id have gone back to 75 and bought a bunch of apple stock when it was just starting then sell it around 85 when it was at top dollar and put it in a trust fund to myself then come back to now retire and have the coolest garage in the area and all the cars , motorcycles , and a steam boat to mess with
1966. My favorite year. The Chevy's looked the coolest, '66 Mustang's were the best Mustang. Shelby's in particular, The Beatles were at there best. Great music, cars. 1942-1945 too. The WW 2 era. I'd want to be a fighter pilot. P-51B Great cars(pre 1941) too.
right here, right now but I was born in SoCal in 1950....so pretty much got see everything worth seeing...jalopy races on Sunday afternoon in Gardena, drag races at Lions, Fontana, San Gabriel, Irwindale, all the indoor car shows, just the best of times, car scene and music... So, I'll stay right here...just enjoying the ride of retirement!!!!
The '60's were great!!! music, girls,cars. the the lets get along live together atitude was a model life....the drugs and that damed war ruined a lot of lives
Mid to late 60's. Lots of color, wheels, and speed parts to choose from by then. Style was good. Gassers and early Funny Cars that morphed from the oh so cool A/FX ranks. Music was XLNT. And, sorry, but I just loved the Muscle Cars coming out of Detroit to a dealer nearby. The stripes/motors/colors/scoops/spoilers/wheels....... And fashion for the girls was starting to get a bit sexier too
Well, I should probably answer my own question. I am 32 years old so I have not lived through what most of you are talking about. I have only seen it in photos and portrayed in movies. My grandparents are of the world war 2 generation. I have always respected their attitude towards life, family, values, pride of this country and the list goes on. To experience what they did in their lifetime is amazing. They lived through most everything that was talked about on this thread. Today, it seems as though some of that is lost To answer the question though, I would like to be a teenager in the late 50's or early 60's. Besides the cars and the music I think it's more about the overall lifestyle. Hanging out at car hops, better family values, more respect and pride. Don't get me wrong, life now is real damn good. I have a great family, good job etc. and technolgy can be a good thing. The internet makes this hobby a lot of fun and easier to access. Car shows today seem to be getting better and better. Part of the reason the past is so cool is because I haven't lived through it. So the mystique makes it that much cooler.
Gotta think that through, Duesenbergs were more than 10 times the national average income. Go to 1950's and buy 'em for a few hundred bucks when no one wanted them.
Oh, and I would love to visit 1940, cars were Deco, skirted and cool, girls wore skirts and stockings with seams, big band was hot, the dry lakes were starting and things were still achievable. When I am done, back to now, 'cuz these are the good old days.
HMMMM, somewhere in the 70's when you could buy a shitload of those 23 window, VW Micro buses for under $100
Summer of '69. In a Chevy dealership filling out the option sheet for a ZL-1 427 jet black/red stripe vette. Then heading over to the local stadium to see the Doors, Zeppelin and Hendrix in a triple bill. Spin
I've often thought a life that spaned 1845-1915 would get to see the invention of all the major inventions and some of the most colorful events in American history. Survive the Civil War, the last old war and first to use submarines and observational aircraft (baloons). Then watch the trans contental railroad, setteling of the west, telagraph, telephone, electric lights, movies, steam, electric and gas powered automobiles, airplane, New York to Paris Race, birth of the INDY 500. I'm sure I missed a few, but it would have been an interesting era to see first hand.
RUB IT IN DOUG!!! I think the question was aimed at the rest of us poor unfortunates who missed all that!
I would like to be 16 and I would go back to 65-68 So I could hang out with my Dad when he was a teen. He always talks about his 55 Pickup with the 327 and his buddies 63 Impala SS and how he used to drag race infront of the highschool.
I'd first want to be around the ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians. Then again in 17th-19th century Europe. Only then would I set the time machine to the teens and roaring 20s and destroy that thing and live as long as I last....
1963, or so. I tell the young guys that birth control pills just became available, and that penicillin could cure anything. Gasoline was .$25, and they gave you free dishes to get your business. You could go to a good public university for $200 per month, all in. Manufacturing was king in America. We built the best in the world of almost everything. You could buy any gun you wanted through the mail. It goes on and on......
Been there/Done that.... Born in '46 and grew up in West L.A. in the 50's 60's, car shows everywhere, cruising SoCal was the place to be, Saw Norm cruising in both cars from the era(bucket and touring) I'll stay here and remember the good times and enjoy not working again. (more time for the roadster and good friends)
The time of my youth, late 50's early 60's, and with enough sense to do it right this time! Oh, yeah, and I'd take a video and a way to play it, of how things are today, so that I could scare everyone into not letting this happen!
start 1880s rob a few banks with william H bonney hide the money and head south jump to the 20s in new york stop in the 30s go get my money and buy a lot of cars, then go dog fight in a p51, get my wifes grand parents out of hiding, jump to 55 hang out till about 65 be part of the rat pack and and spend a lot of time at sun records allthe while building/driving/racing/setting speed records, go to 1985 and travel back to 55 with doc and Marty and kick biffs ass
I always thought it would be fun to go back to 1955 with a stroker smallblock with about 500 HP, a bulletproof turbo 400 and a 9 inch, a nice 4 link and some modern slicks and drop them in a brand new 55 chevy. then go out and tear it up. my time machine will let me bring stuff with me.
No, Samuel Colt had the first assembly line, Henry Ford saw a moving disassembly line in a slauter house and desided to make the car assembly line move. There were high and low lines so everyone was comfortable no matter what their height was. Getting that $5.00 per day was big bucks!
This answer maybe a little o/t,but you asked I would give my front seat in hell to sit down one more time and have a chat and a cup of hot coffee with my mother
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