[RipSawyer]

and driving one car per family-- probably a Hudson Hornet or a Nash Metropolitan...

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Go with the Hornet, it was a much bigger, more comfortable ride.

[backhoe]

I remember the Hornet fairly well from childhood- a neighbor had one, and it was a good car.

As far a Metropolitans go, one of the first jobs I had at Newman's Auto Repair was replacing the battery in one of the wretched, nasty little things.

It was in a box, under the rear jump seat... a box the same size as the battery, so you could not get a grip on it. In those days, batteries did not come with lifting straps...

I finally figured out that if you took a gawd-awful big pair of vice-grips, and clamped one terminal ( being oh! so! careful! not to short out to the other terminal ) you could lift the damned thing out of the hole.

Still remember Newman watching all this, and passing by as I hoisted it out, saying

"You'll do..."