^^^ My Wife almost did that at Daytona too in our 38 Chevy coupe. Luckily it sit high with the I beam axle. She was trying to catch a wave while I made a 8mm movie of her. The water went up over the running broads.
@Sky Six Hello, When we were little kids to around 1954 when my brother did not have his first car, we took the “RED” cars to Los Angeles to visit our dad and go to lunch/shopping. Our mom did not drive and she knew her way around Long Beach, so, we took the neighborhood Westside of Long Beach bus line to downtown Long Beach to the starting spot for the red line to Los Angeles. It was riding on a train car rumbling through downtown Long Beach and through parts of West Bixby Knolls towards Compton. Then following an old rail line that went past some of the most unusual scenery in So Cal. Our dad on the weekends and his days off would take our mom shopping, but during the winter holidays, we were on our own for this particular family excursion. The cool thing was my brother and I learned the cities along the way and how they all connected east-west to Long Beach and inland metropolitan Los Angeles. We followed a paper map (remember those) and tracked the locations left and right of the rail line that led to downtown Los Angeles. That helped later, when we started driving as we now learned the places where the speed shops were located and supply parts houses where we could get our hot rod stuff. Jnaki The elevated Slauson station will be an important transfer point in the future, should a proposed rail line to Artesia be completed. It sits on the border between an industrial area and a residential neighborhood, overlooking a lumber yard, a bunch of scrapyards, and a railroad junction, with a view of the Downtown skyline in the distance. Note: In 1965, my friend and I went to a party in the Culver City area for some friends we met in college. On the way home, there was a traffic jam on the freeways, so, knowing that most of the major streets go East/West, we took Slauson East to run into the Long Beach Freeway and or continue on to Bixby Knolls. But, we did not know that Slauson was packed near the Watts community area. The roads were funneled into one lane and the CHP/local Sheriff’s Dept. were inspecting all cars coming through the area. When we got stopped in the Red 65 El Camino and questions asked, they allowed us to continue East to get to the LB /Freeway on Slauson. Later on, we found out that that portion of the community was a major player in the famous Watts Riots that took place later in that same week. YRMV
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