Had the same phone, even had bluetooth...but only after drinking a blue raspberry Slurpee.
What's the 1 or 2 things you miss from the old days?
- Thread starter Plumber1
- Start date
Maybe with world events like they are you'll get to experience them again soon.
Last edited:
I miss the unplanned, go out off-roading in whatever you're driving mentality. I used to two track my two door Chevy lumina (euro-sport, no less) all over the UP. The snowmobile tracks are public use land all summer. We used to pretend we were World Rally Cup drivers and just BOMB the trails in our sensible sedans and coupes.What's the 1 or 2 things you miss from the old days of off roading. Now many of you have no idea what I am talking about.
For me engines that were simpler to work on
31" Armstrong Tru-Track tires were considered large
Less Red Tape and trails and camping were open and you did not have to check before going to confirm trails were open in the summer
8 track players.
I don't miss CJ5 with Cow Bells hanging down and clanking all day long on the trails
I also really miss my Dad's old Dune buggy. It was a legit Meyer Manx and we would drive it all over northern Michigan on old logging roads and two tracks through the national forests. Nobody cared about "their" land and it was all in fun.
After writing this all down..The jeep thing isn't for me...I need a pre-runner, LOL
Maxxis makes buckshot 2, pretty decent tire. I ran them when I first bought my heap.
Baling wire, duct tape and a crescent wrench.. git'er done.Maybe with world events like they are you'll get to experience them again soon.
I have a series of leather bound 1st edition 'engineering' books copyright 1902 that my grandfather used in the '30s to further his education and dreams. He died young without fulfillment but I think with these books and a slide-rule, things could be put back together (along with a copy of The Joy of Cooking - Irma Bombeck). Everything from mining basics, automotive from the earliest days (magnetos, etc.), rigging, construction, motors and electrical, mathematics, and on and on.
Have given them to my SIL who has an engineering mind. Hope they're never needed. Holy off-topic batman.
No kidding. I love hauling ass on long dirt roads out here on BLM land in the XJ (more blasphemy). Rides a lot like a Caddy with CAD, etc. and still gets it done on the trail. I can hear my companions on the radio, "Somebody's in a hurry".
OP
I just came some old Photos, #1 and #3 are from The Deer Valley Trail in Northern CA in my 1980 Toyota P/U boy do I miss that thing. #2 is the same P/U with my camper that I split 1/2 with my brother as he also had a Toyota P/U we bought it used for $1,000.00. We would take it to the trail then off load it and wheel all day nd them come back to camp, ah the life. The last one is when my son was about 6 years old in the back of a friends jeep up near Truckee, We had to pry him out of the jeep he thought being out w/o a top and doors was the best thing in life. He is now 40 still loves to jeep.
I sure miss the simple things along with Thank You and Your Welcome
I sure miss the simple things along with Thank You and Your Welcome
Last edited:
No photos but my first "wheelin" was in a 2WD '46 Chevy Panel (216cid IIRC) in the late 50s hauling butt through the sagebrush in Montana trying to get close enough to antelope for a shot. We'd chain it up for elk season and they'd put it in some amazing places. Those combat Vets from WWII didn't give a SHIT!
Great memories for your 'kid'.
Good times, over three marriages I lost all my old photographs
A place where kids played outside, didn't need anything but their imagination to have fun, and knew to be home by dark.
A time when people use to respect others (especially their elders) and followed the "Golden Rule".
A time when people use to respect others (especially their elders) and followed the "Golden Rule".
Like another old tech I used to work with would say: "When vacuum tubes and relays come back in, we'll have it made!"Maybe with world events like they are you'll get to experience them again soon.
OP
And we drank from the neighbors garden hose
..and the neighbor kid's Mom was also the boss.And we drank from the neighbors garden hose
That was the worst...You get yelled at by the neighbor lady...then when dad got home, you got yelled at again!
Dad? Not around my house. Mom took care of business on the spot. I don't remember her once threatening, "Wait 'til your Dad gets home".. Had a neighbor buddy whose mom said that countless times a day. Let's just say our lives turned out 180*.
Oh...my mom was a disciplinarian too. If I got the "wait until" line...I was REALLY in for it. I remember laughing at her once when her brand new wooden spoon broke after a swat to the ass. That was a mistake I never made again...
Trod286
TJ Enthusiast
I miss people actually parenting their kids. From discipline to respect for others, and The old Saturday morning Cartoons.
My troublemaker big sister put me up to this one..
Mom was admonishing me severely for something or another and went so far to tell me how stupid I was.
My response was, "Do you think that's due to heredity or environment?". That was the only time she ever laid a hand on me, and boy did she!
TNHEADDUCK
TJ Enthusiast