How old are you?

Bobw said:
67 Interesting, only 4 of us are 60 or over.One is 59 so close enough:). 5 out of 32 Looks like many in our age group have thrown in the towel and moved on. Many here weren't born yet when Petty won his last championship, or some upstart named Earnhardt was named Rookie of the year. It was 1979 btw.
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Big E. Only driver to get ROTY and a Championship in consecutive years. I may be young but know my stuff
 
59. and even got to see Petty race the last year he won the championship. Got me to feeling old when I saw Rex White as a special guest at Bowman Gray Saturday night. I actually watched him race the circuit at BG in my younger days.
 
sdj said:
Old enough to have bought 17cent per gallon gas at the Oilwell gas station north of Tallahassee Fla. on highway 27 in 1970.

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Man, I remember when gas went $1 a gallon and everyone was freaking out about it.
 
I was a pump jockey back when gas stations still pumped gas. Anyways, I went through the first oil embargo, long lines, every other day, rations, limits on how much we could pump. It was fun. (dripping sarcasm smiley here). I remember cutting a hole in all the pump faces so we could add the 1 to the price.
 
I think I'm around 58...but I'm not sure about that...I have always said I'm a year older so my next birthday wouldn't feel like I actually aged.

Anyway - I have done that for awhile and have lost track...so I estimate my age at somewhere between 56 and 60 :).
 
25.. My generation is well represented here.. Don't know if it's because we are on teh internetz or what.. But being from the region where I'm from and the age I am, it's pretty damn cool.
 
Gas shortage? I recall during WWII when people were issued windshield stickers for their automobiles according to their need. Some people were allocated as little as three or four gallons per week. My father was a veterinarian so he got more gas than most as he had to travel farm to farm to treat animals but I never recall him abusing rationing. The headlights on his car were painted black (the top half) making night driving difficult and air raid drills were common in our small town. When the horn blew the air raid signal, we were instructed to turn out unnecessary lights and draw all the shades in the house. There were no street lights because of the war.
I recall the ration books and mother admonishing us about waste. Sugar was a highly rationed item, as was meat.
When I was about six or seven, I was walking home from the town lake where I had been swimming and I dropped a shoe. I didn't notice it until I got home and Mother insisted everyone go in search of that shoe. It was never found. My mothers biggest concern was she would not be issued coupons to buy me another pair of shoes.
I remember the small flags people use to hang in their front windows to show a member of their family was in the service. And remember the flag in one house that was being changed as I walked by on my way home from school, to a gold star flag with a gold fringe. That serviceman wasn't coming home. I have many very strong recollections of how things were even though I was only a wee lad but the seriousness of the war was always present in our home.
 
Whizzer said:
Gas shortage? I recall during WWII when people were issued windshield stickers for their automobiles according to their need. Some people were allocated as little as three or four gallons per week. My father was a veterinarian so he got more gas than most as he had to travel farm to farm to treat animals but I never recall him abusing rationing. The headlights on his car were painted black (the top half) making night driving difficult and air raid drills were common in our small town. When the horn blew the air raid signal, we were instructed to turn out unnecessary lights and draw all the shades in the house. There were no street lights because of the war.
I recall the ration books and mother admonishing us about waste...
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Yeah my Mom (and Dad of course) were young during the depression years and a bit older during the war years (I was a "miracle baby"...Mom was 40 or so). I remember Mom always liked cottage cheese and they had come out with the new plastic container. When the cottage cheese carton was empty Mom would always say "don't throw it away...I'll wash it out and we can use it to store leftovers". She also kept all the newspapers in case there was another "paper drive". When Mom passed we toted out bag after bag of cottage cheese cartons and enough binded up newspapers to start your own recycling company...bless her heart.

Dad didn't say sh!t - even though he was the "breadwinner" he knew who cooked the meals and washed the clothes. One time (and I've likely posted this before)..but...I'll always remember when I was a kid and Mom was serving pork chops. She had heard all about the trichinosis thingy and always cooked pork into jerky - cooked the living crap out of it. I said something like: "I don't like these pork chops - they are tough"...I immediately got a very stern look from my Dad - who was 6 foot tall and 220 pounds and could throw me out the window if he wanted to - and my 5-2inch Mom said in a "sweet" voice..."well David, if you don't like the pork chops you don't have to eat them". I knew I had F'ed up bigtime. I think Dad was basically giving me up for dead at that moment. I Immediately reversed course - gobbled down the p-chop and everything on my plate and complimented Mom on the green beans.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you ;)
 
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hawg dawg said:
old enuff ta remember 6 cent coca cola. ha!
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lol I can't top that, but I remember when McDonald's first came out with the BigMac. I also remember when 7/11 first came out with the Slurpee. The only flavor Slurpee at first was cola.
Both of those historic events happened about the same time when I was around 5 years old.

