1968 a GM at the Sahara hotel in Las Vegas
Much simpler times
Memory lane. Very nice. :) :)
Kind Regards, Phil
Sometimes I wish I go travel back in time before I was born to a simpler time when most things were black and white and frankly most people knew between right and wrong. I'm only 35 but these days it seems everything is upside down and what used to be right is now considered wrong and what we used to consider wrong is now defended vehemently as right. That photo definitely hearkens to better times. Sigh.
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and nice cars !
dave
Most of the cars in the picture can be identified because most years were different from each other then; they have an amazing ability to all look the same nowadays. I was not in the area in 1968, I was 7,953 miles to the left of the Sahara.
I can see from here that the tires are out dated ;D
Nice picture. But I think that if technology had stayed the way it was back then, many people of today would still be turdbaskets.
I remember in the late 70's of a 4106 shell for sale by, I think ABC bus, at an FMCA convention at maybe Richmond VA. It was $48,500. Made me drool, but that amount might as well been a million bucks to me.
If this is going to be a nostalgia thread, I can tell everyone that I picked my 1982 RTS because it had no computer and that is the way I like it. I would never buy a newer bus, period. I listen to oldies on my Sirius XM and other than the necessary smartphone and computer, I live in the past. I guess the new age technology allows me to create and live my own reality.
--Geoff
Most of those cars we could buy new for under 5,000.00 and some like that 64-1/2 Mustang was 2,900.00 as I remember now they all are around 50K to 150K after redoing them. ;D
Every time is just as harrowing as another, the difference is our age, experience and tolerance to change.
The social upheaval of the 60's was great entertainment to us young folk, the older folks were wondering about the end days being upon us, Soviet induced nuclear war, Viet Nam, suicide is painless, etc etc. "Would you get a damned haircut???"
Fast forward, and now its our turn, as the old fuddy duddies we have turned into, to be turned on our ears by fake news, wild politics, more nuclear war, shootings and other negative expressions of tortured people, Opiods have replaced acid and friends as the overdose of choice.
Notice your kids and grandkids aren't worried about anything, just like we weren't.
Crack a smile, and put your faith where it belongs, it'll all be ok, they'll figure it out.
happy coaching!
buswarrior
Quote from: Dave5Cs on October 01, 2017, 05:02:07 PM
Most of those cars we could buy new for under 5,000.00 and some like that 64-1/2 Mustang was 2,900.00 as I remember now they all are around 50K to 150K after redoing them. ;D
Dave where do you see a 64 1/2 Mustang?
The white one is clearly a '67 if you notice the panel the brake/taillights are mounted on is con-caved (dipped in) and not flat as the 64 1/2, 65 & 66 model years were. (having owned over 20 Mustangs over the years I notice those little details)
;D BK ;D
1967, MCI 5A? Greyhound, On Las Vegas Blvd
BK, I stand corrected. Why would anyone own 20 Mustangs, Now Vetts I can understand, LOL ;D
Mustangs?, Vetts? I quit counting after 100 Carryalls (Suburbans). I drove them, fixed them and sold them to buy another. They were great for camping until we got old and lazy and had to have our creature comforts. Still, hardly a 'Burb goes by that I don't give the once over. I've always been a sucker for a pretty face! Jack
Dave vetts are only good for filling in holes! ::)
;D BK ;D
People think I'm crazy if the topic of sports cars comes up and I tell them I never liked them. I'm serious when I tell them that if someone gave me let's say a CORVETTE or PORSCHE, I would immediately drive it to a LINCOLN dealer and trade it in for a new LINCOLN CONTINENTAL. I want one!!!!! :)
Back when I was young and dangerous (21) I got a "SMOKIN'" deal on a '69 Stingray 427 4 speed basket case.
I quickly built the 427 with upgraded goodies like an edelbrock aluminum manifold, huge holley double pumper carb, huge lananti roller cam, jackson gear drive, and a host of other go fast goodies. Put a ceramic clutch in it and some sticky mickey (thompson) tires all the way around and took it for it's first drive since it was completely stripped 10 yrs earlier!
