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Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: John Florida on January 22, 2013, 07:55:20 PM

Title: the best of times!!
Post by: John Florida on January 22, 2013, 07:55:20 PM
  Long but worth it!

Best of Times (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDc0ID6PJeg#)
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: Libertas on January 22, 2013, 08:29:44 PM
Not my era but my fathers somewhat (he still favored the swing music he and his older siblings grew up with) but all in all not the demonic times the Left would have you believe, they always like to characterize that era as a bunch of naive fools mindlessly enjoying post war fruits will hiding all of America's ills under the rug, what a load of crap, it was a good time and the ME/I generation behaved (and are behaving) like mindless narcissists by comparison!

On a personal note, had I lived then I would have no doubt been one of those greased-hair cycle-riding bad boys...or a moonshine-running/car racing gear-head!
 ::evil::
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: AlanS on January 23, 2013, 08:55:29 AM
Cool, JF! Although it was before my time....sort of......well, most of it.

Although I can't figure out why they put the GN Buick in there. Everything was great before and after.

Made me wish I still had my first car. '65 Ford Galaxy 500 rag top.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: John Florida on January 23, 2013, 09:53:35 AM
Quote from: AlanS on January 23, 2013, 08:55:29 AM
Cool, JF! Although it was before my time....sort of......well, most of it.

Although I can't figure out why they put the GN Buick in there. Everything was great before and after.

Made me wish I still had my first car. '65 Ford Galaxy 500 rag top.

 Guys a lot of that is before my time too but good stuff is still good stuff.The cars are my thing the music I still like and well girls are still girls and never go out of style.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: AmericanPatriot on January 23, 2013, 10:45:14 AM
My first car was a 57 Chevy Belair

Wish I had it now
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: Alphabet Soup on January 23, 2013, 11:52:00 AM
My first car was an MG Midget. I bought it off my brother after he wrecked it. I searched high and low until I found a donor car (which turned out to be the Austin counterpart) and combined them into one working vehicle. It desperately needed head work (burnt valves) and so was a real dog, but it was still a blast to bomb around in (remember I was sixteen).

I got into a race with an Austin Mini Cooper S going through the Arboretum (a turn of the century park with narrow, tight-cornered roads). I couldn't keep up with him so I had to compensate by flying through the corners. I wiped out and ripped the steering wheel off in my hands.

I put the car back together and traded it for a van.

 ::pimp::
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: TeachX3 on January 23, 2013, 12:14:02 PM
My first car was a Dodge Dart  LOL  I loved that thing!
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 23, 2013, 12:26:59 PM
1968 Plymouth Fury III. Green.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: Libertas on January 23, 2013, 12:33:04 PM
Quote from: IronDioPriest on January 23, 2013, 12:26:59 PM
1968 Plymouth Fury III. Green.

Sweet!  I had a girlfriend who had scored one of those back in the late 70's, black, nice cruiser, interior immaculate but the previous owner let the motor go, it was ready to hatch last time I saw it.

Mine was a 1973 Plymouth Duster, light in the fanny, but the little 318 was a snappy little motor, and big bench seats...ohh yeah!
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: AmericanPatriot on January 23, 2013, 12:54:17 PM
Soup, I had a MG B 1973
That was a fun car especially here in western Pa with the hilly, windy roads.

Wife complains that she dated 3 or 4 guys that MGs. All before she knew them
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: TeachX3 on January 23, 2013, 01:01:37 PM
Quote from: TeachX3 on January 23, 2013, 12:14:02 PM
My first car was a Dodge Dart  LOL  I loved that thing!

... the early 70's model and it was maroon in color.  :D
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: trapeze on January 23, 2013, 01:30:53 PM
1969 Pontiac Firebird. Canary yellow with a black vinyl top.

(http://www.justmustangs.com.au/images/1969/1969-firebird-yellow/1969-firebird-yellow-front.jpg)

(not mine, of course but it looked a lot like this one)
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: John Florida on January 23, 2013, 01:46:38 PM
(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4779809836237607&pid=1.7&w=201&h=133&c=7&rs=1)

  My first car was my fathers hand me down,1965 chevy Impala SS.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 23, 2013, 01:52:50 PM
This was like mine, w/o the bug screen. Yup. 4-door hand-me-down from dad.

(http://images.classiccars.com/classifieds/124335_4455875_1968_Plymouth_Fury%2BIII.jpg)
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: AmericanPatriot on January 23, 2013, 01:57:16 PM
That really brought memories.
Born in 1950 (on a mountaintop in...)

I went through 2 &3 and made my kids watch. They sort of enjoyed it
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: benb61 on January 23, 2013, 05:27:40 PM
My 1st love car was this.

(http://www.commonwealtharms.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/100_2341.jpg)

1967 Mercury Cyclone, 351 Cleveland, 4 on the floor and one gigantic front bench seat.  This is not my car but is representative.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: John Florida on January 23, 2013, 05:34:40 PM
  That's funny Ben.This was my second car:
(http://[url=http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4768595673548418&pid=1.7&w=193&h=138&c=7&rs=1]http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4768595673548418&pid=1.7&w=193&h=138&c=7&rs=1[/url])

  Exact same car in the picture,That's not my car but it could be my 1968 torino GT fastback.It started out as a 302 with a four speed and ended up a 427 SOC motor with a top loader,what a beast.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: Alphabet Soup on January 23, 2013, 06:57:20 PM
Unfortunately I have no pictures of my Torino. It was a '68 like JF's, white with blue stripes.

I gave it to my then wife who didn't like it. so I traded it for a '74 Ranchero. She didn't like it.
So I traded that for a '75 Camaro. She didn't like it so I kept that and bought her a Berlineta.

There's just no pleasing some people  ::whatgives::
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: benb61 on January 23, 2013, 07:28:13 PM
If you look closely at my avatar there are my 2 current loves toys, a 1967 Pontiac Trans Am (knockoff) and a 2006 Corvette convertible.  Both are capable of 150+ mph.
Title: Re: the best of times!!
Post by: Libertas on January 24, 2013, 06:45:32 AM
Damn, that Cyclone looks fine!

Five months from now I'll be attending the 40th annual Back To The 50's Weekend at the Fairgrounds.

 ::whoohoo::

http://www.msra.com/ (http://www.msra.com/)

Stop on by if y'all in the neighborhood!