Originally Posted By: supton
Originally Posted By: dailydriver
I'm too ancient for this thread.
I was born the same year (even the same time of year) the very FIRST Chevy small block hit the dealers!
You were born in 1917?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Series_D
No, not the first V8 engine, the first small block. From the very article you linked-
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This was Chevrolet's's first V8 and the first overhead-valve V8.[citation needed] Chevrolet wouldn't make another V8 until the debut of the small-block in 1955.
Originally Posted By: bvance554
I was born in 74 and growing up in the 70's is a paltry comparison to having grown up in 80's. Cut my teeth on vinyl records, then made the swith to cassettes. Its easy to remember my first cassette because it was Van Halen 1984. Yet I still managed to have an 8 track in my first car - 1974 El Camino. Started building it when I was 14. Luckily my parents had some decent 8 track tapes hidden away for me to dig through. OH! And i had the 8 track cassette converter where you put the cassette into this big 8 track... Thing and it played cassettes. I remember vhf-uhf and having to change channels, but our first remote control tv could be turned on and off by jingling keys in front of it. It was magic. First microwave, vcr, dad brought home pong one day. It wasn't in a box and I'm sure he won it in a poker game. Then came bootleg cable tv, skinomax friday after dark. My friend had a satelite - the real kind. We'd wait for his parents to go to sleep so they wouldn't hear the dish turning as it searched for the bird in the sky carrying the Playboy channel. I had a calculator on my wristwatch. And a walkman. How did I forget the dual cassette player? I could even record the radio from the same machine - i didn't need a separate recorder. The arcade that actually took quarters and you never saw a dollar bill slot. The 70's were great i'm sure, but I think the 80's were such a sweet spot to experience so many different things because technology was evolving so quickly. And how can I forget... The US beat the USSR in hockey and Ronald Reagan was President. He would come on the tv all the time speaking from his desk and start every speech with 'Hello my fellow Americans.' Those were the days. So come on, how can the 70's really compete with that?
Being born in '78, this pretty much mirrors my youth to a "T", but with tons of time on my Huffy Thunder 50 bike and going out in the neighbor's timber.
My parents owned/ran a local motel and nightclub/bar, so we had PLENTY of audio-visual gear. Eight track, cassette, record player and a reel to reel player. Plenty of power from a Realistic receiver and sound from Sansui speakers. When it came time for parties, they broke out the Peavey floor speakers... TV's were always overflow from the motel. Every room had one.
Jeeze, now we only have one TV and it almost never gets turned on.
