What was hot in the 1970's (man)?

Eddies Speed Shop.

 

Not the car I was thinking of, but I saw it. Not actually from my old hometown of Maple Ridge, but from the greater Vancouver area. Saw it at one of the car shows in the old PNE buildings.

 

I know there are better drill presses, but my favorite is a pencraft. It was my dads, means alot to me.

 

I graduated in 1974, North Hollywood High School. The girls were just drop dead gorgeous, too bad I was just a dork. Cool old cars were relatively cheap. I had a buddy that bought an Aston Martin DB2/4 coupe with a busted crank for $600! Big Healeys for $1500 or less. Early '60s Ferrari 250s for less than $5000. We had a nice Hudson Hornet coupe with Twin-H power in auto shop that could have been had for $250. I bought my '65 Mustang for $80! Junk yards full of cool old stuff for cheap! Drive-ins! Cruising Van Nuys Blvd for hours on $5 worth of gas. Concerts at Universal Amphitheater, good seats were like $12. Racing on "The Hill".

There were bad things too, but you always seem to remember the good stuff.

 

$10.00 lids......

 

Sun Super Tach's and Superior steering wheels....

 

Thats because they will cop a smack in the head from there girlfriends sitting behind them if they look.

 

looks like the dash in my 56 chevy in 1979

 

my 56 in 1979, cragers, rally mirrors, i know what was i thinking

 

Nothin better than a van at the drive inn, bet a few of you guys were good conceived there! Street racing with only American made cars! good times! more freedom, less goverment.

 

Camel Toe

 

How about the GREAT music that came out in those days??? Thank God for Classic Rock stations!!! I still listen to that stuff..

 

'55 Chev Ansen Sprints "N50-15's" on the back and "G60-15's" on the front with radiused wheelwells...........

Course, I still think that look is cool !

 

Purple Hornies..............

 

Are those still in production???......

 

I think so. Not sure where I saw them recently but I believe they are available. It could have been on Powerblock T.V. a few weeks back.

 

Yep, there's a whole bunch of shops carrying them.
http://www.holley.com/types/Purple%20Hornies.asp

 

$25.00 ounces

 

And the good shit was $35.00. Damn,I miss those days....

 

Briefly closing the local hyway for a quick street race...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7HV8AGypDw

 

man thats high i sold my ounces for 15.00 in 75 and 76. like to shit when every thing went up. 45.00 for a bag. are you nuts.my first pound was 95.00. damn i miss the old days!!!!!!!!!!

 

I still have a hat.

 

With all those crazy street racers it's a good thing Reed and Malloy were out there.


http://www.hulu.com/watch/46171/adam-12-who-won

 

Man, that takes me back to my old black '56 210. Thank you.

 

Stalker vans were hot in the '70's!

 

i still have my POWR KRAFT tools....

 

With a REVERB!!

 

How about cheezy 5 dollar jeans from "The Gap" I only bought one pair of those... I never did that again..

 

Braless women in crocheted tops.
Roach T-shirt catalogues.
VW Things.
Chicks in tall "fuck-me" boots. (Nice that they're coming back!)
Captain and Tennile. Mimes. Doug Henning. <--- all ICK!

 

...... On another note, anyone remember the AMC Gremlin X with a Levi's stitched interior??? Those were some of the most comfortable bucket seats I ever planted my ass in back then...