cheesewonton
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A friend's parents had a big 1964 Chrysler New Yorker wagon when we were in high school. We had a big US Navy life raft that could hold something like 20 people that we fabricated a mount for an outboard motor and glued it with the right kind of marine glue to the back. We'd roll that thing up, stuff it in the back of that big Chrysler wagon with its rectangular steering wheel ( remember those ? ), push button automatic transmission too, drive up to Channel Islands Harbor near Port Hueneme, inflate it at the gas station at the marina, launch it, mount up our little outboard with our gas can and go boating with it. It had inflatable hoops and you could flop covers over top to keep the elements off the survivors. We would even take it outside the breakwater a bit because a half mile or less down the coast was the entrance to the Navy base where there were often heavily damaged, just mangled, decommissioned warships that had been used as targets for missile tests. Fun times made possible by a big Chrysler land yacht.
