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.
A pleasure most under 55 will not know. I miss the days when you could sit down with the dealer's salesman, go through a large catalogue page by page and built your car piece by piece before the specs were sent to the assembly line.
55 an hour coming down the line. You in essence were a machine. It did pay the bills at the time. Then NAFTA (SAY Clinton) sent the jobs to Mexico and devastated communities and families. Sad to say, many of them folks still check the D in the voter’s booth. Go figure. 1st ANGLICO class of 71’
I worked on that line then in Pontiac Motors [Plant 9, I think] for two years but I was hanging the piston rods. If I remember correctly I was paid $5.35 an hour which was better than the $3.50 an hour I was getting driving a tractor before that. But I liked driving the tractor better , but a bucks a buck. When I had saved up enough money I went on to better things. ---ken
A High School classmate had one just like it, same color; that thing was his baby. He was doing some welding on it out in the barn and he caught the barn on fire. He saved the car but the barn burned to the ground.
Is that Buddy Holly?
ReplyDeleteImagine that! Clean cut, dressed civilly, no tattoos, carnival worker facial hair. " IT WAS A BETTER TIME"
ReplyDeleteWonder if that GTO is still on the road anywhere?
ReplyDeleteA pleasure most under 55 will not know. I miss the days when you could sit down with the dealer's salesman, go through a large catalogue page by page and built your car piece by piece before the specs were sent to the assembly line.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a '66 Goat.
ReplyDelete1967 GTO. The bright grill work gives it away. '66 had the same shaped grill, but plain black.
Delete55 an hour coming down the line. You in essence were a machine. It did pay the bills at the time. Then NAFTA (SAY Clinton) sent the jobs to Mexico and devastated communities and families. Sad to say, many of them folks still check the D in the voter’s booth. Go figure. 1st ANGLICO class of 71’
ReplyDeleteI worked on that line then in Pontiac Motors [Plant 9, I think] for two years but I was hanging the piston rods. If I remember correctly I was paid $5.35 an hour which was better than the $3.50 an hour I was getting driving a tractor before that. But I liked driving the tractor better , but a bucks a buck. When I had saved up enough money I went on to better things. ---ken
ReplyDeleteA High School classmate had one just like it, same color; that thing was his baby. He was doing some welding on it out in the barn and he caught the barn on fire. He saved the car but the barn burned to the ground.
ReplyDelete67, my Mom had one.
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