Did you have the FM radio option?

0patience

Most you younger guys won't get that, but those older guys will understand.
If you notice in the commercial, he talks about what the vehicle has and makes note of having AM radio. LOL!

And yes, TV really did look like that. 

https://youtu.be/q5JJQwtN7UM

https://youtu.be/LG6Hp6NwOsQ

WaterNerd

I'll take the El Camino please

Guitarded

Polyester head to toe and those white shoes! Stylin! 

0patience

WaterNerd said:

I'll take the El Camino please

The El Camino "pickup"?
I chuckled when I heard that. Haven't heard that in a long time.

IndustMech

I had a 79 chevette... not quick

0patience

IndustMech said:

I had a 79 chevette... not quick

The shove it Chevette?
I can't believe you would say it wasn't quick. ROFL!

Yakster

Didn't they all come with a Neil Diamond 8-Track or something?

Nowadays it's about having the FM radio option in your cell phone.

NorCalR1

Younger guy here my 1964 Impala still has the original AM only radio in it ( still works)

0patience

I think 79 was the first year I remember FM being standard in anything.
Our town didn't get an FM station until 79 or 80, so FM was kind of useless to us, unless you went to the big city. 

In high school, we would scour the wrecking/salvage yards looking for FM or cassette stereos. At that time, cassette stereos were several hundred dollars and if we could find one in a salvage yard, we could gather up a pile of parts, work it off and get the stereo for free. 
Cruisers with cassette stereos, we were stylin. LOL!

Yakster

I've heard tell of cruisers with turntables back in the day

jw517

"Back in the day", I drove a Lime Green RoadRunner ,it had a 383 bored out to 400ci. By my mechanic dad. 4 Speed and a 8 track. The 8track was stolen from the car while I was at work in the Packing Co. I was a Cattle ****. Yes, I said CATTLE ****! Used to listen to Carol King,Black Saboth,Doors,Slade,etc.  It's time for my medication now. 

jw517

Wow! They bleeped out what I said. My job was t take the bones out of cuts of meat. 
Or a Cattle deboner. The real job title did not include De.

Markwell

Yakster said:

I've heard tell of cruisers with turntables back in the day

My grandpop's 58 T-Bird and 59 DeSoto Adventurer both had turntables.

jw517

Wow,haven't heard Desoto in a while. We had a pair of 55s when I was little. No turntables though. 

Yakster

Now that Neil Diamond has retired, those 8-Tracks should really be worth something.

jw517

Don't tell anyone you have Neil Diamond tapes. They might rob ya!

Amos_Umwhat

NorCalR1 said:

Younger guy here my 1964 Impala still has the original AM only radio in it ( still works)

I loved my '64 Impala...283 with PowerGlide.  Sigh..

NorCalR1

Amos_Umwhat said:

NorCalR1 said:

Younger guy here my 1964 Impala still has the original AM only radio in it ( still works)

I loved my '64 Impala...283 with PowerGlide.  Sigh..

It was my first car had it for 25 years now. Numbers matching 327 with the glide.... She is in the body shop now for a full resto l am looking forward to driving her again

Markwell

jw517 said:

Wow,haven't heard Desoto in a while. We had a pair of 55s when I was little. No turntables though. 

I really wish he'd kept that car. Bought it brand new off the showroom floor with all the bell and whistles. She was white with gold accents and a spiffy continental kit.

0patience

LOL! My first vehicle was a 1943 Dodge pickup. I paid $50 for it. 
It had a flathead 6 and a pedal starter. It was capable of doing a whopping 50 mph. 60 downhill.
Never owned another Dodge again.

Markwell

@0patience lol well that's sorta why he got rid of it. Found out it had a German carburetor or something, and seeing how a Hun sorta blew off his father's hand in WWI, that didn't sit well. 

Still, pretty car.

Markwell

Pretty sure that thing had a push button transmission. Called power glide or power flight. Wasn't 1956 the first year for that? Seem to think Chrysler was the first to offer it.

0patience

Dodge had that stupid push button into the 60s. The Belvedere, Dart and a couple other had it. 
It's amazing that you could push the reverse button at 60 and all kinds of smoke would happen. LOL!
Power-flight and torque flight transmissions both had that option.
The first Dodge production car to have it was 1956, but there are a few 55 Desotos and Imperials that have them. I assume that they were late 55 productions. 

I know about the 55 Desoto, cause I cut holes in the firewall of one to replace rotten cylinder head soft plugs. In those days, your options were to pull the heads, pull the motor or use a homes as on the firewall to replace the soft plugs.

jw517

0patience said:

LOL! My first vehicle was a 1943 Dodge pickup. I paid $50 for it. 
It had a flathead 6 and a pedal starter. It was capable of doing a whopping 50 mph. 60 downhill.
Never owned another Dodge again.

Your still alive,that's why.

jw517

The 55 Desotos we had 292 Hemmis in them if I remember correctly. My grandpas Plymouth had a push button transmission .

0patience

Damn phone. I wrote use a holesaw and it decided that the correct word was use a home.
Evidently it knows more about the topic than we do.

YankeeMan

My late brother owned a 1967 Plymouth STATION WAGON and he ordered it with two four barrel carbs with Ram induction!  He left a lot of startled drivers at stop lights.

The only problem was that when he stopped at a gas station, if he didn't turn the car off, he couldn't fill the tank!