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Two Classics, One Car. A Collector Shows Off Her Lifelong Favorite (neat)
New York times ^ | July 7, 2011 | Margaret Dunning

Posted on 08/20/2011 12:44:30 PM PDT by rawhide

After six decades, Margaret Dunning, age 101, still breezes down the road in her creamy 740 Packard roadster.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/07/08/automobiles/collectibles/100000000895665/two-classics-one-car.html

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: automotive; car; packard
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To: yarddog

Yes, there are a lot of places that offer “classic” whitewall tires.


21 posted on 08/20/2011 1:28:31 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

My 67 Camaro is up on blocks, will be back on the road hopefully in december. Both the Bel Air and Camaro have the drum brakes, but I think the Bel Air stops easier to tell the truth.


22 posted on 08/20/2011 1:35:29 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: rawhide

Thanks for the post.

The whole family enjoyed it.

Myself, I loved seeing the continued mental agility she still has at 101, when she answered: “Not Yet”, to the question: “Have you lived in Plymouth, Michigan all your life.”


23 posted on 08/20/2011 1:38:27 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Rennes Templar

No I meant they enjoyed themselves and lived life right up to the end and they were living right, too. (Christians and conservative) ;)

The great,great aunt was training Tennessee Walkers in her 90’s when she broke a bone and they told her “No More!” She then supervised from the sidelines.


24 posted on 08/20/2011 1:40:46 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: DaxtonBrown
"Once you get used to driving the old cars they aren’t bad at all.

Absolutely. True "motoring"at its finest, especially at the wheel of classic. My buddy let me keep his 1953 Mercedes 180 while he was on overseas assignment. The column mounted shift gate seemed to span 36," and the engine exhibited the neck snapping acceleration of an advancing fog bank, but she was a dream to drive. A one-car parade some days, as other Mercedes owners would flash their lights, wave, and honk as I drove by.
25 posted on 08/20/2011 1:42:46 PM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I hear you on the drum brakes. My dad recently bought a ‘66 Mustang with drum brakes and they really are a different animal from modern disk brakes. It’s a fun car to drive though in large part because the driving experience is so different. Slow heavy brakes, long hood, big steering wheel, primitive chassis and handling, and a hot V8.


26 posted on 08/20/2011 1:45:26 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: DaxtonBrown
will be working on my 57 Bel Air this afternoon

Too bad you don't live where I do. The Woodward Dream Cruise is going on today (last couple days and this weekend) which is approximately 10 miles worth of classic cars..........

Woodard Dream Cruise -live

Whoa, I just clicked on the video and it looks like it's pouring rain there now.......guess it's coming my way.

Anyway, the Dream Cruise is the biggest weekend of classic cars on parade that you could ever imagine.......

27 posted on 08/20/2011 1:46:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
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To: DaxtonBrown; Lazlo in PA; PowderMonkey; Hot Tabasco; martin_fierro
We probably need a ping list for classics.

 

According to what I understand to be the latest list of pinglists,

UPDATED MASTER List of FReeper PING LISTS; Vol. VIII - SPRING Edition!

there used to be an "automotive" pinglist managed by Sully777 but that person was banned during The Giulani Wars of  2007.  You can see his/her final posts here:

Posts by sully777

There's a "Motorcycle Hooligans" pinglist managed by Martin Fierro which is still active but I haven't seen a current, active pinglist for classic autos.

I would enjoy seeing more threads about classic cars and I feel that they're entirely appropriate for a conservative website, as they remind us all that we don't have to drive a battery-operated rollerskate.  Driving an older car can be viewed as a political statement....a rejection of the uncomfortable, unsafe, generic little toys that so often pass for cars these days and an embrace of an era where comfort, style, individuality, safety and raw power were the defining benchmarks of automobiles.

28 posted on 08/20/2011 2:04:31 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Yardstick; DaxtonBrown

I remember coming home from a show one time in the Camaro with manual drum brakes and a storm hit. I had to go through a decent size puddle and after that I had zero brakes. I drove for what seemed like a mile with my foot on the brakes and gas to heat the drums up enough to get them to dry out and work.


29 posted on 08/20/2011 2:05:54 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I remember coming home from a show one time in the Camaro with manual drum brakes and a storm hit. I had to go through a decent size puddle and after that I had zero brakes. I drove for what seemed like a mile with my foot on the brakes and gas to heat the drums up enough to get them to dry out and work.

I had a Camaro with the same set-up. It was a death trap, which is why I don’t have one like it now. A classic, but...


30 posted on 08/20/2011 3:04:54 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Yardstick
primitive chassis and handling

All real luxury cars and race cars are rear wheel drive. Ever stopped to wonder why? Because FWD sucks.

31 posted on 08/20/2011 3:09:38 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rawhide
In the terrible economy, you know it's bad when a Vayron owner uses a coin-operated car wash.


32 posted on 08/20/2011 3:11:03 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

It’s gorgeous!


33 posted on 08/20/2011 3:25:50 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The Liberal Era is over.)
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To: central_va
All real luxury cars and race cars are rear wheel drive. Ever stopped to wonder why?

Because they don't drive in snow and ice....They're parked in the garages of the fair weather fairies during the winter months......LOL!

FWIW, I'll beat a Mustang Cobra from stoplight to stoplight on snow and ice every time with my front wheel drive honda..........

There's nothing funnier than watching a RWD muscle car in my rear view mirror doughnut on a stretch of ice from a stoplight or on a freeway........


34 posted on 08/20/2011 3:28:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

What a picture! So beautiful. So classy. ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. Thank you from this dial-up. You’re the best!


35 posted on 08/20/2011 3:56:42 PM PDT by famousdayandyear
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To: Hot Tabasco

You must be WAY too young to remember traversing ice and snow in a 1959 Porsche convertible. Back then we knew how to DRIVE. Today, driving is a video game. Enjoy your Honda.


36 posted on 08/20/2011 4:00:21 PM PDT by famousdayandyear
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To: DaxtonBrown

I’m putting discs on my 67 Camaro.
The drums are just too unpredictable.

I’ve spent a ton of time trying to make them consistent, but not successful.


37 posted on 08/20/2011 4:04:21 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Clearly, there’s almost no one left alive who can remember it, but, yes, cars used to have character, long, long ago.


38 posted on 08/20/2011 4:17:12 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: famousdayandyear
You must be WAY too young to remember traversing ice and snow in a 1959 Porsche convertible

Actually I'm not, I was just a little too young to afford one. Had an uncle that wrecked his coming home from a day of skiing in Harbor Springs (northern Michigan) Turns out it wasn't so good on the ice and snow either.

With that being said, what's your point?

And yes, I do enjoy my small front wheel drive in the winter........

39 posted on 08/20/2011 4:30:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Just that today it seems to me ‘drivers’ are more interested in gadgets, mysterious electronic devices, getting ahead of the other fellow. Used to be, there was DRIVING—an art, a mutual courtesy on the road, an etiquette, an end in itself. I’m old that’s all—and I miss how it ‘used to be’. Guess that’s my point. (PS: my 356 was used, a little beat up, no heat, but it was all I had for shopping, getting baby to doctor, etc. in all kinds of weather. Don’t consider myself a —what did you write—a fairie?) Take care.


40 posted on 08/20/2011 4:39:15 PM PDT by famousdayandyear
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