tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post2543747468629470312..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: I had a dream last night...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-21622314786835501912011-10-16T15:22:54.347-04:002011-10-16T15:22:54.347-04:001968-ish Ford Econoline Van, white of course, with...1968-ish Ford Econoline Van, white of course, with the engine mounted between the passenger and driver, allowing the glycol fog to fill the entire van in mere seconds when the radiator hose develops a leak. Ask me how I know!<br /><br />Second car was better - a hand-me-down AMC Gremlin from my older sister when she left home for college. It had the Molotov gas tank cover - a rag shoved in the hole - because potheads loved to steal the real cap with the gremlin on it. It had the obligatory rusted through sheetmetal floorboard on the passenger side - A/C in winter, Heat in summer! Its clutch linkage fell apart one day, as a cotter pin rusted into dust. I rooted around in the back, found one of my sister's abandoned bobby pins, and repaired the linkage. It drove with that bobby pin in it for months.mikeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70341240889611491052010-10-12T05:26:00.907-04:002010-10-12T05:26:00.907-04:00Tam, if you keep sharing the contents of your mind...Tam, if you keep sharing the contents of your mind like this, aren't you afraid that this blog will attract weird people who read it obsessively, every day?<br /><br />Owhell, I'll just go look at your yachting picture again.Justthisguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277333206171756636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-90917096287346885582010-10-05T06:38:12.391-04:002010-10-05T06:38:12.391-04:00Ms. K your dreams are the result of a suppresed de...Ms. K your dreams are the result of a suppresed desire for more bacon. Or cordite. Or maybe a new seat on your 'sickle.<br />There I fixed it. I'll bill to the usual address.Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05684179171065794525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70669468717265614302010-10-05T06:34:18.014-04:002010-10-05T06:34:18.014-04:00Not much for dreaming about previous cars here, ex...Not much for dreaming about previous cars here, except maybe daydreaming. I would not like to replay what used to be a recurring and very accurate/realistic nightmare about taking one 1984 Thunderbird for a nice long barrel roll down Pellissippi parkway at 125mph.<br /><br />That said, the Z3/Coronet comparison brought to mind an old tenet; you really haven't pushed a car until the brakes have faded. A bit easier to push a Coronet, I think :) <br /><br />Tbird was absurdly easy to 'push'. Sauntered @25mph across a main road through a side street's stop sign while madly pumping the pedal... more than once, and I can still smell the strangely sweet odor of boiling DOT3.Dr. StrangeGunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349076338197668654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-8071245727193169072010-10-04T23:04:12.724-04:002010-10-04T23:04:12.724-04:00I had a 66 Coronet. 383 and a 4 speed. Learned how...I had a 66 Coronet. 383 and a 4 speed. Learned how to rebuild a transmission from that car. I gotta say I liked it enough that if I had a lot of stupid money I'd own one just for old times sake. Never had a dream about it though.Grumpyunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494777446194872126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57122941567416295242010-10-04T15:04:22.923-04:002010-10-04T15:04:22.923-04:00Pffft, I'm still driving the first car! No, n...Pffft, I'm still driving the first car! No, not my first car, the first car!<br /><br />Shootin' BuddyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52762922081638674292010-10-04T13:25:57.344-04:002010-10-04T13:25:57.344-04:00I still dream about the Harley.
The Catholic prie...I still dream about the Harley.<br /><br />The Catholic priest in my family's parish in Hawaii (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel) drove a '68 Coronet, in black. Of Belgian descent, Fr. Gabriel was a sport. Used to come to our house for dinner every Friday night, smoke cigarettes and sometimes play pinochle. A golfer, too. I always thought that was a pretty damned cool car for anyone to drive, and it enhanced Fr. Gabriel's cool-quotient considerably.Billy Beckhttp://www.two--four.net/weblog.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77798705192266931322010-10-04T13:21:42.161-04:002010-10-04T13:21:42.161-04:00The Dodge Coronet. Land yacht. It could still be c...The Dodge Coronet. Land yacht. It could still be cool, if it had O/D and any of the available V8 engines, not to mention fairly comfortable.<br /><br />Luggage space surely wouldn't be an issue for your extended roadtrips, either. You might be able to fit your entire wardrobe in the trunk, along with an ample portion of your rifle collection.<br /><br />And a few bodies, if need be.theirritablearchitecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04105315709746689270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65830263731644379562010-10-04T12:11:21.798-04:002010-10-04T12:11:21.798-04:00I still miss two cars:
1. 1977 Plymouth Arrow 160...I still miss two cars:<br />1. 1977 Plymouth Arrow 160<br />2. 1988 New Yorker Landau<br /><br />I learned to drive in the first ... if cars could talk!!!<br /><br />The last was my only luxury car & I loved it! Too bad about CA Smog NAZIS!<br /><br />Ulises from CAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-56670289426385242372010-10-04T11:44:39.362-04:002010-10-04T11:44:39.362-04:00The bike seat is a lie?
/got nuthin'The bike seat is a lie? <br /><br />/got nuthin'Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952078709114872197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-66652315704448883002010-10-04T10:27:57.240-04:002010-10-04T10:27:57.240-04:00Was your bike seat decorated as if it were a cake?...Was your bike seat decorated as if it were a cake?Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05177131315441788028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-45821588146708679442010-10-04T09:25:33.327-04:002010-10-04T09:25:33.327-04:00I never, ever dream about former vehicles.
That&...I never, ever dream about former vehicles. <br /><br />That's most likely because I owned a succession of POSs through high school, college, and grad school; most were purchased with the express purpose of lasting six months or less... ;)<br /><br />Now, my Yamaha XS850 Midnight Special, OTOH...Jay Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11085873775096542015noreply@blogger.com