Cars in my life.... Okay Dishes too!

Which car in your life time yanked your chain the most? YOU wanted one or maybe you got one. There is usually a reason, but sometimes it just strikes you as the most beautiful car built. There are stories of men who collected cars and kept them locked up for someone later in life to discover. There are cars loved by a lot of folks, and some that I thought no one liked.My first love was a 1934 ford coupe. I had a chance to buy one. It had a big old Dice as a gear knob. Bud Coren had it, but I could not get $50 to pay for it. (I used this one on the cover of RAgs!)


Then it was the ’40 ford Coupe, Black. I come close to getting my rear whipped by the owner of one once. (I was loving unwisely, as a teen)

BUT oh yeah, the début of the 1955 Chevy I drooled. Boy did I want one of those.

I loved the 1953 Skylark Buick, but never really coveted one.

Most of our cars I have kept up (repaired). Seldom did we pay a mechanic for any work. I feel frustrated now when I open a hood and the car is so complicated I cannot even change the fan belt.

I wish we could have kept every car we ever had. I don’t know why, none of them were really classics, I take that back we owned two Metropolitans, one Nash the other a Hudson. They are classic. But most of our cars were cheap used cars that ran well. Remember the Metro? Superman’s girl friend Lois Lane had one.

I SAW a new 1958 Rolls Royce, I had never seen even a picture of one that I knew of. This one was called ‘The Silver Cloud’. It was on display in Gulfport Mississippi. You could not come within ten feet of it. But it was pretty. I didn’t want one but looking at a car that was sold for $50,000 was something.

Anyway even though I can’t work on them, cars are better than they used to be. Harder to work on, the mechanic earns his money, but they are worked on less.
I had a ’48 convertible; my cousin bought it from dad. He went to sell it; the buyer said, "does it use oil?"
Ken said, "I don’t think so, it leaks out so fast it doesn’t have a chance to use any."

Thanks for coming this way…..
Nite Shipslog
PS:
Dishes! Hey folks , we only have two dishes to wash. Sometimes we have messy gravy and maybe some molasses. Stack the plates and they stick together. I just have to carry them 3 ft to the sink and the knife keeps them apart. BUT I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN! HONEST, OKAY? I WILL JUST REACH THEM AND PUT THEM IN THE SINK ONE DISH AT A TIME! LOL

Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.


Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!