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What were you driving 40 years ago (1971)
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1971... was on my 3rd bike... a Triumph 650 Bonneville....
1960..Got a job ( made .50 / hr) and bought a Honda 50 Sport Cub... I was 9yo... The same year I bought a horse..... Still on bikes.. got rid of the hayburners!
1963.... Honda 250 Dream... Sweet bike for an 11 year old...LOL
1960..Got a job ( made .50 / hr) and bought a Honda 50 Sport Cub... I was 9yo... The same year I bought a horse..... Still on bikes.. got rid of the hayburners!
1963.... Honda 250 Dream... Sweet bike for an 11 year old...LOL
docdoru
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Huligan :yikes::thumbup:
Lamonster
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You must have been real heavy back then. :joke:OK, if everybody is throwing in their cars, too, I was driving a '66 El Camino, and taking occasional rides in Jr. Fuel and Top Fuel dragsters. By 72 I had gotten rid of the fuel bikes and was driving injected gas dragsters every weekend.
mxz600
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I'm with you Scotty, I thought this thread was about bikes although it did say drive in the title.
As I said in my earlier post I didn't own a bike in '71, my parents wouldn't let me. But I did own a car.
A beautiful blue 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport, 327CI/300hp with a 4 speed Muncie transmission.
sandrunr1
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Bob Denman
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Living proof of the truth in the adage; "What goes around, comes around!" :2thumbs:
murphybrown
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1971? Let's see that would have been that old '62 Chev. station wagon....everything behind the front bench seat was playground area for hauling 8 kids + dog .... no seatbelts required back then....lordy the fun and awful times we had traveling down the road...but all makes for awesome memories!!!!:yes::yes:
bikeguy
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Forty years ago I was just getting back into riding after about a 12 year absence. Traded an air compressor for a 65 cc Honda in a box. Got it running, sold it, and bought a Hodaka Ace 100.
Fifty years ago I had been married about a year, driving a fast 1959 348 Chevrolet. I couldn't afford both the wife and the Chevrolet, so I traded the Chevy for a Studebaker. Saved enough money to keep the wife.
Sixty years ago - a Columbia bicycle with a Maytag washing machine motor that I had to put back on my aunt's washing machine every Sunday night. It was good exercise. I pushed it lots more miles than I rode it.
Forrest, did you actually have a James? I remember a kid who had one and it was way more powerful than a Maytag engined bicycle. He could ride up the steepest hill in town and tow one of us poor boys along with him.
Cotton
Fifty years ago I had been married about a year, driving a fast 1959 348 Chevrolet. I couldn't afford both the wife and the Chevrolet, so I traded the Chevy for a Studebaker. Saved enough money to keep the wife.
Sixty years ago - a Columbia bicycle with a Maytag washing machine motor that I had to put back on my aunt's washing machine every Sunday night. It was good exercise. I pushed it lots more miles than I rode it.
Forrest, did you actually have a James? I remember a kid who had one and it was way more powerful than a Maytag engined bicycle. He could ride up the steepest hill in town and tow one of us poor boys along with him.
Cotton
1970 Kawasaki A1SS 250. Also worked at a Honda/Polaris/Skidoo dealer, so I got to ride a bunch of different stuff, mostly off road. As young folks do, I took the Kaw out to see how fast she'd do. As the speedo, notoriously wrong, approached the century mark I back off the throttle. Almost immediately it went into a slow wobble/shimmy on the front end. By the time it got down to about 60, I was studying the ditches for a place to dump. Fortunately, sanity and good luck prevailed and I was able to get it under control. Cured me of speed on bikes for while.
That is until by brother in law let me ride his 1972 H-2 750 tripple. WOW!:yikes: It's amazing I made it out of me teens and early 20s unscathed.
Which reminds me: ride safe!!
Wayne
That is until by brother in law let me ride his 1972 H-2 750 tripple. WOW!:yikes: It's amazing I made it out of me teens and early 20s unscathed.
Which reminds me: ride safe!!
Wayne
cyclelover63
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Nice!..probably not many "working order" ones left!...They were good dirt bikes,but I rode mine on the street mostly..
Big Arm
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Same here, only a white 1965 Chevy Impala SS, 327CI/300hp 4 on the floor. One of the best cars I've ever owned
PCBeachBum
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A Gearing Class US Navy Destroyer, 1962 Impala, 2 door HT, 6 cyl, 3 speed on the column and waiting for me back home in CT was a 1948 BSA 250 CC and 1960 Corvair.
GeoffCee
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This is me in 1979 taking a vacation on the island of Corsica in the Med, the birthplace of Napoleon.
The bike is a BMW R100T. The fairing I have fitted is a British made Pantera, the design for which was copied from the Windjammer III, made in the USA, which was the fairing to have at that time if you were serious about touring big distances. I kept this bike for years, until BMW introduced the R1100RT which was my idea of a complete tourer straight off the factory floor.
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