  Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1540 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: Tango is a gelding...he just stares at the mare trying to figure out what she is saying to him. Ah yes, '59...what a year it was! | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1258 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: so what....tango can still tango - right????? The question is can you still tango? We all agree that in 59 the White Ford did move up and down with out lifters.... and SR was part of that movement.... sounds spiritual!••• | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 95 Registered: 04-2008 |
If you guys want to talk about the 59 Ford, you're on the wrong forum. You should go here... https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5843/137058.html?1209561 292 | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1543 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: No....we're talking about THE 1956 white Ford Sunliner Convertible...dual glasspacks...skirts...the real deal...it was an immortal automobile on the northeast side from '59-'60...one that I had the honor of owning...and using to escort any number of lovlies...unfortunately, you had left for CA by that time...and, ES is right...SR was part of the movement which was centered around Balduck Park and the foot of Lakewood. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 98 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Oh, a '56 Ford. And it was still running in '59? My first car was a '52 Ford. Kept it until I got my '59 Pontiac. The Ford was a better car than the Pontiac... even though I did end up working for GM a few years later. Wish I still had it. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1546 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: What I wouldn't give to have that '56 Ford Sunliner back again...well, actually I do know what it would take...about $30K...saw one for sale a few years ago...I paid $750.00. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1261 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB/OD: I think the 'back seat' - the famous Balduck Park back seat is at the Smithsonian. I had a 54 Ford 4 dr. two tone straight 6 OIL burning Customliner..... I had to take out the 6 volt battery and use an 8 volt battery to get it to start.....Oh!••• did I say OIL BURNING.... I would drive into a gas stations and tell the attendant. 'Check the gas fill the oil'.... ES61 Proudly - a Ballduck Park Supporter | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 99 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Why pay $30K when you can get this beauty for less than half the price? http://www.classicsandcustoms. com/search/Plymouth_Valiant_Si gnet_200_18541.asp | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1264 Registered: 07-2006 |
OD: You have hit a sore point that gets GB all stirred up....The white 56 convert was a class act...and then came Ms. SE....and then came the plymouth valiant.....He actually bought a Valiant...and drove that valiant around Warren MI.....to PTA meetings ....It NEVER was driven to Ballduck....poor GB....thats when it all started to cave in for him... | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1548 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD & ES: You two are two of lowest forms...I sincerely doubt that your parents ever married...&%•••••••••••••.low grade miserable...sob, sob, sob....plus I can't find the phone number for my analyst...my beautiful '56 Sunliner...traded for a '62 Valiant...sniff, sniff, sob. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 101 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Yes but you made one Plymouth dealer very happy. You put him over his quota of 1 Valiant for the whole year. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1556 Registered: 03-2007 |
At least it was four on the floor...the second worst decision I ever made...right after the decision to marry SE59. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 103 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Everyone laughed at me too when I got a '64 Rambler American. Now I have someone to laugh at. At least my Rambler was a convertable.... Compared to a Valiant it could have been a chick magnet if only I wasn't already married. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 425 Registered: 04-2005 |
I had a 87 Nash Rambler with that had had so much rust on the fenders that the guy who patched the holes stuffed the fenders with T-shirts and then Bondoed over them. I used to have to carry a screw driver with me so that on wet days, I could take the air filter off, stick the screw drive down in the butterfly valve and start it up. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1559 Registered: 03-2007 |
I had those kinds of cars too...when we got married my folks gave us an eleven year old Ford so that we could both get to work...she drove the Valiant...I bondoed the headlight on as straight as I could get it and put a piece of plywood over the hole in the floor on the driver's side...it got me to work for a couple of years although its a wonder the carbon monoxide didn't get me...you're right OD, compared to the Valiant your Rambler convertible was a true chick magnet...although not in the league with my '56 Sunliner. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 427 Registered: 04-2005 |
