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Whichever GM engineer came up with the exhaust system for this car deserves
a medal. The 'sound' was extraordinary. It really did emulate a jet without
the turbine whine. Unforgettable.
Thanks, Max
john

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I don't know if I ever heard that but then it was a long, long time ago. My
uncle had a 59 Oldsmobile that I drove from time to time and it was a nice
car, very quiet and very smooth, but with terrible brakes.

Max

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> Whichever GM engineer came up with the exhaust system for this car
> deserves a medal. The 'sound' was extraordinary. It really did emulate a
> jet without the turbine whine. Unforgettable.
> Thanks, Max
> john
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"...long, long time ago..."???!!!
Thanks, but Jeezuz, Max; I guess I should start out comments with: "once
upon a time, right after the horse..."
8-)
john

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>I don't know if I ever heard that but then it was a long, long time ago.
>My uncle had a 59 Oldsmobile that I drove from time to time and it was a
>nice car, very quiet and very smooth, but with terrible brakes.
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> Max
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> "John Bradley" > wrote in message
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>> Whichever GM engineer came up with the exhaust system for this car
>> deserves a medal. The 'sound' was extraordinary. It really did emulate a
>> jet without the turbine whine. Unforgettable.
>> Thanks, Max
>> john
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>> "Max" > wrote in message
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Well, don't forget that 1959 is almost a half a century ago and for us
geezers it's not easy to remember what things sounded like last week let
alone last century. :-)) When I arrived in Canada in 1950, in a rural area
of agricultural southern Alberta, conditions there really weren't that far
from "right after the horse". There were no paved roads outside of the
cities (only 2 within several hundred miles); there were still gas lamps on
the walls of the town's movie theatre (it closed shortly after I got there);
we had 36 volt dc electricity provided by a windmill with a huge bank of
glass batteries sitting on shelves in our garage; and lots of people had no
plumbing in the house. By 1960 conditions had changed considerably but I
spent 3 years teaching in even further isolation where conditions were just
as primitive as they had been thirty or even fifty years earlier.

Max

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> "...long, long time ago..."???!!!
> Thanks, but Jeezuz, Max; I guess I should start out comments with: "once
> upon a time, right after the horse..."
> 8-)
> john
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> "MagisterMax" > wrote in message
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>>I don't know if I ever heard that but then it was a long, long time ago.
>>My uncle had a 59 Oldsmobile that I drove from time to time and it was a
>>nice car, very quiet and very smooth, but with terrible brakes.
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>> Max
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>> "John Bradley" > wrote in message
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>>> Whichever GM engineer came up with the exhaust system for this car
>>> deserves a medal. The 'sound' was extraordinary. It really did emulate a
>>> jet without the turbine whine. Unforgettable.
>>> Thanks, Max
>>> john
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>>> "Max" > wrote in message
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GEEZER POWER!
john

"MagisterMax" > wrote in message
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> Well, don't forget that 1959 is almost a half a century ago and for us
> geezers it's not easy to remember what things sounded like last week let
> alone last century. :-)) When I arrived in Canada in 1950, in a rural
> area of agricultural southern Alberta, conditions there really weren't
> that far from "right after the horse". There were no paved roads outside
> of the cities (only 2 within several hundred miles); there were still gas
> lamps on the walls of the town's movie theatre (it closed shortly after I
> got there); we had 36 volt dc electricity provided by a windmill with a
> huge bank of glass batteries sitting on shelves in our garage; and lots of
> people had no plumbing in the house. By 1960 conditions had changed
> considerably but I spent 3 years teaching in even further isolation where
> conditions were just as primitive as they had been thirty or even fifty
> years earlier.
>
> Max
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> "John Bradley" > wrote in message
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>> "...long, long time ago..."???!!!
>> Thanks, but Jeezuz, Max; I guess I should start out comments with: "once
>> upon a time, right after the horse..."
>> 8-)
>> john
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>> "MagisterMax" > wrote in message
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>>>I don't know if I ever heard that but then it was a long, long time ago.
>>>My uncle had a 59 Oldsmobile that I drove from time to time and it was a
>>>nice car, very quiet and very smooth, but with terrible brakes.
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>>> Max
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>>> "John Bradley" > wrote in message
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>>>> Whichever GM engineer came up with the exhaust system for this car
>>>> deserves a medal. The 'sound' was extraordinary. It really did emulate
>>>> a jet without the turbine whine. Unforgettable.
>>>> Thanks, Max
>>>> john
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>>>> "Max" > wrote in message
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