2 days later it was up for sale when I discover the lowest legal insurance required by law was going to cost ME double what I had invested in the car!
I traded it for a 1948 Harley pan head with suicide clutch & shifter. Which I rode a year before taking what I thought to be a crazy high offer on it. (wish I knew then what I know now, on both the vette and the hog!)
;D BK ;D
Hi All, my brother served in the Air force in Korea during the late 60s & early 70s, and left his Shelby Cobra Cougar XR7 with red stripe tiger paw tires, for me to start & drive once every week. I-15 ended at Sahara Blvd then and there was still no speed limit in Nevada, during those years. As you can imagine, my purpose to blowout the carbon every week took on the thrill of tremendous acceleration, for a teenage boy! lvmci...
Now days they are just overpriced pieces of junk in my book. ;D
Well Dave, unless you can get FORD to build the MODEL T again, I guess you're out of luck since they have been saying that cars are no good in all my 53 years of life. :)
What started me thinking about the Shelby, was BKs mention of a 427 in a chevy. The cougar was a Shelby cobra Ford 427, 425 HP, there's been a few 427 cubic inches engines in car history, lvmci...
I know drifting is a big deal these days with hot cars but this thread has sure drifted off from the OP? http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=32391.msg365675#msg365675 (http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=32391.msg365675#msg365675) LOL
No problem, just meant to reminisce about the old beauties that roamed the southwest and my home town when I was a kid, lvmci...
Quote from: B_K on October 18, 2017, 06:50:10 AM
Back when I was young and dangerous (21) I got a "SMOKIN'" deal on a '69 Stingray 427 4 speed basket case.
I quickly built the 427 with upgraded goodies like an edelbrock aluminum manifold, huge holley double pumper carb, huge lananti roller cam, jackson gear drive, and a host of other go fast goodies. Put a ceramic clutch in it and some sticky mickey (thompson) tires all the way around and took it for it's first drive since it was completely stripped 10 yrs earlier!
2 days later it was up for sale when I discover the lowest legal insurance required by law was going to cost ME double what I had invested in the car!
I traded it for a 1948 Harley pan head with suicide clutch & shifter. Which I rode a year before taking what I thought to be a crazy high offer on it. (wish I knew then what I know now, on both the vette and the hog!)
;D BK ;D
This whole thread is one big drift in time, but it gives a few of us a warm fuzzy feeling. Speaking of Corvettes, I passed up buying a 1963 split window coupe for $2300, and a 1967 435 hp 427 with a close-ratio 4 speed for $2900 to buy a 1968 convertible with a 350 hp 327 for $3600. The first two are now worth more than that 1968. Back then, some people took out the split window to put in a one-piece to make it look newer. Yes indeed, because of the crazy street racing going on with all the super-cars of that time, only the affluent could afford the insurance. :'(
Mine was/is Tbirds, my first car was a 1959 square bird, stock from the factory, with a 430cid police interceptor Lincoln engine, then a beautiful midnight blue 63 390cid, a few more til I got the 1957 312 4barrell Y block, it was always a Vegas car, it had all the options of Dan Tanna's tv car. A crime group found out about all the tbirds in LV, after we formed the classic tbird club international so. Nevada branch, I lost my porthoole top, wind wings and turn signal stem. My last was a 2002 turquoise tbird, my kids got me a tbird hat, in turquoise, when tbirds came out again, we had to get a four door then as they were sprouting up like crazy, so when I could finally get one again, I found a tbird to match the hat they got me, lvmci...
What the hey--we've drifted so far now how could it matter. Tom. I had mis-remembered Dan Tanna's car as being a '56 bird. I ended up watching a whole bunch of episodes hoping to find one where Tanna's warehouse could change seasons with the push of a button--that was Tanna's place wasn't it? Jack
Yes parked the tbird, in his living room, in a warehouse, most of the show was shot in LV, tom...
Tom By You? ;D
Hi Dave, no, by then it was strictly video, I did shoot film style video, now that's quite common, but not then, tom...