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The Rambler part 1
Date: 6/13/2016, Categories: Taboo, Author: rgough, Rating: 100, Source: xHamster
"Jeez, Dad. What an ugly car." My son laughed as he held a picture up, arms length from his face as if it could actually damage his eyes. "You didn't really drive around in that, did you?" I stretched my hand out and waved it, silently demanding he turn over the offending picture and Tom put it in my hand just as my wife leaned over and laughed. "That was your father's first car," she cackled. "Man is it ugly. What was it?" Tom asked as I jerked the picture from his hand. "A Rambler," his Mom said. Miffed, I corrected my wife, "A 1959 Rambler American Continental." That's right," Laura's mirth boiled forth. "I forgot." "What's that on the back?" Tom pointed at the picture, now in my hand. Engrossed in the picture, I didn't answer. "Oh, that. That was for the rear tire," Laura explained. "Like a Lincoln," she laughed. "You went out with Dad when he was driving that?" Tom's skepticism was evident in his voice, clearly not convinced that an attractive, modern woman like his mother would have gone out with a 'goodie-goodie' like his father, especially driving such a joke car. "Oh no," Laura laughed. "Gran owned half of it and she talked your Grandad into lending your Dad the money to get a car of his own after he first brought me home, something decent to take a nice girl out in, bless her soul. That's when he got the '57 Chevy hardtop. Now that was a nice car. There should be a picture of it in here somewhere." Laura started pushing pictures around, searching for the Chevy, and ...