I Feel Like a Human Antique Today...

[hnooe]

When the rain cleared yesterday, Q and I rode bikes to the annual Rosemary Beach Antique Car Show. I reminisced about going to those things with my Dad, back in Jersey when I was just a kid, and looking at the musky relics being shown off by even muskier relics, their owners, and thinking "golly gosh..folks lived back then without power windows ??"

Looking at the now classic 1969 Skylark GS, a frieghtening thought occurred to me... I was around, and even rode in 3 out of the 4 cards NOW being shown in this antiques car show, and the geezers showing them off and polishing them are MY AGE!!!

I guess I will soon be in the Rosemary Beach Antique Peoples Show next year. They will surround me with shiny brass stanchions and ropes, and I will have to sit there, as an antique human specimen, wearing a sign pointing to the fact that growing up my family had a rotory telephone, test at school were "mimeographed," not xeroxed, and cell phones were how criminals in jail use to get a hold of their relatives.

Gosh I am old. (note: do not pay attention to any responses on this post from swgb).

 

[GoodWitch58]

are you looking for some sympathy this morning, my friend?

 

[scooterbug44]

Boo-freaking-hoo - I am a "classic" car too and I'm a spring chicken (albeit one who knows what mimeographed means)!

 

[Susan Horn]

Boo-freaking-hoo - I am a "classic" car too and I'm a spring chicken (albeit one who knows what mimeographed means)!

I remember the thrill when I was allowed, finally, to run off our high school newspaper on the black and white mimeo machine instead of the purple one. And the HOURS it took to get the stencils right before I could start cranking the handle. Manually collating and stapling. Wow. We are OLD.

Remember when Coke bottles were heavy glass and showed signs of wear because they were actually re-used repeatedly? Nickel deposits, wooden casesfor retrning the empties, all that?

Anybody old enough to remember twice-weekly milk delivery, of cold local milk in glass bottles with cardboard and foil tops?

What was your first car? I learned to drive in the longest Electra 225 ever made -- a true land yacht. But the first car I remember riding in, well it's a tie (not too clear on those early dates) between a Studebaker (my grandfather's) and a VW beetle named Clyde. I feel myself fossilizing.

 

[Miss Kitty]

Boo-freaking-hoo - I am a "classic" car too and I'm a spring chicken (albeit one who knows what mimeographed means)!

...someone call the Classic Waaaaaaaaambulance!

 

[Just_In_Thyme]

It hit me when a coworker of mine asked me "what do you call those things that spin around and you put something on it to get music?"
I thought he was joking. A record? Yeah, that's it. He had never seen one before.

 

[Lynnie]

We were xeroxing, but we'd also get a 'buzz' from the fresh wet ink on our test papers. It's amazing we even passed our tests, we were so high.

Granny got co-colas delivered in the wooden crate - 6.5 oz. bottles. One case/week unless it was summer, then she got two cases per week because we never drank water unless it was out of the garden hose. The bottles also had the name of the state molded into the glass - on the bottom.

Duece and a Quarter - American Classic!
;-)

 

[Cheering472]

Ahh the memories. I grew up around car shows and gear heads. I learned to drive in an old Corvair with a push button system instead of a gear shift for the transmission. I spent alot of my teenage years riding around in a 1969 Camaro and later in a 1973 Nova. You can't go into a car show without seeing a car like them.

I actually like the really old cars. We still have my Daddy's old car collection that he spent hours rebuilding. He had a 1960-something Cadillac convertible that still looks new even though I remember eating ice cream in the back seat as a little girl. His pride and joy was his 1937 Cadillac Lasalle. He put that in every car show in town.

 

[KISH7374]

Does anybody else remember the old Coke machines? There were 2 different kinds. The upright ones where you put the money in and had to pull the bottle out and the ones where the bottles hung by their caps and you had to slide them along the tracks to get them to the end. My first car was a 1965 Ford Galexy 500 2 door. I had mag wheels on it and a hood scoop. I thought that was really cool.

 

[Will B]

My car is only three years yoounger than me. I'm a '63 model. My car is a '66 red Mustang. No need to feel like an antique, Hnooe!