@Mad_Science: Our '62 has an alternator due to an engine swap, but it did come with a generator, so says the literature. (the c-10, but I think you know that already.)

@Baby Beater Benz:

I like this three-tone.

@87CapriceEstate: The beds on these old trucks were wooden boards. If there's metal in it, it's been added later - ours has a piece of sheet metal in it.

@grantman321: There is one of those monstrosities, in pearl orange, near my house. It is down the street from a pair of mercury/edsel comets, and around the corner from a white E-type and a whale-tail 911.

@icntdrv:

trying this again.

This is what happens when a falcon ranchero owner goes insane collecting hood ornaments and horns.

@BRDHNTR: Extraordinaire: there are more of us out there than you think. The other five chick commenters on jalop, for example. Also all the girls I know with alfa romeos. (I went boring for my current ride, a 10 year old base model 323i.)

@AlienProbe: Jezebel scares me, but having seen Studs and Spurs in person, complete with crowd of jeering women, it is funny as hell.

@BRDHNTR: Extraordinaire: Aside from the fact that it has paddle shifting which I do not yet know how to use, (I would rather the six speed), I would drive it if you gave it to me. Then again as a girl I routinely buy pink stuff to keep guys from stealing it.

@MushyHeirloom: I see one pretty much every day; it lives on the street along my drive to work with its' friend, a 70s alfa spyder.

Eight. I think that's the product of way too much time on wikipedia.

The 59 pickup was pretty cool. And for what it's worth, our '62 is much smaller than all of the neighbors' modern pickup trucks that park on the street with it.

@theeastbaykid: I would call that an hour and fifteen from the city. 45 from the airport. Avondale is a lot closer.

@mytdawg: That tiny 9" steering wheel. We found one of those on our '62 C-10. The truck, it is a pain in the ass to parallel park even with a normal giant wheel.

@FP - missing Pete and the SHOwagon: my 2002 civic has roll-down windows, and a manual with no tach. It does have a/c though, this is new orleans. The truck has vent glass and a vinyl bench seat and it is hot as hell.

What about the Simca Vedette with the Rush-Matic transmission?

@Murilee Martin: I was in a Mardi Gras parade a couple years ago, and we had a sixties MGB following our float for about a third of the parade... then it did drop out.

@Murilee Martin: Impressive. I did 1400 miles in a loaded down 92 si years ago and only managed 36 with the a/c on. On the other hand I'd only been driving manual for about a month at that point.