Yeah, like the one who would call me "hijo de la mala vida" in front of our friends and give me tonsil-washing French kisses when we were alone. Right, Pedro?

Eeesh. You can see where the lever was - lucky he didn't pick up the shifter in his other arm.

It's a '62 - the '61 had ridges on the hood; '62 was smooth.

A friend of mine gave me a video he shot way back in 1979 during the gas shortage of a line of cars going around the block to a Shell station in West L.A. - having a little trouble uploading but here's a still:

Give this one an honorable mention - What's the last car you'd expect to see in a Russian dashcam video? FF to 0:59:

I'm sure Tippi Hedren did.

I do have a shot of swastika-emblazoned food I got from the estate of a German sailor, but the original owner blotted out the swastikas with blue ink. You can still see where they were:

"They're just going to end up blaming the truck driver."

Any Lakota students in the list? There's Amanda Standing Bear and Scott Two Bulls at Red Cloud HS this year.

Who on earth can eat that much candy before it all gets stale or solidifies in the tubes?

Meanwhile, in Redondo Beach...

Jackie Wilson pompadour!

They'd look better in a wider aspect ratio.

This is still one of Chicago's most baffling disappearances - the case of Edward and Stephania Andrews:

First thing I thought of when I saw the thread title - thanks for posting; it still gives me the creeps.

Balloon bomb remains are still turning up - one was found in October near Lumby, BC, Canada with an unexploded bomb:

A few Ohkas still survive. A friend of mine, aircraft collector Earl Reinert, used to own this example which was recovered from Okinawa:

That's the one.

59 9-passenger wagons, and 216 6-passenger. I remember seeing a Cadet Blue 9-passenger wagon (definitely 9, there were kids sitting in the back seat) in front of us in a gas station in about 1966; my mother pointed it out to her little car-nut kid. So the first Edsel I remember seeing was one of the rarest.

Well, I wouldn't revoke his license but he should get a couple points on it...