my Uncle Ewald had a '57 Olds 4 door hardtop with the rare optional J-2 (as in JATO) triple carburetor motor at the same time (1957-early 1960s) as my father had a 1957 Mercury with the dealer installed dual 4-barrel solid lifter cam package on the Mexican Road Race Lincoln 368, and 1957 was the year my cousin Stevie and I got our driver's licenses. Somehow we survived our adolescent competitive instincts, but it was a miracle. There is also the legendary moment when my mother, in the Mercury, and my Aunt Delphine, in the J-2 Olds, found themselves side by side at the one and only stoplight on the 4 lane road in Little Falls, Minnesota, and both decided to put the pedal to the floor the instant the light turned green. Not often you see two early middle aged mothers (Delphine and Ewald had 10 kids!) dragging it out like that.