And builds character . 
Probably a stupid question...
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Last Chrysler I owned was a '60 C-300F back in the later 1960's, complete with the 413 wedge motor, TorqueFlight push-button transmission, sleek modern aerodynamic look and crazy dashboard---Batmobile I'm thinking. 
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I had a knee replacement done, installed backwards so I can still kick myself for having sold it. jim
1957 New Yorker. Alice Blue after Chet Atkins
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I'm driving a Mopar again in the form of my new Grand Caravan R/T but the ones I was sorry to let go were my minty '68 Hemi Roadrunner and my minty '70 Hemi Cuda (cough). Both were bought and sold in the 1970's. I could have done worse and killed myself in either one of them...
Seeing auction prices on both of those cars in recent years makes me sad, but they were cashed out to buy houses and stuff. I saw my actual Road Runner at an outdoor concours a couple years ago (felt so good that it has been preserved) and the current owner let me sit in it and start it up. No power steering, no power brakes, no factory tach, track pack with a 4.10 Dana 60, a 4 speed, and a Hemi. Black on black and the most badass muscle car I could imagine and I owned it when I was 23 years old.
And yes, I remember changing a heater core in sub zero weather in my '68 Olds 442. When I finished, the gas lines had frozen and I had to wait a week for temps to warm up enough that a space heater in the garage could thaw the lines.
Life goes on,
George
Seeing auction prices on both of those cars in recent years makes me sad, but they were cashed out to buy houses and stuff. I saw my actual Road Runner at an outdoor concours a couple years ago (felt so good that it has been preserved) and the current owner let me sit in it and start it up. No power steering, no power brakes, no factory tach, track pack with a 4.10 Dana 60, a 4 speed, and a Hemi. Black on black and the most badass muscle car I could imagine and I owned it when I was 23 years old.
And yes, I remember changing a heater core in sub zero weather in my '68 Olds 442. When I finished, the gas lines had frozen and I had to wait a week for temps to warm up enough that a space heater in the garage could thaw the lines.
Life goes on,
George
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I'm only 64 and being a bicyclist and rock and roller, have never bothered to get old. In addition to having owned cool cars, I am also old enough to have seen all the cool bands.
I never developed a taste for tailfin era cars and started reading Car Craft and Hot Rod magazines circa 1962 when I was 10. Started playing guitar in 1966 and liked car songs and surf songs. The Beach Boys never sang about tailfins either.
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I never developed a taste for tailfin era cars and started reading Car Craft and Hot Rod magazines circa 1962 when I was 10. Started playing guitar in 1966 and liked car songs and surf songs. The Beach Boys never sang about tailfins either.
George
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Sold it a short while later---assuming the distributor gave up or fuel pump---didn't have time or interest to repair it. Besides those right hand wheel lugs were all left handed threads which confused the hell outta me. Got the amazing price of $60 plus I had to tow it to the buyer!
Good times!
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67, retired 7 years ago,
still listen to a fossil rock station in the shop,
restored an 88 E-150 that belonged to pops,
overhauled a gokart for one set of grandkids,
overhauling a 1985 Yamaha ATV for the other grandkid,
my todo list is getting longer, not shorter.
STILL wish I had that New Yorker even with the dual front brake cylinders (and those $%^# lefthand wheel lugs! haha).
jim
still listen to a fossil rock station in the shop,
restored an 88 E-150 that belonged to pops,
overhauled a gokart for one set of grandkids,
overhauling a 1985 Yamaha ATV for the other grandkid,
my todo list is getting longer, not shorter.
STILL wish I had that New Yorker even with the dual front brake cylinders (and those $%^# lefthand wheel lugs! haha).
jim
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It got 21 on the road! To make the body strong enough to remove the top, the engineers welded an X with I beams inside the frame. The cross in the X had a hole for the driveshaft. Once you got it moving, it would roll for hours.
But yeah, around town, not so good. But hey, remember the price of gas in 1957!
But yeah, around town, not so good. But hey, remember the price of gas in 1957!
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