the World's Fastest Bear

Chrysler added a shift quadrant to their 40's & 50's-era semi-automatic transmission a few years after introducing it, but it wasn't a straight-through end-to-end quadrant like Hydramatic or Powerglide. Instead, it was shifted like a three-speed that wouldn't go into 1st, with Low range where 2nd would be, High range where 3rd would be, with Reverse in the usual place.

Lovely and wonderful, but we'd always wonder if someone would be walking out of the surf in front of our beach place, saying something like "I'm Norman Maine and I could sure use a drink"...

Now there's an answer to your grayscale suv or pickup. Only the AAR 'Cuda 340 (and its twin the Challenger T/A 340) got the tri-power 340, and that special side exhaust.

Relax, it's vegetarian. Mostly...

Stand ** HER ** up on a date, will ya?

That kid in the sweater vest on the float sure has a great voice. This one's from 1963, and was almost recorded by Bobby Darin.

From 1960, this got to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, and #1 on the Billboard R&B chart. This doesn't appear to be a latter-day re-channeling, instead sounding like an original two or three-track stereo mix.

Instrumentals were very big in the years before the Beatles came along and changed everything. This Wikipedia page has more about the group than we could put in here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_and_the_Hurricanes

Compared to just about every other car in 1958, this is a sterling example of timeless elegance.

He looks calm now, but wait until he hears the ice cream truck.

Just saw an item in a Wyoming newsletter we get, that showed some butthead tourist chasing down a herd of buffalo. No, they weren't running from him, they just (fortunately for him) happened to be running away from him. Buffalo don't take any shit, and they're very good at stomping those who try to give it to them.

Because Congress didn't roll over the authorization for that infamous Section 702 (it expired today), we'd like to say " Hi ! " to all the folks down at the Fort Meade shop, and remind them that this won't be the first time that they'll be asked to do some less-than-legal things as part of their duties.

The version by Classics IV is better-known, but Dusty's version dates from both 1968 (when it was released as a single everywhere but the USA) and 1970.

It was meant to be a halo car, but it was too little and too late to save Studebaker, which closed down their last American plant (in South Bend, Indiana) at the end of 1963. This one has the factory Paxton supercharger. The body is fiberglass, and this color is called Avanti Turquoise Metallic. Note the trunk-mounted battery.