothers", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade", "Deliverance", "Thunderbolt & Lightfoot", "No Way Out", "3000 Miles to Graceland", "Fight Club", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", Lara Croft: "Tomb Raider", "Speed", James Bond: "Goldfinger", "Dr. No", "Thunderball", "From Russia With Love", "Never Say Never Again", "Diamonds are Forever", "Live and Let Die", "The Man With the Golden Gun", "For Your Eyes Only", "Gladiator", "Romancing the Stone", "Titanic", "Bonnie & Clyde", "True Lies", "Top Gun", "Airport 1975", "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), "Lethal Weapon" (1 & 2), "The Gauntlet", "Grindhouse", "First Blood", "Remo Williams: Where the Adventure Begins", "Die Hard" (1 & 2), "Sin City", "Runaway Train"

Drama:
"The Godfather Saga", "Scarface" (1983), "Carlito's Way", "Cool Hand Luke", "Donnie Brasco", "Blow", "Wall Street", "LA Confidential", "Taxi Driver", "The Getaway" (1994), "Body Double", "The Untouchables", "Palmetto", "Casino", "Falling Down", "Goodfellas", "American Beauty", "The Aviator", "Sling Blade", "Fatal Attraction", "The Star Chamber", "Dirty Harry", "Magnum Force", "China Syndrome", "Pulp Fiction", "The People vs. Larry Flynt", "Paris, Texas", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Dog Day Afternoon", "Serpico", "Tequila Sunrise", "The Sixth Sense", "Braveheart", "The Falcon and the Snowman", "Forrest Gump", "The World According to Garp", "Jerry Maguire", "The Coca-Cola Kid", "The Firm", "Heat", "Chinatown", "Seven", "The Bone Collector", "Fargo", "One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Rocky", "Apollo 13", "The Right Stuff", "From the Earth to the Moon", "In the Shadow of the Moon"

Westerns:
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", "The Unforgiven", "High Plains Drifter", "Tombstone", "Maverick", "Dances With Wolves", "The Outlaw Josey Wales"

Horror/Thriller:
"Silence of the Lambs", "Red Dragon", "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "Reservoir Dogs", "The Fly" (1986) & "The Fly 2", "Hellraiser" (1 & 2), "Hostel", "Reanimator", "The Omen" (1 & 2), "Halloween" (1978), "Little Shop of Horrors" (1960), "The Devil's Rejects", "Jaws", "The Entity", "Scream" (1 - 3), "Poltergeist" (1 & 2)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy:
"The Thing", "The Devil's Advocate", "Alien", "Aliens", "Contact", "Twelve Monkeys", "The Fifth Element", "The Forbidden Planet", "The Dead Zone", "The Fantastic Voyage", "The Abyss", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Repo Man", "AI: Artificial Intelligence", "Altered States", "Time After Time", "The Quiet Earth", "The Final Countdown", "Red Planet", "Stargate", "Excalibur", "The Time Machine" (1960 & 2002), "Lost in Space", "War of the Worlds" (1953 & 2005), "Planet of the Apes" (1968), "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "2010: The Year We Make Contact", "Star Wars" (1 - 6), "Star Trek" (1 - 9), "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind", "The Matrix" (1 - 3), "Mission to Mars", "Outland", "Event Horizon", "The Philadelphia Experiment", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Logan's Run", "The Lawnmower Man", "Beetlejuice", "Robocop" (1 & 2), "Dune" (2000 Remake), "Blade Runner", "Minority Report", "Armageddon", "Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow", "X-Men", "At the Earths Core", "Total Recall", "Starman", "The Green Mile", "The Running Man", "Videodrome", "Pink Floyd: The Wall", "Escape from New York", "Terminator" (1 & 2), "Predator", "Batman", "Batman Forever", "Batman Begins", "Spiderman" (1 - 3), "Independence Day", "Ghost Rider", "The Mummy" (1 & 2), Mad Max: "Road Warrior" & "Beyond Thunderdome", "Field of Dreams", "Demolition Man"

Television:

Current TV:
Ohio State Football, NASCAR, NHRA, Battlestar Galactica, CSI (Las Vegas), And various shows on the: Speed Channel, Military Channel, TLC, Discovery Channel, History Channel,

Some Past Favorites:
Star Trek TOS & TNG, Seinfeld, Everyone Loves Raymond, Taxi, Futurama, Magnum PI, Beavis & Butthead, Head Banger's Ball, Babylon 5, The X-Files, Hogan's Heroes, Black Sheep Squadron, Saturday Night Live, Fridays, Married With Children, WKRP in Cincinati, COP's

Books:

The Official Encyclopedia of Ohio State Football

Heroes:

Anyone who has served in our armed forces

My Blog

Carroll Shelby sues his club!

If you are a fan of Ford muscle cars, Mustangs, Shelby cars, and automotive history, then you will want to keep abreast of recent developments between Carroll Shelby and the club formerly know as the...
Posted by BigB427 on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:45:00 PST

What the heck is a Buckeye???

A Buckeye is a nut. It grows on a tree native to Ohio. More specifically, a Buckeye is a poisonous nut - if you eat it, you will die. What makes THE Ohio State University unique is that it is the on...
Posted by BigB427 on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:31:00 PST

The "Tuner Scene"

Call me old school or out of touch - I don't care. While I understand the "import scene" or "tuner lifestyle", don't expect me to be a part of it. I blame the domestic auto manufacturers mostly for "t...
Posted by BigB427 on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:13:00 PST