Old Enough To Remember?

tnbill said:
The hush thrush mufflers with woody woodpecker on them
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My mom liked to read those trashy True Detective type mazaines.

I was flipping through one and there was a picture of a killer's jacked up Mustang with those huge Thrush sidepipes on it and a cheap set of mag wheels. There was also a Thrush decal on the rear quarter panel. The magazine copywriter / hack was clueless. He premise of his story, based on the decal, was that the killer was delusional as he thought he was a member of Thrush, the evil organization that Napoleon Solo fought every week on the Man from U.N.C.L.E. ................... Not Pulitzer stuff by any measure.
 
I had a couple of speakers in a homemade speaker boxes hooked up to my Push Button AM radio and pretended they were stereo.
And of course my Radial TAs had raised white letters that soon became raised brown letters. With Mag wheels, but only on the back.
Yes they were Gabriels. They punched through the real mounts and had them welded twice. Early Unibody.
Remember the vents that air came in on the floor if you pulled the lever.
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CHAOS was just as much fun
ReSTored said:
My mom liked to read those trashy True Detective type mazaines.

I was flipping through one and there was a picture of a killer's jacked up Mustang with those huge Thrush sidepipes on it and a cheap set of mag wheels. There was also a Thrush decal on the rear quarter panel. The magazine copywriter / hack was clueless. He premise of his story, based on the decal, was that the killer was delusional as he thought he was a member of Thrush, the evil organization that Napoleon Solo fought every week on the Man from U.N.C.L.E. ................... Not Pulitzer stuff by any measure.
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I miss "Big Daddy" Ed Roth and his drawings! My favorite was the Rat Fink pulling a wheelie in a Toronado in reverse on a drag strip

"EDIT" It wasn't the Rat Fink... I believe it was Wonder Wart Hog! Apologies, I am easily confused about anything that happened before my last meal.
 
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I'm so old that I remember walking to school every day . . . with a clean cloth handkerchief in my pocket to wipe my nose with. Kleenex was as yet unknown. The first I ever heard about Kleenex was from a Japanese foreign exchange student in high school who was appalled that we would carry our snot around in our pocket all day!

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Mine were all white.
Shuey
 
Shuey said:
I'm so old that I remember walking to school every day . . . with a clean cloth handkerchief in my pocket to wipe my nose with. Kleenex was as yet unknown. The first I ever heard about Kleenex was from a Japanese foreign exchange student in high school who was appalled that we would carry our snot around in our pocket all day!

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Mine were all white.
Shuey
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I still use them. My wife and kids pretend they don’t know me when I use it. Practical and thrifty!
 
My father always carried one. My mom always had one with baby powder in it tied up with a rubber band. She used it to blot powder on anything that needed powdering.
 
diferg said:
I miss "Big Daddy" Ed Roth and his drawings! My favorite was the Rat Fink pulling a wheelie in a Toronado in reverse on a drag strip

"EDIT" It wasn't the Rat Fink... I believe it was Wonder Wart Hog! Apologies, I am easily confused about anything that happened before my last meal.
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Thank you for that. The last 60 years had removed Wonder Wart Hog from my brain but you put him (it, they, pick a pronoun for a cartoon pig) back. Gilbert Sheldon, what a funny and bizarre cartoonist. And Fat Freddy's Cat was another unique animal. Thanks again.
 
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