| Re: Sadturdday Chat 05.06.12 |
Subject: Re: Sadturdday Chat 05.06.12 by Ultraman on 2012/5/5 12:35:34 Beautiful morning here...we have all the windows open and the cool air is flowing in.....nice! Who is going to take care of all these cars when the old men are gone? The kids now days don't seem all that interested. I often think about why I like cars so much and the car crazy era I grew up in. The 50's and 60's were prosperous times overall with the post WWII boom going strong. Folks could afford a home and a nice car and maybe even a color TV. The Big 3 car companies were fighting to bring us more glitz and glam and horsepower every year. When a neighbor got a new car the whole hood would gravitate over to kick the tires and check out the HP of that big V8 engine. Same with the color TV's, everyone would come over to see the NBC Peacock unfurl in living color. Advertising in the media was aimed right at us and we ate up the ads and what they were telling us. I learned that having a cool car was a prestiege thing and as I have said before you could be a fat dork with zits but you were not to be messed with if you had a set of wheels worthy of honor. Plus a torque laden big inch car that could lay rubber in all four gears was a blast to drive and that is what has kept me in it for all these years. I would still like to have a 65 Goat with 3 dueces and a Hurst shifted 4 speed, along with a C2 of course....... My back is a lot better today.....took a hot shower and stretched and then went down and had an adjustment made. Everything seemed to pop back in place so I am a little sore today but the big pain is gone......Good Guru advice and lets not forget the back mojo helped a lot..... Gotta go.... |
