But when I graduate, I'll be splurgin on a Stingray (69-73)
so when I get that, come see me babe! we'll race...
Posted on 06/24/2005 9:04:37 AM PDT by missyme
The Economy Boom The western economy boomed. Youth culture stopped hogging the scene as the teenage market lost impetus. The dominant market was getting older and was also financially secure. Demographics changed the face of society. People were living longer and seemed to act younger at the same time. Old industries died, while new technologies developed and boomed.
Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan in the USA celebrated presidential success with a style that used fashionable conspicuous clothes and social events to display the affluence of American society to a world audience.
The world was in flux; ever changing. The USSR relaxed rules and opened up to private enterprise. The Berlin wall came down and other eastern bloc countries craved western clothes and liberation.
In Britain Thatcherism promoted privatization and the idea that greed was good was given credence. Temples to modern living, shopping malls sprang up throughout Britain. Western society consumed and consumed. Yuppies Yuppie was an acronym for 'Young Upwardly Mobile Professional Person'. The word was coined by the advertising industry to capture the essence of a particular type of work hard, play hard, ambitious minded city career person of either sex. The hectic lifestyle of a yuppie meant that after long hours of work, rare free time was spent in a self indulgent way frittering away the cash earned on anything, from expensive make up and perfume, to a bottle of fine champagne. Conspicuous wastage was part of the attitude.
For day Yuppies sported wide shouldered jackets and for weekends they wore a Barbour to effect a country aesthetic or a ballgown to assume the appearance of a more advantaged lifestyle.
What Kinda car and bike?
Oh, my daughter was, also, being four!
What were y'all doing in 1952?
But when I graduate, I'll be splurgin on a Stingray (69-73)
so when I get that, come see me babe! we'll race...
I was out looking for dudes in their hot cars with my 1977 Chevy LUV truck, HOMEMADE turbo kit, 1.8L that would smoke the tires in 3 gears, and still get 30 mpg! Ran a Rajay turbo, holley/webber sidedraft carb, and straight pipe. The truck was actually quieter than stock....(turbos make great mufflers!)
It was tame until the turbo spooled up, then "all HELL broke loose", somewhere around 2,800 rpm....
Ran that truck til the bed rusted off, put on a flatbed, ran it some more til the frame rusted in 2!
Well, first of all, the internet was reeeaaaalll slloooooww....
Have you researched those years? Don't get a 1985 or 1986 they are lemons!
I will try and post a pic of mine now...
LO!! Cool, I owned everything from a 66 GMC crackerbox cabover with a 238 detroit single axle, freightliners, Macks, Petercars, fords, detroit engines, cat engines, cummins and maxidynes up to the double wide cabs, jake breaks, etc. Drove every transmission from a 7 speed maxi to a 20 speed triple shift, 15spd double shift, etc., etc. ad neusum. :-)
Hauled everything from houshold goods to swinging beef, swinging dresses, frozen fish, fresh produce, dry goods, scrap metal and even 42,000lbs of rabbit crap once, dynamite and even flowers. :-)
Dreaming about being born in '53!! :-)
I also used it to haul my RM-125 Suzuki to the races with....fast bike needs fast transport, ya know!
Check your FReepMail.
oh yeah, i know what years I want. The ones with the power (no wimpy late 70s and 80s), chrome bumpers, and the spoiler lip (the smoothflowing one, not attached as an afterthought). and NO luggage rack on the back. ugh!
preferably a 427 or 454. I'm not real big on being totally original, so if i have to gut it and stick in a brand new 427 or 454, i will.
also, someday i want to have an AC cobra. that would whip yours and my (future) vette any day! =P
Ah ha, so you were a true truck-drivin outlaw. I think it was 1978 or 79, Sacramento, CA...I bob-tailed to a drive-in to see "Convoy," after being busted for a log-book violation. And yeah, it was pretty stupid - the movie and the violation.
72 mustang fastback w/ 351 cleveland and 51 panhead kicker in a sold frame. :-)
Both were stolen in 84. :-(
If I could yet concentrate on anything other than myself and my bottle, I was probably thinking you were pretty CUTE in 1953!
:-)
WOW! That sucks! Did you have the Mach 7 I think it was called Mustang?
nice!
didnt you have a picture of you with the car on your profile a while back?
77 or 78 I discovered how strong the wind was in Barstow while at a fuel stop. Got out of the truck and the wind knocked me under the left fuel tank! I was wondering why my engine seemed sluggish the last 100 miles. The headwind was at the least, surprising!
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