History Beach Boys “Little Duce Coupe’ lyrics question

Or else ran out of guys that would do it, lol.

 

Never raced for “ pinks” , obviously as we didn’t have pinks in Oklahoma, but I did race a lot for money! Small money….as I could not afford to lose much money, back in the day, but I did race often!
But one race for money, not me, but some guys I knew raced for $40 in about 1969….a days pay! Well my friend, or the guy I knew better, won the race….the loser came up with some bullsh#t about something about coming off the line! So they raced again! Same result! Well , when it came time to pay up…the loser didn’t have forty bucks! The next serval minutes was more entertaining than the race! But it was Oklahoma in the sixties!




Bones

 

If you rewind the clock to that time and place, probably written well before it's 1963 release, the thing I keep thinking is, here's a car that supposedly ruled the street racing world on about 220 (?) horsepower. That car must've become obsolete in about 1964.

 

You are not alone!

Chris

 

Here in Ontario Canada our registrations were on pink slips like the one in California, in the fifties sixties and seventies. I thought it was more or less standard practice, apparently it wasn't. Any other states or provinces use pink slips?

I have an old registration for a Cadillac from the 1920s, it is a little different, slightly larger and printed on thin cardboard.

 

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My feelings!

 

Such a bad ass ride But that's no flathead chi chi?

 

What about "The bathroom on the right" by Creedence Clearwater Revival?

 

Most of those cars were low budjet with lots of spray

 

Used to take four guys to contribute to the pot to get to 20 bucks then the amount would go up till nobody left to contribute and was decided not enought money by the challengers. They didn't have the money anyways!

 

You actually had a $100 in your wallet when you were young ? My first car, a used 53 Ford only cost $200, and my house payment when I was 22 was $79 a month. I started in an apprenticeship at a Govt Weapons Station and was only making $2.32 ($92.80 a week before taxes). That was mid 60s. So a hundred dollars was a lot of money.

 

Massachusetts also had these for a while in the 50s and 60s.

 

My hot rod life didn't begin until I moved away from my parents house, after I graduated from school, in 1974. I had a 55 hour a week job (gas station, $1.55/hour, no OT until after 55 hours) (32 hour work week while in school, since my sophomore year) and also worked on cars on the side (my boss helped arranges some work to me we didn't do at the station), so I always had cash in my pocket. I bought my first house (a duplex) when I was 19, $104 a month (p,t & i), cheaper then the rent I had been paying and less then what I was collecting from the other 1/2! We used the rent income to improve the house.

By the time I was 20, I was buying cars, stripping them out, and selling parts, in addition to the 55 hour a week job, and working on cars on the side. I always carried an extra $100 dollar bill in my wallet. On Wed or Thurs, that $100 bill could buy a lot of cars, and I could replace it on or before Friday.

I got married when I was 19, we lived with in the income limits of her job and my regular job. The income from the after hours work was 'car money" income, but that "car money" also covered many unexpected house hold bills over the years. The "car money" funded everything we did to, for, or with cars, it was a legal business that paid better then the real job.
We worked hard, we played hard, and we have had a good life, and have raised two successful children.

 

Sounds off key and maybe a little flat