Recent content by 68BabyBlue

There were many I liked, but the "one" was the '69 GTX owned by the local Plymouth dealer. Possibly the most heavily optioned '69 built, and his personal car for 15 years. I finally bought it, 52 years after a test drive in 1970. It's the last Mopar I plan on owning, there's nothing I'd trade...

I'm speaking as a former owner of a Chrysler 300 letter car. There are just too many examples of these things with zero rust issues to consider one with an obvious problem. There are more of them on the market now than when I owned mine in the 90s, and pricing has always been soft on the 300L...

When I bought Baby Blue in 1983, I had the opposite situation. The car had a scabby, five year old re-paint, after right side collision damage. Upside was a new rust free door and NOS quarter panel. All trim was in excellent condition, with some additional NOS in the trunk. Car had no...

Back in 2007, when I bought my last new car, I wanted a red Chrysler 300C. Dealer tried to find one already in stock in Pennsylvania. None to be had, and I ended up special ordering one. My only ticket in a vintage Mopar was with my red '69 GTX at Carlisle in 2024. I beat the ticket. No...

I find a lot of stuff from that era extremely interesting, especially when seeing how it came to market. That doesn't mean I'd want it in my garage. I've been lucky to have had relatively cheap taste in Mopars, although my wife's opinion might differ.

I had a law professor who did an outstanding job of explaining banking and commercial transactions in the context of real world events. He was a fan of properly used credit cards, because of additional consumer legal protections not provided by instruments such as checks and debit cards. He had...

Running a tractor trailer generates significant cash flow in and out, and a few crumbs are left if good management prevails. When I started driving in the 70s, most of the old timers carried large amounts of cash. Didn't seem like a good idea to me, no recourse if you got rolled. I got a...

Both of us had a factory shroud as well. I've talked to some guys who didn't, and that creates an issue.

I consider my 2007 Lexus LS 460 that I bought last month a late model car. I've never owned anything newer. I was digging around tire well trying to find the socket for the locking lug nuts, and was amazed to find a full size spare. Got to wonder if I can still lift one of those. It wasn't a...

Just the hot girls. The last one was a real looker, and knew it. I took her out just to prove I could, and never asked her for a second date. She was furious, and asked me if I was gay, or if she had bad breath. My wife of 48 years was the next girl I dated.

I refuse to cut across the Penn State campus when driving to points east of where I live because of the concentrated volume of idiot pedestrians. A few years ago, one of them walked into the side of a moving bus and was killed. Not a lot of indicators that many of these folks are actually smart.

Wegmans by any chance? I worked with their in house bakery, they were one of the more impressive corporate producers I dealt with.

Like Don, I ended up with a 20 year career serving the food production business, transportation side in my case. When my law practice went under, and I ended up back on the truck, I was low man on board, and ended up with a haul none of the senior drivers wanted. I got stuck serving an outpost...

My junior year at Penn State, I got a part time job working in the student union building cafeteria, as a dishwasher and busboy. The $1.95 per hour starting pay wasn't a big motivator, but the all you could eat meal for 50 cents was a big deal during a time when I was consuming 5000 calories...

Awesome history! Thanks for being a caretaker.