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]

 

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[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.