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To: mylife

I only named one of my cars; a big old 1977 Mercury Marquis that had been my dad’s. Big and armored like a battleship. So I called it “The Bismarck.”


130 posted on 08/24/2016 6:48:01 PM PDT by henkster
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To: henkster

We all name ours odd female names, my VW bus was Bertha.
Bertha had a bee in her bonnet cuz she had a Porsche engine.


139 posted on 08/24/2016 6:52:40 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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You should have seen my 1952 Buick Super hardtop with a straight-8 engine. It was built like a tank. I bought it used in 1961 for hundred bux. It gave about 5 mpg in city but gas in those days in Iowa city was only 19 cents/gallon, so even a student like me could occasionally fill 10 gallons of gas to go on a date or two. The battery was old, and if it did not start with the first crank, it was done. Then my roommate and I would push it down the hill from parking lot and I would pop the clutch to start the engine. On highways we could drive it at 90 mph and the ride was smooth!


160 posted on 08/24/2016 6:59:24 PM PDT by entropy12 (Majority of Politicians are either Globalists pushing cheap labor express or are Neocons.)
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