Life in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s

Sgt Fury · Jun 25, 2019

giles said:
Now we have people financing vehicles that are twice what they make in a year. We done took a wrong turn Ethal!

My last truck was 33% more than the price that my parents paid for their house...and the Chevy was double! Guys I used to work with showed me their pay stubs from the late 60’s and they only made about 70 bucks per week. My grandmother (she passed 20 years ago) said she used to make twenty bucks a week when she was young and that was upper middle class money!

GoetsTalon · Jun 25, 2019

Yeah you had to work on them but at least you could. Now you pop the hood and say where the hell are the spark plugs on this thing lol. Still have a old Sun timing light at Mom's in the garage. Little tiny fuel filter on the side of the four barrel carb got changed when fuel wouldn't go through it anymore lol.

"J" · Jun 25, 2019

GoetsTalon said:
Yeah you had to work on them but at least you could. Now you pop the hood and say where the hell are the spark plugs on this thing lol. Still have a old Sun timing light at Mom's in the garage. Little tiny fuel filter on the side of the four barrel carb got changed when fuel wouldn't go through it anymore lol.

Yep, we would all hang out and work on each other’s cars too keep em running. It was a social event rebuilding motors, changing transmissions and replacing odds and ends....

CJD3 · Jun 25, 2019

"J" said:
Yep, we would all hang out and work on each other’s cars too keep em running. It was a social event rebuilding motors, changing transmissions and replacing odds and ends....

And clutch’s. Lots of clutch’s.

J’s Right. Many weekends and evening spent that way.

"J" · Jun 26, 2019

CJD3 said:
And clutch’s. Lots of clutch’s.

J’s Right. Many weekends and evening spent that way.

Don’t get me wrong, it might sound like I was complaining. It was a way of life when you didn’t have a lot of money and needed too keep it running. We just rolled up the sleeves and got it done with the help of friends and family and a few neighbors mentoring.
No computers too google how too change stuff or fix it for that matter, a chiltons with a few vague pictures and some common sense and there you had it.
Jim, remember the paper cams back in the 70’s in the GM’s? They’d wear out before 70K miles and need replaced because of the shitty hardening process a subcontractor used. Ford had their rust issues and Chrysler, well they were Chrysler even back then

I had all of them, GM, Ford and Chrysler’s. They all had issues and all put out some shitty products. Quality assurance was lacking and it showed. The imports came in and well you know the rest.

CJD3 · Jun 26, 2019

I dident think it sounded like complaining J.
Of the four of us that ran together back then, two have passed away, the third is In Very poor health, and then there’s what’s left of me...lol

When I read it, it was a fucken Norman Rockwell moment.

Thanks!