I’m thinking this is a 1965 (Chrysler) Imperial Crown - check it out as it makes an appearance on the 101 freeway. Now you’d probably prefer to drive a 1960 model or even a Chrysler 300 letter series, but this white whale will do in a pinch.
Crank up the oldies on the AM radio and change the station whenever they start talking about having to bail out Detroit. No matter, this aging rig will certainly get you more friends than Sinatra.
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Sic transit gloria Chrysler
San Francisco’s 59th Annual Juneteenth Celebration went off without a hitch. See what it looked like here on SFGate.
Juneteenth Parade
June 20, 2009
Location: start @ Hamilton Park on Post Street
Juneteenth Festival Celebration
June 20-21, 2009
Location: Civic Center Plaza
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Confetti everywhere during the parade in front of City Hall:
If that San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi in there?
Yes it is, with his Bianchi Milano cafe racer bicycle
Here’s Chris Jackson of the San Francisco Community College Board
And Public Defender Jeff Adachi
1964 300K Letter Series Chrysler. That thing got a Hemi? Sadly no, how about a Wedge instead?
All Corvettes are Red, except those that aren’t
Barack Obama was there, sort of.
As was the Census Bureau
And the kids from UCSF Division of Clinical Pharmacology were looking for healthy smokers, something like this: Pharmacogenetics of Nicotine Metabolism in African-Americans. Make $300 by joining the study, why don’t you?
And if meat is murder, then Civic Center was the site of a massacre this weekend
See you next year!
In these days hybrid buses, cars and everything else, it’s interesting to see the OFFICIAL BUSINESS of a City and County vehicle, such as this SFPD Dodge Charger R/T in a plain wrapper, being powered by such a non-hybriddy engine like a 5.7 litre V-8 HEMI.
So, this explains the MY NEXT POLICE CAR IS GOING TO HAVE A HEMI bumper stickers seen around town. What’s left a mystery is why these engines are called Hemi’s anyway.
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“Hemi” stands for hemispherical combustion chamber, but the term as used these days is “little more than a copyrighted word that bears little meaning, descriptively, for the engines designated as such.” Or, in other words, ”that thing got a Hemi? No, not really.”
On the other hand, your 1975 Toyota Corolla just might have an actual hemi, if not the boss HEMI logo on the side.
Choose wisely
This genuine San Francisco Police Department Ford Crown Victoria prowler sports a bumper sticker that states:
“MY NEXT POLICE CAR IS GONNA TO HAVE A HEMI“
This is a reference to the hemispherical combustion chambers of the 5.7 litre engine of the Dodge Charger Police Interceptor. So, did the S.F.P.D. place an order for Daimler-Chrysler squad cars?
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Signs point to “yes.” So soon, the SFPD might start looking like the CHP.
Poor Ford!
