[John S Peterson]

I think most "motor head" baby boomers had some kind of hot rod. The guys I hung around with had Z28's or Road Runners. I had a 63 1/2 Galaxie that back then was just a big fast car. My parents hated it, I always had to coast in the driveway because it was so loud, my dad used to say what kind of car doesn't have a radio or heater, it rode like crap, was lousy on dates and it was a good thing Ethel was only 30 cents a gallon. I think I paid 900 dollars for the car in 1970, lot of money when you're only making 1.35 an hour. They didn't call them "Lightweight Galaxie's" back then, It was just a funky white blistering fast galaxie fastback that had a bad reputation with AAA for abuse of their tow service, seems I was always blowing something up. Of course now all these cars are worth tons of money, but back then..........fast was cheap