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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Where the heck is reverse?!
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
When in high school, I had use of my stepfather’s 68 Chevelle wagon with a 250 cid in-line 6 with a three speed on the column and no power steering. It had power assisted brakes, a heavy duty suspension, vinyl bench seats with a lap belt only. The only concession to luxury was an AM radio. It was a horror to drive. The transmission linkage would lock up if you didn’t baby it, requiring you to pull over and get under the hood to fix it. If you drove it with the rear window in the tailgate down, the exhaust gas would pour into the interior, so you’d have to roll down all of the windows if you needed to haul anything that wouldn’t fit in the back of the wagon. A misery in the winter. All crank windows, by the way, including the tailgate which had to be rolled down from the outside of the car.
It was a horrible car, but I loved it.
I know Gene (and Paul?) are marketing 'geniuses' for practically all of your cradle-to-the-grave needs, but I've not ever seen that cycle before. You could ride it straight into your KISS Casket, laid to rest in their shirt and belt buckle!
Get out and push.
Or park only at the end of the lot so you do not get someone in front of you, if they do you may be waiting a while.
I'd love to see Gene changing gears in those boots, and if he succeeded, watching those bat wings blow him off the back of the bike, once he got above about 40MPH.
Impracticality aside, I'm in.
