This is one for those 40+

[thekidd12]

Thankfully I didn’t need to fart around with those things for too long. My father (veteran of the D-Day invasion) thought it was blasphemy for me to play thatdamn rock and roll music on his stereo console... which was reserved for the likes of Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller.

So he ‘bought’ me my very own stereo when I was quite young one Christmas Actually, he redeemed his Phillies cigar bands for a cheap stereo from some new Japanese company that had recently entered the US market... Sony. It actually played as good as US stereos, but I was laughed at by my friends for my cheap Japanese stereo. (Mom collected Green Stamps).

And another present that Christmas was a 45 rpm adapter that fit onto the stereo and allowed you to load multiple 45’s that came down onto the record player after each record finished.

Also, the paper route didn’t allow me much money to buy 45’s. So being a resourceful kid of 9, I taped both songs that were played every The Monkees TV show when it first aired... with dad’s 25 pound ‘portable’ reel to reel recorder.

These are cool...

I remember making a "mix tape" with a Sony cassette recorder and Emerson portable AM/FM radio tuned to the station that had the "Top 9 at 9" list...

 

[thekidd12]

I monkey rigged an 8 track into my 1960 Corvair. But the electronics in the car seemed like 40's technology. So the speed of play on the 8 track depended on how fast I was driving. 40 mph seemed to be the ideal speed for good listening. To this day I still expect David Bowie's Diamond Dogs to play with both fast and slow parts.

A Corvair!!! Weirdest, coolest looking car Chevrolet made for a while.

My Mustang 8 track player was/still is installed in a 1965 Impala SS. My daddy bought it new for momma. Used to get made fun of in high school for driving such a boat in 1980 US of A.

Not getting too personal but you could chase a date all around the inside of that thing and still might not find her.

Ten year reunion several people wanted to buy it off me.

Sitting in my building as we speak.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

A Corvair!!! Weirdest, coolest looking car Chevrolet made for a while.

My Mustang 8 track player was/still is installed in a 1965 Impala SS. My daddy bought it new for momma. Used to get made fun of in high school for driving such a boat in 1980 US of A.

Not getting too personal but you could chase a date all around the inside of that thing and still might not find her.

Ten year reunion several people wanted to buy it off me.

Sitting in my building as we speak.

Back in the hippie days it was cool to have old, weird or cheap cars. As I remember most friends had Beetles, others Corvairs, three-on-the-tree Impalas, one guy had a Rover and another had an old yellow Checker Cab. Party vehicles for sure.

 

[thekidd12]

Back in the hippie days it was cool to have old, weird or cheap cars. As I remember most friends had Beetles, others Corvairs, three-on-the-tree Impalas, one guy had a Rover and another had an old yellow Checker Cab. Party vehicles for sure.

The Impala SS is three-on-the-tree. Daddy special ordered it that way because didn't like 4 speeds or Powerglide. I think like 700 were made with that tranny. If you can drive one of those you can drive anything!

 

[GNTLGNT]

Back in the hippie days it was cool to have old, weird or cheap cars. As I remember most friends had Beetles, others Corvairs, three-on-the-tree Impalas, one guy had a Rover and another had an old yellow Checker Cab. Party vehicles for sure.

....we had what my gang of goofballs called "the clown car", an old 2 door Toyota that 6 of us massive loads of humanity would pack into to go grab burgers and a shake at lunchtime, and gasp!-maybe a cigarette......

 

[DiO'Bolic]

The Impala SS is three-on-the-tree. Daddy special ordered it that way because didn't like 4 speeds or Powerglide. I think like 700 were made with that tranny. If you can drive one of those you can drive anything!

I learned how to drive stick on that thing. Learning stick on a VW Bug was fun, but to get heat into that thing you had to unscrew a value which simply let in air from the heat around the motor.

 

[thekidd12]

....we had what my gang of goofballs called "the clown car", an old 2 door Toyota that 6 of us massive loads of humanity would pack into to go grab burgers and a shake at lunchtime, and gasp!-maybe a cigarette......

Remember the LeCar?

My 2nd baseman had one in HS.

I had to drive a VW Beetle for a while during the gas crunch of 70s. Stuff got up to around $1!!!!

Anyway we drag raced his LeCar against Beetle in front of school after practice one day. Beetle dusted him but he broke a motor mount when little car torqued too much when he stomped on gas.

Duct taped it up and he made it home.

Duct tape most important thing given to humanity by space program?

OK maybe Velcro...

 

[GNTLGNT]

Remember the LeCar?

My 2nd baseman had one in HS.

I had to drive a VW Beetle for a while during the gas crunch of 70s. Stuff got up to around $1!!!!

Anyway we drag raced his LeCar against Beetle in front of school after practice one day. Beetle dusted him but he broke a motor mount when little car torqued too much when he stomped on gas.

Duct taped it up and he made it home.

Duct tape most important thing given to humanity by space program?

