#49649 - 08/17/05 06:42 PM
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Paul I
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Had a 57 Plymouth Coupe with pushbutton transmission. Really, why not? It's just a different kind of linkage. I'm a little sick of front seats built around a shift lever, console, cup holders, etc. My Chevy I traded was column shift with split bench front seat. You could actually move to the passenger seat without major posterior damage.
Rosebud, what brand of icecream was the Maple Walnut? Let's see, if I left tomorrow I could be in upstate NY in about a week.
Roadrunner, I have a Chairtopper on it also painted cool vanilla. It detracts a little but the real style line is in the rear roofline.
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#49650 - 08/17/05 10:34 PM
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rosebud
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lol, that's really funny P1. Bet if you floored that hemi you could make it in 4 days! 
The maple walnut is homemade at the Island Drive-In about 10 miles from here. It's a beautiful drive on a warm evening, so I go there quite often. They have 28 flavors, but I get the maple walnut or butter pecan most often.
If it would make your day, I wonder if dry ice would keep it frozen long enough to get to you? I will sure give it a try, if you really want some.
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#49651 - 08/17/05 10:43 PM
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Paul I
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That's a wonderful offer, Rosebud, and I really believe you would try. I imagine that if I really were to make an effort to find some I could. I'll have to ask around. Being a relative newcomer to these parts there are probably many ice cream parlors I am unaware of. Thank you. Paul I
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#49652 - 08/18/05 07:31 PM
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dashing
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Hey PaulI, We would push the buttons while the car was in the driveway (no one locked anything back then.) They would get pushed in too far, two jammed at once etc. He wasn't pleased racing out for work early in the morning only to have to dissembele the box, reassemble it, just to get it into reverse and head off for work espically on really cold mornings. He didn't believe in yelling or spanking. But, I'm glad we had the whole day before he saw us again. dash
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#49653 - 08/18/05 10:12 PM
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rosebud
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Ok P1. Have a good nite. 
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#49654 - 08/19/05 02:16 PM
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cbal-craig
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Originally posted by Paul I:
I just bought a Dodge Magnum, cool vanilla, V-8 Hemi powered that will help maintain my youthfulness and suck the doors off the BMWs, SUVs and other hardware of the "now" generation.
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#49656 - 08/19/05 03:05 PM
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Paul I
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In the 50's it was "cool, neat, or suave" as well as I can recall. Of course those were the days that gay meant happy and the only think that sucked was a vacuum cleaner, the "F" word was totally a last resort of expression but the only thing different about sex was people's willingness to discuss it beyond hanging out at the garage.
Dashing, I never locked mine (shift) up like that. I'd forgotten how parents could instill fear. I'll have to ask my son if I instilled fear in him ever. My folks had a 57 Dodge also-mint green and darker green. Wow, two-tone paint hardly exists anymore unless you drive an ELement does it? What happened? See what these children are missing?
We all read this book called Street Rod in Junior High and then painted our bikes- my Schwinn with "knee action" - pink and copper.
What was anybody's first car?
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#49657 - 08/19/05 03:15 PM
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rosebud
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Help! My memory has gone blank on who sang this song in the 50's. The voice sounds like Bobby Vintin (sp?) but not sure who it is.
"Onnly lovve can break your hearrrt"
"Onnly lovve can mennnnnnd it againnnn"
I heard it on the radio this morning and can't get out of my head. 
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#49659 - 08/19/05 04:13 PM
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rosebud
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My dad used to refurbish seat and door apholstry and repaint damaged cars back in the 50's as a side job and many times would take us kids for a ride in the "new" car. He fixed up a couple of Studebakers (one was gray and the other a pea green) the seats and doors were a mousey velvety texture. Was like going for a ride in a wingless airplane - what fun that was. He also drove a big white Indian motorcycle. I remember hanging onto his waist for dear life when he took me for a ride (no helmets either).
I got my drivers training ,so to speak, in my boyfriend's old Ford Coupe, standard trans., no power steering. I think it was a '46 or '47. I had a huge problem keeping my bottom on the seat when making a sharp turn. Went off the road several times, but there was no traffic on the dirt roads we practiced on and I was only 15 or 16. We got away with a lot back then. Ahhh, those were the days.
I didn't have a car of my own until I was 22, a couple years after I was in the car accident. I got my drivers license while at the Rusk Institute in NYC. My first car was a '64 Plymouth Valiant only because it was a breeze to transfer in and out of and get the chair in the back.
-Barb
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#49660 - 08/19/05 04:17 PM
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rosebud
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Aaah, Geeene Pitney - I love that song.
Thanks P1.
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#49662 - 08/19/05 05:48 PM
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Paul I
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Jeeze, I loved Studebakers. My French teacher in high school had one of the first sporty ones- about a 54 or 55 maybe. In fact, went to a Studebaker show here is Mesa last spring. Later on I fell in love with the Avanti and bought a used one, a 63. I had to convert it from 4 speed to automatic, a real job. Took me about a week. But it was the most accessible car I ever had for stuffing the chair in the back seat. You people are really taking me down memory lane. Paul I
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#49663 - 08/19/05 06:04 PM
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rosebud
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I can understand the freedom you must have felt. Roadrunner, there's nothing like hopping in a car and taking off solo - and in a red convertable yet, wow what an exciting day that must have been!
Those Studebakers were ugly, but unique and bring back fond memories of my dad.
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