And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I remember the commercial for these when they first were revealed to the public.....three vehicles were travelling down the road under sheets when they suddenly blew off....I was 10 at the time and this was the most modern jet age car I'd ever seen.....
I remember the commercial for these when they first were revealed to the public.....three vehicles were travelling down the road under sheets when they suddenly blew off....I was 10 at the time and this was the most modern jet age car I'd ever seen.....
ReplyDeleteDo want.
ReplyDeletePerfect car to take my wife out to supper at the local drive in.
ReplyDelete'61(?) T-Bird
ReplyDeleteNow that's a pretty clever concept that works. If I recall, those Thunderbirds were real lead sleds though, very heavy and rode like a sofa.
ReplyDeleteIMHO....compared to the 55-57 'birds....these were the most ugliest POS that Ford designed up to that timeframe!!
DeleteThat reminds me of the old joke about how to tell a happy motorcyclist, by the bugs in his teeth.
ReplyDeleteI rode in the back of a 64, 100 miles. I was so sea sick...
ReplyDeleteIf you welded a water tank onto it and painted it black, it would make a pretty good second choice Deathmobile.
ReplyDelete"Cut the cake! Ramming speed!"
looks like it's flyin', sittin' still
ReplyDeletesearch terms:
DeleteDelahaye
Saoutchik
Figoni et Filaschi
I associate Thunderchickens with sleazy Jack Lemmon upper managers who keep a secretary in jewels and a townhouse , and are married to Phyliss Diller.
ReplyDeleteif memory serves, that was a theme back in the early sixties.