stopped at the quick mart...

[blueskies]

...on the way to work today in my '50. As I was walking out, a fellow walked past me and asked another guy standing inside if it was his Plymouth. I said it was mine, and he came back out for a look. He was grinning ear to ear as he told me about the four door '50 his grandfather had in Maine when he was a kid. Said they would go to the market and buy a whole bunch of live lobster, and toss them in the back on the floor. They would crawl around back there while he and his brother would ride up front with Gramps. The guys was flooded with memories.

As I drove away, another older fellow stopped me and said he used to drive one just like it when he was a "younger man".

Most everyone around here knows my car as I drive it to work most days, so these guys must have been tourists. Nice to chat about these cars on the way to work, made my day...

Pete

[55 Fargo]

I can relate, today I was stopped and asked all about my car, what year etc. I usually enjoy this, but someitimes it can be a pain, if I am ina hurry to get somewhere, but I always answer the ???s

[adam_knox]

Yeah, those are my favorites when people used to own the car. I felt really bad, when I first got my car I was in a rush to go somewhere and a gentleman followed me to look at my car, apparently he owned that style car. I didn't really chat much because I had other things going on, but seeing the car was obviously really important to him. Still feel like a jerk a few years later.

[Plymouthy Adams]

you should have challenged him to prove lobster could really ride in the back of the Plymouth...

[RobertKB]

This is off topic, but can someone explain to me how a lobster which lives at the bottom of the ocean can survive above water - eg. in the back of a car. I do not believe they are amphibious but have gills that must have water circulated through them. I assume when out of water they have the ability to survive for a while but will eventually "drown" in air. Just curious.

[John Mulders]

Seems they are in need of oxygen !

http://thelobsterzone.com/lobster-logic

[RobertKB]

Yes, I read that but they get the oxygen from the water because of gills. What about out of water?

[Don Coatney]

Pete;

If you had not stopped at the Quick Mart you might have won the big race:D

[1940plymouth]

I just got home with the Plymouth from attending a cruise in 20 miles from Neversink. While I was there I had two couples, both in their 80's ask me what year the Plymouth was. When I told them it was a 1940, they each told me that they had a 1941 Plymouth convertible. The first couple told me that they bought theirs brand new and the other couple told me that they had bought theirs in 1949. Just very neat to have them mention their Plymouths and then get home and see this thread. Just had to share:)

Bob

[P-12 Tommy]

When I got my P-12 my mother told me her and my father had a dark blue P-12 in 1950.

Tom

[BobT-47P15]

Never had any lobsters in the rear floor.......

However, on occasion, the Mrs gets a little crabby while

in the front seat.