Lemme see if I can explain this to lil' Timmee. See, Timmee, when Republicans and Democrats love their voters very, very much, they have a big fight over who gets to splooge them with their trillion dollar stimulation wangs, and this is where baby inflation comes from
once again, I pray that none of you will ever be retweeted by Ben Shapiro and experience the cavalcade of lunatics that follow in the wake
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*let me get this out of the way, right up front: please, I am begging you, for the love of comedy, take your all your "birthing person" jokes to some other tweet thread
Yes kids, long before KITT there was My Mother The Car, with Jerry Van Dyke and Ann Southern voicing his mom, reinCARnated as a "1928 Porter."
Even in a sitcom landscape of talking horses and flying nuns and Martian uncles, it proved a premise too far and was quickly canceled.
But the car ID stickler in me is compelled to note Mom is NOT a 1928 Porter; she is a 1923 Ford Model T touring, originally built as a 283 Chevy powered hot rod by my late great pal Norm Grabowski- who also built the iconic "Kookie T" for 77 Sunset Strip.
*Friday and Gannon, of course, gathered just-the-facts-ma'am in a just-the-facts-ma'am 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 sedan; tailgating them in the photo is a 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado.
Before delving into today's casefiles, another reminder to please adhere to the guidelines:
I'm a sucker for a fine dashboard & they are often a vital clue when I ID a junkpile car. The period 1958-62 was the absolute apex of the dashboard arts, providing the American motorist an over-the-top Googie cockpit worthy of a UFO. Sadly we will never see their likes again.
Before getting to today's batch of IDs, here are the guidelines for any newcomers with a mystery car to solve:
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car in front of us is a 1963 Chrysler New Yorker wagon.
Quick history of drive-in/-thru restaurants: the 1st drive-*in* is generally accepted as Kirby's Pig Stand in Dallas (1921); 1st drive-*thru* Red's Giant Hamburg, Route 66 Springfield Missouri.
*Red's drive-thru opened 1947, BTW. The longest running drive thru is In-N-Out, opening 1948. The first drive-thru *only* restaurant was the first Jack-In-The-Box, in San Diego, 1951. McDonalds was somewhat a laggard, never having a drive thru until 1975.