Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Had one of these given to me. It was black with a white roof. people thought it was a cop car. Esp. 'cos I had a CB antenna on it.

They were boats. My neighbour had one like above.

Cars that cops drive are good. I've had two and have never been stopped by a cop.

 

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I had that car when I was a senior in high school! Push button automatic tranny! 318 V-8!

That must have been a lot of fun. Those pushbutton transmissions were cool. I recall that some cars from that era had a small leaver on the dash. When searching images, I noticed that the Fury finally lost the fins in '61.

Had a '59 Pontiac Strato Chief that also had the tail fins and sights on the front fenders. Like the one below but a two-door. Design details from WWII aircraft.

 

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A friend had a bright orange Hemi souped up Roadrunner, with a Hurst manual transmission and slicks. That thing could lay down rubber.

I'd take a sleeper any day though.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Friday On My Mind

The Furys, not the car, the band.


The Plymouth Fury was a cool car.

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Wonder if anyone ever looked at a Plymouth Fury and said sure wish my bass were that colour.

Perhaps in some alternate universe, who knows.

Had one of these given to me. It was black with a white roof. people thought it was a cop car. Esp. 'cos I had a CB antenna on it.

Yeah cop car.

 

[GonePlaid]

Wonder if anyone ever looked at a Plymouth Fury and said sure wish my bass were that colour.

Perhaps in some alternate universe, who knows.





Yeah cop car.

I have seen FSO's in a color like that.
Whenever I'd drive it(wife's car)with the CB on, I'd hear reports of a "plain wrapper"-unmarked police car-in my area. Then I'd realize they meant me.

 

[Passinwind]

Wonder if anyone ever looked at a Plymouth Fury and said sure wish my bass were that colour.

Perhaps in some alternate universe, who knows.

I'd hit it...

 

[Passinwind]

That must have been a lot of fun. Those pushbutton transmissions were cool. I recall that some cars from that era had a small leaver on the dash.

My first car was a '63 Tempest that had the two speed auto trannie with the shifter lever on the dash. And the craptastic 4 cylinder hamster. But we still figured out how to get into plenty of trouble, somehow.

 

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I'd hit it...

A band wagon if I ever did see one. You could load everything in there.

 

[GwenOnBass]

It took a ride "to the next town" across Kansas in somebody's EnormousMobile to understand the "why" of big Detroit Iron. Out there there are no curves in the road and it's just some long while riding on a big couch. With absolutely nothing to see in any direction for hours.

Unrelated. It's always a special day when I see when I've gone through an entire bottle of ink. This one is Sheaffer Blue. Marginally brighter than its counterpart, Parker Quink Blue, it's that everyday ink for everyday things. Never fails, never plugs a pen, washes up cleanly, doesn't feather on cheap paper ... and reasonably priced. Same formula as the original Sheaffer Writing Fluid introduced in the early 30s, it was once as a familiar item in the house as a phone book ....

 

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Wonder if anyone ever looked at a Plymouth Fury and said sure wish my bass were that colour.

Life was simpler, the world was mostly in back & white back then.

Not that Leo didn't use car paint on instruments.

 

[Passinwind]

A band wagon if I ever did see one. You could load everything in there.

Yep, the guitar player in my first working band had one. All three of us in the front seat, off to the races.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Life was simpler, the world was mostly in back & white back then.

Tri-X rules.

 

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Fiesta Red. I had one like this only it was more cherry red.

 

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Tri-X rules.

400 ASA

 

[Passinwind]

It took a ride "to the next town" across Kansas in somebody's EnormousMobile to understand the "why" of big Detroit Iron. Out there there are no curves in the road and it's just some long while riding on a big couch. With absolutely nothing to see in any direction for hours.

Heh. My best friend in my last year of high school ('70-'71) had a Roadrunner with all kinds of tricky bits. He had a different rear end gear set for cruising the NY State Pay By Mile road thingie. My friend seemed to think it was pay by the minute, so less minutes was mo' bettah. Punch the gas, watch the fuel indicator go left, literally. Good times.

 

[the harp unstrung]

'Kansas', and 'fun' are not two words ordinarily found in the same sentence...But!

Last Spring, my Bride n I had to traverse the Sunflower State on our way home from CO...

(We call this picture 'Flat Lining'
across a very flat place.)

We found ourselves in a little college town named

UK @ Hays?

It is home to great coffee, cold beer, and one of the Best natural history museums I've ever visited...and That's my jam!

I would go back to Hays, KS tomorrow!

 

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Yep, the guitar player in my first working band had one. All three of us in the front seat, off to the races.

In 1965, the Rolling Stones would come to town in two station wagons. They were a big band so could afford it.

 

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Unrelated. It's always a special day when I see when I've gone through an entire bottle of ink. This one is Sheaffer Blue. Marginally brighter than its counterpart, Parker Quink Blue, it's that everyday ink for everyday things. Never fails, never plugs a pen, washes up cleanly, doesn't feather on cheap paper ... and reasonably priced. Same formula as the original Sheaffer Writing Fluid introduced in the early 30s, it was once as a familiar item in the house as a phone book ....

I used to be like that with hot sauce. It took ages to see the bottom of a bottle. Those days a long behind me, like the world in black&white, taste is much more vivid.

 

[Passinwind]

In 1965, the Rolling Stones would come to town in two station wagons. They were a big band so could afford it.

I never asked the band wives if they minded hitchhiking to our gigs.

 

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I never asked the band wives if they minded hitchhiking to our gigs.

The luggage rack could hold three or four people surfing.

Better than being a hitchhiker and being picked up by Charlie Manson.

Hitchhiking with Evil: The Beach Boys' Surreal Relationship with Charles Manson - Consequence of Sound