Thanks to everyone that participated here. I feel like I know you all a little better now. :)
 
I don't remember the exact price of each but you could walk out of Micky D's with a burger, fries, drink and get change back from a Kennedy half dollar.
TRL, those 5¢ Cokes, were they in the machine in the cold water bath and you slid the bottle down the rack into a thingy, dropped your money in and you pulled up and the thingy released your Coke?
I remember gas wars with prices in the teens. I came home on leave and chewed Old Man Potter out for charging 27.9¢ for a gallon of gas.
 
Bobw said:
TRL, those 5¢ Cokes, were they in the machine in the cold water bath and you slid the bottle down the rack into a thingy, dropped your money in and you pulled up and the thingy released your Coke?
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Yes. You moved the Coke to the end, dropped in the money, then just pulled the bottle straight up and out.
 
61 - I had to do math to figure it out. As a kid I got my racing news once a month in the Motor Trend magazine.
 
Chris Economacki's Speed Sport News was our only source of info way back. Occasionally Wide World Of Sports would air a race or two after the 79 Daytona. It wasn't until cable came along and they needed something cheap to fill the air waves that we got races on TV on a regular basis.
 
I'll be 58 shortly and can remember 45 cent gas and was also a gas jockey during the oil embargo. My Father was a WWII vet and he didn't say much and he wouldn't say it twice. One did not have bad table manners in our home, you would be awaken to the light and those damned little stars that floated between your eyes.
 
I just turned 29 last month.

This thread has been a real eye opener. I was expecting most of you to be from the older set - I didn't realize there were so many younger peeps on here. :)
 
Mr. Gregory said:
I just turned 29 last month.

This thread has been a real eye opener. I was expecting most of you to be from the older set - I didn't realize there were so many younger peeps on here. :)
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Old ones are easy to spot. They use confusing words such as "you" and "to" when in reality they are spelled "u" and "2".
 
Mr. Gregory said:
I just turned 29 last month.

This thread has been a real eye opener. I was expecting most of you to be from the older set - I didn't realize there were so many younger peeps on here. :)
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It certainly has opened my eyes. Where are all the fans that are 60 plus. Yeah I realize the Grim Reaper comes calling but dayum he couldn't have gotten all of them. Didn't get me...yet.
Is it as simple as they've seen the ruination of racing by the brain? The parity krap started by his father?
Did nascar get too big too fast and they didn't have a clue how to run it as long as the money flowed in? Can't blame everything on the economy,,,or bush:p.
 
Bobw said:
It certainly has opened my eyes. Where are all the fans that are 60 plus. Yeah I realize the Grim Reaper comes calling but dayum he couldn't have gotten all of them. Didn't get me...yet.
Is it as simple as they've seen the ruination of racing by the brain? The parity krap started by his father?
Did nascar get too big too fast and they didn't have a clue how to run it as long as the money flowed in? Can't blame everything on the economy,,,or bush:p.
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I honestly think the bolded accounts for most of it. I've mentioned this before, but most of the older NASCAR fans I've chatted with have expressed dismay about all the changes that have taken place over the last ten or so years.

I dunno about 60+, but a good number of you that have posted in this thread are 50+, so I don't think there'll be a massive youth movement taking over this board anytime soon. I'm sure that if we conducted a forum-wide poll or survey, at least half of y'all would be from the older crowd.

I will say that in general, the maturity level displayed by the majority of the members on here is fairly high, with the obvious exception of the Podium, and even that section isn't that bad for a no-holds-barred area. That makes it hard for me to guess people's ages sometimes.
 
We had a guy around who was a little younger than me that we called WC, not for WC Fields but for Winston Cup. He was a walking encyclopedia of Nascar knowledge and history. He seemed to know a lot of stuff before it was made public. He gave nascar the boot and hasn't watched a race in several years because of what it's become and says he doesn't miss it in the slightest. I think a lot of 'elderly' fans have done the same.
 
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