I had a Christine as my first car, only it was tan and gold. Using the “typewriter shift”, you pressed a button on the dash to put it into Drive. Then the generator light came on and the engine stalled. Good times.
My ’62 Rambler had different colors for each PRNDL button. She balked angrily when I pushed her red button. Wow, talk about an automatic response. sheesh!
The 1960 Ambassador Rambler that my mother had (and I wish I could have gotten), the buttons would jump and you would have to take the face plate off and put them back onto the tracks. Which wouldn’t have been so bad, but it happened while I was taking my driving test. :-)
Researchers have been saying for years that when she says, “Not tonight, I have a headache,” the best thing she can take for that headache is, perhaps counterintuitively, an “injection.” But I don’t even wanna know how you’d do that with a car, especially one with a hot exhaust pipe…
flyertom about 9 years ago
I had a Christine as my first car, only it was tan and gold. Using the “typewriter shift”, you pressed a button on the dash to put it into Drive. Then the generator light came on and the engine stalled. Good times.
Jonni about 9 years ago
My ’62 Rambler had different colors for each PRNDL button. She balked angrily when I pushed her red button. Wow, talk about an automatic response. sheesh!
metagalaxy1970 about 9 years ago
The 1960 Ambassador Rambler that my mother had (and I wish I could have gotten), the buttons would jump and you would have to take the face plate off and put them back onto the tracks. Which wouldn’t have been so bad, but it happened while I was taking my driving test. :-)
Plods with ...™ about 9 years ago
Try ‘R’ for race.
Godfreydaniel about 9 years ago
And it didn’t cost him a dime, and you’ll know him when he comes through your town!
neverenoughgold about 9 years ago
More likely a ’58 or ’59 DeSoto, similar to this…
K M about 9 years ago
Researchers have been saying for years that when she says, “Not tonight, I have a headache,” the best thing she can take for that headache is, perhaps counterintuitively, an “injection.” But I don’t even wanna know how you’d do that with a car, especially one with a hot exhaust pipe…