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OT: You know you are getting old when........

Topsail said:
My joints don’t ache yet but I did watch him and Mr Green Jeans in the 60 s up in the Adirondacks
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Along with Mr. Moose, Bunny rabbit, and Grandfather clock. Was Dancing Bear part of his show, can't remember.
 
McFly said:
My first new car was a left-over '72 Chevy Vega wagon, bought because I was tired of paying for repairs on used cars. A bare bone, manual transmission model with an anemic engine, and I hated it. It couldn't get out of its own way, took forever to get heat in cold weather, and was atrocious in snow. It was, however, mostly reliable, requiring only a heater fan, $10 from a junk, sorry, salvage yard, and 5 minutes to replace, and the driver's side headlight, which for some reason burned out on a regular basis. It cost a grand total of $1,800.

I was talking with a couple of neighbors the other day, and the topic of age came up. I admitted to 83, to which Dave, whom I have known for many years, responded, "gee, you don't look a day over 82."
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My first car was a brand new '78 Chevy Monza wagon which was a rebranded Vega. Rebranded probably because "Vega" had such a good reputation. That car is the reason why I never owned another GM product and never will. I tell people that if GM gave me a free car it wouldn't be love, it would be just making things even.
 
McFly said:
My first new car was a left-over '72 Chevy Vega wagon, bought because I was tired of paying for repairs on used cars. A bare bone, manual transmission model with an anemic engine, and I hated it. It couldn't get out of its own way, took forever to get heat in cold weather, and was atrocious in snow. It was, however, mostly reliable, requiring only a heater fan, $10 from a junk, sorry, salvage yard, and 5 minutes to replace, and the driver's side headlight, which for some reason burned out on a regular basis. It cost a grand total of $1,800.

I was talking with a couple of neighbors the other day, and the topic of age came up. I admitted to 83, to which Dave, whom I have known for many years, responded, "gee, you don't look a day over 82."
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After my first winter, with a trunk full of boxes of sand, I discovered radial tires. I tried rear snows, and felt like I had skis on the front, so I added regular radials to the front. Car was decent after that, without the boxes of sand.
 
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Bald Husky said:
Along with Mr. Moose, Bunny rabbit, and Grandfather clock. Was Dancing Bear part of his show, can't remember.
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Captain Kangaroo also had the Banana Man and the ping pong drop. I don't remember Dancing Bear but that may have been part of the show.
 
This was about 10 years ago. I went to my local ATT store to get a new iPhone. The 20-something behind the register looked up my account online and it apparently had the date that I first got my cell phone and number--sometime in the 90s. Her eyes widened and she said, "Oh my god, you must have gotten one of the first ones ever invented."


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Yes, and I got it at Jo Di's in Hartford.
 
Jackcatscal said:
Mine was a third-hand 1966 Plymouth Valiant.
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My Prince Valiant was a ‘64, two tone white and rust on the outside, blue, mostly, and red plastic inside. Junkyard replacement driver's side door arm rest was red. Cost me $2 plus my labor to remove it from the wreck.

Bought it with about 300k on the odometer, and I swear it didn't burn more than a quart of oil per week. Well…maybe a little more.
 
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Sifaka said:
My Prince Valiant was a ‘64, two tone white and rust on the outside, blue, mostly, and red plastic inside. Junkyard replacement driver's side door arm rest was red. Cost me $2 plus my labor to remove it from the wreck.

Bought it with about 300k on the odometer, and I swear it didn't burn more than a quart of oil per week. Well…maybe a little more.
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Cars of that vintage (my first car was a '64 Dodge Dart convertible with the indestructible 225 slant six - Valiant twin) only had five digit odometers, so anything over 99,999 was an educated guess.
 
Sifaka said:
My Prince Valiant was a ‘64, two tone white and rust on the outside, blue, mostly, and red plastic inside. Junkyard replacement driver's side door arm rest was red. Cost me $2 plus my labor to remove it from the wreck.

Bought it with about 300k on the odometer, and I swear it didn't burn more than a quart of oil per week. Well…maybe a little more.
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The days when you changed the oil every 3000 miles. My brother-in-law and I didn't have to worry about disposing of the old oil, we saved it for my older brother who burned it in his car.
 
Well, I started my orchestra 50 years ago (October)
and they've completely forgotten me.

My wife says; "when are you going to grow up?"

85 last July...Skiing in the Dolomites in January
Surely not the oldest on the "yard" but not far behind.
 
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I know I'm no spring chicken, nor an olde Tom Turkey when I forget the etymology of a perfectly cromulent word like cromulent three times in one week. Must be all the mentions of “[…] a film about the founding father of Springfield, Jebediah Springfield.”. No. Not that Springfield!
 
When my wife and I cannot answer any “Jeopardy” music or television questions post 1975.

Give us The Beatles, Stones, Crystals….77 Sunset Strip, The Fugitive, Bonanza…….
we’re cool.
 
My first car in 1957 was a 1951 Chevrolet “Delux” Convertible - original color “Thistle Grey”. It had a standard 3-speed shift on the column. We drove to football games with three or four young women sitting on top of the rear seat back waving and yelling! No seat belts, of course. By the way, the car cost me $150 when I bought it in perfect condition six years old.
 
My night vision has gone to heck, which my various eye doctors over the years say is just miles on the eyeballs. One of the oddest ways in which I feel old.
 
Funny story. One of the last football games played on campus, it was something like "Military appreciation day". There was a guy, I think National Guard, decked out in fatigues standing next to an enormous Hummer. I said to him "nice truck". He replied "thanks for buying it for me". What got a laugh from people withing ear shot, I said "not a problem, I bought it on credit".
 
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I remember when my father came home from WWII serving in the Navy submarine service in the Pacific. It was in December of 1945 after they put up his sub in mothballs. Gasoline was $0.13 per gallon, bread was a dime and prime rib was $0.19 per pound.
 
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