OLD -TIMERS 60

PLUS YRS!

Well Ag I guess we are a pair age wise .Peace be with you and if you wart ,PM me and i'll accept and we can continue talking without any interference

Thanks Chi, but its 70, not 60! haha! Grew up in Chicago too, NW side, Jefferson park, went to Steinmetz.

I'll tell ya what LG .congrats on the 60 mark ,but the day will come after a "all-nighter"that you have done for yrs and yrs and then you can barely move the day after and you say to yourself, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED "and you start to realize that those "days are over"! Took me awhile after much "TRIAL AND TRIBULATION" but I just can't do it anymore WITHOUT PAYING A  HEAVY PRICE! Thinking my fellow "old-timers" would say the same! LOL!!!!

I wouldnt want much in the cars I owned. I will say though when it comes to traction in snow one of the best was a little 81 ford escort stick shift. Better than 4x4 and some AWD I have owned.  The 92 plymouth voyageur was no slouch either though not high on the "good lookn hotrod" list.

70 here too! Funny thing, when I was younger I saw 60+ year old co workers and thought "wow is that guy looks old to still be working like he does". Now that I am that old guy I don't feel old. How does that happen?

Well old Hunter I do remember every car I ever owned including the present and I know how I  got rid of all the previous ones before the one I own now. Looking forward in buying a new one if I live that long!!

When you are middle aged, you think back about your first car, and wished you still owned it,    When you reach retirement age, you think back about how many cars you owned, and list them in order.   When you reach old age, You can't remember where you parked your car at Walmart.     

Duck, you're not alone. 70 + 3 months and feel every minute of it!!!

I mustve been about 7y/o. The 9y/o neighbor girl was all excited about getting her first bottle of dippity do in the mail.  the same girl that wore knee socks an pulled them up several times a day.  A few months later it was summer time she had a long tee shirt on and bare legs.  I wondered what else she had on or didnt have on. 

That's  when you had to get up to change the tv channels.

Back in the mid 70's and early 80's before they had twist off caps on beer bottles I use to open them with my teeth. Now days if I tried that would cost me $5,000.00 to fix the broken ones

Basically all I did when I could drive was fish and hunt  . Should have spent more time on the girls  ...

Going to outdoor in Portage. Case of old style and shine deer until midnight!! In the 75 Lemans. Best time of my life

1975 Midnight Drag races Saturday nights. We would all get staged on 83 at about old grand avenue and do the runs south to north avenue. Tough luck for any normal  traffic you werent getting through. I think the quarter mile was to the Lake street overpass, because thats where people would park to see who won. The cops would just park on top of the bridge  to watch and couldnt really do anything because of the cloverleafs. One thing that was kind of funny was, a couple friends and I were watching from frontage road off sunrise road and we were driving his moms ford station wagon driving along side and we were pulling ahead because the wagon had a  390 or 429 or something and were faster than them. Nobody stopped at the quarter, you went all out till it was time to shut down. I raced a corvette with my nova and blew his doors off in the quarter. So he wanted to do a forty punch at about Belden avenue. I only had a 4.11 rear, so after that I had him for a while but he was going about 160 and all I could see was fading tailights as mine topped out at about 115 to 120. I always ran light on   gas for the weight and when we got to north avenue I was out. 

Wow....Seals and Crofts....flashback to about '76 or '77...saw them at the Milw Auditorium with Michael Murphy. When Murphy did not sing his hit Wildfire the place about got tore down.