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.
Back in the real early 70's when I was still an amateur as a mechanic, my cousin and I replaced the push button automatic transmission in his dad's '67 Dodge station wagon. How we were able to get the cables into the correct holes and re-attached to the transmission is still a mystery to this day, but it worked. A couple of months later someone ran stop sign and crashed into the old classic and it was scrapped.
If it’s a 63, it must be an Imperial or New Yorker. My first car was a 63 Chrysler 300. The steering wheel was similarly squarish, but the dash features were more rounded off rather than pointy like this. Beside the push buttons there was a lever that moved vertically to put it in park. Despite weighing about 2 tons, the 383 engine could make it jump pretty good.
That 383 was a fine engine. Back in the late '60s CDF's (CalFire's) inmate crew busses had those matched to five speed transmissions and two speed rear ends. Considering the weight those things were packing they got right down (and more importantly up) the road. I believe those rigs had two fifty gallon fuel tanks and needed every drop of it.
The foremen drove them like rented mules and in my two years at that camp I don't remember any of those four busses ever breaking down.
My parents 64 New Yorker had that squished steering wheel and it was great. very comfortable. Its pushbutton shift had a park lever. This one relies on using the Parking brake.
A whole lot of pointy things
ReplyDeleteIn the words of the late, great Tom McCahill, "The dash would cleave Junior's skull like a dull axe."
DeleteA dashboard with tail fins. AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteThe car designers back in the '50s and '60s sure must have had fun. Nothing was too outrageous.
Back in the real early 70's when I was still an amateur as a mechanic, my cousin and I replaced the push button automatic transmission in his dad's '67 Dodge station wagon. How we were able to get the cables into the correct holes and re-attached to the transmission is still a mystery to this day, but it worked. A couple of months later someone ran stop sign and crashed into the old classic and it was scrapped.
ReplyDeleteThe squarish steering wheel makes me think of a Continental.
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ReplyDeleteIf it’s a 63, it must be an Imperial or New Yorker. My first car was a 63 Chrysler 300. The steering wheel was similarly squarish, but the dash features were more rounded off rather than pointy like this. Beside the push buttons there was a lever that moved vertically to put it in park. Despite weighing about 2 tons, the 383 engine could make it jump pretty good.
DeleteThat 383 was a fine engine. Back in the late '60s CDF's (CalFire's) inmate crew busses had those matched to five speed transmissions and two speed rear ends. Considering the weight those things were packing they got right down (and more importantly up) the road.
DeleteI believe those rigs had two fifty gallon fuel tanks and needed every drop of it.
The foremen drove them like rented mules and in my two years at that camp I don't remember any of those four busses ever breaking down.
My parents 64 New Yorker had that squished steering wheel and it was great. very comfortable. Its pushbutton shift had a park lever. This one relies on using the Parking brake.
ReplyDeleteThe Nissan rental car I am in right now has a squarish steering wheel. It is uncomfortable. I see how it could cause a problem.
ReplyDeleteDamn, that’s pretty!
ReplyDeleteAh yes. The dash made of pure steel. No air bags. Only a lap belt.
ReplyDeleteWe died like real men.
Today cars need a really flat bottomed steering wheel because of all the morbidly obese overeaters/underexercisers there are in America today.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, maybe the adjustable-height steering wheel takes care of that.
I doubt it, though in far too many cases.........