1958 Plymouth Custom Suburban.
Actually, John, that car was 1958 Plymouth Custom Suburban. It was yellow with white along the rear quarter panels, there was chrome on each side of the white part. This green one is a lower class one that is only a one-tone, not the two tone. Also, Dad's car had the transmission shifter was a serious of buttons on the left side of the dash, a weird configuration that, I have been told, could blow out at you if you tried to shift gears while the thing was running. Between the rear facing rear seat and the forward facing middle seat was a gap that you and were put in when you were a baby and later became a popular sleeping place for kids on long trips. This car made it to Florida several times, including the long way down thru Alabama. This was before interstates. It also got to Wisconsin and Michigan many times as well as upstate New York. The big V-8 drank gas like it cost only $.30 a gallon instead of the current price above $3.00. Oh... it did cost thirty cents back then.
Chrysler later sold the Suburban name to GM who uses it for those huge things that George likes in Alaska.
Chrysler later sold the Suburban name to GM who uses it for those huge things that George likes in Alaska.
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