Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21948349)

Coin operated gas pumps! Yes Gas Was That Cheap!

http://i.imgur.com/ZKyDeee.jpg

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark (Post 21948400)

Except that it wasn't really that cheap.

Cars like that used alot more gasoline to get from here to there. The lead in the gasoline was choking the world, and there have been at least 5 wars fought over oil. The hidden costs let you pay pennies at the pump, while the rest of the world paid with extreme pollution and death.

Dreaming for the days of old may give you a warm-fuzzy, but you're lying to yourself if you think those days were better than today.

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21948349)

Coin operated gas pumps! Yes Gas Was That Cheap!

http://i.imgur.com/ZKyDeee.jpg

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam (Post 21948571)

Those cars cost like $3,200.00 same car today $28,000 maybe.
Granted, the cars rusted out in 3 years LOL that '64 ford had holes in the rear floor boards by 1966. MAGA (again) ROFLMAO

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21948637)

I paid $50 for my first car. I bought it in the late 50s but the car was 3 years old and had only 15k miles.

There was no rust... no holes... the engine was 100% user serviceable... I could lay down in the back seat and stretch out

I didn't need to have insurance... Sand was used in winter instead of salt... etc etc

Here's some more horror for you,
In 1965 I bought my first house for apx $9k and managed to pay it off within 3 years.

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark (Post 21948400)

Except that it wasn't really that cheap.

Cars like that used alot more gasoline to get from here to there. The lead in the gasoline was choking the world, and there have been at least 5 wars fought over oil. The hidden costs let you pay pennies at the pump, while the rest of the world paid with extreme pollution and death.

Dreaming for the days of old may give you a warm-fuzzy, but you're lying to yourself if you think those days were better than today.

Originally Posted by Grapesoda (Post 21948784)

you're a total buzz kill are 't ya?

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21948502)

Oh go play with your ecosexual faggots! You know absolutely fuck all about that era because you hadn't even evolved into a sperm inside your father's testicles back then.

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21951448)

I've got a bag of pot seeds from the 1960s. I'd love to plant them but I've been clean and sober for several decades and that includes pot. Plus my tomato plants take up most of my garden.

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21951448)

I've got a bag of pot seeds from the 1960s. I'd love to plant them but I've been clean and sober for several decades and that includes pot. Plus my tomato plants take up most of my garden.

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam (Post 21948571)

Those cars cost like $3,200.00 same car today $28,000 maybe.
Granted, the cars rusted out in 3 years LOL that '64 ford had holes in the rear floor boards by 1966. MAGA (again) ROFLMAO

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21951448)

I've got a bag of pot seeds from the 1960s. I'd love to plant them but I've been clean and sober for several decades and that includes pot. Plus my tomato plants take up most of my garden.

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 21951559)

Cars don't rust out in places like California, Arizona, Nevada . . .

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 21951559)

Send them to me, I will germinate them and see what happens.

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21948637)

I paid $50 for my first car. I bought it in the late 50s but the car was 3 years old and had only 15k miles.

There was no rust... no holes... the engine was 100% user serviceable... I could lay down in the back seat and stretch out

I didn't need to have insurance... Sand was used in winter instead of salt... etc etc

Here's some more horror for you,
In 1965 I bought my first house for apx $9k and managed to pay it off within 3 years.

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark (Post 21948400)

Except that it wasn't really that cheap.

Cars like that used alot more gasoline to get from here to there. The lead in the gasoline was choking the world, and there have been at least 5 wars fought over oil. The hidden costs let you pay pennies at the pump, while the rest of the world paid with extreme pollution and death.

Dreaming for the days of old may give you a warm-fuzzy, but you're lying to yourself if you think those days were better than today.

Originally Posted by slapass (Post 21951577)

I bet it went another two years before crapping out. Cars today are so much better and I think that is beyond debate.

Originally Posted by EddyTheDog (Post 21948649)

Damn - You are even older than me...

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21951670)

Nice try little one.

It was a 1956 Studebaker and I sold it in spring of 75 and if I remember I had racked up more than 500k miles on it. The interior was a little more than worn but the body and engine were still going strong. Albeit it could have used a new paint job.

Now you can go back with all those idiotic geeks that worship the plastic god. You probably can't even change your own oil and one of these twits that wouldn't be able to parallel park even if your life depended on it.

Originally Posted by slapass (Post 21951835)

I owned pieces,of shot like you are talking about. I have changed a transmission and done all of that stupid shit we pretty much no longer have to do.

Originally Posted by slapass (Post 21951844)

You can pretend all you want. The old days were fucking hell.

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21951955)

Changing an automatic transmission on pretty much any car built prior to 1985 isn't all that hard. But on the other hand rebuilding one or redesigning the gear ratios takes craftsmanship.

As for "Not" having to repair modern vehicles that's just pure bullshit.



I was there....On the other hand YOU WERE NOT. So you don't know fuck all about what you're talking about.

But rest assure that there was the same disproportionate amount of morons that didn't know how to wipe their own asses and whined about everything including having to exercise a little responsibility for the things in their lives.

You can say whatever you want about the past but I assure you it was a paradise compared to today because if for no other reason was that back in my day morons usually ended up proving Darwin was right. -- So take notice of how old I am.

Originally Posted by bronco67 (Post 21951976)

If you jump into the Grand Canyon there's a wormhole at the bottom which spits you out in whatever time you thought was the greatest in your life, so you can experience the greatness again as an older, wiser person. In your case, only older.

Originally Posted by notinmybackyard (Post 21948349)

Coin operated gas pumps! Yes Gas Was That Cheap!

http://i.imgur.com/ZKyDeee.jpg

Originally Posted by 2MuchMark (Post 21948400)

Except that it wasn't really that cheap.

Cars like that used alot more gasoline to get from here to there. The lead in the gasoline was choking the world, and there have been at least 5 wars fought over oil. The hidden costs let you pay pennies at the pump, while the rest of the world paid with extreme pollution and death.

Dreaming for the days of old may give you a warm-fuzzy, but you're lying to yourself if you think those days were better than today.