protoolman
Service-Sixer
Ours was a 1972 Plymouth Scamp/aka Dart swinger. Baby blue 2door with a white vinyl top. 318 2bbl. Girlfriends parent had a green 4 door Dart with a 225 slant six!
Things from the 70’s
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Something I suggest to folks to bring back from earlier times is the cubit. Folks just look at me like am some kind of nut! 
Threespears
Blackhawk
Cubit??Something I suggest to folks to bring back from earlier times is the cubit. Folks just look at me like am some kind of nut!
Absolutely just like when Noah was building the Ark to have certain dimensions measured in cubits.
Something I suggest to folks to bring back from earlier times is the cubit. Folks just look at me like am some kind of nut!
Threespears
Blackhawk
Got ya
1foot 5 1/2" or 1foot 8 13/16"= cubit
I thought you were talking about the square boxes people that work in office buildings sit in
My first car was a 1970 R/T Dodge Charger with a 440 Magnum. It was blue with a black vinyl top. It was decked out with an automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, tachometer, cruise control, air conditioning and heater, AM/FM/8Track radio, and a console shifter. I miss the leaf windows, glass head lights, metal bumpers, and a passenger side mirrors that did not say "objects in mirror are closer than they seem".
The only thing I like better now than what they had back then is some of the guns and bullets.
Lt92
Single-Sixer
Must have been nice...mine was a rusted out '59 Ford Fairlane 500 coupe...straight 6 and 3 on the Tree...most millennials don't know how to drive a stick or even know what "3 on the tree" even means...big sigh...I'm showing that I'm a geezer, but I had FUN
I love the spare tire cover that I have seen with a standard shift pattern that says
"Millennial Anti Theft Device"
I graduated high school 1973 brings back some great memories I drive a beef up 1966 Volkswagen bug red had wide tires nerf bars it was a great car steam up the windows at the drive in every weekend love those times
Wide or narrow belts or lapels or cuffs...designers still change things around, and people will still buy it.
Oh, look, dearie, shes wearing McMishmashigan's latest frockette, do we give an appraising glance, or a snickering sneer? Well, her daddy does trend the latest clicks in his bricknmortar, maybe best we dont appear overltly either way for now, let her bring it up; my stomach may have calmed down by then...
If I still owned all the muscle cars I had in the 70's and 80's I'd be a multi-millionaire today.
I used to buy cars back then for $500 that today would be worth $45,000-$75,000.
I used to buy cars back then for $500 that today would be worth $45,000-$75,000.
fuzzyedge
Bearcat
bought my first car in 1974, a tan 1965 white vinyl top 2 door Chevrolet impala, 327 v 8. cost me $300.. big back seat .
I never not look at 'plane pics
Graduated highschool in 1979. I bought my first handgun in 1984. A Dan Wesson stainless 357 Magnum. My first rifle as well, a Springfield Model 1903 in 30-06.
Paid $150 for the Dan Wesson and $100 for the Springfield.
Paid $150 for the Dan Wesson and $100 for the Springfield.
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Yaworski
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People, especially womenfolk, want new looks so designers change things. I've never had a man come into my store and say, "I'm just so tired of my kitchen, it is so 1993!"
Unfortunately, that can be true for clothing as well which is why you see some guys my age that still dress like Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever.
Fortunately, I've been a conservative dresser since college so my pics from the 80s aren't too comical.
I have two 1970's collectable cars! A 1972 Cutlass 442 with a 455 that I've had 28 years and just finally painted it myself last June and am close to having the interior installed. And a Craig 8 track tape player will be installed! Both cars are under 50,000 actual miles.
And a 1976 Corvette that was my cousin's car from the early 1980's. It's still Mike's car, I'm just taking care of it for him. It is a needy vehicle but fun to cruise in!
And a 1976 Corvette that was my cousin's car from the early 1980's. It's still Mike's car, I'm just taking care of it for him. It is a needy vehicle but fun to cruise in!
By then it was getting harder to find Brut
Aqua Velva cologne and Vitalis hair oil.
Yeah, a cubit, it's, like, uh, i used to know what a cubit was...
But anyway, build it....
