Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 01, 2012

Yup, and comfortable, too.

By the mid sixties, our family’s ‘55 [American] V-8 station wagon got about 9 miles to the gallon and took 2 quarts of oil every time you put gas into it. That’s the reason I bought a VW bug that I kept for 21 years.

How true, and yet it has begun again these days with a new crop of cars with girl and animal name combos-like Shelby Mustang.

I’m definately a plugger then. since when I had my first car. a 71 skylark with a 350 engine. I was leaving teens eating my dust. and they were at the time challenging me!

Not my first, but certainly my favorite was my ‘69 Cougar. A 351 Cleveland under the hood and me with a lead foot. I supposed I’d have to pay a gas guzzler tax for that today, huh?

And they had a back seat you could “relax” in.

Ahh…nothing like drinking beer then getting in your car or truck and driving fast!

I am certainly among friends today! God bless those good old days!

When I had my ’57 Beetle, in Dallas, I would get challenges to race. My reply was, “Sure, here to San Antonio on ten gallons of gas.” Now I wonder about those little gas-guzzlers, as my current reading is 52.8.

4.3L V-6 with a 4 bbl & headers in a GM G-body (78-87) & avg 14-17

I told my son that the guys used to get together on the weekends and spend them under the hood of their cars. We had a ball making those engines purr. He has never seen a car that you can still do that with.

I’ll see your “green car” and raise you a 1959 Chevrolet Brookwood, 2 door station wagon!

RebellYelle: Experience, mostly. I doubt you are my elder. I learned to drive in my parents’ Studebaker – at 18.

68 Plymouth FuryII, a land yacht if there ever was one