The Late Great 1968

[Racerbvd]

I was a whopping 3 years old

[herr_oberst]

I was 9. I loved 1968. I had older brothers and sisters who were starting to dip their toes into the culture and they invested in me their knowledge and enthusiasm for the world that was changing quickly around us. Of course, there was a dark side, but there was also a good side. I remember seeing a huge billboard for the 1969 RS Camaro, and just being blown away. The radio was full of great music, and everyone knew all the good songs. As a kid, I would wander away from the house in the morning, come home in time for dinner and then leave again till it was dark or bedtime...

[tabs]

Originally Posted by fred cook

The fact that has to be taken into account is that the true debt of the USA has to include the SS unfunded liability as those funds collected in payroll taxes for SS were used for decades (1968 to 2010) to fund day to day government spending. You have put the Hamburgers you ate for decades on the credit card of SS accounts payable. Now you have to pay the bill it is coming due with Trillion $$$ deficit spending...BEND OVER.

This is why I started drawing my SS just as soon as possible, in my case at 62. So far, I have drawn out about what I "contributed" and am now working on the interest! If it goes bust later, that will be some millennial's problem. I basically agree with Tabs, we the collective United States are likely headed for hell in a handbasket! The good news is that I probably won't be alive to have to deal with it! My son and his family will, but each generation has it's own set of dilemmas to work through.

Well there are some smart people on the Pelican after all. This is true...

My Astrological chart says beware of 2022?

[ckelly78z]

3 yeas old, but one of my first memories involves riding in my Aunt Betty's new red convertible firebird while singing "down Town".

[Por_sha911]

There are a lot of young punks on this board...
Some great books:
The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
MAD Magazine. What, me worry?

Some epic music was being made by Cream, Tull, Zeppelin, Beatles, Hendrix, Donovan. The list goes on and on. I remember buying many of these albums, grabbing the headphones and cranking it up. Prolly why my hearing is what it is today.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Alansglide

In 68 was sent to Vietnam and stationed just outside Hue in time for TET.
Ya , not my best year.

Glad you made it home.

[CurtEgerer]

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by tabs

Well there are some smart people on the Pelican after all. This is true...

My Astrological chart says beware of 2022?

I told my friends, sell what you need to sell by 2020.

2022? I like your optimism.

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[herr_oberst]

More good stuff from 1968, Vic Elford wins the 1968 Monte Carlo Rally...

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

More good stuff from 1968, Vic Elford wins the 1968 Monte Carlo Rally...

I love his how to drive fast book. In corners, while ice racing in a 911, it diagrams how to enter backwards.

Probably takes a little practice.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

I love his how to drive fast book. In corners, while ice racing in a 911, it diagrams how to enter backwards.

Probably takes a little practice.

When the back end would break in a tight corner, Quick Vic would let go of the wheel and let it spin to center lock, then he would grab it and throw on opposite lock.

I have seen videos of a lot of cars doing a 180 spin around a hairpin, but never a 911.

[DanielDudley]

[wdfifteen]

Friends i hung out with in those days owned a Morgan +4, stripped- down 356s, a 327 coke bottle Corvette, and 302 powered Camaro Z-28. Lots of Saab and Volvo guys in our group too. I sill have a dash plaque from the 1968 Saab club's annual rallye "Marquee de Saab annual road rally and wilderness retreat." Good times.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Friends i hung out with in those days owned a Morgan +4, stripped- down 356s, a 327 coke bottle Corvette, and 302 powered Camaro Z-28. Lots of Saab and Volvo guys in our group too. I sill have a dash plaque from the 1968 Saab club's annual rallye "Marquee de Saab annual road rally and wilderness retreat." Good times.

Marquee de Sade..

[Rtrorkt]

we forgot the anthem.

[Rtrorkt]

another anthem of sorts

[tabs]

Sympathy for the Tabs.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Amazing time - my parents talk about that era a lot and I can see why.

I was not even a thought in ‘68.

[carreradpt]

In 68 I was 13 and delivered the Wash Post for 2 yrs, every morning about 3 am. My Dad told me that I had better deliver the first paper every morning to him first thing. He went to work at 6am.

He also wanted me to read the front page, just the front page everyday so that I would know what was happening in my world. I'd sit under my streetlight and read the headlines. Same streetlight that we used for home point for Hide and Seek.

It was a great time to be a kid. And man did we have some good jams and cool cars.

[tadd]

I wasn't even fertilized yet :-).

So many old people here!