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Not sure if this has been posted yet or not..great pics.
This is EXACTLY how it was bag in the day.. http://70sstreetmachines.tumblr.com/ |
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This never gets old, if we can only go back in time [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]
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Cool
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I see my picture of my brothers Camaro is in there along with Darren's Blue Camaro as well (I think?)
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Being born in 1970 I was raised in cars like that, so cool
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xplantdad</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I see my picture of my brothers Camaro is in there along with Darren's Blue Camaro as well (I think?) </div></div>
Funny you say that, The last few of these I looked at had an old picture of my 66 straight axle Nova in them. Damn if I know where they found it. This one has a pic of A&M in Marlborough (industrial park) where people used to street race weekends on the access road. That, and there's a pic of my buddy Mikes Chevelle when it was a race car. |
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This picture brings back memories. My older next door neighbor did up a '66 Dodge van which I helped work on it at time and took me and several others to a "Van-In" in Butler PA in '76 or '77. I was 15 at the time.
Drugs, alcohol and sex was rampant at those things. I'm not exaggerating at night you could see(and smell) the haze of pot in the air. I was walking to a porta potty late at night and just looked over and the side doors of this van was open and some guy was just going at it with this woman on the van floor- not a stitch of clothes on either. They both turned and looked at me and just smiled. "When this van is a rockin...". Women were flashing their boobies everywhere. Good times before aids and herpes. Frustrating to say the least at the time to a 15 year old guy. If my ultra religious parents only knew what was going on at those deals.. http://25.media.tumblr.com/991deca66...f10do1_500.jpg |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Not sure if this has been posted yet or not..great pics.
This is EXACTLY how it was bag in the day.. http://70sstreetmachines.tumblr.com/ </div></div> "whitetop great pics. Too Cool. What you learn or saw at 15 years old! You are too cool. |
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And the guy with the glasses is holding a pony Miller Hilife. I haven't seen any of those in a long time.
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Anyone else notice how skinny everyone was back then?
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Great set of photos. This is when muscle cars were fun and not investments. Long gone are the days of walking around a car show shirtless or sitting on a blanket in the grass in front of your car!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markjohnson</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Long gone are the days of walking around a car show shirtless </div></div>
For the men that is. Have you been to a bike show lately? [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif[/img] |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Anyone else notice how skinny everyone was back then? </div></div>
It was the beer serving sizes: the pony Miller Hi-Life bottle, that is. |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xplantdad</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I see my picture of my brothers Camaro is in there along with Darren's Blue Camaro as well (I think?) </div></div>
I recognized several pics that I've seen on here, including a couple of Sam's "Roof" Deuce [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif[/img] Cool stuff whitetop! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] |
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cool site. there's a white Yenko Chevelle on there with an ugly black hood scoop pasted to it...
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Looks like 2 pics of my copo camaro when it was black with the grumpy lump scoop
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Awsome pics, Kept looking for my van, Thanks for the memory lane treat.
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I went back and looked at that link again, and every time I do, it brings back memories of the cars and vans my sister's friends all drove in the 70's, as well as a lot of the magazine cars that I remember so well from pouring over all of those Hot Rods, Car Craft and Super Stock mags from back then as well.
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In case you have all not noticed each time you click on the link not only the picture order changes but 25% of the pictures are new each time and some are deleted.
I'm not familiar with tumbler but is there a way to see all the pics?? |
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I really liked this link.....brought back some good memories. I laughed when I noticed one of the pictures was of my brother and his girlfriend leaning against his 70 Mustang. Picture was taken sometime around 1973 or so.
We teased him and told him Jim Croce wanted his tennis shoes back. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...70_mustang.jpg |
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A friend of mine posted these pictures on another site from Great Lakes Dragaway.
Personally.....these pictures kick ass!!!!!! Kurt https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...3590909681.jpg https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...3590909551.jpg https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...3590909431.jpg https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...3590909311.jpg https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...3590909161.jpg https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...3590908871.jpg |
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I got to witness and be part of many sights like this growing up.
