History Where were you in '62???

Can't really say my dad was only 7 then...bought he says he bought his 1st car at age 8...

Dakota Kid

 

Kindergarten.... : )

 

How I rolled.....eerrrr pedaled,but hey,it'd lift the front wheels!

 

1962----Dallas,Texas..selling all the "hotrodders" their dreams from the speed shop that is my avatar...... already 29 and two kids... God.I'm an old fart,but still at it..
See ya'll at the Roundup in April.

 

1st grade.. Northeast los angeles reading dick and jane... See spot run,, run spot run!

 

10th grade at Springfield High School, (Vermont). had a 40 Ford Coupe and no driver's license. Put a $50.00 1948 truck flathead V8 in it with a fellow Hamber. Back then you could buy cars and parts cheap, of course the minimum wage was .75 cents and gas was .20 cents a gallon.. Life was simple, girls were straight, and "rock and Roll was the music played..............................

 

My mom was just turning one. I didnt come til 85

 

Finished the 8th grade at Anna Stuart Dupuy Elementary in Birmingham AL and off to Woodlawn High School, also in Birmingham.
I rode to high school each day with a guy named Wayne Markham. He had a 51 ford 2 door, metallic blue, wide whites and red rims. He was all excited one day about his headliner. Used a new product to make it look like vinyl........latex paint was the name.....and white was the headliner...........great time to be alive

 

got a hardship license and rode a 1937 Harley 45 flathead in dallas to hang out at places like hine pontiac, johnson chevrolet and tom johnson's performance incorporated shop. paid $250 for the motor. first car was still a year away. paid $250 for it too. 1956 chevy 150 with a 265

 

Driving this, and trying to save up $2,650. for a new 406/405hp Galaxie sedan. At this point I only needed $2,648. more.

 

I think he ment BIG BLOCK CHRYSLER....not chevy

 

2ND grade pushing little cars around

 

Mazooma, thats what I find every 5-6 years when I drive down for an IN-N-OUT BURGER on Foothill, which used to be Walnut. Nothing is the same. I'm not complaining. but All my Old Friends are now OLD.

 

In 1962 I was 21 and lived in socal and a Inspector on the verdan an minutemen missile computers at North American AVA in Downey ( now rockwell )by Day and Race at lions Drag Strip on the weekend and hanging out at Hunting Beach checking out the babes aha those were the days.

 

I was in Viet Nam, erecting bridges for the troops to cross over the canels..Strange place for a Navy, Ship Fitter/Pipe Fitter, I volunteered..
Duane.

 

Its still Foothill...it turns into Walnut about 500 yards west of In 'N Out...

I was the neighbor of Hank Randalll...he worked at United Artists

hows this?

 

I was in 9th grade wishing I had a driver license.My older neighbor had a 48 ford coupe with a rocket moter 3X2's that he would let us younger car nuts work on.I was working on my first hot rod. It was a plank of wood that had straight axles with wagon wheels.My uncle helped me out by building a body out of wood. It had door nobs for tail lights ,light sockets for headlights,and a piece of water pipe for a tailpipe.It weighed so much it took half of the neighbor kids to push around. It was painted gloss black and had the number 29 just like the Bonneville cars.

 

I love the picture, with the Cushman scooters. In 62 I was a freshman/sophmore in high school in Tucson, AZ. I was delivering the morning Arizona Daily Star on my paper route using my 58 Cushman Eagle. I broke the crank on the 58 and my folks bought me a 62 Eagle to keep me mobile and working the paper route. In those days Arizona allowed 14 year olds to drive motor scooters of 5 HP or less. I had a 5 HP Cushman and most of the other guys riding had more than 5 HP. My friends also delivered the Daily Star and we all rode Cushmans and a Vespa. Riding that Cushman in Tucson traffic, I sure learned how to drive on the offense. None of that "defensive" driving crap. You either drove on the offense, or were run over by the crazy people who didn't see you. I went to Rincon HS my freshman year and to Palo Verde HS my sophmore year. I graduated from the first class at Palo Verde in 65. Friday nights we'd go to the HS football or basketball games or the Midway Drive-In on Speedway. Afterwards we'd cruise Speedway from Jonnies Drive-In restarurant at Speedway and Craycroft to the other Jonnies at Speedway and Tucson Blvd. Its pretty hard to "race" somebody with a Cushman, but we had fun anyway.

