Happy Birthday to Me!

Well its still a couple of months until my 40th birthday but my wife has already sprung my birthday present on me. My wife and I often half-joked about how sweet it would be to have a classic convertible to tool around in from time to time. Well my wife found one. A 1963 Buick Skylark Special. Here's a picture of it just being delivered this morning. Although its not quite as sought after as your Impala for example, its a very sweet car. And, reminds me of my first car, a 1964 Buick Wildcat. That thing was a tank. A real piece of Detroit steel. They don't make 'em like this anymore. The exterior of the Skylark looks great, and the interior isn't too bad either. Its definitely not show quality but we weren't really looking for that anyways. But the most interesting part, its a "three-on-the-tree" standard transmission. Which threw me for a second as I sat in to take it for a spin. In fact, I realized I didn't even know what the shifting pattern was, so after I drove it around the block , in whatever gear I was in, and into the driveway, I did a web search to see if I could find out the pattern. Surprisingly I found the shifting pattern on Everything2 which I've never really been a big fan of. We'll I definitely have some practicing to do this weekend.

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