Posted on 06/11/2007 5:05:42 AM PDT by battlegearboat
...and “RIDESHY”...
Obviously, you never drove one.
I had a 56 back in high school days ( 60-65 ) . Put a reverb on the radio ( before stereo) and what a BACK SEAT!! Push button automatic .
Did they put it in some sort of container to protect it or just threw the dirt in on top of it?
Remember the semi-square steering wheels?
If you have time, click on Tulsa World above and see for yourself.
LOL
However, the car is "inert" for lack of a better word. The evil spirit of Christine has been exorcised from it.
It didn't go back where it came from, though, it now resides in City Hall...
My father’s first brand new car was a ‘57 Plymouth, two tone black and white. He drove it home from the dealer in a big rain storm, pulled it in the garage and cleaned it for 2 hours. The next morning it wouldn’t start.
The 57 Plymouth made the Edsel look good.
I got a more recent vintage Ford that can take its place.
You know....I still have 4 cars with carburetors.
and without rack and pinion steering. (and 3 modern American cars too.)
These are classics that only people who don't need cars that can parallel park themselves should handle. Just because one is soft and squeamish about driving these historical marvels, that dosen’t these classics any less wonderful. Though if I were to bury one for posterity, it would have preferred the 57 354 Hemi Chrysler or 345 Hemi Desoto.
My dad had a ‘56 Dodge Coronet, black and red with a white top, dash-mounted mirror, push button transmission - nice car.
My dad had a '58 Sport Suburban station wagon and later a '61 wagon, both with push button shifters and both were lemons.
I remember him saying that he'd never buy another Chrysler product, but he lived long enough to get over that and bought a Dodge van in his retirement.
My uncle sold my father his old Plymouth, might have been from that year. Nice looking car, complete with the fins, but it had no “ooomph.” It was fine as long as you were on a level road or going downhill, but uphill — everyone had to get out and push.
Ok, I exaggerate, but the car just had no power. I think that was the last time my dad bought a car from my uncle.
Yes, those cars were all hat and no cattle.
Yep...You just jogged some long dormant memory cells that I haven’t reached out to for half a century... LOL
my parents had one of those when I was growing up. Push button transmission, big fins. cool.
The video says they buried a case of Schlitz beer with it in the trunk. My guess is that Schlitz tasts just like it did when it was buried.
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