What was hot in the 1970's (man)?

CB radios good buddy.

 

Your Mom!

 

The kegger parties!
We had an area of woods in my area where there might be 4-5 different parties going at the same time on Fri-Sat night.
Don't like the beer at one, stumble over to another.
Cops would just swing through to make their presence known and then leave.


Now that area is a housing development.

 

the first order of business for a rod run was who is picking up the keg? By-laws? now forbid that. rule one for the club was, there will be no rules, now 21 pages of rules.
Life was simpler then.
white walls were on low riders, ahooga horn was a must, cb for comms during rod runs.

 

vans and cocaine seemed to be everywhere!!!!

 

You must have missed my post.

 

corvette summer

 

Ditto Pants

 

I seem to remember a lot of dune buggys. Oh yeah, no bras..... a lack of arm pit shaving by the fairer sex.....tube tops...no shaving...afros on pink kids.....side pipes..Evel Knievel..the Schwinn Stingray..Gaucho pants on the gals....mustache stimulation so I could grow one to buy beer at the Korean food store on the corner, they called me little Joe..a lot of ugly square assed new cars....my Honda XL 100.. the Chevy Van scene.

 

kung fu, noon chucks, david carridine and bruce lee

 

Called them numb chucks, I think cause we used to crack ourselves in the head with them.

 

Here in North Jersey it was heading to Van Iderstine's or Mothers Speed shops on a Saturday morning to get parts you ordered with last weeks paycheck and see the newest wheels you couldnt afford...... ahhhh

 

The college protests and demonstrations were winding down.

 

clackers made good weapons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMwV62qwoGY

 

'76 was a good year for me.

 

Yeah the interior will have to do for now, a bit surprisingly there's no odor, really in good shape, i'll get it shampooed and be good to go for a while before that comes exhaust, driveline, brake booster/assembly, fuel tank, torque converter... those are the biggies

 

Tube tops, halter tops, Hot pants, lemon Gin, Weed that you could smoke . Tunnel Rams, 8-tracks Street freaks,real beaver, Zonk posters , nobody had an automatic.....Dang, thanks for this post

 

Gag me! That's one I don't miss..

 

Where I grew up, the hot cars were muscle cars. I grew up in the downriver part of Mi. just outside of Detroit. I had a 1967 Mustang Fastback with a 390 cu.in. and a three spd trans. There were lots of Chevys, Mopars and even AMC cars all looking to street racer at the drop of a hat. I surprised a lot of cars because they all thought I had a 289 in the Mustang. The only tags on the car was the horse with the engine cu.in. on the fender and nobody looked.
George

 

Orange metalflake dunebuggies that said "FOX HUNT" on the side , blasting Cat scratch fever on the way to Val surf to get a pooka shell necklace , wearing white bell bottom painters pants with "Aerosmith" "YES" and "Ted Nugent " multi color iron on patches . Bruce Lee posters , pinball , Lightning bolt and OP cord shorts . That was my older next door neighbor Albert , the " Ladie's man " , man.

 

Ouch, dont miss those.

Great post, I wasnt even a teenager yet and reading all these things remends me of the days.

 

Holly crap that brings back alot of memories!

 

Oh yea. By the early eighties, it seemed like there were more vegas running small-blocks than there were with 4 bangers! Was that yours Larry?

 

WTF!! These guys are looking the opposite way of these babes?!?!?

 

George,
Yep, it was mine. Pretty good story goes with the car. It's the second one Don Hardy put together when he started selling the kits/cars, he took it to the SEMA show to display in his booth. He had a good friend who lived in Vernon (Floydada is down the road a piece) who bought the car from him and I got the car off Rob. I sold it when I got my Anglia and the guy I sold it too ran it into the ground. Ended up in a salvage yard, wasn't wrecked just beat to death.
Here's a picture of it at the track, before I cut the bumper and pulled the spoiler (long story).
Larry T

 

Vans, big bells, and Annie...I miss all three.

 

Where is the folded up pack of matches to keep your 8-track tracking ??

 

How true.

 

Listening to gene tracy's truck stop on my kraco 8-track.cheech and chong up in smoke. Pink floyd ooma- gooma. Riding a wheelie on my bicycle all the way around the block.black light posters. Having my mom sew a bunch of patches on my denum jacket. Sneeking out to my dads truck and looking at his girlie mags. He thought were hidden under his seat.

 

What a great thread! Thanks for the memories. It was an interesting time!