1960 Chevrolet Impala and Corvair

Source: EweToob
Published: Mar 21, 2014
Author: ACDelco Connect
Post Date: 2020-05-26 02:28:51 by Esso
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#1: Esso    To: Dakmar, Lod, 4um (#0)

Before we were "woke," I guess.

Not a China-man in the lot...

Esso posted on 2020-05-26 03:10:24   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Dakmar    To: Esso (#0)

Much to the chagrin of the "bigger is better" crowd.

Of course, nothing can overcome the laws of physics:

Dakmar posted on 2020-05-26 17:35:27   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Lod    To: Dakmar (#2)

They must have had that dog on a rail to reach anywhere near 120MPH. imo

Lod posted on 2020-05-26 17:51:20   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Dakmar    To: Lod (#3)

A Focus RS can do about 160 before Bernoulli's principle kicks in. The tires usually melt first.

Dakmar posted on 2020-05-26 18:04:15   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Lod    To: Dakmar (#4)

I had no idea, thanks.

Lod posted on 2020-05-26 18:29:37   Reply   Private Reply

#6: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#2)

My family owned a 1959 Bel Air station wagon. We took that on vacation in 1963 out to see Mt. Rushmore.

The old man wanted a beer. So we stopped at a bar room in Deadwood, South Dakota.

I was looking at the Juke Box. A white guy sitting at the nearest table called an Indian a nigger and it started a fight. They were throwing hands right above me.

But that was the old days. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-26 19:00:50   Reply   Private Reply

#7: Dakmar    To: BTP Holdings (#6)

Deadwood was pretty rough, but I thought it had settled down some time after 1901 or so. :)

I remember going to Chicago about 1974 or so, I'd never seen hookers before. Still don't get why anyone would pay for them, at least that lot.

Dakmar posted on 2020-05-26 19:09:44   Reply   Private Reply

#8: BTP Holdings    To: Dakmar (#7)

I remember going to Chicago about 1974 or so, I'd never seen hookers before.

I was out of High School for a couple of years back then. Later on in the late 70's I was doing newspaper relays for the local agency to the various route boys.

I was using my old Blazer with straight six and three on the tree. That truck was a gas hog. It twas about that time gasoline took a big jump up over $1 a gallon and gas costs were killing me. So I had tot ask them for more cash which they gladly paid.

But one night I was making a drop at tone of the route boy's homes. I would shut off the truck and then count out the papers. I would kill the headlights so it would not run down the battery.

A cop stopped me at the corner and asked what I was doing. I told him, "I'm making newspaper relays for Manor News."

Then he asked his partner, "What's in back of the truck?"

She said, "Newspapers."

And here they were thinking I was doing midnight auto parts. ROTFLOL

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-26 20:38:24   Reply   Private Reply

#9: Bill D Berger    To: Esso (#1)

Before we were "woke," I guess.

Not a China-man in the lot...

Looked to see if my uncle Bill was in the video - he rode the "hillbilly highway" from KY to Detroit in 1956 to make a better life and build Chevys.

Bill D Berger posted on 2020-05-26 22:41:35   Reply   Private Reply

#10: Lod    To: Bill D Berger (#9)

and now KY is the third largest assembling state in the nation.

www.kentucky.com/news/business/article99950947.html

Lod posted on 2020-05-26 23:08:08   Reply   Private Reply

#11: BTP Holdings    To: Bill D Berger (#9)

rode the "hillbilly highway" from KY to Detroit in 1956 to make a better life and build Chevys.

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-26 23:15:50   Reply   Private Reply

#12: Bill D Berger    To: Lod, Fred Mertz (#10)

and now KY is the third largest assembling state in the nation.

www.kentucky.com/news/business/article99950947.html

LOL, I appreciate the irony!

Last year my adult son and two aunts toured the Toyota assembly plant in Georgetown (near Lexington, Fred would know where.)

It was amazing (to me anyways) how fast and efficient the whole operation is and how much of the work is done by robots.

Bill D Berger posted on 2020-05-27 00:22:38   Reply   Private Reply

#13: Fred Mertz    To: Bill D Berger (#12)

Last year my adult son and two aunts toured the Toyota assembly plant in Georgetown (near Lexington, Fred would know where.)

