March 1991 - Looking sleek in my folk's driveway. (they couldn't believe it..."You bought a what?!")
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Summer 1991 - Driving out to Galveston. Oh, how I loved that pushbutton shifting!
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1991 Fall Meet - The Walter P. Chrysler Club, San Jacinto Battlegrounds
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July 1991 - The Old Car Picnic
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I'm still a big "wing window" fan!
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The 1992 Houston Art Car Parade is about to begin! Perri Harper, Betsy Zan up front; backseat crew: Barbara Entman, Mark Martino, Charles Harveson
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Perri Harper, Betsy Zan - 1992 Houston Art Car Parade morning lineup
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The "tailgater" party after the 1992 Houston Art Car Parade
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1992 Houston Art Car Parade - we're under way!
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The WPC Club visits the flower farms at Eagle Pass, TX. (Conrad Klegg, Tom Schmidt in background; that's Conrad's car behind me.)
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Back in the folk's driveway, 1992. The "defrost" feature in this car is very limited...
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1992 WPC Club Fall Meet - San Jacinto Battlegrounds
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Doug Zan takes the lead as we leave the 1992 Fall Meet. (from hand painted photo)
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1993 - a stop by the Giddings courthouse on the way to Austin
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1993 - The Engine Rebuild
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It's 1994 and the ceiling and dash are beginning to show signs of toy buildup.
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Hanging out at the White Oak Bayou
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At the Commerce St. Art Warehouse - Houston skyline
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1995 Art Car Parade - And we're off! (Connie is sporting a penguin hand puppet.)
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Pat Jones preparing to take a ride in the 1995 Houston Art Car Parade.
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Here we come! Connie Dees leads the way.
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1995 Houston Art Car Parade - There we go!
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More festival fun from 1995.
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MTV stops by for a chat. I remember being asked for a list of things to "never forget". (SUN SCREEN!)
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We're on our way! Cindy Dees leads with the Penguin flag.
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Roll those zeros! The Plymouth hits mile 200,000 during the 1996 Houston Art Car Parade. We were screaming so loudly inside the car that we got some very curious looks from the parade watchers along that stretch!
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1996 - Cindy Ribble visits The Penguin Plymouth, in repose at the Art Car Park.
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1996 - Back window busy-ness. The goodies are attached to a heavy cardboard insert. No harm done to the original package shelf! (Plenty of hollow cake decorations to avoid harm to heads.)
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1996 - At the planning meeting for the Rice Stadium video shoot.
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1996 - "If you can't keep it FROZEN at least keep it COOL!" [featuring the international "keep frozen" symbol]
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1996 - Lining up with Dusty Dave and Ripper the Friendly Shark for a video shoot at Rice Stadium.
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Karen Dees, Perri Harper, Cindy Dees - 1997 Houston Art Car Parade, morning lineup
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Connie "Marilyn" Dees, Karen Dees - 1997 Houston Art Car Parade
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Comin' atcha!
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"Hello!" from the '97 Parade Gang! (Sarah Poole, Connie Dees, Perri Harper, Ryan Ifergotyrlastname)
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1997 - Karen Dees waves the Penguin Banner.
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1997 Post Parade Tailgater Party - Sarah Poole, Cindy Dees, Ryan, Perri Harper, and (kneeling) Connie Dees, Karen Dees
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1997 - Fred Schimmel - Chrysler Design Studio man!
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1997 - Video shoot for KUHT-TV documentary
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1997 - Ahhhh, the cushy comfort of renewed seating!
The magnets that had run down the sides of the car were losing their grip. This is halfway into painting them in
permanently. I hurried to get their white bellies painted in so it would stop looking like I was counting penguin "kills"!
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1997 - In Houston it's a rare treat for the penguins to be iced down!
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1998 Houston Art Car Parade - We're under way once again - Shirley HaII gives us an extra push
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1998 - A rainy parade, a live TV broadcast. That's not a man being attacked by a blob. It's a camera man saying, "whoa!" from behind a black plastic shrouded TV camera.
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1998 - At the Orange Show - Farewell Brunch (in the special edition Artcars.com t-shirt!)
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1998 Farewell Brunch - passenger side penguins
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2000 - Sadly, still up in the air on parade day. Those darned brakes...
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A visit from Richard Gilewitz in 2003
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An amazing sight in Houston - Christmas Eve snow! (2004)
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October 2006 - Sold! The Plymouth headed off to a new owner and total restoration.
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