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  1. GaryS

    When Valiants Overran San Francisco

    Great ad! I was stationed in Germany when the Valiant came out, and we could buy one through the base exchange. I badly wanted one, but shipping was a little too much. The moderately equipped car was cheap at $1300, but shipping was over $300...almost two months pay at the time...and it took...
  3. GaryS

    Thought I was gonna have a stroke, LOL

    Don't forget the "Chrysler Crew" that ran for a couple of years with dual Hemis. They even won one event in Tri-cities, WA.
  4. GaryS

    Why can't the weather channel just give us weather

    Why?....because they were bought by NBC. When they exclusively covered the weather, I watched all the time. When the new owners decreed that politics and confrontational reality shows were what sold, they fired many of the staff, changed programming...and I quit watching.
  5. GaryS

    First pass at the drags = FAIL

    Did that with my dad's pushbutton '56 Plymouth while racing a '55 Ford. If the Drive button wasn't pushed in all the way, the old PowerFlite would go into Reverse, so it happens with automatics also.
  6. GaryS

    Do you park your car illegally?

    That happened to a guy on our missile launch crew in West Germany in 1960. He had pulled over to let a German armor convoy get by, but one of the tanks drifted over and flattened his '57 Ford from end to end. He had to dive out the passenger door to keep from getting crushed along with the car.
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