User:Old Hippie
Old Hippie is the Administrator of MoparStyle, which he started in 2002. He's a semi-retired business executive/owner who now spends his time home schooling his 10-year-old daughter, drag racing, and maintaining a slew of web sites and a gaggle of collector cars.
Contents
- 1 Vitals
- 2 History
- 3 Favorites
- 3.1 Favorite Quote
- 3.2 Favorite Mopars
- 3.3 Favorite Place to Travel
- 3.4 Favorite Place to Live
- 3.5 Favorite Person to Meet
- 3.6 Favorite car to Own
- 3.7 Favorite Movies
- 3.8 Favorite Book
- 3.9 Favorite Recent TV Series
- 3.10 Favorite TV Show as a kid
- 3.11 Favorite TV Show as Teenager
- 3.12 Favorite Song
- 3.13 Favorite Singer
- 3.14 Favorite Band
- 3.15 Favorite Album
- 3.16 Favorite Sports Team
- 3.17 Favorite Charity
- 3.18 Favorite President
- 3.19 Least Favorite Presidents
- 3.20 I'd like to party hard all night with
- 3.21 Biggest Babe Ever
- 4 Cars & Trucks
- 5 Hobbies
Vitals
Given Name
Date of Birth
June 1955
Location
SE Texas
Marital Status
Married 30+ years
Children
Five -- three girls and two boys
Grandchildren
Not Yet
History
Childhood
Eldest of five boys and three girls who grew up in poverty living in a 2 bedroom apartment. Grew up with very little supervision, as his family was so large. His father always worked three minimum wage jobs, and his mother couldn't keep up with all of the kids -- so he pretty much grew up on the streets -- getting into a lot of trouble with the law as a kid. He always had a job of some type as a kid, from paper routes to washing dishes.
Education
He was a D/F student until expelled from high school at 16.
Later attended various colleges in the evenings with a focus on business and computer science
Military Service
After continuing getting into trouble with the law and expelled from school, at 16 the judge made him the standard (during the Viet Nam "conflict") offer that he couldn't refused. Enlist into the military within 10 days of turning 17, or do hard time. He took the judge up on the offer and arrived at Basic Training with the USAF 4 days after turning 17. He spent three years active duty driving trucks, and exchanged his last year active for two years Active Reserves (under Palace Chase) to teach others to drive trucks. Dave spent the next ten years going to college in the evenings under the GI Bill. He is a service connected disabled Veteran.
Employment Career
After he completed his military service, he (in order) drove taxi, Tractor-trailer, and dump truck; laid blacktop, roofed, and repo'd vacuum cleaners; was a bill collector, a carpet cleaning salesman, and a draftsman; a postage equipment repairman, a mailroom equipment salesman, and a computer repairman; a computer salesman, Executive VP of two large collection agencies, and owned a collections agency; owned a distress debt buying business, a software company, and a web hosting company; owned an race engine building company, and he now designs web sites.
Current Businesses
- DDS Enterprises 1900-Present
- Big Kahuna Hosting 2002-Present
- Southern Star Hosting 2005-Present
- Family Partnership 1998-Present
- Old Hippie Domains 2007-Present
Favorites
Favorite Quote
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Favorite Mopars
- 63 Chrysler Turbune
- 58 Desoto Adventurer
- 60 Plymouth Fury
- 65 Chrysler 300L Convertible 4-speed
Favorite Place to Travel
Maui, Hawaii
Favorite Place to Live
San Marcos, Texas
Favorite Person to Meet
Leonardo DiVinchi
Favorite car to Own
Favorite Movies
- Casablanca
- Sin City
- Animal House
- Caddy Shack
- Lonesome Dove
- Key Largo
- To Have and Have Not
- The Wall
Favorite Book
- Dereliction of Duty - Col Buzz Patterson
- Courage and Consequence - Karl Rove
- All Earle Stanley Gardner and AA Fair mysteries from the 30s-60s
- Treason - Ann Coulter
Favorite Recent TV Series
- Sopranos
- Deadwood
- Dallas
- Simsons
- Family Guy
Favorite TV Show as a kid
- Sky King
Favorite TV Show as Teenager
- Laugh-in
Favorite Song
- With or Without You - U2
- Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash
Favorite Singer
- Willie Nelson
Favorite Band
- Pink Floyd
Favorite Album
- Dark Side of the Moon
Favorite Sports Team
- Houston Rockets
Favorite Charity
- Victory Junction
Favorite President
- Ronald Reagan
- Both of the Bush Presidents
Least Favorite Presidents
- Chairman Obama
- Woodrow Wilson
- Jimmy Carter
I'd like to party hard all night with
- Alice Cooper or Willie Nelson
Biggest Babe Ever
- Morgan Fairchild
- Heather Locklear
- Ida Lupino
- Ingrid Bergman
- Elvira
Cars & Trucks
Mopars Currently Own
- 78 Magnum XE Black
- 78 44 Magnum Red
- 79 Magnum GT
- 65 Sport Fury (sold)
- 67 Marlin
- 99 Viper GTS
- 09 Challenger RT 6-speed
- 09 Challenger SRT-8 6-speed
- 65 Coronet Red - Big Red Ram
- 65 Coronet Black (race car)
- 72 Demon el Demonio Rojo
- 77 Dodge Aspen Race Car
- 60 Plymouth 2-dr Wagon Race Car Texas Whale
- 60 Plymouth Belevedere 2dr Hardtop
- 60 Plymouth Savoy 2-door post
- 60 Plymouth Fury 2-door Hardtop
- 60 Plymouth 4-dr sedan
- 60 Plymouth Hardtop
- 61 Plodge Wagon
- 64 A-100 Van Pickup
- 68 Barracuda tube frame race car
- 78 Dodge Diplomat
- 70 Plymouth Superbird (b5 Blue Six-Pack 4-speed with white interior and shifter console
Brand X's currently own
- 07 Ford F350 King Ranch
- 70 Mercury Cyclone GT
- 86 Buick Grand National
- 46 Olds Street Rod
- 93 Cadi Allante
- 07 Ford Expedition EL
- 63 Studebaker Mohawk
Mopars owned in the past
- a billion of them
Hobbies
- Motorcycles
- Drag Racing
- Computers
- Photography
- Softball (too old and too beat to participate anymore)
- Handguns
- Woodworking