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Princess Valiant

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Why can't time machines be commercially available??

If I could get my hands on one, i would go straight to October 31 2003.

I had just got the keys to a 74 duster with a slant six. Headed to a Halloween party dressed as minnie mouse with my friend who had a 70 Swinger 340.

I would have never thought in those youthful high school high school days would be forever imprinted in my mind as the best times of my whole life and thinking about them now 16/17 years later would be like a high and those days now feel like a distant land that I can see, I can taste, I can smell, I can feel, but I can't reach.

Everything is different, I sold my old 74 duster (i'm a dumbass) and it got parted out and scrapped by the guy i sold it to. My friend with the swinger 340 passed away while I was in college and his car went to an ebay auction by his family to never be seen again. There is nothing left from those days, only a memory and that is even in danger of being lost because I have forgotten so many details of those times and replaced those memories with thoughts to function in the rat race of today.

I wish I knew what I know now
In college I found a lot of sweet dusters and darts, I could go on for days

 
Because that's not how it works.

Who we were, what we've done. Those are the things that make us who we are now.

There are no short cuts.

You got to screw up, loose some, win some to become the person you are now.

With out all that there is nothing.

While time heals, it also fades the pages in our book. Even the realy good pages will fade in the end.

That's just the way it is. Enjoy every day, and dont try and live in the past. There's nothing there.
 
I would go back to 1973 and buy a 69 Hemi Daytona and 70 Hemi Superbird off a used car lot on the cheap.
 
I know what you mean. There is alot of things I'd love to go back and do over. Starting with my education and my career choices. And just go back and enjoy my youth. I was such in a rush to grow up and be an adult I missed it all. I moved out when I was 17 got married at 19 and had a baby by 21. It was such a blur. Now I'm 34 I have a 13 year old kid and I'm wondering where the hell the time went??
 
That being said. I wouldn't change a thing thi because everything I did lead up to what I have now. I love my family my wife and my kids. And I wouldn't change anything about that. I just wish it would all slow down. I do wish I could change my financial situation and my career choice without changing the rest of it. Lol
 
Reminds me of a Simpson episode when Homer goes back in time and kills a mosquito ..and it changes everything ... I'd love to change my screw ups, but not change where I'm at today.. (gotta love Homer)

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Our past, good & bad shapes us into who we are today.

The question is, what are we going to do next? :)

Something fun with cars I hope?

Sure, why not.
 
:rolleyes: You remember what was there once and now is gone, But as long as you dont forget and still have your hand in the cookie jar, stay there and enjoy the cookies......
 
slow down.i wish..my son turned 27 in January.
I spent my whole life fixing other peoples stuff,its time for payback.a lifetime of tools and skills ,very little of which I use for myself.that is slowly changing.my only hope is I can accomplish what I want to before time runs out. it will run out for all of us.i just hope I made a difference.
 
Your time machine now is the little things that bring back those memories. Every now and then, I’ll get a whiff of a candle burning inside of a pumpkin, see a bike with a banana seat, talk to an old friend who says “remember when we did that”, hear a long forgotten song on the radio, and it takes me back to those times. I remember hitchhiking to my first concert, Kiss Alive 2, and having to hitchhike back home at 2:30am....oh, the good old days!
 
I think about the good old days more often now, time is flying, sometimes I boar my family and friends with stories from the good old days. Being a car guy most of my memories includes one, someone will ask me remember Danny and I'll say like yea he had a 70 chevelle. I sure miss those days and wish life was that simple again, but as time marches on more memories are made.
 
Tonight I remembered the name of a restaurant I used to go to as a child. I had been trying to remember the name for two years, and it came back to me talking about the past. I may as well have been in a time machine, as my mind went racing back to all those years ago like I was right there myself. What a trip.
 
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Tonight I remembered the name of a restaurant I used to go to as a child. I had been trying to remember the name for two years, and it came back to me talking about the past. I may as well have been in a time machine, as my mind went racing back to all those years ago like I was right there myself. What a trip.

Pick me up an order of whatever you’re having!! :)
 
Time machine = an A12 4 speed F6 Super Bee. And a 1970 Charger R/T Plum Crazy 440 4 speed, sunroof car.
 
Of course even if such technology (as the machine) existed, you could never do so. Because ANY interaction you do, say, etc will effect the "space time continuum". And it would change the future forever. In fact, it might change the future (your present) so much, you might not even be able to return.
 
A person’s life is a tapestry created by experiences and events, which include failures and missed opportunities. To go back in time and pull on the loose threads in an attempt to clean it up and make it better will only result in the entire thing unraveling.

We are who we are as a result of who we have been and what we experienced...warts and all.

The best time in our lives we can experience is right now, because we have no other alternative.

I don’t want to go back in time. I just want more time in the future.
 
I love many of my memories but I enjoy making new ones.

Be a Racer. Once a race, a lap or even one corner is complete it’s behind you.

Look where you are going, know where you are and understand where you came from.

You... we... are blessed that we have wonderful memories and people in our lives to share them.
 
I love many of my memories but I enjoy making new ones.

Be a Racer. Once a race, a lap or even one corner is complete it’s behind you.

Look where you are going, know where you are and understand where you came from.

You... we... are blessed that we have wonderful memories and people in our lives to share them.

Or a hell of a bunch of bad ones !!
 
I restored a buddies Cuda grille over the last couple days, I owned the car back in 1986 and painted the grille a darker argent silver, now here I am redoing it 33 years later, what a time machine!
 
Pictures? Helps with the memories
 
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