The PAST
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Why is it so many of the guys want to live in the past as in all the old pics and things of that nature... Sure I liked it back then went I was a kid but I never got into all of the old stuff now days ... life moves on... just seems like some people dont I'm not saying its a bad thing just wondering
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Re: The PAST
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Just history stuff that's cool. For me it's the paint jobs, the look of the wheels and tires and the freedoms people enjoyed.
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Re: The PAST
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Wife tells me i'm stuck in the past , think she has a point , if you look back @ the past you're gonna miss the future , thing is , the present will one day be the past , so i guess were all living in the past right now , so just enjoy.
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Re: The PAST
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Well as far as cars,it was the golden years. The choice of desirable, affordable, performance cars that anyone could work on without the need for high tech computers programs etc. I was able to buy a 2 year old big block car with the money earned after school part time, .and still be able to buy some speed goodies occasionally. I don't think that is true today. The prices for speed parts is more now, even if there are better parts the cost is huge by comparison. The little guy had a chance at competing on a national level and winning! These are a few things that come to mind. The pictures take me back to that time.
I dont know for fact what the ratio is with todays wages vs then but I dont think thats the factor... there are WAY more go fast goodies now then back then... we had to make alot of the stuff back then... today you open the wallet(unless your like me... cheap and enjoy making stuff)
People tend to remember the good things about the past and overlook the bad...hindsight is 20-20 (the things you'd do differently...), and ya can't know where you're going, unless you know where you've been....things were a whole lot simpler, too...
We all think it was simpler back then but I think it was due the lack of knowledge... back then we didnt have the communications we have now... it use to take weeks to find out stuff on the other side of the world... now we know in seconds if someone is trying to blow up the world....and of course the computer... this is just my opinion... the cars run faster and quick now than ever before.. heck alot of guys on this board have cars faster than the PS cars of the past
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 03:36 PM
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Mike, I agree with you on much of what you are saying, but! If I think of teams like "The Surfers" that built a top fueler in a Motel Garage, that won the March Meet, defeating Garlits, Kalita,and a total of 64 car field . That's what I am talking about! Yes they were only running in the 7s but there wasn't a mega million $ backing either. http://www.draglist.com/stories/SOD%20Feb%202000/SOD-022300.htmSure cars are faster today, but those days had their own appeal too. Mark
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 03:59 PM
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Why is it so many of the guys want to live in the past as in all the old pics and things of that nature... Sure I liked it back then went I was a kid but I never got into all of the old stuff now days ... life moves on... just seems like some people dont I'm not saying its a bad thing just wondering
For me, it was a simpler easier time with less worries, despite the Cold War. The cars were better, by-'n-large, jobs were easier to get, music was better & there was an accepted level(?) of social behavior that, despite being the 60s/70s, wasn't nearly as outrageous, violent or dangerous as it is now. From an automotive standpoint-- at no time did the more of the public have more horsepower handed to them for so relatively little money. Looking at it another way, the 60s were to cars what WWII was to aircraft--at no other time was there so much power being developed for piston-driven conveyences and we'll never see that time again.....
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 05:00 PM
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Unless you were there it's hard to explain and impossible to understand. we all raced heads up in a chosen NHRA/AHRA etc. classes We all raced within a set of rules.
The racing mindset was completely different in every way you could imagine. The biggest difference from today is the lack of creativity and ingenuity .In most every case you had to find out what made your car faster on your own. No Jeg's or Summit loaded with parts. I always felt that when bracket racing came along and eliminated class racing it killed what made it most enjoyable for me. Racing heads against other cars with comparable combinations same as mine or and different brands on a level playing field. And then beating the other guy with the bigger wallet was always more fun. Pocket size came in second to hard work back then.
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Re: The PAST
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I can also be thrown in the crowd of I dont get it, hanging onto the past that is. Maybe it is my past which was by all accounts not very good. I grew up extremely poor and struggled for even the simplest of things as well as more than my fair share of issue with the law. Maybe it is watching my Grandmother slip into the past from Alzhiemers or my mothers inability to move on from her past but I prefer the future. Whether it is football, racing or life. Just the way I am. I am probably one of the only guys here who routinely does not look at all the posts on here about the past.
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Re: The PAST
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Fred I started in 67 but was at the track in 64 so that was the start for me so dont give me that stuff "you wouldnt understand".... the stuff I did on my cars was mostly on my own... and back then we had ALL those classes... I just dont understand why so many cant seem to move on... like their whole life is still wrapped up in "the good old days"
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Re: The PAST
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quote]Fred I started in 67 but was at the track in 64 so that was the start for me so dont give me that stuff "you wouldnt understand".... the stuff I did on my cars was mostly on my own... and back then we had ALL those classes... I just dont understand why so many cant seem to move on... like their whole life is still wrapped up in "the good old days"
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Unless you were there it's hard to explain and impossible to understand.
Then you are amongst those who should understand what I said and how it pertains to me . Primarily this is how I feel about racing. The same cant be said about other facets of my life .You can look at my cars and see I don't live in the past . I might own a nostalgia car but also a turbo car and the modern hi tech supercharged Caddy
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 06:15 PM
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I have no problem living in the past
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 06:25 PM
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The past is cool but yesterday is gone. I look very much to the future. Its getting down to even some of the last V8s F M J mopars are catching on....a whole new world from the norm. The advancement of small block strokers, ect... Things arnt so bad these days I miss my first car, a hemi bee but it nothing compared to what I have now...but I was 15 then.
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