It was amazing (to me anyways) how fast and efficient the whole operation is and how much of the work is done

My good friend had relatives in from Finland a good number of years ago. My buddy recognizes excellence and he was very impressed with his tour of the Toyota plant and I assume the Finns were too.

I haven't visited it and I do the bourbon distillery tours on occasion.

Fred Mertz posted on 2020-05-27 00:41:53   Reply   Private Reply

#14: Lod    To: Bill D Berger (#12)

The sheer lack of human workers in that plant is amazing, and the place looks cleaner than an OR. Thanks for the vid.

Lod posted on 2020-05-27 09:41:00   Reply   Private Reply

#15: BTP Holdings    To: Fred Mertz (#13)

I do the bourbon distillery tours on occasion.

I've never been on one of those. But I seriously doubt they allow people to sample the wares.

But I knew a woman that was eating Rum Balls. She got pulled over on a traffic stop. The cop smelled the Rum and figured she had been nipping at the bottle. He wanted her to blow in the tube. She explained to him that she had been eating Rum Balls which is just the essence of Rum and contains no alcohol. He let her slide. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-27 09:58:10   Reply   Private Reply

#16: Lod    To: BTP Holdings (#15)

Were there no sampling, the tours would be pointless since no one would attend.

Lod posted on 2020-05-27 10:33:41   Reply   Private Reply

#17: Fred Mertz    To: BTP Holdings (#15)

I've never been on one of those. But I seriously doubt they allow people to sample the wares.

When I got here in the 90s sampling and sales were forbidden. At some point they joined the 20th century and they end the tour with a pro instructing the group how to sample your bourbon like a pro does.

Fred Mertz posted on 2020-05-27 10:50:00   Reply   Private Reply

#18: BTP Holdings    To: Fred Mertz (#17)

how to sample your bourbon like a pro does.

I hear that.

I also heard the last place you can find real moonshine was Hardy, Arkansas.

We used to drive thru there in big truck on our weekly trip to Florida back around 2002 and 2003. Speed limit thru town was 25 and you better be doing it. Parking was on both sides of the street.

Now I see they have built a bypass around town. I imagine it cuts at least 15 minutes off the run. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-27 11:06:26   Reply   Private Reply

#19: Fred Mertz    To: BTP Holdings (#18)

I also heard the last place you can find real moonshine was Hardy, Arkansas.

I find that hard to believe. My neighbor goes 4-wheeling a few times a month in remote areas and he always has some shine in his refrigerator - not for distribution. I'll sip some when playing poker and then go back to my beer. I've heard too many moonshine stories and I don't want to be one of them.

Fred Mertz posted on 2020-05-27 11:29:03   Reply   Private Reply

#20: BTP Holdings    To: Fred Mertz (#19)

I've heard too many moonshine stories and I don't want to be one of them.

I would watch the Moonshiners series on Dish Network. I find it amazing the things they would do to avoid the law.

One guy was in prison for 10 years for making moonshine. When he got out he went with a couple of friends to the last place he had a still set up. He had 20 cases (4 gallons/case) of moonshine under the floor boards of the house.

Not too sure how the revenuers missed that. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-27 13:23:57   Reply   Private Reply

#21: Anthem    To: Fred Mertz (#19)

I've heard too many moonshine stories and I don't want to be one of them.

Got drunk on some homemade 'shine at a party when I was 17. Woke up the next morning in the front garden, where I had been puking. Don't remember a thing after the first few swigs. The headache still hurts.

Anthem posted on 2020-05-27 13:53:34   Reply   Private Reply

#22: Anthem    To: BTP Holdings (#20)

One guy was in prison for 10 years for making moonshine. When he got out he went with a couple of friends to the last place he had a still set up. He had 20 cases (4 gallons/case) of moonshine under the floor boards of the house.

That was some well aged 'shine.

Anthem posted on 2020-05-27 13:54:47   Reply   Private Reply

#23: Fred Mertz    To: Anthem (#21)

Don't remember a thing after the first few swigs.

I know better than to take swigs of it. Just a few sips.

Fred Mertz posted on 2020-05-27 13:59:26   Reply   Private Reply

#24: BTP Holdings    To: Anthem (#22)

That was some well aged 'shine.

But that shine was in plastic jugs, not oak barrels. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2020-05-27 14:20:38   Reply   Private Reply