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Title: Fender Skirts...... Post by BarbaraD on May 22nd, 2005, 6:52am What a great blast from the past! I haven't thought about "fender skirts" in years. When I was a kid, I considered it such a funny term. Made me think of a car in a dress. Thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice. Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you. Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental. When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point "parking brake" became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with "emergency brake." I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed." Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the "running board" up to the house? Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - "store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy. "Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term "worldwide" for granted. On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure. When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?" It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or simply "expecting." Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now. "Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all. It's hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper -"divorce." And no one is called a "divorcee" anymore. Certainly not a "gay divorcee." Come to think of it, "confirmed bachelors" and "career girls" are long gone, too. I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an affectation. Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here's a word I miss - "percolator." That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with? "Coffeemaker." How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this. I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "ElectraLuxe." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!" Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening their kids with castor oil anymore. Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts. Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on May 22nd, 2005, 7:01am Barb -- love you for this - bringing back the good old days. Remember too when mother's didn't count to 3 - they simply gave ya a backhand and you never did whatever that was again. Teachers and police men were respected? Wonder how many remember rumble seats? Cartoons between the featured movies Bikes that you actually had to work at - no 18 speeds! Taffy pulls in the kitchen with your mom and sisters When a ferry was a boat and had no other meaning Barb - we've both dated ourselves here - but there was something good about those "good old days" that we're missing out on. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 22nd, 2005, 10:33am Ya know, there are very nice homes for folks like you...you get to eat lots of jello, play bingo and they put your teeth in a glass when you go to bed at 6pm ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by LeLimey on May 22nd, 2005, 10:42am on 05/22/05 at 10:33:43, Jonny wrote:
Mind you if you are a right raver, you can stay up until 7pm on a saturday night. eh Jonny?!! |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 12:12pm on 05/22/05 at 06:52:25, BarbaraD wrote:
Fun musings for a Sunday morning :) Some of the guys in my high school use to retrofit their cars with curb feelers and other things. But we called those steering wheel knobs "suicide knobs"...they were so the guy could still steer the car with his arm around his girl...bucket seats and seatbelts were yet to be invented (hooray for the bench seat). I still call it the emergency brake, and when I taught my daughter to drive a couple of years ago, she never questioned me about it. I hope I haven't warped her. We should be glad that percolators have gone out of style,cause that percolated stuff will rot your gut, and lattes are so yummy! As to Electrolux....I still have one--they're still in business and making great products. Here in the upper Midwest, the term "dinner" is still used by many families as the noon meal. It is a throwback to the farm culture where large mid-day meals were common, and I still know many people who use it regularly. One of my own small town childhood memories revolved around the "five and dime" or "10 cents store"--soda fountain and all. People who haven't had hand poured vanilla or chocolate sodas don't know what they are missing. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by BarbaraD on May 22nd, 2005, 12:22pm Ya know.... I really hope Papaw and I can instill some of those 50s values in our little three year old Caleb. At least the "four" esentials - "Yes mam/sir; No mam/sir; Please and Thank you." Right now he's got the pleeeease down, but we're working on the thank you part. Maybe that's what grandparents are FOR! Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 12:27pm Yep, that's exactly what grandparents are for....a lot of other things too. Parents are just too busy to think of everything [smiley=laugh.gif] |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Charlie on May 22nd, 2005, 1:47pm In my 58 years, this is the first time I've heard the term "foot feed." Mabye it's a regional thing like "Red the house" which some people from Pennsylavania meant as house cleaning. It's called "emergency brake" by some still in western NY. Five and dime" and "soda fountain" are out of style here but not gone. In NY State soda and pop for soft drinks vary from area to area, One of my favorite things are advertising terms that are so successful that they replace English: Jello, Kleenex, Fridge, Hoover, (especially in England) Coke to some extent, Formica, Vaseline, Band-Aid, Scotty, and others that elude me. "Foot feed." I learn something every day. Fun thread kids. Charlie |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by cootie on May 22nd, 2005, 2:13pm Even tho it's a bit before my time.......sock hops struck me as a strange word for a school dance !!! Sock it to me Pam |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by LeLimey on May 22nd, 2005, 2:15pm Hey Charlie that is funny. My husband and I were talking about the same thing this afternoon. Hoovering when we have a Dyson being a prime one! Sellotape is another, All liquid paper is "Tippex" and yes, I'll quite agree anything black and fizzy is "coke" here too! (sorry Pepsi!) I'm sure I could thing of more if I tried too |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 2:31pm on 05/22/05 at 14:13:10, cootie wrote:
they called them "sock hops" cause the kids couldn't wear their street shoes on the gym's wood floors. They would throw off their saddle shoes and kick up their heels. ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Charlie on May 22nd, 2005, 2:32pm Thanks for those. Over here though Cellophane tape is always called "Scotch Tape." One of most common examples. How did I forget that? There are some that are close such as "Ketchup" being used for Catsup. Ketchup is what Heinz uses as their brand name...(I suppose it was a legal thing). A-1 sauce is used that way. One that everyone uses is "Alka-Seltzer." I like this stuff. Charlie |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Linda_Howell on May 22nd, 2005, 2:33pm Quote:
OMG....Can someone/anyone find and post that pic of Jonny sitting on the bench on the porch in NY. He was sitting next to Mast at the time with his teeth in backwards. The look on Masts face was priceless.) Linda, who still has all her teeth. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 22nd, 2005, 3:49pm on 05/22/05 at 14:33:24, Linda_Howell wrote:
I feel for you, I really do! I have perfectly white teef and never a pain....ever! You on the other hand have to deal with pain in your mouth when it comes up....I just keep smiling with my pearly whites....LOL ;;D;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 3:56pm on 05/22/05 at 15:49:40, Jonny wrote:
You mean these, Jonny? ;;D http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y71/northcolor/quateeth.jpg |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Linda_Howell on May 22nd, 2005, 5:27pm The term "foot-feed" derives from when in the real "OLD" days the gas feed was on the steering column. When it was put on the floor....they called it FOOT feed. BTW, a knob or suicide knob is also called a "broady knob. I have one on my Mercury...wouldn't drive without it. Very cool. Jump in here any ol time BobG. Linda |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on May 22nd, 2005, 5:51pm on 05/22/05 at 10:33:43, Jonny wrote:
Bite me darlin'! :-* |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by BarbaraD on May 22nd, 2005, 5:58pm on 05/22/05 at 17:51:19, Grandma_Sweet_Boy wrote:
That goes for me too..... I'll have you know we get to stay up until EIGHT o'clock on Sat nites and listen to the Victrola. some of these old studs around the "home" can still shake a leg.. (I don't EVEN want to hear it!!!) Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Linda_Howell on May 22nd, 2005, 6:01pm Quote:
Aw comm-on folks...Somebody has GOT to be able to post the pic. Grandma....lmao @ you. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 22nd, 2005, 6:47pm on 05/22/05 at 15:56:33, pattik wrote:
Nope.....These...aint they purdy....Damn right they are ;;Dhttp://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3d701b3127cce9fbec03f699400000016108AZM2bNk5bM6 Edit to add....I bet $50 you have a very fat ass ;;D Im right, huh? |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Grandma_Sweet_Boy on May 22nd, 2005, 6:51pm Jonny - don't be rude! Your mama will cuff ya upside that cute little head of yours! ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 6:52pm Purdy they are...and happy looking too!...must not have had a headache today ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 22nd, 2005, 6:57pm on 05/22/05 at 18:52:43, pattik wrote:
Dont need a HA to correct your thinking, Babe :-* Ass? |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 7:04pm on 05/22/05 at 18:47:56, Jonny wrote:
;;DWrong...and I accept personal checks, thank you. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by BikerBob on May 22nd, 2005, 7:06pm Fender Skirts? You jogged my memory....... Date night: The White Castle hamburger joint, the A&W root beer stand, the Drive-In movie theater and "poontang". :o Bob |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 22nd, 2005, 7:08pm on 05/22/05 at 19:04:21, pattik wrote:
I accept pics......please feel free to send them to jonnymule@comcast.net Till then there will be no payment ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by pattik on May 22nd, 2005, 7:09pm Okay, but I must warn you, I too can use photoshop to blur out certain areas as you have in the past ;;D ;;D ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by broomhilda on May 22nd, 2005, 7:11pm on 05/22/05 at 10:33:43, Jonny wrote:
