50 is old enough to justify having an opinion, but it's still purt' danged young.
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ROFLMAO !!
I recall - oh do I, I was about yeah high.
One of the Mentors and Elders , tall, lanky, brown skinned from the sun, was holding onto me so I would not fall into the truck headfirst [again] while I was being skooled on Spark Plug replacment. Straight Sixes allowed a lot of room to change plugs, also a lot of room for a kid to slip off a small ladder and get "Whomper-Jawed" and not get get back up.
Just grab "holt" of the tennis shoes and pull....
The 50 year old fella , laughing his butt off, was kinfolk, Son-In-Law. Was spouting off about a Front wheel drive Tornado he had driven. How the word was someday all cars would be front wheel drive and Be a Better Design.
I got the plugs in, boots on, wires tucked away. SIL was told he had a right to his opinion - even if he was wrong. Then the topic went just how 'whompered- jawed' I could get under the hood of a Riveria or Tornado...
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Just raised to keep it simple , fads come and go, the classics are called classics for a reason.
Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop...The Rat Pack was cool and still are.
Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Wm Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin...etc....same deal.
Hell when you got it - you just flat got it.
Always liked Ann Margaret, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollibridada, Kathryn Ross, and there will never be another Katharine Hepburn.
Just too many folks with classic persona's, in so many genre's to list.
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Life is Ironic, just downright funny. I changed plus in my truck not long ago. 4.3L a V6. Okay being bigger, I ain't gonna fall into it. Then again so much crap under the hood I couldn't anyway. I was smart, oh yeah, I had an extra spark plug socket and wrench in back pocket so when I dropped it, I could just continue on without having to retrieve it.
It was easier when I was littler, to get under a vehicle to retrieve stuff as I noticed later. Then agan some stuff don't change - a spark plug socket will end up just fingertips reach away to get. Guess that is why my Mentors kept a busted broom handle handy when working on stuff.
How the word was someday all cars would be front wheel drive and Be a Better Design.
I always thought a front wheel drive top fuel dragster would be uhhh, interesting.
OK, I'll admit it, I'm not quite the hell raiser I used to be. Other than that...I admit to nothing else.
One of the Mentors and Elders , tall, lanky, brown skinned from the sun, was holding onto me so I would not fall into the truck headfirst [again] while I was being skooled on Spark Plug replacment. Straight Sixes allowed a lot of room to change plugs,
You see, you went about it all backwards. Don't you know you're supposed to climb in and then just stand on the ground.
someday all cars would be front wheel drive and Be a Better Design
Maybe more efficient, but better I'm not sure. The feeling when that rear end pitched when you stomped the gas on a big V8 was something special.
Always liked Ann Margaret, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollibridada, Kathryn Ross, and there will never be another Katharine Hepburn.
That group has to include Lauren Bacall. Otherwise Bogie's just a guy in a fedora
In college, I wasn't into binge drinking so much as sitting and enjoying good company and fine spirits.
True, but that time you got so drunk that you thought you could play Bubble Bobble while sitting inverted on the couch was pretty darn funny.
Just picture feet waving in the air in time to a poor whistling rendition of the theme song and the little dinosaur spitting bubbles harmlessly into the wall while the monsters roamed the screen in complete safety.