comicus

Grew up in a Horsepower town. In the 60's, Tulsa ROCKED with cars! there was several people on every block in every neighborhood in every zip code that had a custom. And usually the whole neighborhood got in on the upkeep.
On Weekends when the sun was shining, these rods were EVERYWHERE. You couldn't drive a half a mile without having one drive past you. Often you would pull up to a traffic light and there would literaly be 6 or more at the intersection all going in different directions. It was truely a sight to see. At the time, we genuinely didn't think it was all that special to see so many rods. How times have changed, and how special those days turned out to be. Tulsa also had national custom car shows come into town all summer long. These events where huge in size and the car owners would take these rods out on our streets at night and head down to Brookside -our main drag back then.
CARtoon magazines where part of my everyday life. I loved 'Unk and the Varmints' and the fantastic artwork of cars in the mag. It's a lost art. We traded stickers of Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth's art that were sold like baseball cards. We covered our humdrum school notebooks with them! I still to this day have some of those stickers! In high school our town had a deal worked out with the local drag strip to get street racing off the streets. It worked great! The rock radio station got behind it and got the schools to form up teams. They gave away trophies and Radio T-shirts. It was one of the best ideas ever to get kids to stop street racing. I raced my car. It was a 71' Camaro SS. Black on Black, Cragar SS mags, Hooker header sidepipes, Traction Bars, MAN THAT CAR COULD GO!!!!! What a BEAUTY!!
I had a large window sticker on my rear window that said; ''EVIL WICKED MEAN AND NASTY!" HAHAHAHAHAHA! Parents hated me.