You Know You Are Old When

[WinterDeere]

I grew up with those vehicles.

Aside from the obvious nostalgia, the best thing going for these old muscle cars is that you don't have to drive them everyday, anymore. They're fun to play with, but I don't miss relying on old carbureted cars with points ignition, for daily use.

I know I'm in the minority here, but give me a 2023 Hellcat over anything built in 1970, every day. It's hard to argue with 707 hp out of something so reliable your wife can use it as the primary kid hauler.

 

[Sigarms]

I know I'm in the minority here, but give me a 2023 Hellcat over anything built in 1970, every day. It's hard to argue with 707 hp out of something so reliable your wife can use it as the primary kid hauler.

After my son told me what my dads Honda would do in the 0-60, I honestly couldn't disagree with you.

Thing is, I'm old enough now to understand that speed is the biggest variable in determining the outcome of surviving a car crash.

In 1981 a classmate was driving in early a 70's "muscle car" with 3 other people. They crashed into a telephone phone when it was bad weather and raining. 3 people dead on the scene, that classmate was the only one alive. They brought in a helicopter to take him to the hospital. Helicopter crashed on leaving the wreck site, and the classmate along with everyone else was killed in the helicopter. End of the day, when it's your time, it's your time.

I take that back, I had to look out of curiosity. It was actually 1982, and the driver was the classmate of mine, and he died at the scene. It was actually another passenger who I didn't know.

Thing is, in the 1980's, you couldn't do what I just did and look things up on the internet to verify you're "memory".

 

[MoKelly]

... you could buy a school cafeteria lunch card good for 5 lunches and milk, for $.75.

I remember paying 5 cents for a small carton of milk for our afternoon snack at school.

During summer, before baseball practice, we would ride our bikes to the local drug store, sit at the counter, and eat lunch - cheeseburger, fries and cherry coke —- for $1.00.

 

[sixdogs]

I remember paying 5 cents for a small carton of milk for our afternoon snack at school.

During summer, before baseball practice, we would ride our bikes to the local drug store, sur at the counter, and eat lunch - cheeseburger, fries and cherry coke —- for $1.00.

As a kid, nothing little beats a cherry coke from the olden days. Todays stuff is nothing like the real McCoy.

 

[Sigarms]

I remember paying 5 cents for a small carton of milk for our afternoon snack at school.

During summer, before baseball practice, we would ride our bikes to the local drug store, sur at the counter, and eat lunch - cheeseburger, fries and cherry coke —- for $1.00.

I think people forget about the rate of inflation.

$1 in 1970 is over $7.5 today per the rate of inflation.

I remember Strunko's, a small grocery store near the the elementary school I would walk to. We'd "reserve" a couple of cents each day for our school lunch money and buy candy at the end of the week. Box of rock candy was pretty cheap which is what I would buy.

Kids aren't as stupid as you think they could be LOL

 

[Oaktree]

I remember my first car. Early 70's Oldsmobile Cutlass.I remember the car fondly, however it also handled like a u boat. The other thing was back then I was a LOT stronger than now, and God forbid you parked going up a steep hill because those 2 doors weighed a ton LOL

I don't envy teens today. No room whatsoever to neck in the newer cars

Not only doors that weighed a ton, but you got a good upper body workout maneuvering at low speeds, parallel parking, etc. since many cars of that era did not have power steering.

Dr. Demento used to play a song called "Making Love in a Suburu" which poked fun at the challenges of making out in an econobox.

Aside from the obvious nostalgia, the best thing going for these old muscle cars is that you don't have to drive them everyday, anymore. They're fun to play with, but I don't miss relying on old carbureted cars with points ignition, for daily use.

I know I'm in the minority here, but give me a 2023 Hellcat over anything built in 1970, every day. It's hard to argue with 707 hp out of something so reliable your wife can use it as the primary kid hauler.

I don't miss point ignition systems, carburetors and all that old school tech either. One of the first things I did when I got my Dart was to put in a Pertronix ignition. PITA to change/adjust points in a slant 6...never did, but was always afraid I'd drop the screw into the distributor.
One thing those old cars had that nothing made in the last 20 or so years has is windows large enough that you could actually see out of them. That Hellcat might run rings around an 70s vintage 'Cuda, but the tiny portholes they call windows in modern vehicles suck.

That having been said, I enjoy cruising in my old Dart, just glad I have something more modern as my daily driver.

 

[Oaktree]

As a kid, nothing little beats a cherry coke from the olden days. Todays stuff is nothing like the real McCoy.

Was that strictly a soda fountain concoction in the old days? Don't think I ever heard of it until they started selling it bottled in the 80s.

 

[steve tym]

He might be reffering to when Coke actually had coke in it.

 

[steve tym]

Not only doors that weighed a ton, but you got a good upper body workout maneuvering at low speeds, parallel parking, etc. since many cars of that era did not have power steering.

Dr. Demento used to play a song called "Making Love in a Suburu" which poked fun at the challenges of making out in an econobox.


I don't miss point ignition systems, carburetors and all that old school tech either. One of the first things I did when I got my Dart was to put in a Pertronix ignition. PITA to change/adjust points in a slant 6...never did, but was always afraid I'd drop the screw into the distributor.
One thing those old cars had that nothing made in the last 20 or so years has is windows large enough that you could actually see out of them. That Hellcat might run rings around an 70s vintage 'Cuda, but the tiny portholes they call windows in modern vehicles suck.

That having been said, I enjoy cruising in my old Dart, just glad I have something more modern as my daily driver.

You know you are old when you know who Dr. Demento was

 

[Eagle1]

You know you are old when you know who Dr. Demento was

Damn that's down cold.......