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In Reply to: RE: Coolest/weirdest cars you ever drove/owned? posted by tinear on April 08, 2021 at 08:33:05
My FIRST car, gifted from my brother, was a '56 Chrysler Windsor.
2-doors. 331 Wedge Head with a WCFB 4bbl. And a 2-speed push button auto trans.
It even had one of those 'air scoops' at the base of the windshield to direct air to your feet.
Last of the Powerflite 2-speed and PRE Carter AFB, 4bbl.
My dad put on a new dual exhaust system with glass packs and redid the kingpin front end....we got the LAST kingpins in the western Hemisphere, I think.
Giganitc 12" drum brakes were so-so....and could be cooked......
Power steering and GENERATOR (pre alternator) SHARED a common shaft and the whole underhood required matched pairs of belts.....'double belted'. The PS reservoir even had a FILTER which we found and changed.....
People I didn't know would come up to me at school at tell me how cool that beast was. It was the 'Nassau Couple' in light blue over white. And was HUGE....
Similar to the photo......
Too much is never enough
Follow Ups:
House I grew up in was on a steep hill, too steep to for us to ride up on our bikes.
Guy next door had a 1960 Dodge that he parked in front of the house. It was always rolling down the hill into somebody else's yard. My dad told me it was because the parking brake was on the drive shaft.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
True......
That's why I was always TRAINED to pull 'into' the curb.....going down and 'out' going UP.
Also? I owned the care when I lived in Florida which has a hill.....somewhere.....
Too much is never enough
my sister-in-law had a Dodge Daytona, the front-drive Daytona based on the K-car. They were out in in brother's car one day, came home, and the Daytona was gone.
They reported it stolen. Several days later, the neighbor knocked on their door to ask, did they know their Dodge was in the woods over the hill behind the house?
Yep. Parking brake wasn't working--rust-frozen cables were common on that car--it had a manual transmission, and my sister-in-law forgot to put it in gear when she parked it.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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