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A French traffic jam. JWL

Champion Plugs used in a Packard.
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Packards new Torsion-Level system.
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Good to know stuff.
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Yes I moved into the the fifties now.
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Making everything the same. Reminds me of a story I heard when I was a kid. About a Southern Colonel's driver taking a new car out for its first drive and the first time with an automatic transmission. He though L meant LEAP, D for Drag and R for Race. I'd like to find the story and hear it again. I was thinking it was one of Andy Griffins stories but not sure.
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The argument often put forth by those favoring Low and Reverse adjacent to each other was that it facilitated "rocking" the car forward/back when stuck in mud or snow.

Yes Owen, and it works great. I have rocked many Packards and Studebakers out of snow and mud in the back yard thanks to that very sensible feature.

I once stopped to help a young lady in an BMW who had inadvisedly pulled off on a soft shoulder on a snowy day. It was blasted inconvenient to get that thing to rock between the brake interlock and location of the R and D positions.

I'm surprised that no one mention about hearing the story about the old boys first time with an automatic transmission!

The way the story goes is this Southern Gentleman had a driver that love to hear the tires squeal every time he would stomp on the gas getting on the black top from a gravel road. So one day the Southern Gentleman got a new car with an automatic transmission and his driver ( His drivers name I think was just two letters, JR or JT or maybe JW, something like that.) who had never drove or seen a car with an automatic transmission . So he decided to take it out for a spin.
He gets in, sits for a while. And then takes off wheels spinning. About an hour later comes back with the car tore all to pieces. The Southern Gentleman runs up to him and demands to know what happened to his brand new car.
Well it's like this says his driver. I've never driven a car with an automatic transmission before, so I got in it and was trying to figure out how to make it go. I looked at the "N" and figured that meant Nothin', I put it in Nuthin' and it started right up. Next I looked at that "L" and figured it meant Leap, so I floored it and dropped it into Leap and boy did it ever. Next I was going down the road and this here guy catches up to me, so I figure he wants to drag race, that's when I put it in "D". Next thing I know we're doing better than 60 and he's still wanting to pass, so I'm thinking he wants to race. Boy, the last time I saw him he was still picking his teeth out of his steering wheel.

This is what I remember of the story from hearing it over 50 years ago. Hope you enjoy the read.
Wes

Anyone remembering signaling with your headlights or how to use a dimmer switch?
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