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

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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 . . .