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This is my bride's track car which we had to get after she realized how much fun I was having with mine at speed. Just before she turned 60, she went though a grueling SCCA 3 day competition licensing course and earned her SCCA Competition License.
And this is mine, which got my bride wanting a track car of her own:
Together at Sacramento Autorama 2005:
My bride on track at Laguna Seca's famous "Corkscrew":
Me leading a pack down THE Corkscrew at Laguna Seca :
Last edited by jim lockwood; 12-18-2023 at 09:22 PM.
This is my bride's track car which we had to get after she realized how much fun I was having with mine at speed. Just before she turned 60, she went though a grueling SCCA 3 day competition licensing course and earned her SCCA Competition License.
And this is mine, which got my bride wanting a track car of her own:
Together at Sacramento Autorama 2005:
My bride on track at Laguna Seca's famous "Corkscrew":
Me leading a pack down THE Corkscrew at Laguna Seca :
This is my bride's track car which we had to get after she realized how much fun I was having with mine at speed. Just before she turned 60, she went though a grueling SCCA 3 day competition licensing course and earned her SCCA Competition License.
And this is mine, which got my bride wanting a track car of her own:
Together at Sacramento Autorama 2005:
My bride on track at Laguna Seca's famous "Corkscrew":
Me leading a pack down THE Corkscrew at Laguna Seca :
I really don't care!!!! You WIN, Jim!!! Fantastic!!
If we could rewind back to the mid '70's my Dad would have to list his 'company car', a Ford Torino SW (that's SW for station wagon, not split window.....) for the His....... the Hers would be the '66 Coupe, 427/425, 4.11 rear gear, side exhaust 'Grocery Getter' that our Mom hauled us kids around in.....
Teaching my wife how to drive her std shift... it was a short lived spectacle !!!! I probably should have at least given her a fighting chance with a synchromesh tranny.. and not some stone crusher you need to know how to dbl-clutch. One of her other pickups. This a 40 Ply. She is happy in this picture as it was not a std shifting lesson day
The 57-baby bird was thee most elegant ladies' car ever built especially in that color.
Think Suzanne Sommers in American Graffiti.
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Just hope that when she is old enough to drive that there is only a 'short prison sentence' in the medium security pen for firing up a ICE. All 3 years on the baby t birds are nice. We elected the 56 because wife and I both love the continental spare wheel assembly from the factory (only for 56). The aftermarket ones on the 55 and 57's look pretty bad.
For any of those having trouble with the thinking part.....
I have heard ref to Ms. Sommers and the t-bird a number of times. I have actually never seen the movie. Odd for such a gear head hobbyist ! But that does not look like the Sommers I recall from the Three is Company series, or all those Fitness info-mercials. She did chg it seems. Later her face seemed more 'tight' skinned. I like this look better.
I have heard ref to Ms. Sommers and the t-bird a number of times. I have actually never seen the movie. Odd for such a gear head hobbyist !.
I don't want to get the thread off track, but American Graffiti is a must see. The movie really captures a moment in many of our lives; coming of age, leaving home, girls, cars, and with a backdrop of war and uncertainty that really adds to the feeling of an era coming to an end. What a great movie.
12-18-2023, 09:12 PM
