Growing Up,Preteen Seventies

[BunnysBastatrds 2,715]

 

[SaintsInDome2006 801]

Spot on. I never like these videos. I agree here. I also think this generation is the last before the Digital Age & we’re never going back.

[easilyscan 1,086]

Very interesting video. Thanks for posting. I'm not here to put down younger people, & I know you're not either. They can't help when they were born. But this reminded me of the 80s.
Around 1987 I was fresh out of high school, & had saved up 7K to buy my first decent car. I chose a 1984 mercury cougar LS. Can't remember if I saw it in person, or in print, but shortly there after I saw a 1984 mercury cougar XR 7 that had special wheels/rims. I was gaga, I HAD to have them!

Standard wheels https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME18UTCX

XR-7 wheels https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME18UTCY

I started my search by going to all the junkyards in my county. No luck. After that I bought the auto shopper every week. No luck there either. My last hope was to go to the local bookstore where they had monthly newspaper style publications, that had classified ads from all around the country.

A couple months later I found a set of 4 located at a junkyard in Chicago. Called to make certain they were the right ones, then sent them a check. They arrived on a Friday morning & I had them installed Friday afternoon. I had to pick up a friend at a local strip club later that night. He thought it was a waste of time spending extra money on rims. He was a truck guy all the way had a Chevy with huge wheels and all jacked up. He was emulating Colt from the series ‘the fall guy’

When we left the club, and he saw it underneath the street light, he said whoa, those do look sweet dude!

I guess the only point I'm trying to make here is that looking back on it, it was an adventure, and it was really satisfying when I finally found them.

Today, there'd be no such adventure, just a couple clicks on your computer or phone. Easier ?……. no doubt, as satisfying? not even close.
 

 

[Fnord 2,657]

I had a 1979 Cougar XR7 in High School. Very similar to this. Loved that car. 

Interesting question at the end of the video: which generation had it tougher? While I can't answer that, I'm damn glad I grew up in the 80s and 90s and not today. My almost 14 yr old son has essentially never had a full day of his life unsupervised by adults. That was my entire childhood, for better or worse. By that age I'd already been turned loose at the State Fair with 150,000 strangers and zero supervision. Somehow we managed to not only survive that, but also stay out of trouble (through conniving, not innocence), scope some chicks, insult some strangers, flirt with waitresses, and spend a bunch of money THAT WE MADE BY WORKING. And create wonderful lifelong memories.

[easilyscan 1,086]

3 minutes ago, Fnord said:

I had a 1979 Cougar XR7 in High School. Very similar to this. Loved that car. 

My grandpa had one as well. Silver. Very nice looking car but it was not good in the winter without snow tires. 

[Fnord 2,657]

2 minutes ago, easilyscan said:

My grandpa had one as well. Silver. Very nice looking car but it was not good in the winter without snow tires. 

Nothing built in the 70s was. But that's how we learned how to drive. I let my son drive my truck occasionally, which has even worse traction than a RWD 70s boat (getting new tires next month) if it's not in 4WD. Last weekend we found a nice, icy empty parking lot and I told him to turn sharply and goose the accelerator. Scared the hell out of him. But he counter-steered and corrected quickly and properly. I was proud. 

[Mr Fantasy 170]

17 minutes ago, Fnord said:

I had a 1979 Cougar XR7 in High School

You were tooling around in a pimp mobile and I had a mid 70s AMC Matador in HS. Oof

 

[Fnord 2,657]

20 minutes ago, Mr Fantasy said:

You were tooling around in a pimp mobile and I had a mid 70s AMC Matador in HS. Oof

 

Yeah well the fun part of that story is that the Cougar was my fourth car and I bought it the summer before my senior year. The two I had before the Merc got totaled and I made money on both. Let's just say I wasn't very pimptastic in HS, and the car didn't help!

What I would've loved to have then, and now, is that Lincoln Continental sitting next to the AMC. THAT is a sick ride.

[Tree of Knowledge 2,269]

Saw this video earlier today.  Spot on. 

[Tree of Knowledge 2,269]

57 minutes ago, Mr Fantasy said:

You were tooling around in a pimp mobile and I had a mid 70s AMC Matador in HS. Oof

 

Those front seats were made for making out with chicks.