How many GTs are Owned by Seniors?

[Justpassingas]

Have you ever driven a car without seat belts? Better yet, have you driven a car with vacuum windshield wipers?

YES on both....my first car....62 Falcon...it had a hand choke too.....I loved those vacuum wipers in a good downpour

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[CJJon]

Have you ever driven a car without seat belts? Better yet, have you driven a car with vacuum windshield wipers?

They had seatbelts, we just tucked them down into the seat to make the disappear. First thing everyone did when buying a new car back in the day. No ever one bothered to dig them back out. They were there though.

Ever take a road trip laying in the back window behind the rear seat? My mom would tuck in blankets and pillows and I would lay back up there. A unique way to see the country for sure.

 

[Coosawjack]

YES on both....my first car....62 Falcon...it had a hand choke too.....I loved those vacuum wipers in a good downpour

Especially when you tried to accelerate through an intersection in your Falcon with wipers going before the light turned red again!!

 

[Ron]

"Have you ever driven a car w/out seat belts? Better yet, have you driven a car w/vacuum windshield wipers?"

My 1st car (a Triumph Spitfire) came w/out belts. Thankfully, one of the few times in my life I had real foresight & installed some racing belts (no shoulder harnesses tho) cuz I had a drunk driver cross my bow in an attempt to make a late exit almost horizontal to the flow of traffic off the freeway. 1st Spitfire was history & I pulled some muscles in my back due to no harness, but I did survive. When I had kids of my own (two fantastic sons), seat belt usage was an easy teach as I told them had I not been wearing mine, they would never have existed.

Since my 1st three (3) cars were all British (two Spits & a Mini), manual chokes, needless to say, were the norm.

BTW, my 1st Mustang (& 4th car) was a '65 2+2 GT 4-spd. I looked at a '66 Shelby GT350 for $2,400 on a Pontiac dealer's used car lot, but it was an ex Hertz car w/an automatic trans. Talk about a POS!!! One of the many times in my life I had ZERO foresight.

As for vacuum wipers ... I learned to in drive Mom's '51 Ford. And the "logic" of having the wipers slow down when accelerating was not lost on me even back then. While the Ford is long gone, the key remains & currently sits in the little tray in front of the shift lever on my current Mustang.

I remember being up in the rear window area as a kid, just never sleeping up there. Hell, in SoCal, you would brown like a Thanksgiving turkey in the rear window in summertime.

I would think that the 1st car Dad ever had A/C in would have been a '55 DeSoto w/a 1st gen Hemi. Good times!!!

 

[Norm Peterson]

I just turned 52, am I a Senior ?

Dunno . . . you'd have been in high school with one of my kids for a couple of years, so maybe you should ask him . . .


Norm

 

[Norm Peterson]

Have you ever driven a car without seat belts? Better yet, have you driven a car with vacuum windshield wipers?

Yes, and yes.

How about cars with vacuum-tube radios, anybody?


Norm

 

[pyrophilus]

If that happens, it'll be because they've lost sight of what driving really is. Or never tried to see the whole picture.

It's not just about the car. Never was.


Norm

In a few decades, I recon the GT's with its 460 HP will be considered laughable compared to the latest electric propulsion tech, and I'll bet GT 350/500 will also be laughed at.

But then again, I think the comment above absolutely nails it. It's not just about the car.

I see people driving very very old classic roadsters down the road. The cars smell of gas, and are loud, and have laughably small HP, but I can see why these folks enjoy them, just as much as I will still enjoy my s550s decades from now.

 

[13GetThere]

Yes, and yes.

How about cars with vacuum-tube radios, anybody?


Norm

Mom and dad's 61 Buick Le Sabre didn't have seat belts. It did have a vacuum tube AM radio (had great sound too), and electric windshield wipers. Now my 68 M715 had vacuum wipers; what a pain in the rain. And yes, I slept in the back window of that Buick many a time.
When I started driving it, I thought it was slow with a 318 cu. in. single barrel carb and 2 speed hydromatic. That is until I ran a few of my friends with their 350 cu. in. Chevy's. I lost of course, but not by much.

 

[sobaylouie]

What age exactly is a senior?

I will be 80 in March....love my stang...Like Clint says: Don't let the old man in!

 

[20ducks]

...I get questions constantly at the car wash (typically from Audi and Beemer owners) "Sir is that your car? How do you like it?" Translation - why the hell is an oldtimer like you driving that?
It's simple - you're never too old to enjoy a well balanced platform that brings a smile to your face each time you press that button. The active exhaust simply enhances the experience.
W

BMW's are referred to as "bimmers", "beamers" are BMW motorcycles.

 

[Ron]

"BMW's are referred to as "bimmers", "beamers" are BMW motorcycles."

Not sure about "beamer", but the rough English translation for "bimmer" is "non-functioning turn signals".

 

[kinchy]

Have you ever driven a car without seat belts? Better yet, have you driven a car with vacuum windshield wipers?

Yup a 64 TR4 and a 52 Olds on the vacuum wipers. The Olds was an absolute tank

 

[PoCoBob]

I'm 62 and have a GT so I qualify. My Dad's truck the radio had tubes in it, I remember him taking it out for some reason and it was huge, about the size of a small toaster oven. My friend at school had a 1959 Prefect car and the wipers would completely stop when going up a hill because of low vacuum and the first couple cars I remember my parents having didn't have seat belts. Their first new car was 1966 Mercury Montclair and that one did have them.

 

[qwk93ta]

I'll be 58 in May. I have a GT and a Hellcat now....who knows how long I'll want to drive a manual as a DD and drag race by Hellcat. So, I got them now so I can enjoy them for a long time.

 

[frank s]

BMW's are referred to as "bimmers", "beamers" are BMW motorcycles.

Or, "Bay Em Vey".

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