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Antique car question. Can anyone tell me what is the name of the car that this dash is a part of?
Online Athens ^ | 4-11-13

Posted on 04/11/2013 4:32:42 PM PDT by rawhide

Can anyone tell me what is the name of the car that this dash is a part of? What are those levers in front of the steering wheel used for? Air vents? Nice looking dash.



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To: 3D-JOY

I should have kept reading before answering!


61 posted on 04/11/2013 5:05:08 PM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: nascarnation

Nothing to do with the photo but there was a joke in 1960 or so. It asked what is a three time loser?
“A pregnant prostitute driving an Edsel with a Nixon bumper sticker.” My first real girlfriend’s mom had a 58 Edsel in red and white. Her mother let me drive it. That dash was different.


62 posted on 04/11/2013 5:07:27 PM PDT by Lumper20 (`)
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To: 3D-JOY
We had a 53 or 54 Ford product with exactly that color. Maybe it was a Mercury?

The Big Three all had variations of that aqua color in those days. It was very popular. Manufacturers used to paint everything with it.

63 posted on 04/11/2013 5:07:47 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Hydraulic fail-safe.
Some of those old guys were pretty bright....


64 posted on 04/11/2013 5:08:04 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: editor-surveyor

Holy cow! You wreck that bad boy, they’ll just hose off the dash and put a for sale sign in the window!


65 posted on 04/11/2013 5:10:49 PM PDT by Bshaw (,A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: nascarnation

I can’t believe that I just figured out your handle after seeing it since 2004. Until this moment, I always read it as nas carnation. Duh!


66 posted on 04/11/2013 5:11:39 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rawhide

AM radio


67 posted on 04/11/2013 5:13:23 PM PDT by BOOHA
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To: Windflier
On my grandfathers old truck, we just used it on the farm, sometimes you had brakes, sometimes you didn't.
That's when you reached for the manual lever next to the floor shift and pulled up like crazy, LOL.
68 posted on 04/11/2013 5:13:47 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: editor-surveyor

For those that can magnify the photo will see it is exactly that. Note it is a automatic transmission, no clutch pedal.
Having seen many of those shifters used on “Stick shift speed shifts””at the drags strip, bend and crease the dash, I will attest to that. Autoshift not so much.
Sometimes they were topped by a pool ball(#8 or cue) or a chrome Scull!
The traffic light gizmos where usually attached upper left on windshield.


69 posted on 04/11/2013 5:15:32 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: Windflier
LOL way back I used to use my real name and had some people stalk me.

So I had FR change it.

My daughter had bought me a subscription to Sports Illustrated magazine (back before everything was on the net). The cover of the issue on my table was :


70 posted on 04/11/2013 5:16:22 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation

I used to make a little money when I was in High School (’58-’62) by modifying the valve bodies of Iron Torqueflights for people that towed trailers, so that they could punch the trans into first gear for engine braking at any speed. Normally it wouldn’t do it until you were below 20 MPH.

It made towing in the mountains way safer to be able to outwit the trans.


71 posted on 04/11/2013 5:20:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: nascarnation
Ping to #24

Wow! I stand humbled.

My Dad had a '54 Mercury -- it's the first car I remember [I was only three, though, so cut me a break on the dashboard thing]. Heh.

72 posted on 04/11/2013 5:20:23 PM PDT by BfloGuy (The economy is not a pie, but a bakery.)
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To: editor-surveyor

I’m totally impressed.
You’ve still got ATF in your veins.


73 posted on 04/11/2013 5:23:00 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: BfloGuy

Ref the attached link below, it is funny how in the comments section, people are guessing what the levers are all used for?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cv_dusty/7356708236/


74 posted on 04/11/2013 5:23:12 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

1954 Mercury


75 posted on 04/11/2013 5:24:06 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: The Cajun

I didn’t grow up on a farm, but I sure did pull that hand brake to stop some of the old jalopies I drove as a kid. Man, do I remember that.

Our cars weren’t ergonomic, quiet, smooth riding, sure footed, or anything like the cars of today. Driving a stock late 50s car would blow most kids’ minds today.


76 posted on 04/11/2013 5:24:33 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
"You could put that steering wheel on a Greyhound bus"

You needed the leverage to turn without power steering....

77 posted on 04/11/2013 5:25:33 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: nascarnation

Thanks for the back-story. Maybe one lazy Sunday afternoon, I’ll post a thread asking folks where their handles came from. Oughta be interesting.


78 posted on 04/11/2013 5:26:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: traditional1
You needed the leverage to turn without power steering....

Too true. It was a lot harder to steer those old beasts after changing out the factory steering wheels for the smaller models. Fortunately, I was young and very strong at the time.

79 posted on 04/11/2013 5:30:23 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: editor-surveyor

The iron case torqueflight was governor controlled, and didn’t feed any control pressure to the rear band port if there was any governor pressure. (in motion in other words)
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And the 1964 Torqueflite had front AND rear pumps making it one of the only automatics that you could push start.


80 posted on 04/11/2013 5:31:04 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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