Memories Cruzin

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Time travel with great classic cars and more memory joggers.

I did.




This Kaiser reminded me of the one Dad drove during the worst '55 Christmas Eve snow storm after having the traditional Eve Dinner and Santa's arrival at our Aunt's house.

WOW! You have to remember that back in the '50's there was very little attention paid to street snow removal especially after mid-night on holidays.

Not that would have helped this tank of a car. Tiny, slow motion wipers struggling to keep the heavy snow off that sliver of a front window. Dad scraping frost off the inside front window, carving a peep hole while driving.

Barely a car heater; Mom little Sis and me shivering, wrapped in blankets.

Traction, even if the car had any it was no match against snow half way up the hubcap.
Kaiser traded in the following Summer.
Now its a Ford Fairlane with a stand-out two-tone paint finish, in cream and mint green. That was a classic car.

Dad loved driving it and any excuse for a Sunday outing would do. A few miles to the local White Castle for 7 cent burgers, Robert Hall for clothes or an all day venture to Wisconsin and we were gone. Shares of Johnson Car Wax soared - never remember a time when Dad wasn't washing and waxing that Fairlane or every car thereafter.

Carpooling to work was a challenge in a "little Nash Rambler". He tolerated the horrible ride, contortions to get in and out of and no leg room. Ed Begley Jr. would have been proud of Dad's shrinking carbon footprint.

"Oh My!".... Hope you have the chance this Summer to visit a local classic car show, or at least enjoy a trip down memory lane, http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

Ciao for now!!!