Re: The PAST
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because stuff was made much better... lots of things where real...hand made or made from scratch with craftsmanship... not like today... every thing is from china and throw away... i have a watch from my grandfather that was handed down..to me..it cost him $150 in 1960 its now worth atleast 1000 bucks.but its a fine watch..for centimental value plus its real $ amount. people dont care about this stuff right now. tell me something worth handing down to your grandkids?....your plasma screen?,,your plastic watch.? oh i know you cell phone... all worth zero...by next christmas..
this in general is the gist of it... the more you put in the more you get out.. taken a sunday drive to the icecrean stand with your kids lately? or a drive in movie? oh i know .for a grilled burger served through the window...? i didnt think so...? even if you could do this today..the kids would probably not want to go anyway.. they would rather stay home and wait for the text reply from the kid next door.. or choose to stay plugged into the playstation.. i mean why climb mount everest when you can just watch it/play it on a dvd....?
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 07:23 PM
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Its funny, I often tell my 12 year old son about " The Past", and he loves to hear the stories. I have done a lot and accomplished a lot for my age and engaged in many opportunites as I was younger. never afraid to jump in and try anything and wasnt afraid to work hard. he always asks me about what it was like doing this or that years ago. he is already smart enough to realize that we live in a self consuming all about me society. He knows the past was more honest and wholesome. He always says he wishes he could go back and see what things were like. He suspects it was better.I would agree with him.
As far as racing in the past, hell , its how we all got started. You cant help but remember it. It was real racing then. Blood, sweat and gears.
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 07:42 PM
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because stuff was made much better... lots of things where real...hand made or made from scratch with craftsmanship... not like today...
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING... the cars back then were junk compared to a car now... the engine back then would live about 100K the metal fell off and we wont even talk about the GAPS/margins so I dont buy the car thing but some of the other stuff about the younger people is correct BUT does that make you want to stay in the past
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 07:55 PM
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through the years of my 20's 30's and 40's i liked to look back to see if i could ever catch up with what my buddy's had done to their cars . Now at almost 60 i look to the future cause my time is getting short and i don't try and keep up with anyone.
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 08:02 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
so your on for A new challenger v10 ?
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 08:03 PM
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The "in" thing now at car shows seem to be unrestored old race cars from the '60-70's. Looking at what pieces of crap they were it amazes me that we have any old drag racers left around. Factor in that most of the tracks back then were barely safer than street racing and you can double that thought. I like looking at the old cars/pics though to see how many I remember from when I started racing. Lots of people like to whine about the NHRA now and how much things cost, and how much cheaper it was back then. Unfortunately for me, it wasn't any cheaper back then because I didn't make much money and couldn't afford it anyway. The good old days are fun to look at now and then, but I for one am glad they're gone.
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 09:23 PM
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because stuff was made much better... lots of things where real...hand made or made from scratch with craftsmanship... not like today...
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING... the cars back then were junk compared to a car now... the engine back then would live about 100K the metal fell off and we wont even talk about the GAPS/margins so I dont buy the car thing but some of the other stuff about the younger people is correct BUT does that make you want to stay in the past
yeah cars were junk back then, that's why a Hemi Cuda cost about 150 thousand now 100k on the engine, but easy to replace. I will say that cars were different back then. New cars are a lot better right now but I enjoyed what I had then and I also enjoy what I have now. A manīs life is a mix of his past, his present and they way he looks at the future.
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Re: The PAST
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Im having a hard time deciding on whether or not to buy a DeLorean, Mike.. I figure if I go back to the past I'll get all my hair back and lose the grey/silver and get that masculine figure back.. and of course see all my old girl friends as I didnt get married the first time till I was 37... ahhhh...to be single again
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Re: The PAST
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Im having a hard time deciding on whether or not to buy a DeLorean, Mike..
I figure if I go back to the past I'll get all my hair back and lose the grey/silver and get that masculine figure back..
and of course see all my old girl friends as I didnt get married the first time till I was 37...
ahhhh...to be single again
Well I still have all my hair... its dark... thanks to chemicals ... no comment about the marriages (as in plurals)
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Re: The PAST
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12/04/10 10:54 PM
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Back in the mid-70's when all the local tracks ran Modified, Super Stock and Stock every week, you had to get there early on Saturday afternoon to get a good seat in the stands. There were bleachers for maybe 2-3000 at Edgewater back then, plenty of room down track to back up to the fence with your pickup or wagon and and watch from near the finish line. This was on the spectator side, the pit side was race cars only and you had to pay $1 to cross over to see the action in the pits.
If they ran a booked-in Funny Car show, the fans would be 5-deep at the starting line. They also had a Division 3 Winston meet every year when they ran TF, FC, and Pro Stock for national points. They always had a full field of cars.
By the time of the mid-80's bracket racing had taken over, gas prices and inflation seriously depleted the sport. You would still see a decent crowd of spectators at the tracks, good crowd if they ran Q16, UDRA, or match race.
Today there are so many options for entertainment that very few people want to watch drag racing anymore. People would rather sit at home and watch inane TV shows than go to the local strip, my friends say it is boring, it takes too long, it's too hot out, etc., etc., but they will spend time and money going to casinos and pro sporting events.
Yes, Mr. P those were the good old days for drag racing.
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