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.
Way before the nanny state...riding backwards in the station wagon trying not to get sick on the way to the Jersey Shore...with the back window partway down so we could smell the ocean (air conditioning was a luxury item).
Way before the nanny state...riding backwards in the station wagon trying not to get sick on the way to the Jersey Shore...with the back window partway down so we could smell the ocean (air conditioning was a luxury item).
ReplyDeleteThat partway-down rear window also let you breathe enough exhaust to semi-sedate your ass.
DeleteHeh...no kidding. Dad opened the other windows first, you know, that 2-60 air con option, 2 windows down at 60mph.
DeleteI recall those days. Good days.
ReplyDeleteBeats me sitting on that box between my parents on the front seat of the Model A.
ReplyDeleteHow did I make it into my 80's after breathing all that second-hand Camel cigarette smoke in the back seat of the '42 Pontiac?
ReplyDeleteEven riding in back of a pickup for miles is a long gone memory
ReplyDeleteI remember
ReplyDeleteMy favorite riding spot. We took turns passing Dad a beer through the boot whenever he called back for one.
ReplyDeleteThey had to get that camper because Dad screwed himself out of a seat!
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if that high top was original, or an add-on. Never seen a truck camper like that.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to show you what Del Ray was doing years ago. A different time without all the nannies.
Deletehttp://www.starling-travel.com/2012/11/15/the-del-rey-kamp-king-sky-lounge-truck-camper/
Yes the camper was made that way, a two story camper. Not many original one left ,from the '60s
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time there was a free country here.
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