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They just don't make cars like this any more

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Basil

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Remember when men were men and cars were CARS? None of the sissy plastic bumpers we have today! This is a 1961 Chrysler Imperial that I've seen parked at a business which I pass every day. Finally decided it was time to stop and take a few snap!

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HAHA! Nice!! I had a friend of mine years back that drove a seriously junky '61 Imperial. It was full of bondo, and painted a really bizarre purple. I loved that car! especially those chrome headlight pods.
 
Banjo - please pick up the white courtesy phone in the "Groups" section.
 
Ah yes, and all children were above average (thank you, Garrison Keillor).

I have a late 50s copy of MotorSports magazine where the editor decries the growing length of cars, bumpers, and tailfins. All that added weight needed more horsepower to move it, thus bigger engines, thus more fuel consumed. Folks feared being at the wrong end of the "tail fin length challenge".

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If you go west on Rt. 66, there is that incense shop with the crazy signs. It belongs to the guy that runs the store. I've never seen it driven, only parked. He does move it around the lot every so often.
 
judow said:
If you go west on Rt. 66, there is that incense shop with the crazy signs. It belongs to the guy that runs the store. I've never seen it driven, only parked. He does move it around the lot every so often.
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That's the one. I've seen it there many times. It's at that service station just off the Zuzax exit currently. Getting a wash and wax no doubt!
 
Can remember an older couple driving one to church back in the day. Even back then when everything was long, it had a commanding presence.
Watching re-runs of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Ozzie had one.
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Great car. My dad used to be friends with a guy who owned one, it was one of the few cars that I liked better than the old 67 Caddy we had.
 
Basil said:
Banjo - please pick up the white courtesy phone in the "Groups" section.
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"The white zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no parking in the red zone."
 
Does this count? (With thanks to Rick in the Spridget section)

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My Old Fella bought a pink 1957 Lincoln Premier with a white top. Whatta barge!
 
Though he never realized his dream, Dad lusted after this beast:

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What continues to amaze me is not the cars - but the garages. We have lived in two houses "of the era" - 1st house built in the 50's had a single car garage - it was all I could do to fit a mini van in there. My current house, built in 1940 - double car garage - had Mrs JP's Beetle in once - just. where did they put them??!!
 
DrEntropy said:
My Old Fella bought a pink 1957 Lincoln Premier with a white top. Whatta barge!
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I used to work on a '57 Premier Convert for a local guy! Pink and black. He dubbed it the "Barbie car". That thing was huge! and it had a continental! I distinctly remember measuring the quarter panel. From the door jamb to the tip of the fin was 12 feet by it's self. It didn't have a license number, it had a zip code. I loved driving that thing!
 
In my Junior year in high school in 1959, a rich kids dad died and his mother gave him the car she had been driving.
It was a Pink Lincoln Continental Convertible. It caused quite a stir among us high school kids. I was very jealous since I had a 1940 Plymouth at the time that I payed a hundred bucks for.
This guys mother spoiled him rotten and he never graduated from high school.
 
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