Sometimes IDing a car is the worst.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 09/19/2018 at 14:45 • Filed to: None

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My younger brother sent me a picture with a “hey, what’s this”. Picture, not the above, of a ‘66 Plymouth Satellite hardtop with a straight body and originally deluxe (factory vinyl stripped off) out in a yard rusting. In the leaves.

Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/19/2018 at 14:59

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I crashed one of those when I was five years old.

My house was on a hill with a steep driveway. I was pretending to drive. Back in the day you could put the car into park, drive, neutral, reverse, etc, all without a key. So I was turning the wheel back and forth and “shifting gears” with the lever and ended up rolling backwards down the driveway, across the street, up a curb, and into the corner of a building across the street. I knew I was in trouble from the panic on my mom’s face when I began rolling but had no idea what to do to get it to stop.

I don’t think I did much damage to anything other than to my mother’s psyche.

Goddamn I miss that c ar.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/19/2018 at 15:03

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RIP that Satellite.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief 09/19/2018 at 15:06

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I once moved a ‘74 Benz by taking it out of park when young (9 or so?) . I did not crash it, however.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 09/19/2018 at 15:07

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Let’s not be hasty. Maybe my younger brother can take this as his cue to become a masked yard ornament-stealing vigilante. But seriously, I can just imagine it being a Hemi, too.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/19/2018 at 15:11

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I hope you’re right - but that unibody can’t sit in wet, rotting leaves forever.

Should be a crime if it’s a Hemi, or an R/T - and even a 318 car  is worth saving (TIL that they didn’t put the /6 in that car?)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 09/19/2018 at 15:23

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The leaves are mostly on top of the car. It is mostly grass around the car. That being said, can’t see inside from the picture because there’s some algae/mildew on the windows. Weep. Don’t see a badge for submodel, but I do see the chrome trim which would suggest the factory vinyl top, as I said.

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/19/2018 at 15:25

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Ah, OK - I was picturing the unibody sitting down *in* the leaves, which is a disaster. Algae on the windows still isn’t a good sign though.

Someone (your brother) needs to rescue that car soon.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > WilliamsSW 09/19/2018 at 15:38

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I drive by what I believe is a ‘65 Fury every day, which *is* kind of down in the leaves. I also know a lady who has a yardbound ‘57 Fairlane Crown Victoria.

*kicks dirt*

WilliamsSW > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/19/2018 at 16:11

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You can’t save them all...

For better or for worse, there isn’t much that I see sitting outside around me (up north and in the suburbs).  About a mile or two south of me are a couple of 70's Lincolns (the ones that are 9 miles long), and a DeVille.  Oddly the Caddy is almost directly across the street from the Lincolns.