Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 03, 2009

I’d call it a clunker on its way to the junkyard.

I might be dating myself but those fins sure make me feel nostalgic.

It’s not a clunker. It’s a classic.

It’s not a car, it’s an aircraft carrier.

I had a car like that, a ‘73 Cadi. BIG ol’ boat. It sucked to get rid of it.

I got rid of my 59 Plymouth the easy way, 14 guard rails. Someone was a guzzler

Fuelishly challenged historical classic .

Passing anything on the road except a service station .

It belongs in a museum, not the highway.

I’m not really sure, but that might be an Desoto, or maybe from the Chrysler or Dodge lines…anyway what a smooth ride….

1959 Dodge Custom Royal boasts the rare Super D-500 V-8 engine option. Maybe .

I’ve got one of these. The fuel mileage is only part of the problem. It also has it’s own zip code!

Well now I can get to sleep , thanks FishStix .

Those 59 Desotos hardtops were beauties in their day, and oh how they did ride. I ended up having to settle for a 56 Chrysler post. Still nice, though.

Great car…just because it is old, don’t get rid of it…let’s not replace what is old, but enjoy it while we can…

Yeah, but with an mpg of 5, it’s time to upgrade. If you were on a road trip, you’d have to hire a fuel tanker to tag along with you.

I hear Jay Leno is missing one in his collection. Might be worth more to Leno (even if it’s just for spare parts) than any gov’t clunker program.

I’d love an old car like that, but the cost to maintain it would be too much for me. And those old cars were much more unreliable, even when they were new. I remember a lot of broken down cars along the freeway, especially in the winter. You really see very few now.

Hey thanks FishStix for the pic and Lewreader for the smile… That beauty of a car can have its drinking disorder for it’s more often “parked” than not, isn’t it? Either in Shoe’s garage or at the mechanic’s one!

Ahhh, those were the days, when gasoline was hovering around 15 to 19 cents a gallon - it took 3 dollars to fill up my 8 gallon VW gas tank!

My gads! how the time flies by! Why it seemed only yesterday when all my friends owned one.

BC13: My RV only has 38,000 miles on it, and it gets about 7 MPG. I don’t use it a lot anymore, mainly short-trip camping - for long trips, it’s cheaper to take the car and stay in motels or hotels. RV for sale - cheap (boat may be included).

The ONLY GOOD idea that Wartime Chancellor (aka The Monster) ever had .

Volkswagen means “people’s car” in German, in which it is pronounced [ˈfɔlksˌvaːɡən]. Its current tagline or slogan is Das Auto (in English The Car). Its previous German tagline was Aus Liebe zum Automobil, which translates to: Out of Love for the Car, or, For Love of the Automobile, as translated by VW in other languages.

Happy first day of Sukkot . Same Volks celebrate it for the Messiah’s birthday .

I had a 1970 T-Bird, w/ a 429 4 barrel engine under the hood, it was a screamer. Had a full couch for a back seat. Hated to lose it, couldn’t afford to keep it up.

@Ronshua - Sukkot doesn’t start until sundown on October 2nd this year.

Hey Susan: You might be thinking about OnStar. The onboard computer in the car senses the accident and sends a message to OnStar and the nice folks there will call you (if you have the service) to see if you are alright. I’m assuming that if they don’t get a response…they will call emergency services.

Indeed, Ronshua and stonehenge1951. Otherwise the full moon of Abib would occur well before the spring equinox (which never happens) - and Sukkot would occur entirely in summer (which never happens either).

On top of that, the most likely day (in the middle of a two-week period) of Jesus’ birth is on Sabbath (also Trumpets or Rosh ha-Shanah) in 4 BC – not on the first day of Sukkot in any year.

But I digress…:)

Sorry a mouth early .

Rakkav –It’s there if you can follow the “course” of Zacharias , John’s father . Plus a little math 3+6 .

http://www.messianic.com/articles/dates.htm

And the size of the back seats in those old boats. Ten people at least to the drive-in, at $2.00 per car! Oh, youth, wasted on the young! If I knew then what I know now, oh boy!

Just like everyone else in this comic.