That was a 67 Nash Rambler. There werent any in 87 | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 105 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: Not to pour salt in old wounds, but given your rep with the ladies it’s understandable that SE59 wouldn’t want the Sunliner hanging around. You should have sold it to ES. If there was any life still left in those shocks after GB-SE, I’m sure ES and SH could have shown them a real good time. As for the Rambler, a little while after we bought it we (aka she) decided we should become a two car family. She would get the Rambler and I would get whatever I could find cheap and drive until it wouldn’t go no mo. In ’67 we bought a Plymouth Fury and I somehow ended up with the Rambler. I drove it for a few more years and eventually traded it for a St. Bernard. JC: I think everybody had a spare screwdriver in the car to ‘adjust’ the carb. My worst one in this respect was my ’59 Pontiac. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1561 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: You know...I never thought of that...I really should have sold that Sunliner to ES...it was a guaranteed chick magnet and he needed all of the help he could get...even on the MSU campus where "livin' was easy!" SH would have felt right ta home in the Sunliner...but don't let ES know that. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1270 Registered: 07-2006 |
OD: Drive over to Frodham and Celestine - it is rumored that SH and her fourth husband have returned to the old neighborhood....and purchased three abandoned homes on the south side of the street.... | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 111 Registered: 04-2008 |
Where is Frodham? Mapquest can't find it. Maybe in uncharted Westside territory? | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1568 Registered: 03-2007 |
Now that we have a new partner we need to take another look at buying a square mile of the Northeast side for redevelopment. GB...Proudly Fordham Group, Ltd. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1274 Registered: 07-2006 |
Venture Caps: I still think below Jefferson between Ashland and Eastlawn or Indian Village area or Parker / St Paul area. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1572 Registered: 03-2007 |
ES: Land is cheaper in the Six to Seven Mile on the north/south...and Gratiot-Mack on the east-west...of course, redevelopment will not likely occur in our lifetime. | ||
Eastside61 Member Username: Eastside61 Post Number: 1277 Registered: 07-2006 |
GB: We agreed at the last VCap meeting that we WERE NOT going into the agra-farming business where we need 1000's of acres that would be available in the areas you have been discussing. We want charm - Water views - and prime property.... | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 113 Registered: 04-2008 |
ES: Been Mapquesting all night looking for Frodham and Celestine. Did you mean Fordham and Celestine? I wouldn’t even go there in the ‘50s. There was a wacko explosives technician in the area who would blow up your car just for the fun of it. He leveled most of the neighborhood before one of his cherry bomb stashes accidentally exploded and burned down his own house. Last I heard he was still there living in the local sewer….. Update!•••• Just checked Google Earth. Yep, he got just about all the houses. Nothing but open fields. Might be a great place for a homesteader with a couple plow horses to make a new start. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1574 Registered: 03-2007 |
It would be a great area to raise goats...we have a resident expert on board. Actually OD...yer too close to the truth...Billy C. and I were packing a copper tube with match heads in his garage one time when the damn thing exploded...fortunately neither of us was hit with any shrapnel but my hearing was seriously impaired for a couple days. We concluded that homemades were too risky and went back to cherry bombs...from his house we were in range of the Mapleridge Mob. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 122 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: I’m sure it wasn’t your fault. Billy C. always was a bad influence on those less schooled in the ways of the world. Now that I think about it, it wouldn’t surprise me if he was taking kickbacks from that grocer for luring us innocents into blowing our summer allowances at that store. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1584 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: You are so correct...it was not my fault...I followed a nere-do-well into a dangerous and illegal activity...I was so easily led astray...just ask SH. | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 131 Registered: 04-2008 |
GB: If you're talking about SH the younger, she's in CA right now running surveillance on a SJ goat herder. She's really good at it too. Dad trained her in all the techniques in case she ever needed to track anyone down for blood tests. Put the training to good use in multiple stakeouts at Balduck Park. | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 1590 Registered: 03-2007 |
OD: Yes, SH the younger...SH the elder clenched her cheeks a bit too tightly for me to be seriously interested...a nice girl, but not a great date. I too, had heard that the younger now lived in CA...perhaps stalking ES...I do know that the elder is a resident of FL...but ES pleads with me not to contact her. |
