What happened to the car when you met your wife post?

I thought this was a fun post and it disappeared

 

Probably too many guys posting off topic stuff.

 

It was a great idea Jim

 

Well, it was fun while it lasted, and now I can say I got a thread deleted, so it's win-win

Sorry Mark

 

Some women you try to forget.

 

Didn't have a car, we met in the second grade!!!

 

5th grade for us!

 

Really? First time after all this time? I think my first thread was deleted 4 seconds after joining. I guess there were rules posted somewhere I didn't read?

 

When we 1st met I was driving a '62 Pontiac Bonneville convertible and a date was arranged. The actual first date a couple days later was in my '51 Ford Club Coupe on March 9th 1979. We currently own the '51 today! The Bonneville went away the following year.

Dave

 

I'm guilty too even I showed a tiny photo. Mrt my wife while driving a 69 Cutlass that I had special ordered while I was in Vietnam. My 51 Merc was still sitting behind .my grandfather's corral where we had put it when I got drafted. It didn't run until a buddy gave me a 350 Buick in the late 70's.

 

I worded mine so as not to piss off Mark and Cob. When you read it, you knew what car I was talking about, without naming it. No pic, either.

 

You guys know better than to post pics if they are off topic. So why do it?

 

Because they don't like being told what to do or not do.

 

Because it was a light hearted post. And, the walking on eggshells has been driving folks away from here for quite some time. There is a reason many of the names from the boards early years can now only be found on IG.

 

I did the same thing.

 

A few idiots did the same thing in the 'what do you do for a living' thread, which is too bad. That was a good thread and I was actually interested in hearing about how some of you guys here made your bones. On well, now I got a notch in the belt too I guess.... I'm in good company around here...

 

Of course not. I see the off topic postings as being central to who the individual poster is, where they come from and their life relatable experiences. I think most posters appreciate this site for what it is but sometimes find it difficult to remain in such a well defined box without committing some kind of infraction. I'm in my 70s now and cars built after 1965 were just as much a part of my car culture exposure as pre 1965 were. But rules are rules and I think most of us try to be mindful of them even if there is an occasional slip. That's where you come in...keep up the good work, it's appreciated!

 

Don't shoot the messenger. Just pointing out the reality of it. Lots of backchannel discussions happening thru other social media. There are a lot of great fabricators that simply don't post here anymore and the place is lesser because of their absence.

 

Any thread that asks for only HAMB-appropriate vehicles that one might have been driving when they met their future spouse in necessarily limits this almost exclusively to people who are in their 70's, or older, with limited exceptions.

The OT postings were proof of that.

 

A lot of us wanted to be part of things but had either a muscle car type vehicle or our mom's car. I liked hot rods,but my mom's car fit my budget. I'm 73, hot rods fit my budget about 2003 when I could pay off the mortgage and the kids were out of college.

 

Good point... posted a picture of a ridiculous example of the "stinkbug stance" in response to a guy that was unfamiliar with the term. Boom-gone-couple years too new.

"No, I'm just trying to have me some fun."
John Prine

 

I was not eligible to get a drivers license until 20-years after the last HAMB-friendly car was built. I lived in a place where road salt took cars down in as little as 10-years.

By then, gas prices were a had a greater leverage over prevailing wages than in any other time in history.

I never even knew what a pre-tri-five Chevy looked like until I saw one in a magazine. I did not see one in-person until I moved to the West Coast.

 

hmmm....60s maybe? I'm only 60, and when I met my wife most of the cars on our block were 65 or older.

But if you lived up north, yeah, things would be different.

I sure should have put "pre-65" in the thread title, sorry about that.