Date: 19 Sep 18 09:39:12
From: Nancy Backus
To: joe mackey
Subj: Re: Cars (was: Cars, football and 9/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Quoting joe mackey to NANCY BACKUS on 12-Sep-2018 07:39 <=-

One of the cars was a squareback which I liked.

We liked ours ok, too

The only thing was people could hear me coming with that
ticky-ticky-ticky engine. :)

Just couldn't sneak up on anyone with that car.... unlike today's
hybrids... ;)

When selling Fords I had a much larger collection of cars to
choose from.-a If around town it was a small one, like a Pinto, if a
weekend trip then something like a Pontiac Gran Prix I liked.

Easy way to find out which car(s) you liked, that way... you could
change out to another car whenever you wished... ;)

One time selling Fords this fella came by and brought a '69 Chrysler
and wrote a cheque for it. A few days later that cheque came bouncing back. Our repo man got on the case and tracked the guy down. He had traded that car on another somewhere in VA. Wrote a bad cheque on
that car as well and they had someone after him. Apparently he would
buy a car, write a cheque, go to another town/state trade it in, etc.
The VA state police finally caught up with him. He resisted arrest
saying he wasn't going back to jail and there was a shoot out, with
him on the losing end.

One could wonder what he was thinking.... perhaps he thought he was an old-fashioned hoodlem-type...? Or maybe he was mentally ill.... Or
maybe he figured that eventually the police would catch up with him, and
he could suicide by police, as it happened.... a bit sad....

Eventually that Chrysler wound up back with
us. The boss said I was to drive it, as a reminder of taking bad
cheques, till I sold it, and a good sale. It was a couple of weeks
later it was gone and never heard from again. :)

Did you mind driving it...? And did the successful buyer pay cash or
buy it on credit... ;)

got my Shadow, we wanted a manual transmission in a sedan (not a
coupe)... nothing like that on the lot, so we had to order it...

I much prefer a stick over automatic anyway.
I always get a chuckle reading about some dumb crooks who steal or
carjack a car only to find its a stick and they can't drive it. :)

Serves them right... <G> Once I learned to drive manual, I never
looked back... They aren't standard any more, though... one can hardly
find them nowadays....

I was always partial to the 144's, that looked like '48 Fords. :)

That's before our time.. at least with Volvos... ;) Richard's is
a V70, mine an S60R... ;)

When I sold them (or attempted to, never sold one, but did other
makes) the 240 and 260 were the main cars they made. I hated that
hard plastic headrest they had at the time. They made the car
appear cheap.

My sister had a 240 for a number of years.... :) It just appeared utilitarian to me... :) Now, both of our Volvos have the headrest as
part of the seat, padded and covered with leather, just like the rest of
the seat... ;)

ttyl neb

... Will Knot was so lazy he signed his name "Won't."

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Nancy wrote --

Eventually that Chrysler wound up back with
us. The boss said I was to drive it, as a reminder of taking bad cheques, till I sold it, and a good sale. It was a couple of weeks
later it was gone and never heard from again. :)

Did you mind driving it...? And did the successful buyer pay cash or
buy it on credit... ;)

Didn't mind it at all. After all, it wasn't the death car. I wouldn't
care too much to drive a car with bullet holes in it and blood on the
seats. Besides, it would lower the value. :)
I did eventually unload it, for cash, a couple of weeks later.

Serves them right... <G> Once I learned to drive manual, I never
looked back... They aren't standard any more, though... one can hardly
find them nowadays....

I learned to drive on a standard.
The only time I was really glad to drive an automatic was as a cab
driver with stop and go city traffic.
The times I disliked a stick was being stopped on a hill with some
joker behind me right on my bumper. Grrll
Joe

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 10-15-18 07:23 <=-

Eventually that Chrysler wound up back with
us. The boss said I was to drive it, as a reminder of taking bad cheques, till I sold it, and a good sale. It was a couple of weeks later it was gone and never heard from again. :)

Did you mind driving it...? And did the successful buyer pay cash or
buy it on credit... ;)

Didn't mind it at all. After all, it wasn't the death car. I
wouldn't care too much to drive a car with bullet holes in it and blood
on the seats. Besides, it would lower the value. :)
I did eventually unload it, for cash, a couple of weeks later.

That wasn't too long.... And I trust the cash wasn't counterfeit... <G>

Serves them right... <G> Once I learned to drive manual, I never
looked back... They aren't standard any more, though... one can hardly
find them nowadays....

I learned to drive on a standard.
The only time I was really glad to drive an automatic was as a cab
driver with stop and go city traffic.

I had a rented automatic on a trip once where I got stuck in some stop
and go, either construction or accident related, I don't remember now...
I wasn't too unhappy at that point to be driving the automatic....

The times I disliked a stick was being stopped on a hill with some
joker behind me right on my bumper. Grrll

Exactly... I will still plan my route to avoid hills like that when possible.... when I go to my sister's, there's one of those... and my
alternate route is a little longer, mileage and time-wise, but it's
worth saving the aggravation... :) Going the opposite direction, I
take the shorter way, since it's a downhill that direction... :)

ttyl neb

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Nancy wrote --

The times I disliked a stick was being stopped on a hill with some
joker behind me right on my bumper. Grrll

Exactly... I will still plan my route to avoid hills like that when possible....

I may have mentioned this before.
I was living in a small town in SE CO, where the plains met the Rockies.
There was one street that seemed to go straight up forever with a cross street on the top. Some wise city father decided the hill side would be
a good place for a stop sign rather than the level street. I got stuck
there a couple of times. I was at nearly a 45 degree angle (seemed like
90) and of course a line of cars on the level street. It was like the
Bill Cosby routine of driving in SF and stuck on a similar hill, the
blood running out of his leg, etc.
I tried to avoid that street at all costs. :)
Joe
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