How do you know if you are old?

[LennG]

How many of these (and if any more) do you remember?


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[Sem]

All of them. I guess I'm old.



A few more....

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I must really be old, because some of those things I've used in the last year or so - the the car keys. I remember like it was yesterday when I had a separate key for the ignition and one for the trunk - no electronic automatic anything

Quick question: Is Vick's Vapor Rub no longer sold? That surprised me

As a kid, we had very few toys compared to kids of today. Nothing electronic of course. We used to do battle with the neighbor kids on empty 50 gallon barrels (walk backwards to go forward, spin, whatever it took to knock the other kid off their barrel). I also had stilts made from a split two-by-four as did my brother and we'd do battle on those things to knocck the other off his stilts. And my favorite toy as a little kid was a Tonka truck that was made out of steel. Mine was a Jeep pickup and I tied baler twine to it and dragged it all over the farm. We didn't have much money



I'm so old, I can still remember the smell of the interior of my Dad's '52 Nash Ambassador - not a good smell

Here's a few more

I used to love going to the Green Stamp Store and browsing. It's where I got my baseball glove and a few other things



And every car I owned for 30 years had these on the floor


And this one has been talked to death on this board


When I was 18, I had a '68 Road Runner and a stack of 8-track tapes for the unit under the dash

[kartanoman]

I know I'm old. Even if I'm not as old as some of you, I either had or had friends who had all of the items in the pictures.

I really loved that "corn popper" push toy when I was small. Managed to get one for my youngest daughter almost 10 years ago.

Peace!

[Crypto Fareez]

If there are pictures of you that are black and white you are old . Every day is a blessing. So many people I knew died way too early. They would love to be old and not dead.

[Ed Vette]

I must really be old, because some of those things I've used in the last year or so - the the car keys. I remember like it was yesterday when I had a separate key for the ignition and one for the trunk - no electronic automatic anything

Quick question: Is Vick's Vapor Rub no longer sold? That surprised me

As a kid, we had very few toys compared to kids of today. Nothing electronic of course. We used to do battle with the neighbor kids on empty 50 gallon barrels (walk backwards to go forward, spin, whatever it took to knock the other kid off their barrel). I also had stilts made from a split two-by-four as did my brother and we'd do battle on those things to knocck the other off his stilts. And my favorite toy as a little kid was a Tonka truck that was made out of steel. Mine was a Jeep pickup and I tied baler twine to it and dragged it all over the farm. We didn't have much money



I'm so old, I can still remember the smell of the interior of my Dad's '52 Nash Ambassador - not a good smell

Here's a few more

I used to love going to the Green Stamp Store and browsing. It's where I got my baseball glove and a few other things



And every car I owned for 30 years had these on the floor


And this one has been talked to death on this board


When I was 18, I had a '68 Road Runner and a stack of 8-track tapes for the unit under the dash

I had a '69 Roadrunner and a quad stereo 8 Track player that was the best music system I ever had in a car. Each of the four speakers would play different instruments or so it sounded. I still remember listening to Frankenstein by Edgar Winters and the lighting sound moving around the speakers. That was a great album. I still say that 8 Tracks sounded better than cassettes. I still have tapes in a tub in the attic. The RR had a 383 custom built by North Jersey Performance. 535 HP at the rear wheels Dyno tested. It came with a 318 rear and a 295 first gear. The top end jumped like a tiger in third gear. Later I put in a 457 rear and I had to make modifications to keep the engine torgue from ripping out the drive shaft. Lol Then I put the motor in a '68 Baracuda because it was "800 lighter". I had to weld the engine to the motor mounts!

[T200]

If there are pictures of you that are black and white you are old . Every day is a blessing. So many people I knew died way too early. They would love to be old and not dead.

When people say, "I'm old," I say, "It's better to be old than dead."

[Jolly Blue Giant]

When people say, "I'm old," I say, "It's better to be old than dead."

