Posted on 11/03/2014 11:45:09 PM PST by A Navy Vet
Hey guys and girls. Who here has cruised a Blvd or Ave while you were a teen? Do you remember what that meant to you and the fun of just looking next to the other car? Who has dragged raced when the light hit green?
I'm reliving it with my 1958 Impala. It's too damn cool with the Ronettes playing with a great sound system!
Tell your stories. Life is beyond politics.
I could hope for satisfaction, thank you Mick Jager.
77 F250. The ultra rare Jade green factory color/interior. Built 460/C6/Dana60 Brutal machine. Won most backroad races. Lost one badly (Trans Am). Had a V8 Vega eat my lunch at OCIR on a Cali trip too. That one I got over. The TA I never did. Pilot error. But it was the 80s and the music was anything from Hall and Oates to Human League to Iron Maiden and Anthrax.
I'm reliving it with my 1958 Impala.
Use your illusion/ I am envious. You could do a lot worse/ Even rapper 50¢ rides the old cars he has a few
hmmm.... we both mentioned Satisfaction by the Stones
My 64 red Mustang and friend’s 57 T bird - light changed, I had him by 3/4 car length, rainy, he skidded and hit my rear quarter panel, then spun out into a tree - no one hurt. Booze badly used that night.
Ah, my misspent, wasted youth. I miss every last moment of it.
“open-field keg party “
Otherwise known as the Adirondack way of life ;) But with trees...Another time long gone.
Didn’t drag race anyone in my 76’ Camaro but she sure did barrel down the country roads like a race car and I loved the feeling. What a time when we had that first taste of freedom (license to drive)going into the city, hanging out on the lake, and then summer nights cruising out to wherever the traveling carnivals were while cranking up the volume to Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, AC/DC, or whatever rock and roll was in the tape deck on a given night.
Never did any of that stuff. Tended to hang-out with my family. My brother and I cruised the Severn River in the Summer, tho’. Dad had a 14’ ski boat; we had a small plywood rowboat with an outboard, and I had a sailing dingy.
From ‘67 to ummm ‘71 it was a brand new Mustang convertible 289. Top down, wide ovals on after market mags, Addco sway bars and Koni shocks, Beach Boys on the radio but real Country Western was also on a lot.
No console so my girlfriend made a pillow so she cold snuggle up while we cruised.
A lot of times we’d head from Pittsburgh to West Virginia just for the heckuvit.
Drag raced? YOU BETCHA! We’d head over to the Avalon Eat ‘n’ Park on California Avenue and meet up with “The Arranger” who would set you up against a similar car.
Won some, lost some but always cool!
1978 Cougar XR7. Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane playing on a Pioneer cassette player.
57 Chevrolet Belair with older teenager sibling. MU-Columbia Tigers 1958-59, E. Broadway, S. 9th St., Conley St.; A&W, drive-in theaters. Eddie Cochran — Summertime Blues. Playmates — Beep Beep (The Little Nash Rambler). Sheb Wooley — The Purple People Eater. Diamonds — The Stroll. Johnny and the Hurricanes — Red River Rock. Ray Anthony — Peter Gunn Theme. Preston Epps — Bongo Rock. Hula hoop to the music. Creature features, including the Blob, at the drive-in theater. $200 for the kid who found the needle in the haystack in front of the movie screen.
1964 Pontiac GTO with classmate.
1965 Ford Galaxy with classmate, 8-track tape deck, homemade box speakers in the trunk.
1967 Chevelle Malibu.
KXOK radio, 8-Track Tape deck. CCR, Rolling Stones, Argent - Hold Your Head Up, The Who...waited for the atmospherics to be right to listen to the long version of Iron Butterfly — Inna Gadda Da Vida to play from the radio stations in Chicago or Little Rock, too many songs to list.
Small town Illinois, 1964-1970, main streets and around the Dairy Queen to do the loop.
Dexter Gordon—— Thanks Crime Story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Story_%28TV_series%29
1975, 2nd Street in El Cajon, CA. 1962 Chevrolet C Series Stepside P/U with the straight six and three-on-the-tree. Cruised to Merle Haggard on the 8-track.
The first car that was truly “MINE” was a 1956 Cadillac Series 62 Sedan.
Completely stock motor and running gear.
Except for a state-of-the-art “paint job” -
It was covered in a coat (literally) of acrylic “fur” that was marketed under the names “Velvetex” and Velvecoat.”
The tiny fibers that comprised the “fur” were given an electrostatic charge and sprayed onto an epoxy base. It had nap and texture and every gas station attendant who filled the tank invariably ended up “petting” the car.
It was beyond cool.
Didn’t really drag race, but....
There were some really quiet early Sunday mornings just after dawn taking the back county roads instead of the state highways on the way to the airbase, and there were virtually no other traffic or people to be seen for about eighty miles or more, except for that dang cropduster. Since there was no one around to get in the way, it was an opportunity to open the throttle and race down these country roads at 80 mph, 100 mph, and faster for miles on end. But there were a number of these mornings when a cropduster came tumbling out of the sky and would zoom right over the top of the car. First from one direction, and then from another direction. After the first few days the pilot got to waggling his wings and seemed to be looking for an opportunity to pace the car.....
1984 Camaro, feathered roach clip hanging from the mirror and cranking “Running With The Devil”...fun times....Reagan was President too!!!!
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