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bnsf971 said:
About the only "plus" to mine being a Gutless Wonder, it got 17 highway, 12 city.
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in fairness to Ford my Galaxy was modified and driven by me as a teenager. Those cheap bias-ply tires never had a fair chance either. I even resorted to retreads because it seemed I was always buying tires. Like other things at the time, my tires/money went up in smoke.
Fast times in east Baltimore.
 
Beer, Whiskey, and other things do not enhance one's ability to drive. In fact, they have a severe negative impact on driving ability.
Thank God I learned this before I hurt anyone. But I am familiar with the sound of metal impacting metal.
I had knee high tube socks and still do! 😳 The difference is now I wear them as compression socks.
Have a great day!
 
Chrιstιαη said:
Hello Happy Members !
Today is a big day on the CCRR. It's the Hunting Party Day.

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McLeod said:
Afternoon, folks! Just thought I'd better report in for a quick coffee.

Fires are still burning in Alberta. As far as I know, Drayton Valley, Wildwood, and Fox Creek are still evacuated. Our local fitness centre is full of evacutees getting food and temporary housing. Camp grounds are full, too.
In my opinion, the media is making it sound like the end of the world. Truth is, it's nothing new that we arn't used to seeing around here. The fires seem to be more numerous, but, not any worse than other years. Evacuations are nothing new. I suppose the media just needs to have big, embellished stories; scare people.

My first car was almost exactly the same as the '63' Corvair in this photo:
View attachment 168356The only good thing about that car is that it taught me through necessity how to fix a car.

Well, I don't have anything much. Perhaps when I get modelling again.
Have a great day, folks.
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A tennis buddy had one of these back in the day. His was an automatic, but unlike almost any other similarly equipped car of that era, his sported neither a slotted (center console) fore-aft stick-shift, nor even an up-down push-pull shift lever behind the wheel on the right side.

Nope. His corvair sported a set of...get this...vertically mounted PUSH-buttons on the dash, left of the steering wheel. Park, Neutral, Drive, etc...but it struck me like driving a washing machine from the local laundromat. As in "insert a dime every time you want to change gears"....

Ralph Nader had written his famous book "Unsafe At Any Speed" about the Corvair (and others) a few years before, and today I can only equate this with driving while using a cell phone...but a phone dropped down onto your left hip. What designer thought you could focus on both the dash and the road far away ahead at almost the same time? And had he ever TRIED clapping hands while skipping along the sidewalk chewing bubble gum?

Sophisticated, nonetheless. The buttons were mechanically coupled in back, so every time you pushed one, all the others popped back out front. High tech stuff, ya know?
 
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