Boomers ONLY, Need Apply!!!
Tuned
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Was it Frampton live or Edger Winter that had that odd click mid song? Just a click no fade. Total buzz kill deal when mid jam.
Tuned
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I am one of the early Xers, I was the mullet head freshman when yall seniors were would let us have a beer and laugh.
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From: sussex county, nj
I started driving in 1975. 8-tracks then were in their heyday. I could buy a tape from a local flea market for 2 bucks. They were pirated copies and oftentimes lousy recordings, but I didn't care. Guaranteed to last a month before being swallowed up by the player. I must have gone through a half dozen Physical Graffiti tapes.
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I laugh because I married an X'er. 10 years my junior and funny to think of what I was doing when she was just starting HS.
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From: sussex county, nj
wife number 2 is a boomer like me, but 8 years younger that alone has been fun, esp. when i retired and she had to wait 8 more years, till when she did retire from nursing , OMG am i glad to be getting out and building/restoring cars and trucks with buddies, summer time, being a fishing vessel captain, those 36 hour charter trips become a blessing . sadly i say the sounds from twin c18A cats and wave actions against fiberglass are better than those coming from the wife .
need i say somehow we have managed to stay together for 50 years
need i say somehow we have managed to stay together for 50 years
Mountain Pass
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Remember going to Florida for vacation through Georgia on 2 lane roads, dad smoking Pall Malls. Not many interstates at that time. Dad had a Chevy Caprice station wagon with the big block and every now and then would have to "clear it out." Mom would get mad. Learned that if a town had Christmas lights up in July, there was a speed trap waiting. Also learned that when me and the brother got in a fight in the back seat, dad would say cut it out or I will pull the car over. You didn't want him to pull the car over.
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Remember going to Florida for vacation through Georgia on 2 lane roads, dad smoking Pall Malls. Not many interstates at that time. Dad had a Chevy Caprice station wagon with the big block and every now and then would have to "clear it out." Mom would get mad. Learned that if a town had Christmas lights up in July, there was a speed trap waiting. Also learned that when me and the brother got in a fight in the back seat, dad would say cut it out or I will pull the car over. You didn't want him to pull the car over.
Don't MAKE me come back there works every time, especially when you mime actually getting up and going back there, while the car is in motion.
Hotshot
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From: SW VA
When I was young and living in Sacramento, dad had a pickup with a camper shell on it. There was a bench seat bolted in the bed up by the cab. That was my seat when we went places. They'd open the sliding back window so I could sit on my knees on the seat and look through to my parents.
Later when I was a bit older, we took road trips in a van. Dad would take the middle bench seat out, and that's where I'd play on the 8-10hr trips. I'd sleep on the back bench seat laying down.
I'm a very early "millennial." There were still some really good times in the mid-80's to '90's.
Later when I was a bit older, we took road trips in a van. Dad would take the middle bench seat out, and that's where I'd play on the 8-10hr trips. I'd sleep on the back bench seat laying down.
I'm a very early "millennial." There were still some really good times in the mid-80's to '90's.
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From: sussex county, nj
or when the tape went bad and unwound inside the player
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From: sussex county, nj
Remember going to Florida for vacation through Georgia on 2 lane roads, dad smoking Pall Malls. Not many interstates at that time. Dad had a Chevy Caprice station wagon with the big block and every now and then would have to "clear it out." Mom would get mad. Learned that if a town had Christmas lights up in July, there was a speed trap waiting. Also learned that when me and the brother got in a fight in the back seat, dad would say cut it out or I will pull the car over. You didn't want him to pull the car over.
those were the days.
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Remember going to Florida for vacation through Georgia on 2 lane roads, dad smoking Pall Malls. Not many interstates at that time. Dad had a Chevy Caprice station wagon with the big block and every now and then would have to "clear it out." Mom would get mad. Learned that if a town had Christmas lights up in July, there was a speed trap waiting. Also learned that when me and the brother got in a fight in the back seat, dad would say cut it out or I will pull the car over. You didn't want him to pull the car over.
More Turbo
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From: Wonderful, Fun, Pahrump!
talk about two lane roads, our first trip to calif, there were no interstates finished, started on US Rt 22 in jersey to Cincinnati i forget what highway to saint Louie we picked up RT 66 in saint Louie, that was another 2 lane took that the rest of the way to calif
those were the days.
those were the days.
bob
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From: Everywhere and nowhere
Ram announced a 23 speaker Klipsch sound system in the top trim for 2025. The high end Klipsch stuff are some of the best speakers on the planet but their mass market stuff is just that. I bet it will blow Ford's B&O system out of the water listening to CDs or MP3s on those long road trips.