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My dad had an old buick, I think it was a 63 lesabre. He built a platform in the back so it was like a bed, all the same no floorboard so to speak. Now we used to drive from Tx to Fla and back. He chain smoked but ya know remember the old side windows that sucked it out?

Anyway back then buick had a feature you could place a needle on the speedometer to let you know when you reached that speed. It would set off an alarm. He had it set at 80 and I can still remember waking up to that shit.

As an aside, he took that fullsize buick when we went to spain. I remember when we went to madrid the streets were way to narrow, everyone had to back up to let us thru. Fuck Franco.

My dad had an old buick, I think it was a 63 lesabre. He built a platform in the back so it was like a bed, all the same no floorboard so to speak. Now we used to drive from Tx to Fla and back. He chain smoked but ya know remember the old side windows that sucked it out? Anyway back then buick had a feature you could place a needle on the speedometer to let you know when you reached that speed. It would set off an alarm. He had it set at 80 and I can still remember waking up to that shit. As an aside, he took that fullsize buick when we went to spain. I remember when we went to madrid the streets were way to narrow, everyone had to back up to let us thru. Fuck Franco.

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>Fuck Franco.

Look, it was franco or the commies, you can't have it both ways

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same dif, I remember when he came thru town everyone lined up to 'watch' it. the Guardia lined the streets.

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Not the same thing... You have to understand that in order to clean the commie shit, you necessarilly need to have a non-democratic transition, in order to revert back to normal... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco#Succession

Franco decided to name a monarch to succeed his regency, but the simmering tensions between the Carlists and the Alfonsoists continued. In 1969 Franco nominated as his heir-apparent Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón, who had been educated by him in Spain, with the new title of Prince of Spain. This designation came as a surprise to the Carlist pretender to the throne, as well as to Juan Carlos's father, Juan de Borbón, the Count of Barcelona, who had a better claim to the throne, but whom Franco feared to be too liberal.

However, when Juan Carlos asked Franco if he could sit in on cabinet meetings, Franco would not permit him saying that "you would do things differently." Due to the spread of democracy, excluding the Eastern Bloc, in Europe since World War II, Juan Carlos could or would not have been a dictator in the way Franco had been.

By 1973 Franco had surrendered the function of prime minister (Presidente del Gobierno), remaining only as head of state and commander in chief of the military.

As his final years progressed, tensions within the various factions of the Movimiento would consume Spanish political life, as varying groups jockeyed for position in an effort to win control of the country's future. The assassination of prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco in the 20 December 1973 bombing by ETA eventually gave an edge to the liberalizing faction.

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"However, when Juan Carlos asked Franco if he could sit in on cabinet meetings, Franco would not permit him saying that "you would do things differently." Due to the spread of democracy, excluding the Eastern Bloc, in Europe since World War II, Juan Carlos could or would not have been a dictator in the way Franco had been..."

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To be fair, I was only there from first grade thru 3. But i remember alot of shit, and you had better not say anything against him.