I read this post in its entirity and its pretty amazing what you remember when you were a kid growing up. Seems to me that the older members had the happiest of times, spitting on cars from the overpass, putting the baseball card in the rear-wheel, going to the drive-in, etc.

Amazing how times changed from then to when I was in high school (92-96). Way back then, girls only occaisionally brought their kids with them. Now kids are in fear of going due to the recent violence due to lack of gun-law-enforcement.

I also noticed how 'cheap' things were, i.e. the price of gas, the cost of cigarettes... But how much did ol' pops bring home each year? $8000 in the mid sixties? With the average urban home costing less than $40,000. Is that correct? I've talked to one of my h.s. teachers whom just retired and he said he made $8k in 1968, a record for alaskan teachers at the time.

Just my thoughts
Tundra

PS Remember the Great American Hero? He could see things happening far away by looking through a car windshield, and couldn't fly very well.

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99 Black Lightning
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#3681/4000
CD changer, Tow package, factory tonneau cover
100k mile warrantee, bed/under liner, paint protected

 

Ummmm Charlie's Angels, Atari *Q-Bert* and PURRRRR ~>^.,.^<~ Steve Mcqueen...

CA

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Christy Ann
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I once did the Steve "bullet" McQueen, "corkscrew" road course thru that residential section of San Francisco. it was a blast in my rented mustang, when i brought the car back to Hertz later that week, they told me to "please lose our phone number".

 

MRBBQMAN, I had a friend of mine who told me that you could rent a Mustang 350 or 500 back in those days. I think it was from Hertz. My friend rented a Mustang 500 and had no idea what he was getting into until he said he was shocked to see he was cruising along at 120 MPH on the highway.

Didn't the Mustang 500 have a 427 CID mill?
What year/s was that?

 

think the GT350's had the 351, and the GT500's had the 428. i thought the hi $ 427 was in the little Shelby Cobra. the thing i drove around SF, was a 70's Mach I w/351

 

The Shelby GT 350 had a 302 and in 1966 there was the GT 350H. This was the first Shelby that you could rent from Hertz. Many people did and they took them drag racing. Imagine this you rent a car from Hertz you go Drag racing on Saturday night. You come home with a trophy and you just turn the car back in, it was that easy. Just had to be 21 and have some money. I was just a punk kid back then and all I could do was watch and I did. I think most GT500's were 428 powered. The engine that everyone wanted was the 427 side oiler (used in '66' Cobra's the real ones), I had one in my '68' Torino and of course I had 390 tags on it and no power equipment what-so-ever it was a handful to drive. Fast too.

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[This message has been edited by BABolt (edited 02-22-2000).]

 

Tundra made some good points there.

As a rookie cop in 1961, I made $503 a month or just over $6k per year. I paid $100 a month for a really nice 3 bedroom house (rental) with garage in San Diego. I had a year old Rambler American 2 door (man I wish I hadn't said that). Gas was about $.25 a gallon, good ground beef was $.25 a pound.
We went out to dinner as often as we wished, even if it was to the buffet type restaurants. Also had two kids.

As I look around my house tonight, both inside and outside, I think I sort of see the answer as to how we could do so much with so little. No Stereos/52" TV's/ Microwaves/Breadmaking machines. No rider mowers in everyone's two plus car garage. We had one car until we were in our late twenties. Forgive me for saying this, but carpenters/plumbers/electricians and the like were respected tradesmen, but did not make near the money they do today in a comparative sense so houses were cheaper by far. Things like camcorders/digital cameras and, yes, computers or there

then equivelant were far beyond even the dreams of the average Joe and Jill so we didn't even think about it. Now my adult children and my grandkids expect to have almost as much as we do and we are right at 60.

Long post to say there are just too darn many things to spend our money on today and they are priced low enough that we go out and buy them on our credit cards.

That includes toys like Lightnings by the way. Ain't it neat.

 

hehe 3 words..... cheach and chong

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Floyd91
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#2349 Born on 6/14/99

Clear Corners
Clear Tail lights
APC Ultra White headlights
IPF Ultra White Driving lights....stay tuned..

 

cheech is like, a cop, now,
member when he was like the ultimate head, member that? that dude was awesome!

 

member...member when he like asked "howmi drivin" and like he was parked on the center median of the highway? member that?

he was like so wasted or something....

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yeah he was wasted,
i think he was wasted on his christmas album too. member that? "on chooie, on tavo", whats up with that? puerto rican reindeer? member those puerto rican reindeer? that dude was toasted, member that?

 

Heeeyyy man! Don't take that one I just gave you, it was a mistake!

What? I just took it!

Oh wow, man! You just took the most acid I've ever seen anyone take in my life!.......

 

member the ice cream truck? Chong would say, "like, slow down dude, your gonna get us busted", "how fast we going anyway"? Cheech said "3", but i'll slow down to "
2", i'll bet that icecream truck was an old lightning or something cus they thought they were haulin' ***. they made some awesome midnight movies. member?

 

Labrador?! What's Labrador, man?

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Chuck 'Wyldman' Shelton
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Black 99.5 Lightning Build # 1273, DOB 5-14-99, NLOC #315
Best run to date 12.857 @103.48
CD Changer; Tow Pkg.; Lojack; Sal's custom nitrous chip; G-Tech/Pro; SnugLid; BedRug; Invinca-Shield, full kit; NOS KIT 100 hp shot (currently); Clear and smoke Lexan fog light covers; 3M Ti Window Tint; Bel radar detector (shouldn't be an accessory); PowerStack cone filter (a.k.a. supercharger waker upper); American Auto Designs ram air hood; Cal-Tracs traction bars; Bassani headers;Goodrich T/A Drag Radials; Muth Signal Mirrors, Recieved today (2-22) Thanks Roger!

 

labrador? my dog ate my stash your smoking my labradors ****