BYC's Random Funny Posting Thread! Hosts Mike & Sally

[cavemanrich]

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[Isadora]

 

[Windrider]

I just passed this car on Sepulveda Blvd on the way home this afternoon. I was driving and couldn't get a picture, but "El Pollo Grande" is a fixture in Santa Monica so there are plenty of pics online.

Here's the story:
Santa Monica Chicken Car

 

[pennyJo1960]

Great Car.!

 

[pertnear09]

I just passed this car on Sepulveda Blvd on the way home this afternoon. I was driving and couldn't get a picture, but "El Pollo Grande" is a fixture in Santa Monica so there are plenty of pics online.

Here's the story:
Santa Monica Chicken Car

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Haha, big old Oldsmobile Ninety eight.

 

[AntiqueB]

We couldn't afford a 98, but we did have a similar car: '75 Dodge Monaco. They don't make cars that fun anymore. I remember stalling out at lights, having the windshield wipers fly off, and having a tire nearly come off (other cars refused to get too close to us, which was a tip-off). Then there were the vinyl seats, vents in the front windows, and cigarette ashtrays which made for great places to hide kid treasures, since none of us smoked.

 

[Windrider]

They don't make cars that fun anymore. I remember stalling out at lights, having the windshield wipers fly off, and having a tire nearly come off (other cars refused to get too close to us, which was a tip-off). Then there were the vinyl seats, vents in the front windows, and cigarette ashtrays which made for great places to hide kid treasures, since none of us smoked.

I relate to this. My first car was a '67 Mustang, black with turquoise vinyl seats. It looked very stock, but I was the second owner and I bought it from my dad's friend, who was a narcotics agent. It was his undercover "narc car." It had been in plenty of car chases and instead of the usual 289 it had a 390, plus non-standard shocks and other features. As a high-schooler, I had a hotter car than any of the guys I dated.

It was a great car. That big engine never really had to work that hard, even going up Sherwin Grade to Mammoth - I remember me and my girlfriends passing a couple cute guys in a Porsche overheating up that grade. Good times. But that was too much weight in the front for such a small car and when I bought it, it had a couple railroad ties in the trunk that the narc friend said to never take out or I wouldn't be able to brake.

But, man, as it was approaching 400,000 miles with no rebuild, it got really fussy and would leave me stalled out in the middle of intersections all the time. Finally sold it because even with a rebuild, nothing would have changed that it was a gas guzzler. Sometimes I miss it. Sadly, I have had nothing but boring Toyota pickups since.

 

[cavemanrich]