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Across the street from my house in N. Merrick L.I. were the Brenners: Bob and Gail. He was a math teacher at Valley Stream High and I can't remember where Gail worked. Anyways Bob sorta took me under his wing and took over the role as Dad for me when I was 11. My parents had got divorced. He was so cool. He had this old Model A 1931 Ford his father gave him and on weekends I would help him clean it up and do light sanding. It had something I had never seen before: a Rumble Seat. One weekend during the summer of 1963 (I was 12) I went to help and the car wasn't in his garage. I asked him what happened to it. He told me not to worry - it would return in a couple of weeks. Sure enough it did. He took it to Earl Scheib and had it painted then brought it to some place where they did the upholstery: dark gray. "Want to take a ride?" So we went, just the two of us for a short ride. I told him we should get Gail and go for ice cream. That way I could ride in the rumble seat. And the coolest part of the car . . . the ahooga horn. They had twins: Alexander and Gigi. Once I hit 14 I was their baby sitter. My son Alex is named after the boy. I took care of the kids until I was 16 when we left L.I. and moved to Forest Hills. Bob's car - it had maroon wheels. https://i.postimg.cc/Zq5qpzVC/31-ford-0214.jpg |
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There were a lot of "pretenders" though. That was a very common taillight modification to Mustangs in the city that following year... |
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The 1960’s
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How many of you used these “Anodized aluminum tumblers” back in the day.
These were great for your Kool-Aid back then, or a refreshing Gin and Tonic today. I bought this Original set of Bascal tumblers years ago to use when I showed my Schwinn Stingrays. They both have those brilliant radiant colors. |
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In fact - it was embarrassing. I'd be in a parade of really nice Model A's: pickups, tudors, business coupes, etc. and you could see people looking right past them, craning their necks. Then they'd say "...there it is!. There's the rumble seat car!!". I won "best of show" at a little church car show one time. I thought to myself "that just tells me you people don't know what a nicely restored Model A looks like". K |
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Approx 250 mile trip before the car is even new. I bet they were shocked (...shocked, I say) when the paint on the front clip did not match the rest of the car. K |
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