Finder Skirts: Some of you won't understand but I bet you know someone who does! That person being anyone that was around in the 1950's as a teenager perhaps! Well now those teenager are grand parents well over the age of a teenager but no doubt talked about Fender Skirts, Curb Feelers, Steering Knobs (aka) suicide knobs or necker knobs! That was the accessories most cars had in the 50's and 60's plus the Continental kits that was a rear bumper extender and spare tire covers that made any car cool as a Lincoln Continental!!

We had emergency brakes but today it's a parking brake and we had the foot feeder which today is the gas pedal, beside it is the brake pedal and clutch pedal! By now you know that was a standard shift car or truck with one rear view mirror inside only and later one outside on the drivers side of the car! Those days we call the good ole days when you paid for that car in 36 months, the tires needed replacing about the same time and just about any man could fix whatever was wrong with the car!!

Oh, we had a dimmer switch too located on the floor operated with the left foot, guess I couldn't dim my lights now not having use of my left foot! I suppose the one thing that remains the same as cars of today is the turn signal which came along in the 60's! Before that you had to know the arm and hand signals for stop slow down and a left or right turn! Compare that to today most teenagers are having a hard time trying to drive the car much less operate it safely on the highways!!

There were no tinted windows or rear window wipers and no self service gas you ran over a line at the service station and the attendant ran out and put in five dollars worth of regular gas and that was on your payday otherwise you just put in a dollar or two in gas at 25 cent a gallon!

I have to tell my wife not to forget I started driving a car in 1954 and got my operators license that same year and that was two years after she was born! She still got the nerves to say I can't drive but does all the driving when we go on trips greater than 200 miles! It's an 8 hour trip to New Orleans, go figure!!

OK, I know some of you here remember those good ole days and terms used so you know you been here awhile when today you get in a car and it takes you a few minutes to figure out how to get it started and operate all the buttons and sounds! Oh yea, did I mention seat belts?? Well there wasn't any until the late 1960's and no head rests either as the seat backs only came up to your shoulders!!

I for one was never involved but I know a few kids were conceived in the back seats of the 55 Chevy's and I didn't own a Chevy until 1958 the year I enlisted in the Army! That's how I became a Tank driver, they asked to raise your hand if you had a drivers license and two of us raised our hands! For three years I drove heavy tanks in the Army!!!!!!

Do you remember now the things talked about in the 50's???? The good ole days I think? Did I just tell my age??