Never tried this particular bumwine. But during my days of youthful indiscretion, I've tried one or two others. It's effects are not like a normal drink, and range from simply blacking out, to After School Special on the dangers of PCP style behavior.
Found in a Van Nuys thrift, and judging by the tag I'd say dating from late 1980's. After watching the video below, I realized I let this one go waaay too cheap. Bumwine.com has a great history of Thunderbird here.
Ah Elvira! Queen of 80's late night TV B-Movie schlock, and pre-pubescent fantasy girl of many a 1980s era boys. She lives on forever in thrift stores throughout LA in the form of VHS tapes, plastic tchotkes, and this awesome t-shirt. I'd guess this dates from the early 80's judging by the blue SCREEN-STARS tag.
I like to imagine this t-shirt was smuggled from a top-secret, Skunk Works installation deep beneath the Mojave Desert and somehow ended up at the Redondo Beach thrift store I scored it at. Judging by the psychedelic graphics I'd guess the guys on the USAF/NORTHROP B-2 TEAM needed more potent stuff to unwind after countless hours of engineering stealth technology to beat the Ruskies.
Here's the top seller in my vintage clothing category for February (and my top selling shirt so far!) Sold for $69.99, which was surprising to me since this piece wasn't a coveted "Blue Bar" tag. Judging by this tag I'd guess this shirt dates to mid 1980's (when the Miami Hurricanes were HUGE).
I picked up this baby up in a dodgy Miami thrift during my holiday visit last December, along with a lot of other unfortunately less desirable tees. Can't say much good about Miami thrifts, but sometimes you get lucky.
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