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.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Rambler! I knew a guy who drover the family Rambler into the 90's. He called it "The Blur."
My uncle had a Rambler station wagon. It could tow a small trailer that was directly attached to the rear bumper via a pair of “up-and-down” hinges. Under the trailer was a single pneumatic tire on a sprung, swiveling bogey. It was interesting to see the rig go over bumps and through turns.
My high school girlfriend's dad gave her a Rambler American for her sixteenth birthday. Of course, whenever someone got a new car (or a new old car) we all looked under the hood. If I remember correctly, the exhaust manifold looked like a piece of electrical conduit bolted to the head. I had a '50 Studebaker at the time which was more like a real car. I'm pretty old and could this could just be a false memory.
We had two of them, both 1961 models with in-line 6-cylinder engine; one with 3 on the column, and one with a push-button transmission, which ultimately became a parts donor for the 3-on-the- column wagon that was my original driver, starting at 15. Front seats would fully recline, it had a hole rusted out in the floorboard behind the driver's seat, handy for teenagers discarding empty beer cans. Muffler had a big hole rusted in it - if you could get up to 80mph on a straghtaway then let off the gas, it would backfire like a 12 ga. shotgun. Good times for a redneck kid.
My uncle had a Rambler station wagon. It could tow a small trailer that was directly attached to the rear bumper via a pair of “up-and-down” hinges. Under the trailer was a single pneumatic tire on a sprung, swiveling bogey. It was interesting to see the rig go over bumps and through turns.
ReplyDeleteI remember those, seemed like a simple solution to carry more.
DeleteMy high school girlfriend's dad gave her a Rambler American for her sixteenth birthday. Of course, whenever someone got a new car (or a new old car) we all looked under the hood. If I remember correctly, the exhaust manifold looked like a piece of electrical conduit bolted to the head. I had a '50 Studebaker at the time which was more like a real car. I'm pretty old and could this could just be a false memory.
ReplyDeleteWe had two of them, both 1961 models with in-line 6-cylinder engine; one with 3 on the column, and one with a push-button transmission, which ultimately became a parts donor for the 3-on-the- column wagon that was my original driver, starting at 15. Front seats would fully recline, it had a hole rusted out in the floorboard behind the driver's seat, handy for teenagers discarding empty beer cans. Muffler had a big hole rusted in it - if you could get up to 80mph on a straghtaway then let off the gas, it would backfire like a 12 ga. shotgun. Good times for a redneck kid.
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