Thread: Funny things we did with our hotrods in early 60's

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I lived in the Bay Area ,Santa Clara Valley, back then, 50's and 60's. There were still orchards all over back then with roads flat and straight between them and we did a lot of straight line racing at night on them. If we stayed on one road too long one of the farmers would call the sheriff and we would get run off, the sheriff never seemed to get there in the middle of a race. Then we would Cruze the main between 1st and 2nd street in San Jose. I have to say though that our favorite activity involving cars, besides working on them, was to park in an orchard and watch the "ants eat the apricots" or maybe drive to Santa Cruz,park on the beach to watch the "submarine races". It is amazing how we survived those times but everyone I knew back then did.

Jack.

Originally Posted by Jack F

It is amazing how we survived those times but everyone I knew back then did.

Jack.

All I can say is that your mob were fortunate.
A fair few of our contemporaries didn't.
A mixture of alcohol, inexperience, and speed.

I 'saw the light'.
If I'm going to be driving, I don't drink.
Not at all.
Not even one beer.

Vara4 mentioned VW bugs.
A favourite stunt back then, (and it still is today, in fact we did it about twelve months back in the Cabbage Patch just above our house,) is to throw an early VW block or gearbox casing onto the bonfire.
They're full of magnesium, and burn quite spectacularly, with an extremely intense and white light.
You can't look into it; it's like watching a welding arc. And you can play 'shadow puppets' on surrounding walls hedges etc.

Don't ask how I know this; but the fire brigade can't extinguish it with water . . .

Been a while don't register most of the members names that I am seeing, but I enjoy the threads . especially this one as I can relate. Pretty much out of the hands on any more as I sold the coupe ,tools , etc. and moved in a cracker box. Brings back fond memories keep e'm coming.