Posted by Dean on May 26, 2018 at 09:51:42 from (68.50.160.151):
In Reply to: Re: Car Songs posted by dr sportster on May 26, 2018 at 09:17:12:
Great song, Sportster. I've not heard it before.
It conjures up memories of my childhood in the mid-late 50s when I laid awake in my bed at night with all of the windows open (no AC) listening to the tractor trailers gearing down for the pull up the nearby hill out of the Ohio River valley.
In the era, most of the tractors were still powered by gasoline engines, Waukesha, Hercules, White, Mack, GMC, Ford, etc. Regulations did not require mufflers, and few had one. Most of the engines probably made 150-180 HP. There were still lots of 500+ CI flathead tractors on the road.
Split shifting, double clutching, gear jamming, open exhausts, many tractors would be down to 15 MPH at the top of the hill. I remember it well.
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