Born in the 50'es and the 70 was good to me.

A group of buddies and I were talking about growing up in the 60s and all the memories etc and it reminded me of a much different time than today. It was agreat time to be a kid. There was so much to do. Video games, cell phones, texting, and walkmans were all non existent. Kids had to be kids. I think some of the coolest things was being able to watch the Mercury and Apollo space programs on TV. And the cars were the best part. They started getting smaller, wild paint, faster, and by the late 60s just about evet=ry muscle car had stripes all over them. Does anyone remember like me how GM, Ford, and Mopar had all them cars in body groups? GM had Olds, Pontiac, Buick, and Chevy and many of the cars shared bodies ad chassis and as kids we all learned to tell them apart by headlights and tail lights and grilles. I could look at a Chevelle and tell you in a second what year it was by the tail lights or the amount of headlights it had. There were so many muscle cars back then. Except for a few Volkswagons, MGs, Triumphs, and Jags pretty much everything was american made and most were loud and fast. We had a place near us called Skips. Weekends everybody showed up to street race in the evenings. Lots of cars and lots of wrecks. That was the big problem back then. Kids got behind the wheel of ill handling cars with lots of power and bad things happened.
I was victim of that situation with my first car in the early 70s. I bought a 69 Mustang Boss 302 and one of them late summer mornings going to school had to show off to the kids waiting for the bus and slam some gears only to lose the back end and drift off the road and into an apartment building sideways doing 65 mph. that was the end of my Boss 302. I had made a few more Ford purchases in the next two years and was introduced to my first Mopar. A 74 Challenger Rallye, 360-4 speed and to be followed by a sweet 70 Swinger 340. Been Mopar ever since and still have a 70 Swinger. We had it made back in those days!!:finga: