Loyd's BONUS video-clip!!--- # 30!!-- Yet ANOTHER 'big BLACK car'! (THIS one has a REAL TURBINE engine!)

Alrighty! You can probably tell by now, that 'Ol Loydster has a REAL..... let's just call it what it REALLY is--- LOVE-- for a 'certain vehicle' driven by a 'certain Caped Crusader'! Not just a single version of it either.
My fan-boy GEEKINESS / nearly unhealthy enthusiasm, for 'ol Bat-guy's 'big-black-ride' goes from the original early '40s comic book model, through the TV show-based custom-car, all the way up to today.

I have a particular soft spot in the heart though, for the vehicle featured in the 1989-'92 Bat-flicks. Some folks refer to it as either the 'Keaton' car, or the 'Burton-mobile'. As you can tell by some of the posts I've put up, I'm obviously NOT alone in my affection for that particular car! YouTube is LOADED with videos featuring folks who make my fandom of the 'Bat-ride', look like strictly amateur-level / little kid-stuff!

Check THIS one out! A professional race / car-building team worked on this MONSTER! What I wouldn't give to get a chance to take this little number out for a spin around the streets of my little sleepy burg of Bristow! Imagine pulling up to a local convenience store in this BEAST!----

Loyd's BONUS video-clip!!--- # 29!!-- 'An EARLY birthday gift, OR... an EXTREMELY early Christmas present?'

 ATTENTION: to ALL of  those 'long-lost' relatives out there, with EXTREMELY deep pockets, or just you folks who MAY be feeling in an EXTRA-generous mood! Here's yet ANOTHER ridiculously EXPENSIVE item I'll probably NEVER buy! (BUT--- it would sure be nice to find either next to my B-day cake this year, or under the tree NEXT Christmas!) Hey, I can daydream, can't I?--- (oh, and yes---- this bad boy is LIFE-SIZE!)---

Loyd's BONUS AUDIO goodies!!-- # 6-- 6 faves from 'Ol Blue Eyes!

Sooner or later, here at the 'Loydster-bloggie-thang', (especially in THESE posts, where I'm throwing up favorite tunes, from my favorite artists!) I just HAD to share my love for the one, the ONLY-- Mister Frank Sinatra!

My favorite tunes from 'Ol Blue Eyes, are pretty much (mostly) from the mid-50s, through the 60s. That seems to be the time that, not ONLY was that wonderful VOCAL instrument of his in FINE form AND hitting on ALL of it's cylinders, but the musical arrangements and orchestras that backed him, were TOP-NOTCH too!

I know that some Sinatra fans prefer his earlier stuff, and yes, the voice WAS smoother in that earlier period. But--- there's a 'grit' and a little 'weathering-life's-storms' edge to the vocal instrument in these later songs. Just part of what I SO dig about this man and his music!

Like previous times here, picking JUST a handful of favorites from Mr. Sinatra was TOUGH! (There's just SO MUCH great stuff!) But--- once again, I went back to the idea of : 'If I were stranded on a desert island, and my MP3 player was STUCK on JUST 6 Sinatra songs--- WHAT ones would I NOT mind hearing, OVER and OVER?' These are the ones that I'd NEVER get tired of!---

Loyd's BONUS video-clip(s)!!--- #28!!-- Classic 'T-bird' commercials!

Once again, some vintage ads, for one of my favorite vintage / classic vehicles! In the three body-styles I DIG the MOSTEST! The Ford Thunderbird! They just don't make'em like THIS anymore,gang! (The car, OR the commercials!)---

Loyd's BONUS video-clip!!---# 27!!-- Another COOL guy builds his own 'big black car'!

Another guy with an AMAZING set of custom-car-building / fabricating skills, putting together his own 'big black car'!(He can't call it by it's more 'well-known' name, or he'd be sued out of existence!)----Man-oh-man, do I SO wish I could do something like THIS!----

         Once again, have a VERY-MERRY Christmas, and blessed Holiday season everybody!

Getting into the 'Holiday spirit', in my own GEEKY way!

This Christmas season, our extended family,(meaning all of the 'in-laws-and-out-laws' within my wifey's family!) is going to be starting a new tradition this year. The 'ugly Christmas sweater' contest! Of COURSE--- 'ol Loydster being the all-the-way GOOF-BALL-GEEK-A-ZOID, I immediately went into 'mad-scientist' mode, and began working on something that would feature my ALL-TIME favorite superhero!

One 'hardly-EVER-worn' sweat-shirt, some hunks of variously colored felt, and some fabric-glue--- were pretty much all the ingredients needed, to put together the latest item that's yet AGAIN proof-positive--- that I am INDEED a SUPREME (Bat) geek, WITHOUT SHAME!----

And--- here's the PROUD creator of this little piece of  'Christmas from Gotham City', modeling the front AND back of the finished 'MASTERPIECE'!---

Yes indeedy! I don't even CARE if I win the contest or not! I had a BLAST coming up with the idea for the sweater, and putting it all together! In fact, I may just keep doing this each holiday season---- whether the family keeps this contest going after this year or NOT! I am THAT geeky, and I am THAT SHAMELESS about it,folks!  Merry Christmas everybody!