Status
Not open for further replies.

Killjoy1

Ω Destroyer
ECF Veteran
Verified Member
Aug 15, 2011
9,304
9,365
46
New Hampshire, US
Morning :)

Hard to tell how much snow we've got. It's all powdery stuff and it's been windy, so it's drifted all over the place and there's no one place to measure for an accurate count. Maybe a little over a foot? No need to go anywhere today, so I'm not shoveling unless the wind dies down first :lol:
 

Brew1961

Ultra Member
Supporting Member
ECF Veteran
Verified Member
Feb 16, 2011
1,447
5,673
64
Noblesville, IN
Oh man do I remember so many of these like it was the late 60s and 70s in my folks house.

I remember them all. :facepalm:

Creepy Crawlies were the bomb and a little later on the Incredible Edibles were even better since you could eat them. I remember freaking out my little sister with the forerunner to gummy worms :laugh:

I did so love my Creepy Crawly maker and Tara actually enjoyed her EZ bake, lol.

We had an Italian place in Ohio near my folks home town where every booth had one of those jukeboxes and folks would plop in a quarter and then dance beside their own booth. One night my Dad got everybody to pick a particular Glen Miller tune and the place went wild. However the timing of the start on each player was a little off so I had my first experience with the SPATIAL effect in audio.
Waffle House still has the jukebox at least. But full-service gas stations have gone the way of the dinosaur, unfortunately.

If you put a few of them in your mouth and took a sip of soda, you became a volcano....Ask me how I know :laugh:
We used to go through those fizzy tablets like crazy ...

I'll have to join that club! My first car was a '61 VW Beetle, beige with an auto-stick. It had R-N-D-1....One of the first times I took my sister for a ride she reached down and tried to jam the shifter into "R" (reverse) as the protective gates began knashing indicating the transmissions displaeasure and I screamed ... What the Frack are you doing. She looked at me and said I though "R" meant race. Oh yeah, 69HP is definitely all about speed! I just recently got rid of my last 8-track that played in that car...Boston's 1st album 1976
CRAP !!!!!............... I remember all of it and had a lot of it.

My first job was at A & W. My first car (a VW, I was destined to be a Dead Head :facepalm:), I put a 8 track in.

We lived a mile from the Northside drive in Indy and every Monday night was dollar night for anyone under 21. The entire Carmel and North Central High schools would be in attendance until the 1st fight broke out. B-rate movies but the girls dressed like it was a venue downtown. Could not be missed. Summer in the late 60s and early 70s my Dad rented a cabin for the entire summer up on Lake Webster in Northern Indiana and we had a nice Rinker I/O. Dad would drive back to work the weeks on Monday AM and then be back at the lake on Friday PMs. My lake buddies and I would all park our boats in the middle of the lake at night and jam out with our TNT players
red8track.jpg

And there was a drive-in not far from our house. A group of us would take our pick-up trucks (Dad's in my case) and our dates to the drive-in, park backwards as close to each to each other as possible, pull out the lounge chairs and coolers and enjoy the movies and socializing.

In the summer, if I got lucky, Dad would let us borrow the boat and we'd all head to the lake. Kid Rock really hit the nail on the head, lol:


Exept it was 79, not 89 and our girls didn't pole dance, lol.



Hey Reid,
Doing well just drinking my coffee and diggin on all the oldies. Brew
Mornin Brew. Hope your day's going well.
 
Last edited:

Brew1961

Ultra Member
Supporting Member
ECF Veteran
Verified Member
Feb 16, 2011
1,447
5,673
64
Noblesville, IN
Hey Reid,
I'm quite certain the cops knew too :D. My ride wasn't fast but when the snow hit she floated on top. As long as we had a supply of those vintage Coleman Handwarmers we could continue to puff, puff, pass :oops: Brew
Handwarmer.jpg
No heat in the bug. Had to keep an ice scraper to use on the inside :laugh: Brew

Hi Brew. I remember those individual juke boxes as well.
My first car was a '75 Camaro. V-8 with dual heads and a Hurst shifter. It was the 3rd fastest car in town. Ask me how I know. :D
 

Reidus

Vaping Master
ECF Veteran
Verified Member
May 10, 2012
4,184
14,319
New Orleans, LA
Hey Reid,
I'm quite certain the cops knew too :D. My ride wasn't fast but when the snow hit she floated on top. As long as we had a supply of those vintage Coleman Handwarmers we could continue to puff, puff, pass :oops: Brew
View attachment 176691
No heat in the bug. Had to keep an ice scraper to use on the inside :laugh: Brew
Ouch. Mom had a 66 Mustang. She had heat, but no air. At least we could just roll the windows down.
 

Brew1961

Ultra Member
Supporting Member
ECF Veteran
Verified Member
Feb 16, 2011
1,447
5,673
64
Noblesville, IN
Good old 2x60mph AC....I miss the vent windows on the front doors. Heck in the summer with that old bug, I had to carry a fire extinguisher as I had more than one oil leak that caught fire in the summer heat.

My next ride was a brand new 1976 Honda Civic hatch and that car was "da bomb". Heat, manual choke on the dash and 4-speed. I could pull the choke out at 60 and it acted like a cruise control. I put Webbers on her and a custom hand-welded header with cherry bomb setup to net about 100hp in a 1400lb roller skate. Many a late-70s vintage Camaro got embarrassed by that little sleeper. The pollution controls debacle of the late 70s even left Corvettes annoyed by that little car.

I think she'd do 0-60 in about 8 seconds when I got done tuning. No rice here and a learning experience. There's no replacement for displacement. So instead of a 1.2 litre(1200cc) my next honda had 1.8l. Today my little Civic SI hatch has a whopping 2.0l but at 160hp shes a lot of fun. At least for my 70 mile daily commute.

This is almost exactly what mine looked like but with White versus orange. The Black mesh wheels are almost exact and I ran 50-series Goodyears. I wish I could have kept her but getting t-boned by a drunk in a 69 Pontiac Lemans took that ride out of play. Thank God the frames and doors of those little civics were strong. Brew

Civic76Hot.jpg
Ouch. Mom had a 66 Mustang. She had heat, but no air. At least we could just roll the windows down.
 
Last edited:

sashwa

ECF Guru
ECF Veteran
Verified Member
Oct 20, 2010
12,119
28,927
Alcatraz
Mornin KJ. Glad to see you're fine. I've been watching the Weather Channel. It's a mess up there. 3 feet of snow in Connecticut? Amazing!

I was born and raised in Northeastern CT and I remember those kinds of storms all the time when growing up.

Good morning everyone.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Users who are viewing this thread