[Kid Shelleen]

Where were you in '73? Did you have a muscle car?
The closest I ever go to a muscle car was a big ole Chevy Bel Air but it had a great radio and even with OPEC, I think the price of gas was about $.60 a gallon.

[SpaceBar]

We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented.

[bankwalker]

Was this the movie with the hot mom?

[SpaceBar]

An equivalent movie for us would be a nostalgic look at the 90’s.

[Steely Tom]

Not really sure I'd call Modesto (the town George Lucas grew up in and based the movie on) should be called a suburb; I think it was more of an agricultural community at the time, like Davenport, Iowa.

And $.60/gal for gasoline is about the same price as it is now, if you allow for inflation.

[Nakota]

I was a brand new Navy Lieutenant stationed in Pearl Harbor and drove a 1969 Mercury Cougar XR-7 convertible.

[ExGeeEye]

I was 9. My dad had a 69 Impala with a 327.

Ten years later, I had it.

But it was still Dad’s, and he sold it while I was away.

[yarddog]

I graduated in 65 in the Florida Panhandle so everything wasn’t the same but still the movie gave me that feeling several times.

That feeling that I had been there before. No matter what I think of Lucas it was a good movie.

[freedumb2003]

In 1977 I had a 1969 Plymouth Satellite. Pretty strong 318 V8 with hydraulic lifters. I used to beat Cameros with the 350s off the line.

If that isn’t a muscle car then it is just shy of one.

[T-Bird45]

On this date in 1973, I was still on wheat harvest in North Dakota and anticipating returning south soon to start college at Oklahoma State University. I had a muscle car - 1970 Ford Torino GT with a 429 and a Hurst 4-speed on the floor. I later found out my younger sister spent the summer enjoying my muscle car around our small town. Epic stories were told. Soon after arriving at college with the money I made from working all summer, I had an 8-track tape player installed. The first tape I purchased was Paul Simon’s “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.”

[rlmorel]

I just watched it again a few weeks ago...fun movie...Hollywood portrayal of a different time, for sure!

[Atticus]

I was 10 when the movie came out. But my first car 8 years later was a ‘69 Buick Gran Sport 400.

[agondonter]

This movie was just like my life. I met my husband 52 years ago at the local drive-in where everyone drove their car to see everyone else. The 60’s was a wonderful time to be a teenager.

[ezo4]

I grew up in my 68 convertable GTO. Slap stick, 400, 50’’s on the back. Midnight blue black interior.

[ETL]

[Ge0ffrey]

Overrated

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

I was 17.. I had a ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ and what did I drive? I drove a Buick station wagon. Ugh.

[ETL]

[Karliner]

Saw it when I was 15 in 1973 and was happy to hear the fifties music but there were still radio stations that had fifties, forties and pre forties music on the radio, Being teens we did have fifties and Godfather themed keg parties...well Godfather but being rural the barn country parties were alwys the wildest and best.

[ETL]

[dhs12345]

In a drive in watching this movie with my parents and brothers.