Thread: who do you think grew up in the best generation

and the drive in movies, parking in the back row in the panel van backwards with a mattrise and the back window up and no one could see in to see what was happening you and half a dozen friends a few beers , what a night out they were, then there was the midnight movies

Originally Posted by richard4u2

and the drive in movies, parking in the back row in the panel van backwards with a mattrise and the back window up and no one could see in to see what was happening you and half a dozen friends a few beers , what a night out they were, then there was the midnight movies

Three day rock concerts, sleeping in the hay bales, waking up to find some sausages and eggs, or something/someone to eat for breakfast. Hitchhiking everywhere.

The best generation is the one you grow up in. You don't have a choice.

The grass is always greener and it would be easy to do an analytical piece on the pluses and minuses of all that has gone past, we have to live in the present and make the most of what we have.

I think the free love generation despite the nuclear bomb/cold war would have been good to have grown up in. This was the time when we had most of the infectious diseases issues sorted.

The here and now applies to all generations, the age of asbestos induced mesothelioma, depression and suicide, carbon warming and radical terrorists. I wonder how people will look back on these times in the future

Originally Posted by D-Fender

I wish I was born when all the old cars weren't old, like Kingswoods and stuff.

You obviously did not get your legs burnt by the vinyl on the seats in summer or live through the non a/c days of hot sweaty travel.

You obviously did not get your legs burnt by the vinyl on the seats in summer or live through the non a/c days of hot sweaty travel. 23rd December 2009 09:02 AM

Thatr's what beach towels are for.

I remember driving around in an XA GT hardtop all day one January 72? in Brisbane with some friends because it was the first car I drove with aircon.
working for Ford Australia was great that day.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by slug_burner

You obviously did not get your legs burnt by the vinyl on the seats in summer or live through the non a/c days of hot sweaty travel.

When I was a kid (since I was born to about age 12) my family had an old Humber and Holden Premier. And when I was little I was nearly always wearing shorts, ohh it burned, until the beach towel found it's way onto the seat.

Still then with the beach towel, the edge of the seat (the seam I think) still managed to get the back of my legs.

Those days, those black plastic shade thingys on the back window of the Premier were a godsend (even for what little shading they did).

Nothing was worse than having to touch the chrome door handles to open the door on the toasty day. Oh, and putting my arm on the windowsill of the car, that usually got a swearword out of me.

Oh the memories. Good times, good times

Cars of that era generally had smaller glass areas and the windows were more upright than todays cars. Even EKs with their wraparound windscreen let in little compared to the glass houses people drive today. I don't remember burning my legs in the HT, but Dad would leave the windows down (it's probably illegal now).

Wanting to be born in a different era is like wanting different parents, or wanting to live in outer space, you can dream but you have to accept what you get eventually, even if it takes a while.

Jeff

Originally Posted by Bearman

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6. We collected old drink bottles and cashed them in at the corner store and bought lollies with the money.

We also used to bundle up newspapers and sell them to the butcher.