Who had one?

Billy Murdoch · Post by **Billy Murdoch** » 8 Aug 2007 11:08 pm

Hope the link works.

http://oldfortyfives.com/CarsWeDrove.htm

Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 9 Aug 2007 8:13 am

I never could afford anything but an old car to get me back and forth to work and on an occasional date back then. This kind of stuff was for rich kids.

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 9 Aug 2007 4:23 pm

I enjoyed that, even though I always drove an old wreck.

Les Anderson · Post by **Les Anderson** » 9 Aug 2007 4:46 pm

In 1959 I had a robin's egg blue 1956 Murcury Turnpike Cruiser rag top . The US didn't get the Turn Pike Cruiser convertible until 1957. 450 cubic inch motor; 400 HP but that was when gasoline was 31 cents per gallon and even that huge motor got 18 MPG. No anti-pollution gizmoes.

From there, when I was 21 years old, 1961, I bought a brand new blue & silver olds 98, 4 dr hard top. If I recall, I paid somewhere around $5,900.00 Cdn. It took $1.16 US$ to buy $1.00 CDN in those days.

What in hell happened?

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 9 Aug 2007 6:00 pm

I had a 57 Chevy rag top, black, not red. It didn't take well to The eastern weather and I sold it in 64.

Bought a 64 Mustang. That took me thru my first child, but the gear train was grinding so I bought a 68 Malibu to get me thru. I have always pretty much had 2 vehicles and the other was usually an English sports car, but that's another story in itself.

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 9 Aug 2007 7:05 pm

'57 Ford Skyliner here, the retractible, Captain Whizbang hardtop which never once faltered whenever I raised or lowered it (often at a red light, just for the drama of it all).

One of the very few to sport a 3-speed stick on the floor (Hurst, of course) hooked up to Ford's 312 V8.

A holy grail rig for this erstwhile 19 year-old. What days they were!