Re: Friday night supper

Ed P wrote:

I was traveling. Beef jerky and cheese crackers. Ice water
I did drive 1018 miles though,  Long day.
Finished the journey this morning.

Full-Size Chevrolet Option Installation Rates:
Number made: 1,263,598 units
In 1960, Chevrolet still sold a lot of sparsely equipped big cars:
Forty-four percent of full-size Chevrolets had six-cylinder engines, 33
percent had stick shift, and only 35 percent were ordered with radios...
Only 27 percent of buyers ordered power steering, and just 11 percent
ordered power brakes...
Air conditioning was rare – ordered by only 3.0 percent of buyers — and
a mere 1.0 percent of full-size Chevrolet customers specified power
windows...
By 1969, fewer than 5 percent of full-size Chevys had a six-cylinder
engine, and a mere 3.6 percent had three-speed manual transmission...
Just 8.3 percent had manual steering, while only 37.9 percent didn’t
have air conditioning...
The only real surprise in these statistics is the slow acceptance of
power brakes. Until 1968, the take rate for these was less than 30
percent, and it wasn’t until 1970 that more than half of all full-size
Chevrolets were ordered with them...
Other than power brakes, which became standard on the big Chevy line for
1971, it took a remarkably long time for many of these features to
become standard on the full-size Chevrolet, and longer still for the
strippers and poverty specials to fade away...
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