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(Message started by: Batch on Oct 11^th, 2007, 10:03pm)

Title: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60's
Post by Batch on Oct 11^th, 2007, 10:03pm

This should bring back a flood of memories for us old timers...
Enjoy

Batch

http://thefiftiesandsixties.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by Kevin_M on Oct 11^th, 2007, 10:24pm

Quote:

Eye Candy

Drawing a blank with dial-up but I'd bet much better eye candy than my first candy@ss 3-on-the-tree '66 Rambler Classic 660, but fun to drive anyway. I actually miss that type of shifting and hitting gears juuuust right for that kick. ;) A drive-in great with fully flat reclining seats for full inside area availability, back when fun cars were made. :) Despite having to be familiar with some linkage problems.

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by Jimi on Oct 11^th, 2007, 10:37pm

Loved it Batch! Great music, great cars, and great memories.

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by Batch on Oct 11^th, 2007, 11:58pm

I had the family's 55 Ford Ranch Wagon... It had the full factory interceptor build normally reserved for police cruisers... So... it had the biggest block V8 (F-8 as I recall) , 4 barrel, heavy duty (drag o matic tranny good for more rubber than I could afford) with cooler and beefed up suspension.

I also had a horse back in them daze so there was usually a bale of timothy hay in back that made for interesting conversations at Graham's Drive In, The Kitsap Drive In Theater next door, the A&W and DQ...

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by Kevin_M on Oct 12^th, 2007, 12:32am

Also remember the girl's former short-term husband being so very cool driving around with the windows rolled up in 85 degree weather so other girls would think he had air-conditioning. Hung around cool and flashy in the places to be seen with her paycheck, too. ;;D All kinds I guess.

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by George_J on Oct 12^th, 2007, 1:02am

Boy, did that bring back some memories, Pete.

I learned to drive at the age of twelve or so in my Dad's Studebaker Lark. We lived out on the farmland of northern Indiana, and I bombed that thing all over the fields. It was a little light in the ass end, and it would churn up the most massive dirt-clod spinouts you ever saw.

The first car I owned was nothing so sweet as a Ford with an Interceptor engine. It was a 1963 Plymouth Valiant with the push-button automatic on the dashboard. :P

Dreadful car. Turning on the air conditioner would sap at least 30 percent of the horsepower--you could actually feel it ramp down when the A/C kicked in. But I drove that thing clear across the country to Oregon, where I went hiking with two of my friends on the Pacific Crest Trail for two weeks--after we graduated from high school.

I still remember coming home after our epic (and ridiculous) transcontinental journey...we set off illegal fireworks we'd purchased in Wyoming on my parents' front lawn in Indiana. I turned to look at my Mom, and she had tears in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Nothing," she said.

Best,

George

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by Rosybabe on Oct 12^th, 2007, 12:35pm

50', 60's..I was not even here yet [smiley=huh.gif] but I love the cars ;;D

Title: Re: Eye Candy - What We Drove in the 50's & 60
Post by Jonny on Oct 12^th, 2007, 7:12pm

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74f_1192223105