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phonograph yes had one with the reverb, and the lights under the dash and under the fenderwells. Still have an 8 track in the shop. I had a kid over helping me clean out the shop one day and he said "What kind on player is that,I never seen anything like it"? Well I don't understand Plams or IPODS????either so I guess that made us even

Originally Posted by cffisher

phonograph yes had one with the reverb, and the lights under the dash and under the fenderwells.

Yeap, Charlie, and to really look cool, we painted the inner fenderwells white so the light would really reflect. And now I find myself wondering about the youngsters and their neon lights. Funny how I could forget the old stuff we used to do.

Lights under the fenderwells, I had totally forgotten about that too. Used truck clearance lights (like 29 cents each back then). Just knew we were cool when we turned those babies on. How could the girls resist something so cool????

Remember scavenger pipes?? I put two on my one car, and it only had a single exhaust. The one turned blue and the unused one looked like new, so after a while I switched them around so the new one discolored too.

Friend of mine wanted to rake his '50 Ford, so he mounted the rear springs on top of the axle. The perches were on the bottom of the axle, so he simply flipped the entire axle housing over. He put it so the right tire was now the left tire and visa versa. He bolted it all up, lowered the car down, and man did it have a nasty rake.

When he put the car in reverse to back out of the driveway the car went forward, when he put it in forward it went backwards. Found out he had 3 speeds in reverse, and one in forward. He never took into account that when you flip the rear end over, you reverse the direction of travel. I remember laying on the lawn laughing my butt off on that one.

Yeah, we were really cool back then.

Don

Yeah I forgot about the white paint. I got stopped by a cop in one of the suburbers of Chi. for speeding and loud exhaust. Lake plugs open. He told me to close them and leave them closed. Yea. Only got the speeder ticket. It wasn't an hour later SAME COP behind me again I wasn't speeding but U guessed it The plugs were open. I got to go see the majoistrate right then and there. Don't remember what it cost me but he didn't get me a third time. If I went through that town the plugs were closed. I can't beleave how DUMB I was. Wonder how I managed to get this old without killing myself.