Biased to the 68
I have to be biased to the 68 Chevelle...particularly the Malibu. It’s what we had and the neighbor next door had the coupe. Ours was the wagon. I was first brought home from the hospital in it after my Mother had me! We had it for 11 years but the last year it mostly sat in the driveway and the engine needed a major part we think. It had the 307 with 2 speed automatic and power steering and the more deluxe 4 seasons air conditioning...but no radio. If my Mother could still buy a car without a radio...that’s what she would opt for. Anyway, I loved the square gauge boxes of the dash and the handles on the wiper and light switches, the 1968 higher end steering wheel design, and the ignition switch still on the dash, this was the last year of the octagonal ignition door key and round with hump secondary key as 69 saw the change of ignition switch relocated to the steering column with the new GM key head design for a locking steering column and gear shift. I still have Mom's original set of keys to the car in great shape!
My 2012 Chevy Equinox has a similar dash with the dual square gauge boxes and even the steering wheel design has design cues from that 68 Chevelle.
Have a friend with a 66 cutlass...he just moved it from Dallas to Germany!
Love to see the Bissell Gemini’s underside if anyone has one.
All restaurants that insist on cleaning while open should be using carpet sweepers. We used to eat at a Mexican restaurant with carpet and every time I was in there they would come around with some sort of electric vacuum cleaner cleaning up chip crumbs...I don’t want vacuum exhaust air in my food....or to hear the noise....it’s just a no no in my book to use a vacuum in a restaurant while customers are dining...period. Carpet sweeper...yes...vacuum no. So there’s still a great place in this world for carpet sweepers!
I remember my Grandmother had a big carpet sweeper it was black and had some stripes going from front to back and the brand in some script writing...maybe Bissell...I don’t remember...I think they disposed of it while I was still little as I don’t remember seeing it anymore after a while. It used to live next to the bureau they had in the hall. Maybe once she got a second Electrolux for the upstairs she may have stopped using the sweeper and then eventually did away with it. She was not one to keep a lot of extra stuff, her house, drawers, closets, etc. were always very neat and uncrowded. Something I admire.
Jon