What a great time. |
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https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2418-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2419-image.jpg These are great shots. Would love to have this vega. Marty |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 69 Post Sedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I really liked this link.....brought back some good memories. I laughed when I noticed one of the pictures was of my brother and his girlfriend leaning against his 70 Mustang. Picture was taken sometime around 1973 or so.
</div></div> Did they ever get hitched? One thing I like about Hemmings Muscle Machines it's usually brought up frequently in the feature car articles where the guys speak of their girlfriend who drove around with them back in the day and are now their wife of many years. I don't see any other magazines doing this...the human interest side of the hobby. Looking at the pics the tumbler site I wonder what the people are doing today, are they still alive, did they ever get married to the girl in the pic, are they still into cars etc. |
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No, he's not with her anymore.
I'm with you that the pictures move all around on that link. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img] Kurt |
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Most of the guys that were my dads friends back in the 70's are long gone. The few that remain are still car guys, but they have turned into "gold chainers" who sit in their folding chairs at cruise ins and go home at 8.30.
I told my kids if I ever turn into one of those guys, they are to make me sell all my stuff and put me on a park bench. Kurt.. you can click on the archive button in the upper, left hand corner, and it will bring up thumb nails of all the pictures. They are in order by date. Click on each thumb nail to enlarge. |
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I was born in 1963
And I grew up next to a parkway I remember The cars racing at night and losing control And hitting the light poles and trees ... ( street racing up there almost every night in the summertime . Most of my friends older brothers had muscle cars Or one modified into a street machine It was. A great time to grow up ...... ( I like the yenko vega picture with the lboy in The snorkle jacket I had the same coat back then..) |
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HOLY HELL! I am in love with the look of this 70!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/d090a3df1...10do1_1280.jpg This Corvette looks badass! Wish there were more pics of it. http://24.media.tumblr.com/efdc7c287...10do1_1280.jpg |
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are those NY license plates on the 70 very cool picture
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hemicolt</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I got to witness and be part of many sights like this growing up.
What a great time. </div></div> Been there hundreds of times. But we were too poor to have the engine crane, it was 2x6s, chain, and come-a-longs. I remember putting Muncies together with a flashlight so we could drive that night... |
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I wish I had enough sense to carry a camera with me on the hundreds of Friday and Saturday nights we spent cruising Porky's and the Sun Drive in, Hennipen Ave, Excelsior Blvd, Snelling Ave, etc in Mpls and St. Paul in the 70's and 80's. The thousands of cars that attended would be so neat to look at now.
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Wow, great site that brings back a bunch of memories of good times being a teen in the 70's.
Anybody notice how "pie eyed" some of the guys and gals looked in some of these pictures. As Rick said above, if we were only smart enough to take a camera! There is a youtube video that I stumbled upon titled "Cruising Forest Lane Dallas-1977" that was taken by some guys that did bring a camera and it really could have been filmed anywhere in that time as we pretty much did the same things here in the Midwest. I apologize for not linking the video (computer illiterate)but if someone could, it would be much appreciated.......Scot |
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Yes, that is the one Kurt! Thanks for posting it!
The quality is pretty bad with no sound sometimes but some of the cars are pretty cool! |
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Here's a few from my area... Taken in Mid 80's, a bit later but still pretty cool!
Red 67 RS.... 327, TH-350,3:73's, N-50's (Pro Trac & Belted TA's),Lakewoods,header glass packs 71 Nova.... 66 327, M-22, 4:88's, ET mags, Lakewoods, glass pack header muffs, no inner fenders, never seen it with a hood on! My 68...327 Glide, 4:10's, lakewoods, header Muffs, American Dragmaster (magnesium) fronts, Crager's L-60's M/T's All three street raced, often ...When they stayed together long enough! BIG |
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I think EVERY town had a 68-74 Nova that looked exactly like this when I was a teenager in the 1980s.
http://70sstreetmachines.tumblr.com/image/40042124267 |
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Ton's of new pics added. The site also has a "archive section" so you can see all the pics.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/c06af2728...10do1_1280.jpg |
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