Back in the day… Now, every thing on this page is in your phone, except the CD player…
And these were your grandmothers, back in the 60s… The other thing to note is not a single tattoo to be seen, nor a bunch of rings or bracelets, and of course no cell phones, so folks actually talked to each other…
And, although I don’t have any pictures, our HS parking lots were full of cars that would, today, be a massive car show! This was my contribution…
It was even clean!!! Gold with a black top and black interior, no power, no air…
The only function modern phones don’t do is summon demons (but I hear someone is working on that …). Amazing device – can find an individual in the middle of nowhere in middle of a cornfield and three rings will find them for you to talk to.
Great car ! My only high school car was a 1966 VW Beetle Dad contributed to my Brother and I. We blamed the car because it wasn’t a chick magnet. Couldn’t be because we were uglier than a bucket full of rattlesnakes …
Thanks for the post !
And probably a standard tranny.
My high school parking lot was full of pickup trucks with the obligatory gun rack, often with a 22 rifle or 30-30 or during pheasant season a scattergun in the rack. No school lock downs, no swat team showing up, just another day in Idaho. Me, I was afoot, and had to rely on the kindness of my friends who had cars.
and I was a very young hippy school teacher with a guitar. My ride was a ’66 Buick Skylark GS convertible. Red. Black upholstery.
Those were the days, my friends…
I would quibble a bit about the radar detector, and about the CB.
CB wise, function is duplicated, but I’m not sure what bands modern phones use, and whether the app environment lets me do normal radio things directly with the transceiver.
Radar detector? Again, I absolutely do not know what bands the antennas work well at, nor what the filters on the transceiver allow.
Smartphones have capabilities that I do not fully understand how to exploit.
Modern tech for receivers allows for some very flexible systems, and I basically am also clueless when it comes to the general question of whether a COTS system can do x, y, and z, or if you still actually need to do some own building to make whatever happen.
No tattoos, Yes!
All- Good points, and yes, we’ve gotten older and ‘maybe’ wiser… PE- Yep, Muncie M22 4-speed.
M-22…..,”stone crusher!”.
It whined like a sumbitch, but it WORKED!!!
1957 Chevy convertible, white paint with red interior. Oil burning six cylinder, 3 speed manual. Swapped in a Big Block that could put daylight under the tires shifting 2nd gear. Paid $125 for the car in ’68. (two door sedans were $75 then.) School had Corvettes and a 409 Chevy in the student lot.
My wrenching buddy had a ’65 GTO 4spd tri-power box stock NHRA record holder. Car lowered the record by a full second in the quarter mile.
Yep, they were ‘quick’ from the factory…
If I could magically teleport all the muscle cars that were sitting in my high school parking lot into present day, I could easily clear a few million dollars at auction.
That Radio Shack ad is from the early to mid 1990’s, when I worked there. I probably sold a fair number of everything on that page except the mobile phone. The Tandy 1000 series were damned good MS-DOS boxes for their time.
Ray- Oh hell yes!
DA- Truth there!
’68 Cutlass, small block 350, bias-ply tires, and drum brakes. Yeah, you learn a lot about physics with that combo.
Oh, yeah! The tallest of the young ladies is trying to hard; sucking in tummy, throwing out her chest to make the best of her 34As.
That smile and those dimples would have had me at “Hello.”
Stretch- LOL…
66SS396 was a wonderful car . I had enough credits in my senior year to graduate , so I took a work program and got out after three periods . I worked at a local auto parts after school and most saturdays . It was cool, got parts at cost , tried lots of new stuff. Interior was very worn out , but it ran 12.50 in the 1/4 mile. Solid lifter .580 lift cam made the ground shake . Sold it for 2000.00 , still kicking myself in the ass for that . I bought a VW Rabbit GTI , after that , that was a fun car too , like driving a go cart . Your GTO looks sharp Sir , my buddy broke my front tooth in his GTO , I was sipping a long neck Bud in the backseat when he decided to get on it off a red light on Forest Lane in Dallas , broke my front tooth in half . Fun times. Great cars. Cops were cool,about most stuff,we knew each other by first names in a good way.
Hey Old NFO,
Couldn’t see the pictures yesterday on my work computer. Very sharp GTO 🙂 . In my HS parking lot in the early 1980’s was a lot of pickup trucks with shotgun racks and shotguns, the assistant Principle Mr. Pierce would talk gun loads and best guns for hunting with the students, quite a few of the students had CB radios in the cars including mine(Lone Eagle was my handle). and those girls were pure naturals, no artificial, no tats, much better disposition. The music was much better back then, also. it was made by people not A.I.
Boats- Oh, those were runners too!!!
Bob- Thanks! KBBW7885 here…
September 78 I was a Senior and I had 71 Cuda with a 440, 4 speed, 4″11 posi rear. It had rolled the odometer and was a rough beater but it was the quickest to the quarter line as it hit redline at just over 100. I sold in the spring of 79 when gas jumped from 49 cents to 79 cents. It got single digit fuel mileage. I got a VW Bug after that.
A highschool friend had a GTO. Decent guy, lost touch, hope life was good for him.