Pappy
Living the Dream
The good old rumble seat. My uncle had a car similar to this and I rode in it. Anyone else?
Have you ever ridden in this....
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IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
I never have Pappy and come to think of it I can't recall ever riding in a convertible with the top down either unless you count a military jeep.
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Pappy
Living the Dream
I was assigned one of these in our motor pool.
IKE
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- Oklahoma....U.S.A.
Prior to going to Vietnam I drove one of these a lot while in Panama assigned to the 518th Combat Engineers back in '68'.....I remember that they would absolutely beat you to death till you got a good heavy load on them.
Falcon
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- So. California
Yes. My uncle had a car with a rumble seat. Fun, but a bit chilly in the wintertime.
Big Horn
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- Cody, Wyoming
I once rode in the rumble seat of a 1928 Chevrolet. I was probably five or six years old. The man who owned it had bought it new and kept it the rest of his life. When he died in 1965, I tried to buy it, but his heirs wouldn't sell. I learned later that they had sold it for far less than I would have paid.
The car used "natural gasoline." There were no additives to raise the octane which would have been between 50 and 55 octane. It could use the low octane gas because the compression ratio was only 4.3:1. It ran fine on high octane gas as well. Some rascals would steal drip gas which collected around oil wells. With the passing of low compression engines, the theft ended.
Has anyone ever seen low octane gas for sale? Some stations supposedly carried it until the early fifties, but I never saw it. My only childhood memories of gasoline are of Regular and Ethyl. I hope that everyone here has heard of Ethyl. :sentimental:
The car used "natural gasoline." There were no additives to raise the octane which would have been between 50 and 55 octane. It could use the low octane gas because the compression ratio was only 4.3:1. It ran fine on high octane gas as well. Some rascals would steal drip gas which collected around oil wells. With the passing of low compression engines, the theft ended.
Has anyone ever seen low octane gas for sale? Some stations supposedly carried it until the early fifties, but I never saw it. My only childhood memories of gasoline are of Regular and Ethyl. I hope that everyone here has heard of Ethyl. :sentimental:
Timetrvlr
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- central interior B.C., Canada
Yes, I bought one just like the picture from my high school music teacher for $15 back in '54. Drove it for a year until the bottom of the transmission and some of the gears fell out. Sold it for $15.
My second car was a 38 Ford convertible with a rumble seat. One night in November we were out at night and it started raining. The boy and girl in the rumble seat sat in the floor and pulled the lid closed. All was fine until I drove through a puddle and the girl learned that she was sitting on a large rust hole in the floor. It wet her down in a place that she did not want to talk about.
My next convertible was a 46 Hudson with a regular back seat.
My next convertible was a 46 Hudson with a regular back seat.
Pappy
Living the Dream
My 37 Buick coupe didn’t have a rumble seat, just the front bench seat. It did have two little drop down seats in the small area behind the front seat. I believe they were called opera seats. Why, I have no idea.