the sound of bias plies when you locked up the 4 wheel drums on a NEW car setting points with a feeler guage the price of 3 candy bars was the same as a gallon of gas the odd feeling of driving a car with power steering and brakes for the first time the sound of flat spotted tires in the winter until they heated up checking pay phones for gas money opening a metal can of oil with a metal spout pouring used oil along the fence to kill the weeds model cars were $1.50 having to wear your Sunday Best to fly on a plane (with propellors) chinese fire drills going to the drive-in with 3 friends in the trunk AM radios only flipping the air cleaner lid for that 'cool' sound what do you remember?.....
Know what's funny? I'm not even 30, and I rememer growing up with more than a few of these! Never locked up the bias plies on a NEW car with 4 wheels drums, but it's something I've done. Sure wish gas cost the same as three candy bars, and models were $1.50. I missed out on ALL of that...
8 tracks making that clicking noise when they switched Cassette tapes getting eaten by my cheap car stereo Breaking down in the middle of nowhere with no cell phone and no pay phone in sight and walking for miles to a farmhouse only to find out they had no phone but had a tractor to tow me to town with! When you bought gas they offered to check under the hood, washed the windshield, and checked the air and sometimes you got a glass, toy, collectible or some kind of giveaway from the filling station waiting for my stp or ratfink stickers to come in the mail Mad Magazine Never taking keys for my 54 chevy and my friends "borrowing it" all the time in high school With 10 bux you could get some gas for your car, go to a movie and grab a burger too Having no bills! Hanging out at the local speed shop and figuring out what I was gonna save my money for next
Vacuum operated windshield wipers.......when you passed somebody in the rain, you had to let up haflway around to clear the windshield.
That weird clik-clack noise the heater motor made in my dad's '66 F-250 (his daily driver until 1994) , and the squeaky clutch pedal, and the big, huge 'toilet plunger' shifter bood. Putting out a carb fire with a rain-soaked T-shirt. Sealing a puncture in a tire (or at least attempting to), by doing a series of long, smoky burnouts.
Watching comedians that had to be Funny like on the Jack Benny Show, Ed Sullivan Show, And the Ernie Kovac Show !!!! >>>>.
High beam dimmer switches on the floor. Starters that engaged by pushing the accelerator all the way down. Vent windows, and even better vents down on the kick panels to let air around your legs and feet. Manual chokes. Drive in movies, and parking in the very back row with your best girl. And hoping she'd let you...... A gallon of gas was the same price as a quart of oil, even the good stuff...... Black and white TV, all three stations! Street cars, and getting dressed up to ride the bus downtown to go shopping with your mom and aunt for new school clothes. Dismounting a tire to put a patch on a hole - from the inside! Bubble balancers.... Going to the barn out on the city limits for a dance, and the fights that started after guys got a few too many beers in them. Drive in (restaurants) with girls in shorts and wearing roller skates, just like in the movie AG.....
Uhmm, I don't think that's changed. Around here candy bars are $.85 to $1.00 out of a machine. And gas is anywhere from $2.75 to $3.00. I don't see too much of a difference.
Riding mini bikes down the street to get a gallon of fuel for 40 cents and the cops not giving it a second thought. 2 cent bubble gum. New 45 records. Watching creature features and going to bed scared as h#ll. Sneakin one of dads beers out of the fridge and drinkin it with your buddy in the tree fort. Checkin out the body damage on dads dirt stock car up close sunday morning.
Getting $5 from my old man.......to fill the 54 Ford with gas and get him a carton of Kool's..........and kicking my ass if I didn't give him his change
speaking of AM radios only....can you imagine kids today having a radio that had to "warm up" for about 30 seconds before it would come on? Same with the TV (which had 7 channels here in the El Lay area in the 50's) Remember those TV tube testing gizmos in the grocery stores?
born in aug of 67 i remember walking 3 or 4 miles to a friends house and then walking farther to the swimming hole, getting rides in the back of trucks and drinking grape nehi in the summer, it cost 15 cents and candy bars where 20 and nobody had a classic they were just cars ( some older than others ) and everybody was nice and friendly and the cool kids that you looked up to drove some kind of loud hotrod and had hot blonds with them.... man what happened people ???????
Waiting on Sunday afternoon to see if there was going to be a Diamond P Production show of an NHRA drag race on the old 19" RCA.
I'm not that old but I remember.. being amazed at the wonder bar radio's "seek" function in my dads Eldorado getting up to change the channels on the TV and/or tune the rabbit ears
going with my folks to Ascot Park to watch AJ Foyt race, and my mom getting an autographed pic of him
Mazooma1, did you collect all that cool stuff to keep it from the hoarders? lol Cool stuff, X 2 you win. This thread will be 6 pages long by tonight.
The Smell of Amco White gas burnimg in my dads lantern when we were fishing at night. The smell and the sputtering of the six in his 57 chev pickup as we tryed to make it home on laquer thinner or kerosene after we ran out of gas. the sound all tri year chev s make when you open their doors. Mom getting stoped for speeding in the 56 210 and the cop saying all he could see was a green and white flash going by.
Sleepin in the back of the station wagon with the luggage on road trips with the family. Using the arm rest in the front seat as a booster seat to see out the front window. Standing on the floorboard behind the front seat, holding on to the head rest singing with my parents. Buying less than a dollar's worth of gas and not getting laughed at. Riding my bike to the next town over, nine miles one way, and back to go swimming at the public pool. Being out with friends all day long in the summer, sun up to sundown, and being trusted enough to not get chewed out by my folks when I got home. Bubble gum ice cream. Climbing the water tower. The first time Dad let me drive on the family trip.
Snowy reception on UHF oil drips striping the center of each lane driving into the country for the purpose of driving out into the country Ultraman, Underdog and Japanese horror flicks riding without seatbelts cruising in Mrs. Brinkmeyer's wagon, riding in back facing backwards Black / yellow stopsigns. Even better, the ones with round reflectors on the letters. Trains that looked like trains.
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