OK maybe Velcro...

 

[ghost19]

....we had what my gang of goofballs called "the clown car", an old 2 door Toyota that 6 of us massive loads of humanity would pack into to go grab burgers and a shake at lunchtime, and gasp!-maybe a cigarette......

My first car was a black 1979 Mustang LX that my friends and I affectionately coined "The Black Dragon" because it spewed greenish tinted smoke out of the vents when you turned the air conditioner on that smelled faintly of anti freeze. I'm not sure if that was even possible but it was a fact nonetheless..lol. My parents would periodically ask me why my car smelled like smoke on the rare occasions they rode with me somewhere....I told them I had a lot of friends that smoked...., my parents were so monumentally naive sometimes....

This is similar to my car, except mine had about 200k miles and was beat all to hell when I bought it...but it was ALL mine...lol, and it was black, my favorite color..lol..it was also completely gutless, 4 cylinder engine...blech...

 

[GNTLGNT]

My first car was a black 1979 Mustang LX that my friends and I affectionately coined "The Black Dragon" because it spewed greenish tinted smoke out of the vents when you turned the air conditioner on that smelled faintly of anti freeze. I'm not sure if that was even possible but it was a fact nonetheless..lol. My parents would periodically ask me why my car smelled like smoke on the rare occasions they rode with me somewhere....I told them I had a lot of friends that smoked...., my parents were so monumentally naive sometimes....

This is similar to my car, except mine had about 200k miles and was beat all to hell when I bought it...but it was ALL mine...lol, and it was black, my favorite color..lol

....yep, it's entirely possible for coolant to take the place of the little pine air freshener....and naïve?....maybe, though I'm pretty sure, that in my young alcohol sodden days-my folks realized there weren't that many "bad hamburgers" out there making me ill.....

 

[thekidd12]

My first car was a black 1979 Mustang LX that my friends and I affectionately coined "The Black Dragon" because it spewed greenish tinted smoke out of the vents when you turned the air conditioner on that smelled faintly of anti freeze. I'm not sure if that was even possible but it was a fact nonetheless..lol. My parents would periodically ask me why my car smelled like smoke on the rare occasions they rode with me somewhere....I told them I had a lot of friends that smoked...., my parents were so monumentally naive sometimes....

This was my car, except mine had about 200k miles and was beat all to hell when I bought it...but it was ALL mine...lol

Uh no they weren't...

After becoming one three times over have finally figured out they knew EVERYTHING we were doing. Think they were just happy we came home in one piece.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I was the first in our group to have a Corvair... puke green color.

Then Greg got himself an orange Corvair truck. Fun to drive in but you thought in a head on crash you were gonna end up dead for sure.

 

[ghost19]

....yep, it's entirely possible for coolant to take the place of the little pine air freshener....and naïve?....maybe, though I'm pretty sure, that in my young alcohol sodden days-my folks realized there weren't that many "bad hamburgers" out there making me ill.....

LOL, I never thought to use the "bad hamburger" excuse..

That's also one of the main reasons I moved out on my own 3 months after I graduated high school...my parents were getting in the way of my poor life and health choices...lol

 

[DiO'Bolic]

My uncle came to live with us from Ireland when he was about 13. When he was old enough to drive he bought himself an old motorcycle and often took me on it for rides when I was about 5 years old. My mother nearly killed him after she found out that bar on the side was called a suicide shifter, and why they called it that.

 

[Dana Jean]

My uncle came to live with us from Ireland when he was about 13. When he was old enough to drive he bought himself an old motorcycle and often took me on it for rides when I was about 5 years old. My mother nearly killed him after she found out that bar on the side was called a suicide shifter, and why they called it that.

Marsha has a suicide shifter on her Bernina.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Marsha has a suicide shifter on her Bernina.

LOL. She's sew amazing!

 

[Charms7]

I remember being a smidge jealous of our wealthy (compared to a family of five living on a teacher's salary, everybody else was rich) neighbors down the street who owned a brand new COLOR television set! They were the only family who possessed one! Of course, the only shows broadcast in color those days involved football.

But, when you accidentally locked your keys in the car, you could always get out your handy dandy wire coat hanger, fold it over just so, and unlock the car door!

Fruit and vegetables tasted oh so much more yummy! But we didn't appreciate that savory flavor until it was gone.

 

[Charms7]

...I sure do....BR 549......

OV2-0921

 

[Charms7]

Wasn't eating soap also considered a cure for constipation? Or was that just in my dysfunctional family of origin?

 

[Charms7]

Back in the hippie days it was cool to have old, weird or cheap cars. As I remember most friends had Beetles, others Corvairs, three-on-the-tree Impalas, one guy had a Rover and another had an old yellow Checker Cab. Party vehicles for sure.

My sister had a 1968 Chevy Impala that my brother named the "Horny Toad." He even painted the name in small letters (thank goodness) near one of the rear windows.