Throwback Tuesday on Monday

"505 - morphine not found" (morphine500) 09/07/2015 at 09:10 • Filed to: throwback tuesday

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I was looking through some old photos, searching for exactly something like this - me, little, with some kind of car. But what I found simply blew my mind.

This is me and my brother, around Christmas, 1982. I’m the round one one the right, and this photo was taken in our home, Budapest, Hungary, so we are behind the iron curtain. The police cruiser my brother sports is a DDR-produced Wartburg, which is certainly something, that should have been available for Hungarian parents to spoil their kids with.

But.... how on Earth did I end up with a DeTomaso Mangusta???

cletus44 aka Clayton Seams > 505 - morphine not found 09/07/2015 at 09:14

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That's pretty wild. I didn't even know they made models of those back then.

kanadanmajava1 > 505 - morphine not found 09/07/2015 at 09:16

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But where is that Mangusta?

505 - morphine not found > kanadanmajava1 09/07/2015 at 09:26

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destroyed, most likely pretty soon after this pic was done. Not much survives the first 5-6 years of a boy (I see it on my kids too), we only start to go easier on our toys later.

duurtlang > 505 - morphine not found 09/07/2015 at 09:35

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That’s a far more interesting Christmas than my Christmas of ‘82. All I got was fluid, fluid everywhere. And an umbilical cord.

kanadanmajava1 > 505 - morphine not found 09/07/2015 at 09:41

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That’s too bad as it looks pretty awesome. Was it cable controlled? This one is for sale in eBay for $150.

505 - morphine not found > kanadanmajava1 09/07/2015 at 09:42

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SHIT! This is the one, yes, cable controlled :-D great hit!

lone_liberal > 505 - morphine not found 09/07/2015 at 11:45

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Even the Iron Curtain couldn’t contain the awesomeness of the Mangusta.