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.
Those iconic bullet lights. Can you imagine something like that now when everything looks a like a composite brick on four wheels, even leggo cars have more style..
In the early '80s a friend had one of these. No dents, no missing pieces. Perfectly primed, ready for paint. Finish a bit of wiring, some life left in the soft top but figure a new top in a year or two.
$300 and clear title. But what was I gonna do with that? I already had two trucks and three cars.
From that view it reminds me of the rocket ship ride they had at the Coney Island amusement park just outside Cincinnati Ohio. Loved them, long gone, just like my childhood.
Thats like another world to me, was just old enough to remember those cars trying to out do each-other in the rocket age, it was everywhere, like pumpkin spice is, cept us kids had a myriad of stuff to choose from, all things rockets and space men. And then the real rockets and men who flew them. What a time to be a kid. We got yo watch all the Mercury and then Gemini flights, those where the best, bare knuckle space flight, those men earned their paychecks, what they did broke ground for everything to follow, it was hairy business too, those astronauts had balls of steel and smarts to back them up.
Back when men were men, women were straight and the chrome was thick.
ReplyDeleteThose iconic bullet lights. Can you imagine something like that now when everything looks a like a composite brick on four wheels, even leggo cars have more style..
ReplyDeleteIn the early '80s a friend had one of these. No dents, no missing pieces. Perfectly primed, ready for paint. Finish a bit of wiring, some life left in the soft top but figure a new top in a year or two.
ReplyDelete$300 and clear title. But what was I gonna do with that? I already had two trucks and three cars.
From that view it reminds me of the rocket ship ride they had at the Coney Island amusement park just outside Cincinnati Ohio. Loved them, long gone, just like my childhood.
ReplyDelete'59 Caddy yeh! the anatomy of some women remind of these tailights. and vice/versa.
ReplyDeletemy favorite car. but bad color.
ReplyDeleteI hope that my silly reply is not taken offensively but back in the day, this sort of ostentatious vehicle was called a "Jew Canoe."
ReplyDeleteI thought that only applied to Buicks.
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In darker colors, we always called them pimp-mobiles.
DeleteThats like another world to me, was just old enough to remember those cars trying to out do each-other in the rocket age, it was everywhere, like pumpkin spice is, cept us kids had a myriad of stuff to choose from, all things rockets and space men. And then the real rockets and men who flew them. What a time to be a kid. We got yo watch all the Mercury and then Gemini flights, those where the best, bare knuckle space flight, those men earned their paychecks, what they did broke ground for everything to follow, it was hairy business too, those astronauts had balls of steel and smarts to back them up.
ReplyDeleteWe need to find you one in traffic-cone orange.
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