[QUOTE=Doug;5700544]I'm 75. The day Ike was inaugurated, my 5th grade classmates and I were marched over to a large furniture store nearby to watch the inauguration on TV. [quote]
Ha!
Talk about different times huh!
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Originally Posted by Doug
The nice thing about being old is that we were there when rock and roll, muscle cars and such were happening. We lived it and still do!
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VERY good point.
As bad as I believe that some of the times you have witnessed would have been (cold war, "performance" cars from 75-88-ish, disco, fake bands, glam-rock, hair metal for just a few examples), I would think that it was better to live back then, than now...
Everyone is too busy, life is too fast paced;
Consumerism has run amok - and a part of this need to buy more, and have more conveniences, is the acceptance of lower quality foreign junk - which has taken jobs away from north americans.. .
I have been called a throw-back;
Which is to say a person born decades too late.
I wear that title as a badge of honor.
Even my second "toy" car was released before you turned 50...
As cool as it would have been to witness first hand some stellar bands, and serious Detroit iron, after a really sucky time in music and cars it seemed to have gotten better...
60's & early 70's you had Floyd, Zeppelin, The Doors to name a few, and some really great cars...
The only redeeming things from the 1980's seems to be cheesy sit-coms, and the development of home video game systems...
Then in the early 90's music got good again, and Detroit started mixing things up - the Quad4 seems to have been a huge deal when it was released, and i have surprised MANY V8 & blown V6's with this little naturally aspirated motor...
I would have also liked to have seen what people were doing with Quad4HO cars back when they were new - every now and then I get stories of them walking the likes of Iroc's ect back in the day...