After purchasing my 59 Plymouth Sport Fury up in Minnesota I was driving it
home to Wis - the trip was about 350 miles - the first gas station I stopped
at the lady at the counter said "what kind of a car is that?" At least she
had the sense of not trying to guess and come up with a Chevy or whatever.
This past summer (it's gone already) I put the car in a few car shows and
the best response I observed came from older women (at least in their 60's).
They would walk around the car smiling and run their fingers along those
beautiful fins. I usually go with two friends, one has a immaculate 55
chevy and the other a 60 Corvair and they couldn't believe it. One of the
guys wives said "they must be remembering that big back seat" (chuckle). I
had a 59 Sport Fury back in the 60's and she's right, that big back seat was
nice back then. BTW very few people know what year the 59 is - they always
come up and say is that a '57. John Z
-----Original Message-----
From: brian <xm2cars@xxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] gahhhhh!!
>> I wonder how many 57 Chevy owners have had a guy pull up next to them,
roll
>> down the window and shout "Hey, nice 57 Plymouth!" - Hmmm
>
>Brian
>D500s in windy snowy MI
>
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: David Charles Gedraitis <dcg@xxxxxxx>
>> > To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:48 PM
>> > Subject: [FWDLK] gahhhhh!!
>> >
>> >
>> > > The UPS man just delivered the new gas tank for my recently inherited
>> > > toyota, and as he was looking at my '61 newport sitting in the
garage,
>> he
>> > > told me "nice thunderbird" *sigh* I always thought the "Chrysler"
>> > > spelt out across the grill was fairly obvious, especially since
sometime
>> > > ago I painted those letters black for the purpose of making them
stand
>> > > out. ah well-at least that doesn't happen with my kaiser-no one even
>> > > ventures a guess....
>> > >
>> > > ~dave
>> > > '61 Newport (ford t-bird clone :-P )
>> > > '67 Kaiser M-715
>> > > '91 Toyota pickup
>> > >
>> >
>
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