Author:
Dick Stewart (This is what was considered "cool")
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Date Posted: Sun April 13, 2008 22:01:23
In reply to:
Jack Miller
's message, "Re: 50s Cars" on Sun April 13, 2008 16:38:24
In the '50s, the top cars of choice were:
50, 55 and 57 Fords; 50 Mercurys; and 56 and 57 Hardtop Chevrolets.
But this is what the Americans did to them in the '50s (especially in the Southwest):
Removed all the crome and filled the holes with lead; lowered the back ends with six-inch shackles, painted the car bronze, added chrome extenders to the dual exhaust pipes (if the car didn't have a V-8 you were laughed at), added Smitty or glass pack mufflers, and for hub caps, either full chrome moons or Oldsmobile spinner hubcaps.
Dates were easy to come by if you had these kinds of customized cars, and were ignored by the chicks if you drove a six-cylinder car, a Volks or any other low-end European jobby. Cads were cool but only the adults could afford those and no one dared customized them.
I owned all of the cars mentioned at various times and customized them as described. Sometimes I had as many as three dates in one night, because of it. Of course, you had to dress "cool" as well, but then that's another chapter.
Dick Stewart
Editor - TLM
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