 

I was 8 years old, we lived in th coal region of North Central Pa. My three uncles lived in the same patch, one had a 55' BelAir, red and ivory with a Cont. Kit, one had a 56' BelAir, powder blue an white, and one had a 57', gold,white top and red interior. My dad had a 55' 210 2-door wagon. Anyway, my first cousin worked for GM and I remember like it was yesterday hearing a horn blowing. It was my cousin, her and her boyfriend pulled up in a 62' Corvette, Roman red on red,top down, and they took me for a ride, I sat between the seats on the convertible top lid, that was an everlasting memory, one that compelled me to own some of the cars I mentioned here, all but a 56', but it's not over yet, Hmmmm......let's see, Cars on line....

 

i was seven. probably riding my bike or playing baseball. Seems like our group of friends played ball 10 months out of the year. That and have dirt clod fights. Those were fun days , really no worries.
chuck

 

10 years old hanging around with the drivers kids at the IMCA sprints in Tampa FL. After the sprinters left for the big car shows up north it was the Golden Gate Speedway every Saturday night. We didn't have much money, no A.C., our vehicle was a 1952 Chevrolet purchased new from Joie Chitwood Chevrolet in Brooksville, and my dad was the only one who worked outside of the home. I miss those days, and my dad too.
PK

 

in 62 i was living in Imperial Beach Kalifoooornia , i was 3 1/2 and cruisin a trike that was liberated from some rich douche in Mission Beach according to the mothership!

 

i droped out of high school and went to the first year of tech school and took auto mechanics
I usually had a cushman or 2 they hardly ever run, broke a valve in one and never got it fixed until 68
had a nice 55 chev that i kept exploding engines on parents took it away and bought me a POS of 54 chev, had to put on a new FEA and later got split and dual carb, thought I was in 7 th heaven, cut the gas with used oil and with a lot of friends boot leg fuel got to go to dances etc..
rember eating at the old hotel in Breckenridge MN and hearing the Beatles songs on the jukebox and later the Stones' cant get no satisfaction" that still plays in my head
can rember buying 2 gal of oil at M& H gas for $2.00 reclaimed oil was 10 cents a quaRT AND WE THOUGHT THAT CANED pENNZOIL WAS THE CATS MEOW??!
went to work in 2 garages, was drafted in 1966, that crazy asian war in 1967
FINALLY BACK TO THE WORLD well that was slightly disappointing , we werent exactly welcomed home but with a little PTSD I fought my way through it all

 

I bought a few dreams from your shop. Great times, first year at Arlington State, 32 five window w/Olds, 4-2 log manifold, Lasalle. Dont even have a picture ,damn !! Sold it a year later when I got married.

 

waiting to be born so i could run open headers and watch the world revolve around me

 

Wasn't here until sept 63
My dad still talks about the 59 olds convertable he had then, might have been where I started!

 

I was 10 years old and in the fourth grade at Euharlee Elementary School in Rockmart GA.

 

I was in the 2nd grade at Stearman Elementary Wichita, Ks.
Digging Elvis and Duane Eddy. Started noticing cars. Love airplanes and cartoons and a cute girl named Jackie and my dog Lady.
dad drove a blue Lark Stude. My Old Grandad had some Grocery stores called Mr D's IGA and he had a cool T-bird.

 

Well, yes, you are wrong, but it's not your fault. Liberal Acadamia and the Liberal Press has re-written history. The USA was there, underground war, (Air America) and JFK was the author of the war plan...............

http://lib.treasures.utdallas.edu/handle/2152.1/1184

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB248/index.htm

 

geez, you got to turn off Fox occasionally