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Thread: American Car Enthusiasts
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25th April 2012, 15:08 #21
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Originally Posted by Dr Giacomo Rappaccini
The Valiant we had was equipped with push-button automatic transmission and was the car I first learned to drive.
I remember the road trip the family did in that car one summer, pulling a pop-up tent trailer from Montreal to Florida. The water pump gave out somewhere in South Carolina but as luck would have it, the first service station we limped into happened to have a replacement
I don't know what the final odemeter was when we finally got rid of it (the rear differential gave way, but the engine was still in perfect running order) because the speedometer stopped working long ago: .
“If everything's under control, you're going too slow.” Mario Andretti
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25th April 2012, 16:37 #22
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Valiants were a very popular car, and they did seem to run forever. A buddy of mine had a Rambler Station Wagon with a push-button automatic. I'm not sure what year it was I would guess early to mid 60's. We used to load the Surfboards in the back and cruised to south Mission Beach, La Jolla Shores, and even take it to the playas. There are several good breaks before you even get to Rosarito Beach which is about 35 Kilometers south of the border. We had our system worked out so that we would bring cannabis down but leave it in tupperware containers and when we left we hid them in the eroded cavities of the cliffs so we didn't have to worry about scrutiny, by
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26th April 2012, 05:55 #23
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Originally Posted by Starter
I had a friend whose father was an exec with New York Life in S.D. He got his wife a new Cadillac every other year, but he was into more sporty models He had a 1970 Corvette, but I thought his 1966 Lancia Flaminia Zagato SS was the badest car I ever rode in at the time. The cobra would blow either one away, but The Lancia looked and sounded so cool with its tall gearing. It didn't have the grunt his ‘vette had, but it sounded wicked when he took it through the gears. That little hummer was my first experience with a high revving imported sportster. I preferred it to the 'vette. I bet that thing is worth a fortune in today’s market
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27th April 2012, 06:19 #24
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Originally Posted by Dr Giacomo Rappaccini
Is this country getting disgusting or what. OHOHOH my God you got a piece of ass. Holy sh!t lets do a world wide investigation.Obama to Biden - "Let the Welfare checks rain upon the Earth - I am going to a barbecue"
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27th April 2012, 14:46 #25
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Originally Posted by Roamy
Now through the greed of American Land Developers, and industrial Meat Producers they have a strangle hold on the industries that were previously, and proudly performed by working class Americans.
I would like to end this post with a quote from Abraham Lincoln:
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.May the forza be with you
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28th April 2012, 02:26 #26
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nice but our country is in the sh!tter because or our politicians and there seems to be no road outObama to Biden - "Let the Welfare checks rain upon the Earth - I am going to a barbecue"
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28th April 2012, 08:56 #27
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Originally Posted by Roamy
Originally Posted by Honest Abe
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30th April 2012, 03:08 #28
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Originally Posted by Dr Giacomo Rappaccini
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