So 70s
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From: Brights Grove,Ont. Canada
Thanks AX. Forgot about the don't come knocking. I wonder how many of those saying were put on plates ?
I did pick up the drink holders for the engine cover at the last swapmet I was at. And the season is just starting again for around here.
Still have my old turbines with BF Goodrich TAs on them up in storage in the garage....
I'll have to write all these items down in my swapmeet note pad. Thanks again all for your thoughts.
Grg M-47
I did pick up the drink holders for the engine cover at the last swapmet I was at. And the season is just starting again for around here.
Still have my old turbines with BF Goodrich TAs on them up in storage in the garage....
I'll have to write all these items down in my swapmeet note pad. Thanks again all for your thoughts.
Grg M-47
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From: Central PA
I've been searching the swapmeets for 70's stuff and had forgotten about the " Keep on trucking" sign. I'm actually looking for the " ***, grass or..." sign.
I picked up a '79 shorty GMC van and looking to be 21 again. This was my first new vehicle. ( Actually a 1979 chev van but this is close enough. ) Any more good stuff that I should be looking for ?
Getting closer to finishing the '49 M-47 Mercury truck so need to hunt parts for the next project.
Greg M-47
I picked up a '79 shorty GMC van and looking to be 21 again. This was my first new vehicle. ( Actually a 1979 chev van but this is close enough. ) Any more good stuff that I should be looking for ?
Getting closer to finishing the '49 M-47 Mercury truck so need to hunt parts for the next project.
Greg M-47
Or how about "It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford ..."
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That reminds me of the lyrics of the song, "and we made love in my Chevy van..." I forget the title and who sang it....
chevy van - YouTube
Or how about "It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford ..."
Take it easy-Eagles with lyrics - YouTube
chevy van - YouTube
Or how about "It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford ..."
Take it easy-Eagles with lyrics - YouTube
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My buddy bought a '69 Chevy van complete with curtains and wall coverings made completely from beer can pull-tabs (the obsolete detachable kind). He was only sixteen years old. I told him that he'd sure have some 'splainin to do if he ever got pulled over.
We were later headed home from a Black Sabbath concert at Three Rivers Stadium. We made it almost all the way home when he lost control on ice. The van did a 360• spin and Danny worked it back straight and we kept on going. I told him that it must have been all the years of practice that old van had with a drunk driver that saved our lives.
We were later headed home from a Black Sabbath concert at Three Rivers Stadium. We made it almost all the way home when he lost control on ice. The van did a 360• spin and Danny worked it back straight and we kept on going. I told him that it must have been all the years of practice that old van had with a drunk driver that saved our lives.
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haha, I never shaved mine off, had it for 40 years,..........btw I still have my 10x15" slotted mags from the 70's, going to put them on the 49 to see what they look like.
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When i was a teenager driving my '68 Bronco
I had these plastic hands that were mounted on windows with suction cups and between the hand and suction cup, was a thin spring steel strip. That allowed the hand to wave. I warmed the plastic over a candle and bent all the fingers down, except for the middle one!
How about the CB and the PA speaker under the hood? Yep...had one.
Or the rear view mirror that went from one side of the cab to the other? had one...LOL
I had these plastic hands that were mounted on windows with suction cups and between the hand and suction cup, was a thin spring steel strip. That allowed the hand to wave. I warmed the plastic over a candle and bent all the fingers down, except for the middle one!
How about the CB and the PA speaker under the hood? Yep...had one.
Or the rear view mirror that went from one side of the cab to the other? had one...LOL
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Groovy Ross! That was long enough ago that she probably got in the van! Seems like all of the scary vans reported in this area any more are just plain white. Must not be as easy to track.
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When i was a teenager driving my '68 Bronco
I had these plastic hands that were mounted on windows with suction cups and between the hand and suction cup, was a thin spring steel strip. That allowed the hand to wave. I warmed the plastic over a candle and bent all the fingers down, except for the middle one!
How about the CB and the PA speaker under the hood? Yep...had one.
Or the rear view mirror that went from one side of the cab to the other? had one...LOL
I had these plastic hands that were mounted on windows with suction cups and between the hand and suction cup, was a thin spring steel strip. That allowed the hand to wave. I warmed the plastic over a candle and bent all the fingers down, except for the middle one!
How about the CB and the PA speaker under the hood? Yep...had one.
Or the rear view mirror that went from one side of the cab to the other? had one...LOL
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane Jeff! Still laughing about the melting of the fingers. You were fabbing up stuff even at that age! This was a little later on but I had the guy that when you squeezed the bulb air went throught the plastic tube and he dropped his pants. It was called a "Moonie". I almost was on the wrong end of road rage a few times over that one.
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From: Houston
Greg, it is Gas Grass or ***.
And Ax, you have to have the quadraphonic cranked up playing Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Don't come a knockin'". It would help to have some big stuffed dice hanging from the mirror and maybe a chain steering wheel and **** carpet. Of course smoke would be pouring out of the cracked windows...
And Ax, you have to have the quadraphonic cranked up playing Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Don't come a knockin'". It would help to have some big stuffed dice hanging from the mirror and maybe a chain steering wheel and **** carpet. Of course smoke would be pouring out of the cracked windows...
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Mr. Natural! Psychodelic blast from the past.
So, anybody still got a few of the daisies with a tiger in the center? We used to get them from the Esso stations. That was before they became Exxon.
So, anybody still got a few of the daisies with a tiger in the center? We used to get them from the Esso stations. That was before they became Exxon.
