I'm so old I Remember when:

[tranquiliti]

You don’t wanna know. But if you know - then you know.

#smh

 

[jxp]

The Pinto.

Caught fire when it was rear-ended due to the design of the gas tank. A pea soup green one was my first car. I kept it until the day I was making a sharp (but not fast) left turn and the passenger door flew open. My best friend since 7th grade went rolling out onto the pavement clutching onto her 3 month old. That car went to someone with more tools and time than a teenage young lady and within a week I had my second car - a sunshine yellow firebird.

 

[jxp]

I've never had a vehicle that a CD player came standard. I did have one that had a cassette player.

It's nice to be able to walk down the side of a road without seeing ruined cassette tapes laying everywhere.

My '17 VW GTI has a CD player tucked in the glove box and 3 different places with USB ports.

 

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My '17 VW GTI has a CD player tucked in the glove box and 3 different places with USB ports.

Get this…One thing I still don’t understand is why some cars and trucks have the amp tucked away inside over back wheels in the trunk. It just seems stupid to me.

And by that…I mean tucked away underneath/within the body* that has potential of getting damaged.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[R2elk]

 

[jxp]

I remember Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

I remember Wolfman Jack and the Midnight Special.

I remember Click and Clack, the Car Talk brothers.

 

[jxp]

It was basically a scam, but it involved ordering music via snail mail.

I enjoyed the albums I got from Columbia House. They had Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, Journey, and a lot of other good bands. I was super bummed, however, when I found out they didn't have ANY Bob Seger.

 

[jxp]

I loved my plastic animals! I had a wooden doll house that they all lived in. I never thought of them as “just animals”, they were always animals with human abilities. They were governed by a sort of communist system - there was the leader, named Stag, who was a benevolent dictator and ruled justly but also told everyone exactly what they were doing that day. The interesting thing is I came up with this on my own at three years old as the best form of government !

"All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others."

 

[jxp]

Am I the only person who still calls it an Ice Box?

Nope.