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It was a 1969 Lincoln Continental, that my Dad sold to me cheap just after my 16th birthday in 1982. He had "retired" this car as his primary car a couple of years earlier, and made it a father/son fishing car, which we used to tow our boat. It was a hell of a car. It had a 460 inch 4-barrel under the hood. We would pass traffic going up Monteagle Mtn - pulling a heavy boat.  It had suicide doors, mirror-reflective window tint, power windows and doors, and a big trunk. Comfortable ride, it was basically a living room on wheels. Felt sorry for the two cars that I encountered in accidents. Pretty much crushed them like tin cans, with hardly a dent on my old jalopy. (Good thing was no one was hurt). Finally sold the monster a couple of years after graduating from college. Had 472k miles on it at the time (original engine, but had the transmission replaced). Ahh, what memories. Good times.  Car I borrowed from dad for dating was a Chrysler New Yorker, with a Magnum 440 engine. Got 9 miles to the gallon whether it needed to or not. BTW, anybody know what happened to gas prices in 1973??  OTOH, the last Saturday night before I went into the AF was the last night of 75 MPH speed limits in Tennessee. Driving it down I-40W (2 lane) at West Hills doing, ummm 75  |
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« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2013, 04:50:36 EST » |
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Driving it down I-40W (2 lane) at West Hills doing, ummm 75 If you drive 75 down I-40/75 past West Hills now you get passed like you are sitting still.  |
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« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2013, 12:13:14 EST » |
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If you drive 75 down I-40/75 past West Hills now you get passed like you are sitting still. That is a FACT. |
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« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2013, 03:08:28 EST » |
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It was a "family" car, but since all my brothers were gone, it was MY car! A 1967 (or 68) Ford Galaxy 500 Convertible - Black with white convertible top/red interior -- it was HOT! WOO! Loved that car and got POed because when I left home Mom wouldn't sell it to me, but sold it to a friend for their teenage son....who immediately drove it into the 100 year flood in Fountain City and destroyed my car! I cried over that one......I kept that car spotless, washing, waxing....man, did I have a good time!
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« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2013, 04:21:33 EST » |
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« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2013, 05:44:19 EST » |
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It was a "family" car, but since all my brothers were gone, it was MY car! A 1967 (or 68) Ford Galaxy 500 Convertible - Black with white convertible top/red interior -- it was HOT! WOO! Loved that car and got POed because when I left home Mom wouldn't sell it to me, but sold it to a friend for their teenage son....who immediately drove it into the 100 year flood in Fountain City and destroyed my car! I cried over that one......I kept that car spotless, washing, waxing....man, did I have a good time!
The day I turned 16 my dad sold the 56 Bel Air with the nice motor, three on the column and a continental kit on the back. That car would flat go but dad figured my chances of making 18 if I drove weren't going to be high for some reason ...  |
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« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2013, 05:52:12 EST » |
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The day I turned 16 my dad sold the 56 Bel Air with the nice motor, three on the column and a continental kit on the back. That car would flat go but dad figured my chances of making 18 if I drove weren't going to be high for some reason ... Your father was and still is a very wise man. Must have skipped a generation. |
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« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2013, 07:53:54 EST » |
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« Reply #33 on: January 12, 2013, 08:48:51 EST » |
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Your father was and still is a very wise man. Must have skipped a generation. |
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who Dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the Dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they May act their dream with open eyes, to make it Possible. This I did. —T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." - David Hackworth "Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet" General James "Mad Dog" Mattis |
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« Reply #34 on: January 14, 2013, 03:48:15 EST » |
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« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2013, 04:09:44 EST » |
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1976 Datsun (yes, Datsun) B210 coupe. Filled the tank for $5 a week in the mid- to late- '80s.
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« Reply #36 on: January 14, 2013, 05:08:19 EST » |
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1974 Plymoth Duster............................Red with Black stripes
Ok, I don't remember seeing THAT many Dusters on the road back in the day. Strange that three of us had one. Of course, mine was 15 years old when I got it, so maybe they were more common in the 70s.  |
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« Reply #37 on: January 14, 2013, 05:23:49 EST » |
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The first car I owned was a 1968 Opal Kadet. LOL! It was only $500 in 1983. My parents made me buy a car if I wanted to keep working, would not co-sign a loan, so I blew most of the money I had saved for college on it. It lasted about 6 months and blew a gasket or something. I then guilted my parents into buying me an old station wagon. Yeah, I was rolling in style back in the day.  But in 1985, my senior year, I spent most of the hard-earned money I had saved working the previous two summers on an MG Midget. Candy-red convertible. Man could that car handle the curves and hills of East Tennessee.  It only lasted through my freshman year, unfortunately. At the start of my sophomore year, the u-joint on the drive shaft broke and my parents convinced me not to spend any money on it and to concentrate on school. Since I lived on campus, it was no big deal to not have a car. The thing is, that car only weighed like ~ 1000 lbs. And it had no seat belts. Given my propensity to speed, maybe it was for the best.  |
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« Reply #38 on: January 14, 2013, 05:25:01 EST » |
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Let me add, that I only spent the money on the MG Midget because I had landed a really nice schollie that paid for most of school. So the car was my reward to myself for earning the schollie....otherwise the money would have gone for school.
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« Reply #39 on: January 14, 2013, 04:25:48 EST » |
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A 1970 something Datsun B210 Hatchback. Loved that car!
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« Reply #40 on: January 14, 2013, 06:19:15 EST » |
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A 1970 something Datsun B210 Hatchback. Loved that car!
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« Reply #41 on: January 14, 2013, 06:30:47 EST » |
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« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2013, 07:57:46 EST » |
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1962 T-Bird hardtop. Bought by me in 1973. No radio but had a swing-away sterering wheel. Looked something like this  |
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« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2013, 07:59:10 EST » |
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Let me guess - a bed in the back? |
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« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2013, 08:01:46 EST » |
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Let me guess - a bed in the back? Negative. But a guy in my class drove a Chevy Astrovan with the windows painted over and a bed in the back. He was the stuff of local legend. |
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« Reply #46 on: January 14, 2013, 08:14:34 EST » |
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Or this: <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/chariot_military.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/chariot_military.jpg</a>]]> |
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« Reply #47 on: January 14, 2013, 08:16:11 EST » |
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Or this: <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/chariot_military.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/chariot_military.jpg</a>]]>Or this:  |
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« Reply #48 on: January 14, 2013, 08:26:03 EST » |
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Or this: That's midtn driving, and Pirate riding shotgun. |
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« Reply #49 on: January 14, 2013, 08:51:08 EST » |
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