As a long time genealogist, I have visited hundreds of cemeteries for research and documentation. There's one large cemetery that I've been to a few times that always makes me laugh. At the entrance is a large welcoming sign made of granite like the headstones, that says: "Never complain about the aches and pains that come with old age, this place of full of people who never got that chance"

[Jolly Blue Giant]

I had a '69 Roadrunner and a quad stereo 8 Track player that was the best music system I ever had in a car. Each of the four speakers would play different instruments or so it sounded. I still remember listening to Frankenstein by Edgar Winters and the lighting sound moving around the speakers. That was a great album. I still say that 8 Tracks sounded better than cassettes. I still have tapes in a tub in the attic. The RR had a 383 custom built by North Jersey Performance. 535 HP at the rear wheels Dyno tested. It came with a 318 rear and a 295 first gear. The top end jumped like a tiger in third gear. Later I put in a 457 rear and I had to make modifications to keep the engine torgue from ripping out the drive shaft. Lol Then I put the motor in a '68 Baracuda because it was "800 lighter". I had to weld the engine to the motor mounts!

Wow Ed, we share some strong history. When I was 18, I had a white '68 Roadrunner with a doctored up 383 (dual-feed Holley 4150; Isky 3/4 race cam; Isky "hi-rev" series hydraulic lifters (worked like solid lifters, but didn't need constant adjusting); 391 rear end; etc.) with L60 rear tires - 4-speed with a Hurst shifter and a heavy-duty clutch. I took it to the track and turned in the high 11s. Loved that car. Then I wrecked it and am lucky to be able to tell the story as the car was pretty much disintegrated on impact. Black ice and bang-shifting do not go together at all. And of course I had an 8-track and was blasting Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath" when the car went airborne, having just bought the new Aqualung tape. I replaced that with a 1969 GTX 440, then a '72 Triumph TR6 (a short stage in my life), then a '71 Cuda 318 c.i., that my wife made me sell because it was too hard to put the baby in a carseat in the back. I wish I had all of those cars stored away in a barn somewhere 

My first car when I was 16, was a '64 Chevelle with a 283 c.i. engine with power-pack heads and a 4 barrel and a Hurst 3-speed shifter on the floor. Funny thing, if I was to ever rebuild a classic car...it would be that one. Probably because of the nostalgia of my first car

My 68 Roadrunner was really my pride and joy though. Having the hottest car in town while a senior in high school was a chick magnet. Closest competition from other guys in school was a jet black '66 SS Chevelle, a '68 Camaro, and a '66 fastback Mustang. What a difference from schools today. When I was in HS, a lot of kids had cars and a few like myself had muscle cars.

[MightyGiants]

How I know I am old:

Far too frequently, I wake up and think, "I don't recall that hurting before"    

[bamagiantfan]

I must be old because I remember,

Rolling up the windows in the car
Dialing a rotary phone (and the party line)
Using the outhouse at the family farm.
Lighting the oven with a match
Using a cane pole fishing
Teatherball
Lawn Darts
Using a push mower that was not powered
Collecting Stamps
Clipping Coupons
Covering my textbooks with paper shopping bags
The Senators, Expos, and Supersonics.
When baseball gloves were a little bit bigger than....well.....a glove.
Having channels 2(CBS), 4(NBC), 5(WNEW), 7(ABC), 9(WOR), 11(WPIX), and 13(WNET). That's it.
Watching Abbott and Costello movies after church.
Opening the front door to get the milk out of the milk box each morning
Walking to school

......and that's just off the top of my head.

[MightyGiants]

On the car front (and to circle back to the, knowing you're old), on one of my walks, I was excited to see the same make and model as the first new car I ever bought (a 1985 Ford Thunderbird) a couple of years ago.  That excitement faded as I got to see the "classic car" license plates 

[Jolly Blue Giant]

On the car front (and to circle back to the, knowing you're old), on one of my walks, I was excited to see the same make and model as the first new car I ever bought (a 1985 Ford Thunderbird) a couple of years ago.  That excitement faded as I got to see the "classic car" license plates 

don't quote me on this, but I've always heard that a car that is at least 25 years old, is considered a classic or antique based on insurance adjusters

[MightyGiants]

don't quote me on this, but I've always heard that a car that is at least 25 years old, is considered a classic or antique based on insurance adjusters

In NJ


Historic and Street Rod
To be considered a historic vehicle, the vehicle must be at least 25 years old and only used for exhibition and educational purposes by the owner. Historic plates can be purchased for $44.


https://www.nj.gov/mvc/vehicles/historic.htm

[bamagiantfan]

I have a 1993 Chevy pickup that is used to exhibit my frugality, and educate my children on how to save money by avoiding car payments and start a car without a key fob.