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View Poll Results: How old are you?
20-30 12 3.29%
30-40 33 9.04%
40-50 84 23.01%
50-60 143 39.18%
60-70 71 19.45%
70-80 21 5.75%
80-90 1 0.27%
90+ and a legend! 0 0%
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Old 02-22-2017, 12:40 PM
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53 here also...

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Old 02-22-2017, 01:03 PM
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Lots of baby boomers on here..........

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frittering and wasting the hours in an off hand way....



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Old 02-22-2017, 01:09 PM
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I am 48.

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Old 02-22-2017, 01:14 PM
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A spry 50.....

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Old 02-22-2017, 01:25 PM
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52 this past January.

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Old 02-22-2017, 01:25 PM
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keeping the pontiac tradition alive and well with a 20 something here boys!

dad's first family car, 63 bonny converitble, created passion for me to be a pontiac man. he was unwilling to get me a gto in high school, so a beat to hell lemans it was.

hopefully we can add a grand prix to the family at some point.

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61 next week.

Growing old is a privilege some never get to experience.

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The Quad4 was a step in the right direction, tho. My dad worked on that project during its development. I remember going to some sort of unveiling ceremony as a kid.
Wow! - Too cool!

I would love to have heard some of the stories ect he might have had...

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Growing old is a privilege some never get to experience.
Well put;
I agree with this whole-heartedly.
But this age thing still does scare the crap out of me sometimes...

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Old 02-22-2017, 02:58 PM
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Looks like those of us 50-60 are leading the poll by a bunch.
Think maybe it's because when we were in high school in the 70's to early 80's mid to late 60's to early 70's Muscle Pontiacs were fairly cheap, and cooler than the run of the mill Camaro or Chevelle?

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Looks like those of us 50-60 are leading the poll by a bunch.
Think maybe it's because when we were in high school in the 70's to early 80's mid to late 60's to early 70's Muscle Pontiacs were fairly cheap, and cooler than the run of the mill Camaro or Chevelle?
Fairly cheap...ain't the word for it.....is 1,200.00 in 1975 ...worth 26,500 in 2017 with inflation ,for the same car ???

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Old 02-22-2017, 03:33 PM
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37 here, turning 21 again 😆

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Pretty nice Bell curve we are rockin' there.

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This thread is making me feel young again, lol

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I've turned 29 25 times (53)

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63 with two wifies under the belt....no more for me....
And some ponchos I've had longer than both.... 40+years worth of marriage.
I have found out the ponchos are a WHOLE lot cheaper to maintain.

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What's kinda funny to me is looking at the poll results and seeing what members fall into a particular age bracket. Most people I estimated correctly based on clues in their posts over the years: their writing style, choices in music, references to children/grandchildren, experiences in their youth, etc. A few were younger than I assumed, and some were older.

I guess it's the personal connection that cars have with people. Whether you drove it in High School, drove it to your honeymoon, made 3 kids in the back seat, or use it as a casket - it's the story in it that makes the difference to me. I love seeing the survivor cars pulled out of a barn with a crappy aftermarket stereo, bolt on accessories from 1981, and a Bad Company cassette under the seat.

This was a cool thread. Well done!

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This was a cool thread. Well done!
Wait - is it over?

I sure hope it isn't?

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Looks like those of us 50-60 are leading the poll by a bunch.
Think maybe it's because when we were in high school in the 70's to early 80's mid to late 60's to early 70's Muscle Pontiacs were fairly cheap, and cooler than the run of the mill Camaro or Chevelle?
I graduated HS in 1981 and had the money in the summer of 1980 to buy a 69 RA III/4spd Judge in the next town but my Father refused to allow it.

Wise man he was because in October of that same year I totaled my mother's Pontiac Pheonix and in the spring of 1984 when he did let me buy my 1977 Formula, I blew the motor on the second day I owned it.

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...in the spring of 1984 when he did let me buy my 1977 Formula, I blew the motor on the second day I owned it.
how did you manage that!?!

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2009 Cobalt SS: 13.9 @ 103mph (current DD; makes something north of 300hp & 350ft/lbs)
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how did you manage that!?!
Racing a Porsche 911 down I91 heading back to school I spun a bearing.

I may be stupid, but I'm not scared.

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