Without stating your age: How old are you?

59Tebo said:
In 1974, Ford premiered the "Gelding" to a less than enthusiastic market. They quickly changed the name to "Mustang", but the damage was already done. :laughing:
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I think someone made a typo, the first year was 1964 NOT 1974! Unless you were referring to the Mustang II.
But that's noting to get burned up about is it?
 
You are absolutely correct! The first year of the Mustang was 1964 (and 1/2). The first year of the Ford Gelding was 1974. They quickly changed it to the Mustang II. But, like I said, the damage had already been done. Chevrolet would follow suit in 1978 with the mini Monte Carlo (I drove a 1971 - 1st generation - in high school).
 
I can remember going down to the local department store and in the "stamps and collectibles" section, you could buy a real one ounce ingot of gold for $32 !!
No one was buying at the time since the price had remained unchanged for at least 20 years before that.
If I'd only known...........................
 
I remember when there was no TV. I remember people dancing in the streets at the end of World War II. We had no electricity and no running water but we did have an outhouse. My first job was driving farm tractors for the neighbors, I got 6 to 8 dollars a day, daylight to dark. That was western Oklahoma, in eastern Oklahoma I did farm work after school and on week ends for 40 cents an hour. We migrated to California to do farm work. I was 17 years old then.
V8 Chevvys first appeared that year. As a kid I had very few toys so I made my own, blocks of wood for cars and trucks, some even had wheels. My most memorable Christmas gift was a Daisy/Red Ryder BB gun.
 
In the Late 70’s, a friend of mine called me up and told me that free backstage tickets to a big stadium Rolling Stones concert just fell in his lap. The concert started in a few hours “Let’s Go! “ he said.
I told him “ Who wants to go see those old guys!? “ they’re all over the hill! Can you imagine the party that must’ve gone on back stage? The booze, the girls the food? rubbing elbows with The Rolling Stones?

Who knew those guys would still be around nearly 50 years later! Haha! :laugh2: I’ve kicked myself a thousand times for that decision.
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kshansen said:
I still have dad's old J,C. Higgins bolt action .22. Only thing it needs is what dad called the clip but I guess the proper term, at least these days, is magazine?
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Hi Ken,
a magazine and a clip both carry extra cartridges and will feed them into a weapon's firing chamber.
A magazine may or may not detach from the weapon. A clip must be detachable.
And I was born the same year as the Spanish Civil War.
 
Team Junk said:
hp35 with rpn. Never could figure out how to use the damn thing.
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Hi TJ
Yeah, HP calculators used to cost serious money.
rpn = reverse polish notation. (Number, enter, number, function) Omitting the = stroke saved a whole bunch of circuitry back when that was important.
Still using the HP11C I bought 35 years ago for $5. (dumbfuck teenage PO had scrambled it's functions, I researched the mindwiper code)
 
Jim said:
First bike I remember riding on the back of was Dad's Ariel Square Four. Legs just stuck out 'cause they were too short to reach the pegs. You could still ride down to the dealers and buy parts for it. The dealership was either in Margate or Ramsgate... don't remember which. Just remember it was the first time I'd seen that much water and smelled the salty channel air. It's stuck with me all these years.

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When I was in second year, I worked in the machine shop at Queen’s University for the summer (1978, the same year I bought my first XS650) and one of the technicians had an Ariel Square Four. What an incredible machine! It was so smooth that you could balance a nickel on the tank and rev it. He used to start it by pushing down on the kicker - with his HAND.
 
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Wandered around for days collecting returnable soda bottles to buy Hubley Metal Models. Going to N.O.L. and G.F.S.C open houses. First "real" job cleaning dog sh!t at the pet store. First car '64 VW bug. Earliest memory is the moments leading up to a broken arm, 4 years old watching the big kids (prolly 6 yr olds) sliding down the support poles of the slide so I tried, OOPS I hit the ground with a snap. I have, in recent years, collected most of the Hubley models unassembled in the box a couple with cellophane and price stickers still mostly intact.
john
 
In the late 60's when money was short I would walk around all the town public bins in search of bottles. We got 2 cents(NZ) for the small and 5 cents for the large. I was happy to find 1 large bottle, but one day I found 2 and what excitement. 10 cents could buy a lot of sweets or even a bag of chips! 15 cents got you a bag of chips with a piece of fish. Beer bottles were worth 1 cent but you could not find anyone to take them. They were left for school fund raising events.
 
My Sophmore year at Palo Verde Hs in Tucson..gas was $ .18/gallon..Yes Eighteen cents ..Filling that Lincoln's 10 gallon tank for less than $2.00 and bombing around Tucson and 100 mph through the desert...clouds of dust billowing out from behind.....oh...great memories..
 

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