The cars we drove back then.....

[Adam Helmer]

Rabid Rich,

Chat on as I like your posts. The is BACK IN TIME so guns may, or may not be, what we are chatting about as we sit on stumps around the campfire.

I gotta tell you about our 1949 Pontiac 8 cylinder 4-door "tank." In the Summer of 1961, betwixt my junior and senior years in high school, a neighbor gave us the aformentioned 1949 Pontiac. It was a great car for me and my twin brother to run over the farm. We learned to shift gears, run over chucks and play car tag with the neighbor lads who also had farm cars.

Brother and I pooled our yard mowing funds to buy gas and we used dad's drain oil to top off the Pontiac's bloc. Our "Grey Ghost" was the terror of the outback! The neighbor kids had a 49 Ford,a mini Anglia and a 48 Studebaker and when it came to car tag, we had a PANZER VI in that old Pontiac, bald tires and all. As I recall, we demolished all the other farm cars before we totaled the 1949 Pontiac. Yes, it was a sad day when we saw it go for junk and all we got was $25.00. Damn, and that car did not have seat belts. How did we kids survive them bad old days?

Adam