Its been silent for a while on the BerlinBonez Blog…Reason is we were hanging out in the US, spending a couple of weeks in Florida. Now you might think Florida is famous for gated communities full of conservative old age pensioners and in fact it IS. On the other hand I didn´t see any gated communities and the reason for the high numbers of  older people hanging out there is that the weather is Sun Sun Sun all year round and well, I can certainly relate to that.

In fact taking two weeks vacation and just cruising around with no particular place to go turned up some cool things to see and yes, great beaches (even without hitting the Keys).

One of my favourite places we got to see just by seeing a voucher in an advert at a diner was “Muscle Car City” at Punta Gorda.  Now, I´m a big fan of alternative energy and anything else that helps preserve our environment, but show me a big fat chrome clad American muscle car and certain logic circuits in my brain just get bypassed and I go into a trance like state of wonder and desire…..

“Muscle Car City” was then a bit like a mechanized high-octane acid trip for me, and it was difficult to get me out of the place. When I did come out I had that look in my eyes that said “I want one, I want one I, want one – and I want it NOW!” In fact if had had to choose one of these big OTT gas-guzzlers to take home I probably wouldn´t have been able to reach a decision in under a week or so. If pressed, however, I might well have gone for a black 1963 Corvette (yes they have most cars in different colours too…)

Muscle Car City is a private collection, put together by a guy called Rick Treworgy, who obviously has dedicated a large part of his life to collecting and restoring these relics of a time when men were men and women were , well, women I guess and more importantly gasoline was a throw away commodity powering the US economy into the stratosphere – thanks Rick. I wonder if, one day there will be an electric muscle car – who knows?

To make the trip extra cool, I was wearing a BerlinBonez “Manik Mechanix” T-Shirt (coincidence – I swear..) and the guy at the cash desk said “nice shirt-that looks cool”. Moments like that are very special.

Check out the Muscle Car City website here.

Ok I´ve got to come clean - inside me theres a five year old demanding to be listened to.
How do I know that? Well, I notice it every time I see one of those vending machines with flourescent bubble gum inside or even better those little plastic eggs with trashy plastic toys inside. I love em. Other people don´t understand why a middle aged bloke is so fascinated by a brightly painted childrens trash dispenser. It´s hard to describe the looks I get from passers by and fellow german shoppers if I actually take time to shoot a quick PIC or two.
I LUV EM! secretley I too want to buy some transformer stickers or plastic model cars or some bubble gum that tastes disgusting and rots my teeth for ever.....
In fact the best thing would be a BerlinBonez Vending machine of my own. Probably it would have a big plexiglass holder on the top in the shape of a skull and as an option I´d like eye sockets that light up with LEDs. Inside there would be megsa cool stuff like Stickers and buttons BerlinBonez Bubble Gum and, quite possibly, plastic skeleton keyrings......Maybee a larger one could even sell T-Shirts....
I WANT ONE!!! I WANT ONE!!! I WANT ONE!!! RIGHT NOW ! or I´ll cry and never speak to anyone again.