[jblum315]

Originally Posted by PennBF

My first car in High School was a 1936 Chrysler shift on the floor and
then I moved up to a 1955 Morris Minor that could be cranked in the winter
if it did not start . With the Morris Minor I could drive from NY to North Carolina for less thans 4.00 in gas.

Yes, but gas was 25 or 30 cents a gallon!

[philnpat]

Originally Posted by jblum315

Yes, but gas was 25 or 30 cents a gallon!

But the minimum wage was a buck an hour!

[Bill-n-Brillo]

My first car was a '53 Dodge Coronet with Fluid Drive - somewhat a semi-automatic with a clutch. Great car for learning how to drive a stick - couldn't stall it! Bought it for $50 bucks from a neighbor.......and got into an accident with it the first time I took it out. Bummer. A lot of hammer-and-dolly work, some (read: 'a bunch of') bondo, and an all-over paint job "ala brush" compliments of my dad and I was back in business again!

Bill

[KEVIN & JOSIE]

Originally Posted by jackz

I remember being a Senior in High School in 1967 and how proud my parents were when I bought a used Rambler car as they believed it was a very "sensible" car for someone to drive.

It wasn't until years later that I "confessed" to them that the reason I bought it was that the front seats fully reclined and it was a great car for drive in dates.

So much for sensible.

You just jogged my memory. My dad had a 1961 Rambler Classic with the lighted push button transmission...and yes fully reclining front seats.