On a July summer day in 1960, a teenage, female house cat, Linda, is out cruising around on Highway 54 several miles north of Vaughn.
The car, a 1949 Nash Ambassador, which is an 11 year old car at the time, is not "Daddy's car". It is a car Linda Cat's parents got for her as a graduation gift...Linda graduated in high school Class of 1960.
Despite of there being long driving distances to run errands and get to places, it is still not uncommon for cars here to go 300,000 to 500,000 miles before wearing out their usefulness. That is due to the fact that open highway driving does not put nearly the amount of wear on a car as stop 'n' go city driving does...Out on the highway, it's the ease of cruising along at a set speed with no traffic merges, stopping and accelerating. And out here, 99% of the miles put on a car is open highway driving.
Linda is driving her Nash at a speed of 60 mph...She is not a fast driver to begin with. And the car being an older Nash, has a 234 cubic inch, 112 horse power, six cylinder motor which was not exactly ideal for high performance driving.
1949 was the first year the Nash automobiles were built in this style. And despite of being models as early as 1949, that was the first year Nash began building their cars as unibody...which means they are not built as separate body and frame cars, rather the body itself is the frame. The only other Nash cars that had unibody prior to 1949 were the unibody 600 series introduced in 1941. https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&bih=625&...:
It is indeed a long drive. However, Linda Cat lives in Pastura with her Dad, Mom and siblings, which is 10 or 12 miles or so north of where she is in the drawing...It don't take long to rack up the miles on a car.
As long distance as everything is out in those parts, everyone there considers 20 to 60 mile trips as local driving.
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It is indeed a long drive. However, Linda Cat lives in Pastura with her Dad, Mom and siblings, which
