The cars we drove back then.....

[Rabid Rich]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,
Thanks for draggin up good OLD memories...
My first car was a 1955 Ford Custom 4 door with a factory 2 inch lowered rear end, a Continental kit, "three-on-the-tree" and manual overdrive.( there was a pull lever under the dash that you pulled out for over drive) It was "Fawn Tan" when I bought it as a Re-po from my local bank. The year was 1958. I had my drivers license for 5 years prior to making enough to make car payments without having to scrimp. I was out one night "carousing about" in another town and went to sleep at the wheel trying to make it back in time for work. The resulting wreck ended up being great as along with replacement fenders and such I had it painted Black on bottom and White on top. I bought some chrome headlight covers from "Western Auto" that help trick it out to my liking. I added black and white carpet that I cut and laid myself. As you can tell by now I was quite thrilled with it all.
One thing I remember most about it all. That was the feeling of being totally FREE to go and do as I wanted, when I wanted. What a "RUSH". You folks remember that feeling???
And how many of you ever went around after hours to "filling stations" and drained the hoses on the gas pumps? It probably wasn't worth the trouble gas wise but it SEEMED like it! I even had a LEO help me once! HA!
Thanks again for this post and thanks for lettin to an ol codger
re-live some great times!!
Oh yeah, I almost furgot, It was a Jack Rabbit huntin buggy. It had fenders and a hood ornament you could hold onto while shootin rabbits in the headlights!!!! HAW!
Now hows that for OLD!!!
My best to you all!
RR