Yes, but who do you think a 17 year old kid would rather watch gyrating on stage....Creedence or Tina and her backup singers ? Remember, the idea is to "peak his interest"...so to speak. www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Tina+Turner+utube&mid=88C8A184CCFB658449C488C8A184CCFB658449C4&FORM=VIRE
Years ago, I was a member of a car club that required its members to own a car built before 1972 (I had a 34 3W at the time). Membership struggled, and they upped it to 1978 models. Eventually the club folded. Today our state allows you to have antique plates on a 25-year-old car (1999 this year), so go figure. Living in a College town, you get to see firsthand what the younger generation is doing. Lots of foreign cars slammed to the ground. A few of them gather in places where this boomer can go see and learn a few things, as well as talk to them about old cars. Car Culture is still alive.
She has a look that says, hey youse, ya youse, get that camera outta my face. Yeah you knucklehead, you’re ruining my vibe.
You got me on that one ekimneirbo! as I remember Tina and her back up singers dressed in those mini skirts that barley covered certain body parts, I was some times more interested in than cars, were a lot sexier looking than John Fogarty and the band. hope this makes sense.
Actually, you got me .......I knew that Creedence had sung it but never really thought about who was first. In my mind when I think of that song I always picture Tina belting it out and looking sexy. I only had a brief moment to think what to say, and thats what popped out. I mean, todays kids don't know who John Wayne was, or Kool Hand Luke or even Chubby Checker or the "Twist"............Ask your grandkids who Monica Lewinski is and you'll see what I mean. How they gonna know about Don Garlits, George Barris, or even Mickey Thompson and AJ Foyt..............OR SMOKEY YUNICK ? We gotta start tellin em !
You just got to talk and tell them, my dad always talked about Barny Oldfield what a daredevil he was and how fast he could drive, ask your kids or grand kids about him. Eddie Rickenbacker was another daredevil auto racer and a world war one fighter ace I think he shot down 24 enemy planes. The point is keep telling the stories about Garlits, Barris, John Wayne all the really cool guys and hot rods. I use to take my grand kids to any and all car show that were close. one time I found an old 50s hot rod movie and played it for my grandson, was black and white he wasnt to interested. told him to watch it while I fixed the A/C on his pickup. When I got done and asked about the movie he thought all the old rods were cool and got more interested in old cars and movies. story lines were a little weak by todays standards though.
When I was a young kid I would hang out at Harry Dort's auto repair shop down the street from my folks house. I was 8 or 9 years old . I started talking about Barney Oldfield and other racers I had been reading about. He took me in the office and opened his roll top desk and in a little drawer were pictures of his model T speedster he raced at a wooden board track in downtown San Diego In the early 20s. He opened his first shop in San Diego in 1918 after being a traveling salesman for Firestone. This would have been around 1972.
I hung out in my next door neighbors garage from the time I was 11 or 12. Him and his buddies worked on four wheel drives as well as a few hot rods. I remember them letting me torque all the head bolts on a SBC they were building when I was probably 13 or so. What really got me hooked though was when one of their friends came over one day with a T bucket with a blown small block. He gave me a ride and when it pulled the left front tire off the ground when he launched it, I was ruined for life. I have found that same basic strategy works today as well.
That clip was around 5 years ago, she's 7 now. Always grew up in the garage with me and her dad. Always a interest and willingness to help. If we were doing it, she wanted to do it. Never made her do anything, just always wanted to.
She is by far a smart child, and she does take after her dad. He and she are both, smart with an attitude and are both assholes lol.
Hey @squirrel and @downlojoe33 There is a lot to be said about the older typewriters, and in a round about way, there is a connection to the world of old hot rods and the mechanical aspect of what those old marvelous machines can teach us. Nothing against UNDERWOOD or ROYAL, they had their place in history. This is what you get when the ROYAL logo is applied to a hot rod being built," Ukrop's 2.0" and turned into a cool laminated place-mat, something else that is rarely seen in today's world of what goes on a table top. The old UNDERWOOD'S, when taken apart, had some of the most intricate, well engineered linkage's and mechanical movement's that are amazing, and built like a tank as well. A number of years ago, a friend of mine and I were at a swap-meet, and she wanted to buy an old type writer, to use the round circular letters on the keys, to make a name bracelet , it was a fad about 25 years ago. She didn't want to pay the man what he wanted for the old typewriter, I told her I have a few old relic UNDERWOOD'S, that are just ghost's, and I would take one apart for her and give her the letter key's for her name bracelet. I was totally blown away by what it takes, to take one of those dinosaurs apart and just how many parts there are in one, and it was a very interesting exercise in the disassembly of such a machine. I kept a few of the more interesting parts, to have as art pieces, that adorn some of my tables. Not to drift too far off of the topic, but in my estimation, to get the younger kid's interested, say from age's 7 to 10, if and when possible, take those kids to a swap-meet, they will be exposed to a ton of old stuff, that is automotive related, and a lot of other stuff that is fascinating as well, mechanically speaking. Plus there are usually some old cars and trucks for sale at swap-meets, so that is helpful in getting the young kids potentially interested in the "car culture" as well. I don't have any kids, but I have given a lot of my older parts and stuff, to those kid's, that I think will get a kick out of something, that is old and mechanically interesting, to tinker with or to just go ahead and tear it to shreds to see how it work's and maybe learn something about how the past generation's, made things that last a life time ! In the long run, it's about being able to communicate to those that are vastly different from us older boomer, geezer's, age wise, and car wise. The car culture isn't dead, it's simply evolving. And everybody's results may vary ! " Adapt or die " Famous line by "Billy Bean" from the Movie "MONEYBALL" Thanks from Dennis, to all that have contributed to this interesting thread.
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