Wheels
We kids certainly were a mobile bunch in KHS back in the mid ’50s. We had a lot of great times with our cars and our high school years just wouldn’t have been the same without them. Most of us got our licence to drive just as soon as we reached the legal age of 16 or very soon thereafter. We used to pile into someones car and just cruse around. You usually saw someone you knew at the root beer stand in K-town and the drive in restaurants at New Castle were always fun to circle a few hundred times. It was pretty hard for a boy to date someone without some wheels so most of us had something to drive. I had a ‘50 Merc which never quite attained a state of cool because of a bad trunk hinge which I never managed to fix. But it was close to being cool…….
Some of the cars I remember were:
- The Keesling’s “Green Monster” 1952 DeSoto
- Forey Wyatt’s ‘47 Chevy coupe with bittersweet orange front fenders, slick..!!
- Junior Peacock’s ‘46 Ford coupe
- Donnie Sylvestor’s cool sky blue metalic ‘41 Chevy with cackling dual steelpacks - sweet..!!!
- Kenny Perry’s folk’s “Green Bomb” Pontiac
- Nancy’s folk’s pink ‘56 Lincoln convert (what a boat..!!!)
- Phil Ramsey’s ‘55 Chevy BelAire Hardtop with a 4 barrel carb (unbeatable)
- Lonnie Young’s ‘54 Ford Interceptor (pretty fast too)
- Ronnie Short’s folk’s red and black ‘56 Ford Fairlane
- Larry Lindsay’s big ole ‘49 or ‘50 Hudson. (Had some times in that one…!!)
- Gary Plank’s cherry ‘48 Chevy (There’s never been a cleaner car..!!)
This is all I can remember right now. Maybe somebody can help me out and post some more.
I sure would like to get some pictures of the cars to post here. Hope somebody will either post some or send them to me and I’ll post them.
