Admit it! Teach1st had a rusty car...

[teach1st]

[CO Liberal]

1. A Plymouth Valiant!!!

When I was going to DeVry Tech back in the Early '70s, a lot of the guys drove those. You just couldn't kill anything with a Slant 6 engine and a TouqueFlite trans. Chrysler never should have stopped making them, IMHO...

[teach1st]

2. The car was a workhorse...

..we got it for $200 and it handled the island's hills like a champ. Damn pushbutton transmission finally freaked out, though, and all we had was reverse. Valiant = good. Pushbutton transmission = bad.

[CO Liberal]

5. My Parents Had a '59 Plymouth

Like the taxicabs in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Theirs was the same color as the one in this picture, only instead of being a four-door Plumouty Fury like the one in the picture, theirs was a two-door Plymouth Savoy.



With the pushbutton, two-speed PowerFlite transmission. It lasted until 1966 when the trans went. The rebuilt trans they had put in lasted about six months. They finally replaced it with a '67 Plymouth Fury wagon - with a three-speed manual column shift (3 on the tree). It was whhite, just like the old police car in the following picture:

[teach1st]

9. Oh, man, I love the old Plymouths...

My family had an old '56. It looked like an elephant to me. I got to use it as the surf-moblie when I first got my license. On the column manual transmission and an interior that would stink to high heaven when it got wet.

[Historic NY]

3. 62 Valiant wagon..........

Did it have the 6 banger of the small V8?

[teach1st]

4. It had the 6, I think...

...I'm not sure we ever opened the hood.

[hippiechick]

6. You keep taunting me with that photo ....

:loveya:



:hippie:

[teach1st]

7. Well, nobody's called me a tease before...

..some current pics and bio on this page...

http://www.pb5th.com/roemer.shtml

[hippiechick]

8. Still adorable

:hi: ... and it looks like you're 100% into the kids you teach.

That makes ya' even more wonderful :loveya:



:hippie:

[teach1st]

10. Except I don't do housework...

...my house is a complete mess.

I do put the seat down, though. I was thoroughly whipped about that when I was a couple.

Yes, I am into the kids. Teaching has become my life.

[hippiechick]

12. 'Mess' is a negotiable term ...

... the interest and joy you get/give to the kids outweighs domestic habits, tenfold.

:hippie:

[teach1st]

13. OK, since it's show and tell day here in the lounge

Here is the most current pic...

[hippiechick]

15. Show and tell, huh ?

you're STILL a cutie pie O8)


http://www.iuploads.com>




:hippie:

[teach1st]

16. I am a pushover for redheads...

..I must admit.

[hippiechick]

17. Are you referring to the tall one, or the short one ?

:silly:


:hippie:

[teach1st]

18. Both!

[pintobean]

11. Thanks for the Christmas music.

I didn't get a chance to say that before.

[teach1st]

14. My pleasure!

I'm going to start part two of the Christmas song thread tomorrow.

[yorgatron]

19. is this thread still about Plymouth?

here's my friend's valiant wagon http://www.freewebs.com/pro_photo/projectvaliant.htm and Floyd the oldtime hot rod guy in my neighbor hood has a '56 Fury.

[Left Is Write]

20. A rusty car and nice legs.

[teach1st]

21. Thanks...but

like all hippies I didn't shave them.

[fluffernutter]

22. rusty car, but awesome hair.

and an even better smile. you grew up to be just as cute as you were as a little dude :loveya: how tall are you?

[teach1st]

23. I'm 6' if I haven't started to shrink n/t

[fluffernutter]

24. lol, you're not that old yet, mister.

and i bet you are still tres cute.

[teach1st]

25. I get these damn fliers for AARP...

..so I must be old.

I'm just eccentric. This is cute:

[fluffernutter]

26. very cute! what do you think

they are all looking at?

50 is hardly old, heck, i'm not far behind ya. and eccentric is just synonym for uniquely cool :)