Guess you will be meeting them there Jonny :-* http://www.clusterheadaches.com/newyork/newyork03.jpg |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 22nd, 2005, 7:12pm on 05/22/05 at 19:09:48, pattik wrote:
LMMFAO What you see is what you see.....im not old enough to pull that....LOL ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by cootie on May 22nd, 2005, 8:33pm Suicide shift on old motorcycles is cool.....we had one........very cool.......they don't make stuff like they used to Pam |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Kevin_M on May 22nd, 2005, 9:03pm Old Lincolns had those open-together suicide doors around '60 or something. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by ClusterChuck on May 23rd, 2005, 1:59am All this is WAY before my time ... After all, I was brought up (dragged up?) in the 50's and 60's ... Oh wait, that IS when this all happened!!! OK, how about the old 78s?? Or the 45's with the silly little thingy in the middle? Remember how excited you were when reel to reel recorders became reasonable to buy? And, do kids today know what it really is like to "dial" a phone number? Or the milk man delivering bottles of milk into the metal box out front, that you had to shake first, to mix the milk and cream? Or listening to the radio NOT for music? Ahhhh ... the old radio shows!!! Or how about the FIRST television your parents bought? How excited we were! Of course "I" don't remember ANY of these things ... They were things I "heard" about, only ... RIGHT??? (Believe that, and I have some ocean front property in Nebraska to sell you) Chuck |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Charlie on May 23rd, 2005, 2:13am White Castles....those places with the square hambugers that you have to scrape off a few layers of grease to eat em'....they pissed in the pickle barrels too. :o http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/chew.gif Nothing like those drive-in hot dogs on the revolving roller warmers and getting a Dixie Cup of Coke colored ice. Good times, good days. 8) Charlie |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Gator on May 23rd, 2005, 1:55pm For me, lunch is lunch - supper is supper - dinner is a fancy term which can be either one if you go out to eat it. I remember watching the black and white television as a kid. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tarzan, The Lone Ranger, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, The Little Rascals, Charlie Chaplin, The Grand Ole Opry, Hee Haw and Disney (on Sunday evenings at 6:00pm) were among the characters/programs I grew up with. As a kid, I had an AM radio with the little white plastic single ear plug. Stayed up at night listening to WBAP. I also used to listen to the Radio Mystery Theater as well as several other radio shows. I remember going to the drive in with the family as a kid, even after growing up and moving out on my own. When I was in the Air Force stationed in Tacoma, Washington I went to the Starlight Drive In Movie Threater which also doubled as a Swap Meet on Saturday mornings. Castor Oil was still in use when I was a kid. If you were sick enough to withstand a dose of castor oil without complaining, you must really be sick and therefore could stay home from school. (Not that I ever did that mind you ;)) Store-bought was still a common term. I still call it the Emergency Brake. So do my kids. Yes Sir/No Sir/Yes ma'am/No ma'am were mandatory - anything else might involve you picking yourself up off the floor. The word gay meant happy. Coke was a drink. Ho(e) was a garden tool. A screw was a mechanical fastener. Weed was what you pulled out of your garden. The list goes on. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by vig on May 23rd, 2005, 3:33pm uh, that picture of Jonny is incomplete without the follow up... come on, show it. |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Charlie on May 24th, 2005, 2:22am We got our first tv in 1949. All the neighbors used come over for Milton Berele and drink, I'm told. I do know that tv came on at about 4:00 PM and went off after the Buffalo news and sports at 11:30. No informerchials but cigarette ads ran more than a minute sometimes and guys walked around used car lots with huge microphones. There were some "I'm a good American" ads and a song that I'll never forget. Cold war and HUAAC stuff mostly, I suppose. I remember racketeer hearings in TV in the early fifties which were probably the Kefauver hearings. All I can remember is hearing: "I refuse to answer on the grounds that it many incrimiate me," over and over and over. We watched Captain Midnight, December Bride, I Married Joan, You Bet Your Life, My Little Margie and Your Show Of Shows. The latter is still hilarious with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Lucy was almost as big then as it is now. I listened to The Lone Ranger on radio as well as TV. Incredibly, the PAX cable channel runs I Married Joan, My Little Margie, I've just noticed. Unreal. The Gillette Cavacade of Sports was boxing and Saturday was mostly wrestling, which along with bowling, was BIG in Buffalo. There was some good local domestic programs too. I remember anti-semitism here when I was boy. The movie "Gentlemen's Agreement" hit home in Jamestown. Hard to imagine...... http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/secret.gif On that merry note, I'll shut up. Charlie |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by sandie99 on May 24th, 2005, 7:24am on 05/22/05 at 10:33:43, Jonny wrote:
