Remember the two cars in the Name That Boomer Memory post earlier this week? Well, although quite a few cruised in to hang out on Boomer Memory Lane, nobody responded to name the two cars. The first car is a 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria. The second car is a 1964 Ford Galaxie, but ours was a 4 door rather than a 2 door.

A friend of mine in high school (early 70’s) had a souped up 1955 Chevy Nomad with a 4-in-the-floor that was painted fire engine red. He worked as a sales clerk in a department store to earn the money to restore his prized and coveted car. He did all the restoration himself while attending school, participating in sports, and working, and he did a great job of restoring it, I might add.

I almost had the pleasure of driving it one day. Unfortunately, I had to have the seat all the way up in this one, too, in order to reach the accelerator, brake, and clutch. With the seat all the way up, I wasn’t able to shift through all the gears. Dang! How disappointing! That car was s-o-o-o-o-o-o cool with it’s low but loud rumble, too.

A lot of my friends had some really fun cars and hot rods during my high school years. I’ll save all that info for the future, though. Maybe I’ll set aside a day a week or a day or two a month to feature some of the classic cars we enjoyed “back in the day”.

Whadya think? Got any cars or car stories you’d like to share?

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In the process of going through some old family pictures for the purpose of creating a collage, I came across a couple of pictures of cars of my parent’s from the 60’s and a house in my hometown. I thought it would be fun to publish several of the pictures and play a Boomer’s memories name game. (Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.)

The car in the forefront of this picture was our family car when I was in elementary school in the 60’s. This car was blue and white. Why did I say “family car”?! That sounds as though we had more than one car. Only the rich and famous had more than one car back then! So, can you name the make, model, and year of the car in the forefront of this picture?

The next picture is of the car my Daddy taught me how to drive in during the early 70’s. The steering wheel was wider than me and I had to sit on a pillow to see over the top of it. The seat had to be moved all the way up for me to reach the brake and accelerator, too, which made my poor Daddy have to look over his knees. (Not only did “short people got nobody”, before the energy crisis of the 70’s brought on small economy cars, short people got no cars either.)

Turning corners was a trick in this big ole boat of a car, lemme tell ya! Fortunately it had power steering. (NO! Of course that isn’t me…it’s my little brother.) Daddy made sure I wouldn’t ever get stuck in a situation I couldn’t get myself out of…after learning to drive this car I had to learn to drive his Ford F150 pickup with three-on-the-tree. Can you name the make, model, and year of this car?

The next pic is of the home of a celebrity that was practically my neighbor for 8 years. This home was only 10 minutes from my house. My brothers and I saw the gates graced with musical notes to this home more times than we care to remember. Not because of the home or its owner, but because, depending on the time of the year, it got awful hot or we were so freakin’ cold our teeth chattered ninety-to-nuthin’.

We had to go EVERY TIME our Mom heard through the grapevine that the celebrity was coming home! Back then many people would have given their right arm to sit out there and wait…and wait…and wait. Not us! We wanted to go home to our own house where we would be much more comfortable NOW! Little did we realize at that time, but NEV-v-v-vah did see the dude. Rumor has it there was a back entrance. Can you name this home?

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