Yeah, that's the ticket.I want me a Crosley Station Wagon for going to
the food store.
cuhulin
Cool! Love the purple!
Well, I do have a Crosley engine in my TQ vintage race car, but wouldn't
mind a full car. The price has gotten a bit too high for me. The one I
really want is the Hotshot, ne Super Sport.
In 1949, my dad bought a second hand Doodlebug motor scooter for me.My
sisters rode that motor scooter more than I ever did.I still have one of
the Doodlebug engine cover thingys here.I don't remember whatever became
of the rest of that Doodlebug motor scooter.
I remember our first gas engine lawnmower.I thought that gas engine
lawnmower was the greatest invention since sliced bread.
cuhulin
Hmm, they are so proud of Crosley cars they don't even bother putting
a photo of one on their homepage.
The AACA museum in Hershey used to have an open Crosley (a Hotshot?) on
their basement floor next to the buses. You were allowed to sit in it and
play with the controls.
It was cute, but awfully tiny inside; it felt tinier than an original Mini.
The long, cranked shift lever had a ton of play in it and moved in an up-
and-down motion when changing gears, which felt awkward to this modern-car
driver.
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Tegger
Cast iron. In fact, most of the blocks folks around here use in TQs are
later than the original Crosleys. Crosley sold rights to engine to
several concerns. They used them for electric generators and for
driving refrigeration units.
Web page on my car;
Ashton Crusher wrote:
> Hmm, they are so proud of Crosley cars they don't even bother putting
> a photo of one on their homepage.
Well, pretty cars abound:
http://www.corvair.com/user-cgi/main
Best of all, we won't run out of them in my lifetime!
--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
People must have been a lot smaller way back when. If you go look at
some of the first pickup trucks the cabs can be incredibly small.
>
>
> People must have been a lot smaller way back when. If you go look at
> some of the first pickup trucks the cabs can be incredibly small.
>
They /were/ slightly smaller.
6-feet heights were much rarer 70 years ago than today; nutrition and
health care are much better now than 70 years ago.
Take a look at today's kids. My father was 6" even; I'm 6'2"; when I was
20, I was usually the tallest one around where I was, but now (at age 48)
there are scads of 20-somethings who are well over that. I have two nephews
who are 6'4".
Vehicle interiors were naturally narrower, back then, because the bodies
were contoured to fit the frame, which necked down in order to pass inside
the front wheels. And the steering wheels were made large and close to the
driver so he would have lots of leverage.
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Tegger
My dad used to work at Chrysler. The story was, the chairman would
always try the new models wearing a hat. Some versions said it was a
top hat, others just a dress hat. He had to be able to get into car
without removing hat.
That was K.T. Keller. His decision to elevate engineering over styling
almost bankrupted Chrysler.
Virgil Exner's "forward look" of 1955 eventually saved the company, but it
still needed a bailout from Prudential Insurance in 1956 in order to avoid
going under.
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Tegger
>Don Stauffer <stau...@usfamily.net> wrote in news:4b7ea6dd$0$87074
Some of the best looking Chrysler products EVER!!
Yep. Very good-looking cars.
Exner had it nailed until about 1960, when he seemed to run out of ideas.
Case in point: 1962 Dodge Dart. I do believe that was the car which got him
fired and replaced by Elwood Engel.
My daddy had a '56 Dodge Crusader, which was the Canadian version of the
US '56 Dodge Royal. He smacked that up (long hospital stay), then bought a
'58 Dodge Regent, which was basically a US '58 Dodge Royal, but with
Plymouth fins.
Us kids LOVED that pushbutton automatic!
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Tegger
Yeah, the early 60's+ had some horrendous looking ones. We had a 60
Dodge Matador, one of the nicest cars ever made IMHO. A friend of the
family had a 60 Lincoln Premier, also nice if you like em BIG. I wish
I could own one of each.
We used to do that as kids... but when the old man yelled, "are
you GD kids playing with the buttons again!!!", some of us would
shift into TorqueFlite, and peel out to hide behind the oak tree...
others would simply be neutralized by torquefright.
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> --
> Tegger
>
What us kids (well, primarily I) discovered in the '58 Dodge was that it
was possible to push all the buttons behind the faceplate at the same time.
Our parents HATED this, for some odd reason.
Screwdrivers were kept readily to hand for the inevitable that occurred
whenever we were left alone in the car for any length of time...
--
Tegger
Hold out for a VW with the bud vase on the dashboard.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."