centralsweeper63
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You just don't get custom stuff really. I HATE MDF.
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hygiene903
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Some of the most beautiful cars ever built were the 50's models with plenty of chrome on them!
Jeff
centralsweeper63
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Yep. Lovely styling. Nice colours too!
FilterQueenEthan
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Absolutely! The 1950s Cadillacs were nothing shy of V8-powered sculptures!
centralsweeper63
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That were practical too.
FilterQueenEthan
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Yes they were! And all of mine are practical because they were built for their uses intended.
centralsweeper63
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And they will keep working longer than all the modern rubbish.
cheesewonton
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Yeah, but I am old enough to have driven and maintained those old 1950s cars and I emphatically don't miss anything about them.
centralsweeper63
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Beutiful, but less refined.
cheesewonton
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Not just less refined. You probably never drove cars with old fashioned non-self adjusting drum brakes. They were scary in the rain ( as in no brakes or the brakes on the right were soaked from puddles and doing nothing ) and pulled to one side or the other even when it was dry unless you were under the car all the time adjusting the brake shoes. This was before Bendix self adjusting drum brakes. The brake system was a single circuit ( if you had a leak the whole system could drain out and leave you with no brakes, modern system use dual circuits ) with the master cylinder bolted to the frame and filled through a round hatch in the floor behind the clutch pedal. That hatch eventually rusted out to the point you could watch the road passing beneath the car ! The leaky seal on the cowl vent aided the rust process as the floor was always soaked during the rain. On our old Plymouth the defroster was an old towel under the seat. No AC, crappy heater, the dimmer switch was a button on the floor. The windshield washers were operated by pumping a small round pedal on the floor between the clutch and brake pedals. It had this ratcheted umbrella handle hand brake. The transmission was a three speed manual with a column shifter. "Three on the tree" we called it. The engine was a flat head six that made 90 brake horse power, probably less than 70 horsepower measured by modern standards. No oil filter ( ! ), my dad had to add one. The air filter was by oil bath. A basin of gear oil surrounded the throat of the single barrel carb and a baffle that directed the inlet air straight down at the oil before routing it up again then into the carb. The idea was that inertia would force the dust into the oil where it would stick. Kind of like a Rainbow but with oil. Skinny bias ply tires that protested loudly with even mild cornering and enough body roll that the curb feelers scraped the pavement noisily in a brisk left hander, such as when you are trying to beat the yellow arrow in a left turn notch. Push the car further and one of the big heavy stainless steel hubcaps would pop off and brother those can do some real damage! I had to pick one out of a neighbors front yard once after it departed the right front wheel in a brisk residential corner O_O . The flat slippery bench seat offered no support but it was fun to see your passenger sliding across the seat going around a corner. And who can forget the all steel dash, no seat belts, no collapsable steering column so frontal collisions sent the steering column right through your face and your passengers right through the windshield. And last there was the tube AM radio that had to warm up before it would broadcast anything through the single center mounted speaker in the dash board. And the cloth insulated ( or not ) wiring that caused funny things to happen in the rain. But people love those old cars. Just not me.
Late 1980s through very early 2000s German cars before the adoption of CAN Bus are more my speed.
centralsweeper63
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I have only very briefly driven one, but I have been in a 56' Ford falcon from America for hundreds of kilometers.
cheesewonton
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Huh? I didn't think the Facon came out until 1960? Sure it wasn't a Fairlane? I just saw a perfect one in our town yesterday. Turquoise and white.
I live in this small high desert town but hiding in this town's garages are some real treasures. There are at least three perfect Hudson Commodores or Hornets. A big 1949 Fleetwood limo, Corvairs, two decent looking Pintos, a really thrashed Bricklin, at least one old Maverick, my '88 Audi resto-mod, and someone has a perfect old Ford F-100 that looks so small next to a modern F-150. Oh yeah, almost forgot there is a perfect Dodge Omni GLH in all it's red with black trim turbocharged glory. Those were fast little stinkers and handled pretty good too. I rented one in Hawaii once while on leave in the Navy and Jesus H. Keerist it was fast.
centralsweeper63
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cheesewonton
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The Parklane. Kind of a sport wagon version of the Fairlane. You had one of those? Boy those are super rare now.
centralsweeper63
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My friend did. Sold it. $27,000
centralsweeper63
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Wait, hold it. It was a ‘66. I got that a bit muddled. Sorry.
FilterQueenEthan
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I am a Cadillac fanatic and always have been. I wanted a Fleetwood Brougham in high school, had a '66 Olds Delta 88 and sold it to fix up my truck at the time. Grew up and bought a 2011 Escalade Platinum
centralsweeper63
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Nice! I don't mind brand, though I am a wagon person. Either the Volvo 740 turbo estate, or the '94-'96 Buick Roadmaster Estate. Those are the best ars out there to me. Though, there are plenty of other LOVELY cars out there.
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