Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 17, 2015

Remember the no heat on cold days and no AC on hot days?’And cramming as many friends as possible in it to go to the Drive-In movies that charged per car? Remember carrying a gallon of water for when the radiator overheated? Ah, yes, “/those were the days!”

Hudson Hornet and submarine races? Kewl

Well, it’s true that the ’51 Ford has been out of production for some time now.

Rambler, Studebaker, Kaiser, Plymouth, Desoto, Hudson, Packard, just to reminisce a few.

“Actually, that is my old car. That’s odd.”

53 Chevy Bel Air here. 6 cylinder, 4 door, skirts, visor, 2 speed automatic. Reverse was at the bottom of the shifter, not the usual PRNDL of late. If you tried to downshift too quickly, you’d hit reverse and the rear axle would try to swap places with the back seat! I could get 8 inside (2 more in the trunk) for the drive-in. Loved that “Bomb”!!!

I’ve apparently put Plymouth and Oldsmobile out of business. Driving a Toyota now. I think they are safe.

‘55 Chevy, Hurst shifter and a paisley headliner. Motor and tranny swap made the speedometer read high. I had to do 75 to keep up with traffic on a 55 highway. It ended it’s life on it’s top in front of a highway patrol station in Springfield Illinois.

By now everyone has figured out I’m a BelAir fan! Want a 56 Aqua one!

1958 Rambler wagon…didn’t have buses in the city limits…this was in the late 60’s

I wasn’t allowed to have a car during my high school years; however once I started at the U of M, it was a ‘60 Plymouth Belvedere sedan for my first real car. Not Christine; but close! You know, Chrysler products in the 50’s and 60’s came pre rusted from the factory!

Before that it was Mom or Dad’s car, either a Mercury or a Dodge…

52 Merc,2 door, 2 inch chop,3 inch channel 3 inch drop 292 cu.in. tri power, 4 on the floor, lake pipes candy apple red. she was my baby.

The guys in my HS who had the means, would drive their jalopies over the border to Mexico and have Tuck & Roll upholstery installed and pin-striping trim on the paint job. This was not an option in my neighborhood, though.

They still make Buicks but you could probably stuff one of the new ones in the trunk of my ‘55.What’s with those Buick folks anyway? I’ve never seen a car advertised as impossible to tell from everybody else’s. Manufacturers would go to great lengths to distract you from the similarities between their own car lines as well as the other companies’ cars.

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