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Gator on May 24th, 2005, 11:31am on 05/23/05 at 15:33:17, vig wrote:
You mean THIS one? LMAO http://www.clusterheadaches.com/newyork/newyork04.jpg |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by BobG on May 24th, 2005, 11:56am I know, I know. This is a 2 day old thread but I’ve been stuck in South Dakota for the last 6 days without a computer. Our oldest granddaughter graduated for high school. It reminded me that my high school reunion is coming up next month. NUMBER 40! “fender skirts" Skirts on some cars were needed to help the styling but in 1966 they were an option on Ford Mustang’s. Those were just plain butt-ugly. "curb feelers" Those are still available but if you can’t park next to the curb without a warning device then your car is just too damn wide. "emergency brakes" My hot rod has one of those. Says so right on the box it came in. "foot feed" Also known as the “right pedal” (as opposed to the left pedal which is the clutch.) The right pedal is also called the “loud pedal”. As in “Stomp on the loud pedal ‘til you see God, then brake”. "running board" I have those on my hot rod. They are not for running and/or jumping on. If you put a shoe on my running board and scratch the paint I will have to kill you. "rat fink" Big Daddy Roth started that phrase. He’s a well know custom car builder and pin striper. Quote:
Have to go along with Linda on this one. You needed an empty parking lot. Grab the broody knob with the right hand and the emergency brake handle with the left. Stomp on the loud pedal ‘til you see God, crank the wheel hard then yank on the emergency brake to lock up the rear wheels. Broody like a sum-bitch. Yeehaa! The knob was also called a "necker knob". You know, so you could steer while necking with your girl. One hand on the necker knob and the other hand on her...........hmmm, never mind. Quote:
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Linda_Howell on May 24th, 2005, 1:57pm Bout time you showed up Mr. G. I was going to say something about the suicide doors but couldn't remember what decade they came out in so I saved it for you to answer. Las Vegas, me ass though. Quote:
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by rickyshot on May 24th, 2005, 2:23pm This is a good thread. In the south we called and still do underwear drawers except we say draws.... Up here in Canada they laugh at me. Dumb fereigners....... |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Jonny on May 24th, 2005, 5:43pm on 05/24/05 at 11:31:10, Gator wrote:
LMMFAO ;;D A normal human would have broke their neck on that one, I pulled that one off due to all the training and work I did as a stunt man in LA in the late 80's Would have sucked breaking my neck at a pain convention.....LMAO ;;D |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by BarbaraD on May 24th, 2005, 8:11pm Guess this means you're not dancing at the "home" this week... Hugs BD |
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Title: Old Lincolns had those openRe: Fender Skirts...... Post by Kevin_M on May 24th, 2005, 9:55pm Quote:
on 05/24/05 at 11:56:16, BobG wrote:
No doubt Bob, but that was the last car I remember riding in with them. But then, my 40 year reunion is in the next decade. ;) Kevin M |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by BarbaraD on May 25th, 2005, 7:22am Oh you children. My 45th reunion is coming up next year.... One of the guys in my class has a 56 super chevy. Rolled seats and all. We usually sit in it and "remembr when". Also have been known to neck in the backseat. Now that's another word you don't see too often anymore - NECKING..... Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by Kevin_M on May 25th, 2005, 8:28am on 05/25/05 at 07:22:15, BarbaraD wrote:
No reunion, but my 45th cap and gown graduation is THIS year. But in kindergarten, we were calling it kissin'. :) 8) The '66 Rambler Classic 660 with the three-on-the-tree (a fun drive), my first car in '71, had front seats that would lie back flat, flush with the back seat, the seats were "rolled" in some too (also good for bottoming the shocks fitting 13 high schoolers in it driving from the pool hall to McDonalds). By then it was called "makin' out". "Necking" then, was only when you were seen at window level. ;) Kevin M |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by giffy76 on May 25th, 2005, 9:15am Wow! I'm just a pup but my pops is a gear head and the only thing suicide knobs did for me was break my f---ing thumb but I have them on all my tractors. Now it's Intercooled twin turbo 4 bangers, B!tches with swiches, and they don't neck or make out, now they flip it up smack it and rub it down. I tried it with my wife and all I got was 3 days on the couch. lol |
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Title: Re: Fender Skirts...... Post by vig on May 25th, 2005, 9:19am shoot. I thought the thread said: Fender STRATS... I was looking for guitars. :-[ |
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