Posted on 06/28/2017 3:37:15 PM PDT by NFHale
My road music or when I’m flying.
Buicks and Oldsmobiles...
The King and Queen of YUGE cars.
Damn, they rode nice. My cousin had a mid 60s Olds Dynamic or Delmont 88. Massive old machine... just awesome.
Makes a Prius want to hide it’s head in Shame... and rightly so.
Ha! I took driver’s ed in 1973. They had a 1972 Chevrolet Impala that we had to parallel park. I nailed it the first time. I had also been driving tractors and trucks since I was about 10 years old. The state road speed limits in Indiana were 70 MPH at that time. During the drivers ed class, I was cruising over 80 MPH on a state road. The instructor asked whether I thought I was driving too fast? I said, well yea, I guess so.
Oh yes, you could sit 4 people in each bench seat.
“..Good times!...”
Truly so... and the sad thing is, when you’re living them, you don’t realize it. Because you’re busy LIVING...
Maybe that’s a good thing, I suppose...
It is! That living was making memories we now enjoy! ;)
I had this first but did have a 65 Electra later -- monster car.
The 57 Dodge Coronet was white just like this one. Got it from my dad after he put 110k on it and back in those days, 110k was a lot of miles.
The interlock was broken on the push-button transmission selector and it would start IN GEAR. Wow.
“...sit 4 people in each bench seat...”
Those were the days when your Best Girl was able to slide right over next to you, put her head on your shoulder, and the AM/FM radio was playing some silly song that put a tear in her eye...
Column PRNDL shift, side window vents, landau roof, and rear wheel well skirts.
Somewhere we let those damned little soulless rice burners take over the road.
But like Brooks and Dunn said... “When We Were Kings”... there was a time.
Road music for me is still early 80s metal... :^)
I’m an OLD SCHOOL Rocker...
Beautiful car! Love the fins!
Kind of looks like a Studebaker.
“...making memories we now enjoy!...”
True that.
I do miss those times, though... and a lot of people that aren’t here anymore.
“the AM/FM radio”
Oh, come on, you surely didn’t have an FM radio, did you?
Not doubting you, they were just rare at that time?
Post WW2 in America. 50's and very early '60's What a great time to be alive. Elvis, rock and roll, cars, Beach Boys, Motown, malls being built, suburbs expanding, jobs, etc., etc.
First car, bought from a neighbor with money earned by pushing a lawnmower. Yeah, I kick myself at least monthly for letting it slip away from me.
My first big American car was a 1965 Chevy Impala which died after I put a quarter million miles on it. The next was a 1957 Ford Fairlane, which I used as my regular car during the early 1980’s. Next, I got a 1983 Ford LTD, which was wrecked when it was hit while parked by an illegal alien drunk driver. After that, I got a 1972 Chevy Impala which ran fine after I got the transmission redone, but whenever it rained, water leaked into the trunk from the rear window—a design flaw in GM cars of the period.
After that, I got another 1973 LTD with a 429 motor that was a ticket hazard—If you weren’t careful, you could find yourself going more than 100 mph without much effort. But it was also a gas slurper. This car was stolen while parked and locked on a busy street in broad daylight—and I had the key with me.
My final big car was a 1984 Ford LTD Crown Victoria that I drove 300,000+ miles despite numerous mechanical problems.
“...you surely didn’t have an FM radio, did you?...”
haha!!! The 75 Bonneville did.
The earlier cars, I had an “FM converter” that I just moved from car to car as I sold one and got another.
Then, somewhere along the way, I picked up and old Kraco 8-Track player, had that mounted in whatever critter I was driving.
Got a cassette player later on, etc.,
But yeah, I had FM radio playing out of the single dash speaker for a bit, haha!!
WYSP 94 FM, WMMR 93.3 FM, WiFI 92 FM, WIOQ 102 FM... Rock, pure and simple.
How about The Stray Cats?
One of my best friends in elementary school had a father who was a Pontiac gearhead. He drove a teal colored ("Fontaine Blue", IIRC) '65 GTO and the "grocery getter" that his wife drove was a '67 Tempest in that great dark red, sort of a black cherry color. That was the first home garage that I'd seen with engine hoist and such - he did a lot of his own work and was always tinkering.
And some who are. Enjoy those while remembering the others. We'll all be back together again soon enough.
When Armor-All first came out, those wide vinyl-upholstered bench seats were like amusement park slides!
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