Time constraints, but I will throw some more up on the wall.

Our Gang Comedy movies.
Uncle Remus & Brer' Rabbit.
Model Rockets with real fuses and "punk" sticks. Member, member when you played chicken with your buddies to see who could set off the rocket with the shortest fuse.
OW that hurt when the fuse was too short.
Member, Member when they sold us kids chemistry sets with real glass beakers and test tubes and Bunsen burners and the stink we could make in the basement, like, like real rotten eggs!
Member, member when you could still buy a real kids bow and arrow set? I put my best bud in the hospital when I shot him just above the eye with mine in 1954.
Member, member when an older bud would buy us M-80s and we would blow up all kinds of ****. Plus a mangled finger now and then.

Member, member the $64 Question TV show. Now Regis is giving away a million every other day.

Member, member the first Volkswagen Beetle you ever saw, 1951 for me.

Next

 

member the "original lightning", he was on the only show banned from planet earth for eternity Amos & Andy. yesir Mr Kingfish, member that

 

Some of you "older" guys, see if you remember this. We had one of the first TVs in our neighborhood. First of all, programming initially was often limited to six or eight hours or so a day. Below is some of what we watched.

How about what must have been the first science fiction program on TV called, "Tales of Tommorow". Or, live, network broadcast of live circus every Saturday morning called the "Big Top". Red Rider western series starring Wild Bill Elliott. Or, the Cisco Kid with Duncan Rinaldo. Or, Racket Squad with Reed Hadley,cops and robbers stuff. And, there was Kukla, Fran and Ollie puppets. There where the grade B western series with Bob Steel, John Mack Brown, Tom Tyler and Lash Larrue (spelling). Now, anybody remember those guys?

And, speaking of cars, my father had a tiny Crosly. Anybody remember that thing? The horn was the most powerful thing on that car. He also had a series of Cadillacs, the last being a 1957 Eldorado Barittz (spelling )convertible. Had about a 400 CID motor with two four barrel carburators and automatic tranny. It was a Cadillac sports car. My older brother used to street race it and blow away the 1957 Chevy V8s (top end). It got six miles to a gallon city.

 

Mom once had a big '59 Plymouth with push button gears. It had concave fins and was battleship gray inside and out. We begged her to let us walk to school.

 

my mothers was a 53 ford with huge holes in the passenger floorboards. we boys worked them out a little larger to be able to fit larger objects thru them, to feed the tailgaters. mom thought she was running over things, when she heard the shrapnel bouncing off the pavement and the underside of her car. we thought it was great, like having a glass bottom boat.

 

I'm only 19, and I wish I'd gotten to experience the powerful, yet legal fireworks. My dad told me that he and his buddies would light M-80's and stuff and like, drop them in the stream under the bridge, then watch the fish floating up.

My dad had a '57 Pontiac Star Chief convertible when I was like 10... that was an awesome car! My mom called it the Batmobile, it was black with white top, white interior, and white trim, and acres of chrome. It had this "Wonderbar" radio, that scanned. Man that was a huge car. I think its engine was a 348 Pontiac or something.

It's interesting to compare old cars to newer ones. My Dad's 1970 GTO convertible (Pontiac 400/4spd), considered a medium size car for its day, is 5 inches longer, and heavier than my mom's daily driver, a 1993 Cadillac STS. The STS is about as fast, and bigger inside. The 1973 Mercury Cougar I used to drive is as long as, and has about the same wheelbase as my 1996 T-Bird, but the T-bird is FAR larger inside, and gets 10 mpg better in the same conditions. (14 vs 24) Better performing too. So some changes aren't all bad... though I still wish I could have been a teenager when cars like the GTO, 442, and LS6 Chevelle ruled the streets...

 

TBird46,

You like?



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Chuck 'Wyldman' Shelton
wyldman@houston.rr.com
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!

 

T-Bird46
Here you go.

The engine was a 347 with either 270 hp with a quad or 290 hp with three deuces. Now the number 347 sounds cool that's what is in my 10sec. bird.

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BABolt
SVT#290

 

Wyldman:

Awesome car! I like the ground FX and Cobra style rims. Looks very nice. Mine's just a stock, bright red 1996 4.6 LX.

BABolt:

Thanks for posting that. That's got even more chrome than I remembered! But that's the car.

You have a 10 sec., 347 T-Bird? Sweet...

 

TBird46,

That's not all:

4.6 L DOHC Mark VIII motor (newly installed)

Saleen h2o to air intercooled supercharger (very similar to the L's unit. Ordered, in transit)

3.55 limited slip rear (8.8)

Mark VIII aluminum driveshaft

1 3/8" front/rear sway bars

13" front brakes (next on agenda)

This is my daily driver, I had to do a few upgrades to make it attractive enough to drive instead of the L.


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Chuck 'Wyldman' Shelton
wyldman@houston.rr.com
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!

 

member... member this car?




..... me neither, but it's awesome.



[This message has been edited by sixpipes (edited 04-20-2000).]

 

i member that one!, thats Huggy Bears car ! that dude was awesome! wore fur coats in the middle of the day and filled that car up with scantily dressed women. he must have been a banker or something, to have that much money. member him?

 

That's the dude! Hey, I remember that dude...



[This message has been edited by sixpipes (edited 02-24-2000).]

 

Hi Boys and Girls,
Here is one for you. No it is not the Caped Crusader at the wheel. It is the creator of the Batmobile George Barris.


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BABolt
SVT#290



[This message has been edited by BABolt (edited 02-25-2000).]

 

Wyldman:

Wow! That should be really really fast, like Z28 territory, if not faster. I'd bet your Bird will be able to shock and dismay many pony-car drivers!

Sixpipes:

What IS that little car? It looks like it would fit perfectly in a sidewalk.