You know you're getting old when...

[timothy]

...when you can remember the day that a high school kid working part-time at a Rockview drive-through dairy could afford to buy a Corvette.

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Was that you?

 

[Andy Kaminski]

One of my friends got a late 50’s decent running vette for $1,200 that had a rattle can primer paint job.
I’m like that’s a lot of money.
One of my best friends picked up a 1969 rag top GT 500 that had like a teal color paint job for $8,700 and I’m like that color is kinda ugly but I never told him that.
I did say $8,700 is a lot of damn money.

Heck back then we could still get decent used cars for 1-3 hundred dollars.
I paid $900 for an absolute mint 1969 Toronado that had just over 20k in miles and got to do payments.

 

[Ed P]

Was that you?

No, my wife's ex-boyfriend. He got the car, I got the girl That's her picture of the car.

Funny thing was, the dairy was catty-corner to her house. He could see my car in the driveway whenever I came over to visit her.

 

[Bob Bass]

By the way we will be celebrating our 53rd wedding anniversary in December.

Congratulations to you, Mike, and your lovely Bride !
We're celebrating our 50th late next month.

 

[Tim Campbell]

...when you can remember the day that a high school kid working part-time at a Rockview drive-through dairy could afford to buy a Corvette.

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And ads for .49c cottage cheese

 

[LMichaels]

 

[LMichaels]

 

[Mike Martin]

...when you can remember the day that a high school kid working part-time at a Rockview drive-through dairy could afford to buy a Corvette.

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...when you can remember the day that a high school kid working part-time at a Rockview drive-through dairy could afford to buy a Corvette.

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Yes I can. My ride in 1970. Junior in high school. Bought and paid for by me working 40 hours a week after school and Saturdays at a grocery store.

 

[MikeB]

Funny thing was, the dairy was catty-corner to her house.

Growing up in South Jersey we all said "catty-corner". Here in Wisconsin everyone gives me a hard time because they all say "kitty-corner".

 

[Joan]

Yes I can. My ride in 1970. Junior in high school. Bought and paid for by me working 40 hours a week after school and Saturdays at a grocery store.
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LOVE IT!! LOVE IT!!!!! Darn, did you like older women back then?

 

[Mike Martin]

LOVE IT!! LOVE IT!!!!! Darn, did you like older women back then?

Nope. This is my future wife, in the Corvette, our junior year. She's 2 months younger than me. Still together after 3 children and 52 years.

 

[Joan]

She looks like a sweet, adorable, beautiful young lady. LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!

 

[Steve in IA]

Yes I can. My ride in 1970. Junior in high school. Bought and paid for by me working 40 hours a week after school and Saturdays at a grocery store.
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Do you still have it?

 

[JKalchik]

She looks like a sweet, adorable, beautiful young lady. LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!

I'd definitely suspect he married UP.

 

[Mike Martin]

Do you still have it?

I wish I did. It was stock when I bought it. Should have left it alone and parked it in the barn and left it there for 30 years.

 

[Mike Martin]

She looks like a sweet, adorable, beautiful young lady. LUCKY YOU!!!!!!!

Thank you.

 

[B.A. Poole]

You know your old when you have clothes older than your co-workers.

 

[JohnTak]

When you go through your Saved Important files are for things you don’t have anymore!

 

[DanHoo]

When you still have two dwell meters and no longer have anything with points.

 

[HankBates]

My 59 Vette the day I bought it new, with my Mom trying it out.

Later that year my wife to be Patsy McFadden also trying it out

Next year (1961) we were both at an autocross with the car

Still married four kids and six grandkids later, 64 years.
Unfortunately the corvette did not last that long.....