This is one of the best I've seen in a long time. Sit back and enjoy!
http://oldfortyfives.com/CarsWeDrove.htm
Nick
Probably the favorite of the motorcycles I've owned and/or restored: 1957 Harley FLH, note the bugle horn, white walls, and blue mudflap on the front fender, yeah baby!
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q55/71conan/TN/57flh.jpg)
Please don't ride your motorcycle on the sidewalk.
It scares the kids.
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Originally posted by recyclemichael
Please don't ride your motorcycle on the sidewalk.
It scares the kids.
In the time you've known me, have you ever seen me follow the rules?
Aaah yes, I remember what I was driving in the 60's quite well.
(http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2594/tricycleql7.jpg)
That baby could shoot down a hill fast as lightning. I remember riding for blocks and blocks, exploring the ol hood. I moved up to a rad bigwheel in the early 70s.
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Originally posted by TheArtist
Aaah yes, I remember what I was driving in the 60's quite well.
(http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2594/tricycleql7.jpg)
That baby could shoot down a hill fast as lightning. I remember riding for blocks and blocks, exploring the ol hood. I moved up to a rad bigwheel in the early 70s.
I didn't know you were that old :)
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
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Originally posted by TheArtist
Aaah yes, I remember what I was driving in the 60's quite well.
(http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2594/tricycleql7.jpg)
That baby could shoot down a hill fast as lightning. I remember riding for blocks and blocks, exploring the ol hood. I moved up to a rad bigwheel in the early 70s.
I didn't know you were that old :)
Thanks.... I think.
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Originally posted by TheArtist
Aaah yes, I remember what I was driving in the 60's quite well.
(http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2594/tricycleql7.jpg)
That baby could shoot down a hill fast as lightning. I remember riding for blocks and blocks, exploring the ol hood. I moved up to a rad bigwheel in the early 70s.
Wanna race?
If I remember them all, in the 50s my mom drove a Studebaker sedan and my dad drove a Studebaker truck, he worked in the Todd Field basin in Texas. Then my mom upgraded to a Studebaker station wagon when there were 4 of us kids. After we moved to Florida, the next car was a 59 Ford Galaxie. The next car was a 63 Ford Galaxie. The next car was a 66 Mercury Park Lane. Then I went on my own and it was Volkswagon beetle time, my first was a 65.
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Originally posted by Conan71
Probably the favorite of the motorcycles I've owned and/or restored: 1957 Harley FLH, note the bugle horn, white walls, and blue mudflap on the front fender, yeah baby!
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q55/71conan/TN/57flh.jpg)
WOW! You still got that? What a kickass bike!
Nope, sold it about five years ago. That and my '65 Electra-Glide are two bikes I'd love to have back. I've got a 1945 61" Knucklehead I'm going to put together over the winter- pure period-correct bobber.
Only problem with the '57 was it was the last year before hydraulic brakes, you had to uh, plan your stops a little more in advance. Also the last year for the rigid frame. Believe it or not, the pogo-stick seat was a better ride than a '95 Heritage Softail I used to own.
My dad was a business insurance broker (property/casualty) with the Tulsa firm of Sisk & Wakefield, then later Marsh & McLennan in the 1960's. He was fortunate to receive a brand new company car every 2 years, and it was always a Chevy Impala. We had a '60 (with those squared off horizontal tailfins), '62, '64, '66, '68 and '70 Impala from his job. He died of a heart attack at age 45 in Jan. 1971. My favorite of all these cars was his 1968 blue Impala 4-door hardtop, 396 engine with TurboHydramatic. A family car to be sure, but it could really haul butt, if only in a straight-line sort of way. His last company car, the 1970 Impala, was a Gobi beige 4-door with tan vinyl top, 400 CID engine and that car could also burn rubber. The 1970 was the most luxurious and well-optioned of all our family Impalas, but I most liked the '68.
We also had a family car for my mom; I remember the 1954 Ford, 1962-1963 Plymouth Valiant (a real lemon as I recall) and then they bought a 1968 gold Chevy Impala. It had the standard 307 V8 with Powerglide tranny, not a real performer, but I clearly remember to this day when they drove that new car home from Wilkerson Chevrolet. I was in 6th grade at John Paul Jones elementary; I usually walked or rode my bike to school but I thought I was king of the neighborhood the first time mom drove me to school in that new gold 1968 Impala!