Let an old oilman die happy. Bring back the 1950s gas guzzlers. Those mid-50s GM products were built like tanks......sucked up gasoline like tanks, too.
Remember when there was no plastic, no aluminum in cars? Even the radio knobs were steel.
fa- I'll take the 50's gas prices. Hell, I'll even take the inflation adjusted 50's gas prices.
sc- The column manual shift at ~ 1:30 into vid was a dinosaur even in the 50's. Don't have the stats, but based on my observations of peering inside the plethora of 50's cars shows that by ~ 1953 model year, more cars than not had automatic transmission, even the Chevy. The upper end Buick, Olds, etc were virtually all automatic in 1950. Thanks for posting link.
All of the cars my parents had in the 50's were manual transmision. They did not have an auto transmission car until 1968. My first car in Hs was 1961 chevy which was manual transmission.
Something like politically correct, gay marriage, would have been totally alien or laughed at by people in the 50's. A man who was gay was a "homo" and a perfert. He was not a "real man." At the age of 4 I remember my father pointing to a guy on TV palying a piano (Liverache?) and saying "You see him, he is not a real man." I simply had no idea what he meant, I mean at the age of 4 who would know what a homo was.
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Remember when there was no plastic, no aluminum in cars? Even the radio knobs were steel.
I had forgotten Jiffy Pop and Bosco.
sc- The column manual shift at ~ 1:30 into vid was a dinosaur even in the 50's. Don't have the stats, but based on my observations of peering inside the plethora of 50's cars shows that by ~ 1953 model year, more cars than not had automatic transmission, even the Chevy. The upper end Buick, Olds, etc were virtually all automatic in 1950. Thanks for posting link.
Something like politically correct, gay marriage, would have been totally alien or laughed at by people in the 50's. A man who was gay was a "homo" and a perfert. He was not a "real man." At the age of 4 I remember my father pointing to a guy on TV palying a piano (Liverache?) and saying "You see him, he is not a real man." I simply had no idea what he meant, I mean at the age of 4 who would know what a homo was.