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To: caww

Mark your calendar so you don’t forget the next dance night. Bet you’ll have a great time. I wish they had something like that around here.

The classics are head-turners, no doubt, and it’s fun to cruise along the roads watch people’s reactions. Heck, my head turns when I see one, even if I’m driving mine. LOL! I don’t drive The Beast (that big black Lincoln) any more. Hubby bought me a ‘57 Chevy, restored it, and I’ve been driving and showing that since late ‘03.

I like the big “boats” and kind of miss driving The Beast. That one isn’t a “boat”, though. It’s an “aircraft carrier”! That car is huge!

I take it you don’t have your mom’s Futura any more?


54 posted on 12/01/2014 1:23:22 AM PST by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: radu

Marking calendar good idea.....

Yes the Classics are head turners. I dated a guy who was restoring a 55’ Chevy. I remember him making a big deal about the chrome used under the hood when finally attached. The paint job was amazing, a candy apple Blue. I went to a couple drag races but didn’t find them entertaining, preferring to “see” the cars without the speed!

What was great about the Futura was how easy for repairs and my mechanic enjoyed working on it. No, I don’t have it anymore, I only drove it because for years my mom always said I’d get whatever car she was driving, and we use to laugh and joke about it, so it was very sentimental for me to drive for a time....I kept it about three years or so. A store owner always said when I was ready to sell he wanted it....so I sold it to him before moving.

Big cars feel safer I think. There’s so much car there! Laughed when you said yours was an “air craft carrier”...too funny!

There’s a huge parts fair somewhere in Pa., maybe Reading or Harrisburg area, where the hills are loaded with various car parts....miles of parts and pieces of cars! I can’t remember where it is but a gigantic display for whatever one might need. Have you ever been there?


82 posted on 12/01/2014 9:23:23 AM PST by caww
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