Ghostbusters: The Video Game

The new Ghostbusters Video Game looks very interesting. I am considering bumping up my restoration to Spring of 2008, pending a loan. Exciting times!

Ghostbusters Trip Redux

Things have been a bit crazy lately. Lucky for me, my colorful friend Jae was able to post pictures and a fitting overview of our visit to the Ghostbusters landmarks in Manhattan.

Lots of change is currently happening, I will be making some announcements soon. Until then, lots of work being done on something I'm really looking forward to.

In The New York Public Library

Jae and I are at the NY public library doind a tour of al the
Ghostbusters filming locations. Expect pictures soon.

Bummer

Sometimes things don't work out. My favorite line in Ghostbusters is "everything happens for a reason". I have always lived by that and it remains true thus far. We shall see.

This week has been very hectic. Worked night and day on the victoryrecords.com relaunch, which will be live next week. It will be my year anniversary at Victory the week after next. I am very happy to get the new site out there, the difference is night and day (more on that later).

Right now, we are planning for the wiikend. It has been a long road, I will finally have a true successor to the NES in my living room. Hats off to Nintendo for that. Until tomorrow, farewell.

Annihearsary!

One year ago today, my 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor Ambulance / Hearse combination arrived in my driveway.



For those who are not familar with me or the situation, I will try to give you an abridged backstory. I am a huge Ghostbusters fan, and have had a fan site online since 1996. Ever since I was a child, I remember wanting to have the car from Ghostbusters (Ecto-1). My dad, who is an engineer at General Motors, would tell me what make and model the car is and how rare it was, this was around 1986 when I was just six years old.

Since 1998 or so, I started hunting for a 1959 Cadillac Hearse / Ambulance. Not really knowledgable in all the different coach builders (the companies that outfit the Cadillac chasis) and not having the means to purchase the car, I didn't get very far. That all changed last summer when I was finally in the position to start looking again.



So late one night in July of 2005, I tasked Google and found a seedy WWWBoard, remember those cgi-based perl boards from Matt's Script Archive circa 1996? Anyway, there was a post from someone claiming to have a restored 1959 Cadillac Hearse. Considering it was posted a year prior, I didn't have much faith that it would lead somewhere. To my surprise, the very next day, I received an email from the seller, along with several images of the car.



While reading the email I learned many things about the car, including the fact that it was in Alaska. The car was fully restored ten years ago, as the owner found it in the bottom of a quary. The engine was pulled, body was sandblasted, repainted, the whole nine yards. Shortly after the restoration, the owner lost the car in a divorce and for ten years, the car had been sitting outside. Ten years of Alaskan weather was a large hesitation for me, along with the logistics and cost of shipping such a large and heavy car. As July, August, and September passed I continued to stay in touch with the owner and tried to rationalize this purchase.



On October 1st of 2005 I decided to throw caution to the wind and purchase the car. It took me a few weeks to find a shipping company and then wait for the car to make it's long way home, but it finally arrived one year ago today.

The car is in storage, as I am still in the process of finding the right people to work on the restoration. I take it out every once and awhile and I either get large smiles and honks or death stares.