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

Originally Posted by richard4u2

ahhhhh the late 50's and 60's those times will never come around , ever you could catch a feed of fish from the ocean anywhere camp on the side of the road no matter what journey you were on with out any fear or worries

Add the late 40's and early 50's to that and you are spot on.
At most about 7 million people, no toll's, no permits required.
National service was great. We had 34 Fords and MG TC's, 56
Triumph Thunderbirds and the Easter bike races at Bathurst,
Bill Haley and Johny Ray and the big shows at the Stadium.
Oh and Chief Little Wolf and Willy Fennel.

Today is CRAP, believe me !!!

And no-one mentioned Sunday Sessions????

Me? born in 1961 and enjoyed growing up in country Victoria and Seaside Brisvegas. Just missed out on cheap fuel, first car was an XP 2door before they were in vogue, who needed a 4wd with that much clearance!

Compared to my kids and their playstations and satellite TV...I know...I got it for them...I never spent much time inside a house when I was growing up either bikes and flying...girls didn't even enter the picture to way after I started working...My bikes got motors and went faster and faster...and the crashes and the pain got bigger and bigger...I got a job looking for oil and they paid me so much that the future looked so bright I had to wear shades...the world would never end....hahahbloodyha... I bought a truck and that was the end of all that. no more bikes, no more flying and back to crap cars...I think my Disco is some sort of mid-life crisis...thank gawd!...A Girl a family and not much bucks to spare but...wouldn't swap it for quids....yet my Dad always worries for us because his life was simpler with more promise to get ahead. Hard life for him..left school in grade6 to work in his Dad's timber mill..he was running it at 13 with men working for him heaps older. He just missed out on Korea and too old for Viet-Nam and I was just too young for that by more than a few years. His childhood was in the bush of the pioneers. Gold mines and selections and land ballots. They literally cut a farm from the bush up the Rose River..still there today...although I get a kick every time Dad tells me about this steep grade out of the property that only Thornycroft tank transporters could ever make it out with a descent load of timber..When I see it as an adult I just laugh so hard. My Trucks would not even get into low gear on them, but that's progress.