The under 40 crowd probably just won't "get" it...

[Daytona R/T SE]

...But THIS is what planet Earth looked like when I was younger...


http://upintherear.tumblr.com/



I even spotted a familiar face on there...

[Fred]

Groovy Man! I spotted a familiar face too.  

One of them looks (oops looked) like me.............or do (did) I just look ike him.

[RallyeMike]

Ouch - Crunched Daytona nose in there.

Yea - The jacked up shackle-fied cars are still the first ones I go look at. 

[Finn]

That's pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

[tan top]

  ...       cool stuff thanks for posting 

[Hemidog]

Love it!

[Road Dog]

Folks didn't trim the shrubs much back then. 

[terrible one]

Man that is a great blog. I love the styles of that era

[BrianShaughnessy]

Nice! 

   My 30+ year old air shocks in Sinnamon still work...  they're staying... along with the yellow traction action slapper bars 

[41husk]

very cool!  I wish those times were back

[68coronetGLwannabe]

That Black 57 Chevy at the top is Bad to the bone. Love to have! There is a few pics of MoparStuart on there. 

[PocketThunder]

I was the little kid on the hood.  I just caught the end of that era...

[Daytona R/T SE]

There is a few pics of MoparStuart on there. 

That would be the familiar face I was refering too...

[moparstuart]

There is a few pics of MoparStuart on there. 

That would be the familiar face I was refering too...

  i guess i should go watch them all   

[nvrbdn]

  i think ive gone home.

[moparstuart]

yup me from  1984 with my mullet and my 70 R/t charger first car  and my B-3 blue 69 road runner

[twodko]

I agree....that black jacked up 57 Chevy coupe and that black Nova are my "back in the day" street racers. 

[bakerhillpins]

 

Those brought back a few memories... I was one of the little kids during that era but wow do those pics cause some flashbacks.

Thanks for posting! Going to loose a few hours in there.   

[4cruzin]

Pretty cool stuff!   

[oldgold69]

been there did most of that   i love the old pictures, out focus, over exposed    didn't matter what it was put cragars on it was cool  i like the green charger with new slots on the back and stock rims and caps 

[chargermike]

that was my world. loved those days.

[Tilar]

Man, that's pretty cool. 

[squeakfinder]

      Yeah, that's pretty cool. Makes me wish I would of taken pictures of everybody's cars back in highscool.

[BBKNARF]

Right on ! cool post 

[RallyeMike]

I agree....that black jacked up 57 Chevy coupe and that black Nova are my "back in the day" street racers.  2thumbs

My pal in high school had one that had the same stance but was silver. It was cool. On the way to school one day the entire axle and springs came out from under the back of the car.    Now that I think of it, I never asked him how the hell that happened.

[69rtse4spd]

Love it!

Coolsville man.

[BigBlockSam]

 

[FlatbackFanatic]

Very cool link. Those were the good ole days..

[red69superbee]

Now thats the best picture album ive seen in a while!! Loved it!

[kokxville]

Yes,I "get" it!I just wish i was 10 years older,so i could remember those days 

[nvrbdn]

ah, those days. we had 8 guys that would cruise around together alot that were mopars.when we came up on someone on the side of the road with the hood up we would all pull over and walk up to the car and look under the hood. then one of us would say " gee, shoulda got a mopar" and walk away.

[kokxville]

ah, those days. we had 8 guys that would cruise around together alot that were mopars.when we came up on someone on the side of the road with the hood up we would all pull over and walk up to the car and look under the hood. then one of us would say " gee, shoulda got a mopar" and walk away.

That's was cool,but in the eighties it was the other way around with the omni,horizon etc.Those cars were crap.
That's what i remember 

[nvrbdn]

ep, i remember those days too. i actually bought an 88 chevette for my car. disco and lame cars. that was the 80's

[kokxville]

 

[471_Magnum]

I wasn't old enough to drive yet, but I can remember those cars lurking around when I was just a wee lad. I was born about 10 years too late.

[Todd Wilson]

Great site! I remember a lot of that stuff in the 70's and lucky for me I was able to drive on the tail end of that era in the 80's.


Todd

[Cooter]

I remember when cars were jacked up and looked like Dogs sniffing the ground, even had a '65 Satellite with air shocks, traction bars, etc.

Drove it to HS in 1987. Still think Centerline Auto Drag wheels, satin finish, are the coolest wheels.
Boy, if i only knew what I know now back then, I might have been king-o-the hill instead of just another "Squirrel" at the local street scene.

[Budnicks]

...But THIS is what planet Earth looked like when I was younger...


http://upintherear.tumblr.com/



I even spotted a familiar face on there...

Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Oh yes the bell bottoms & long hair, chemically altered states, jacked up cars, tunnel rams, scantily dressed promiscuous women of the late 60's to 70's era, I don't miss some of the circus paint jobs or the bell bottoms, but I do remember, "when sex was safe & racing was dangerous", I do miss the cars being available for reasonable prices, buying Charger's Roadrunner's GTX's Dart's Demon's Fury's Barracuda's Camaro's Mustang's 442's GS's, you name it all day long for $300-$1500 here in Calif., our parts suppliers shipping & availability, plus knowledge is much better now though...

[dkn1997]

bunch of sissy bitches with your traction bars and "ass up" stance!

...Me at age 16 the day I picked it up from a fresh Earl Sheib 1/2 off winter special, that's right, I paid 50 bucks for paint job.  1986:

[mrsskip68]

And your leaning against the "fresh"  paint,.......    

[nvrbdn]

 

[PocketThunder]

Check out this 69 on ebay right now. 

[XS29LA47V21]

  

Nice stack,
yeah, wish I had taken more photos too, film was expensive (it seemed at the time and I guess it was looking back). 

I had not thought about the pintos (& mav's etc) in a while, interesting to see photos again reminding me how common they were in the area at the time with 302s dropped in, cheap go fast and lots of novas/other cheby's, not that many mopars where I was (that I knew of). 

I remember dreaming of cars and girls in the 70s but didn't start drivin' until the 80s..............

Here is my first Charger, loved those slots..

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

bunch of sissy bitches with your traction bars and "ass up" stance!

...Me at age 16 the day I picked it up from a fresh Earl Sheib 1/2 off winter special, that's right, I paid 50 bucks for paint job.  1986:

LOL @ Earl Scheib    Friend of mine had his car painted at a Maaco once - same idea on paint/quality... Anyways, while washing the new red paint job, it flaked in sheets 

[Fred]

bunch of sissy bitches with your traction bars and "ass up" stance!

...Me at age 16 the day I picked it up from a fresh Earl Sheib 1/2 off winter special, that's right, I paid 50 bucks for paint job.  1986:

LOL @ Earl Scheib    Friend of mine had his car painted at a Maaco once - same idea on paint/quality... Anyways, while washing the new red paint job, it flaked in sheets 

what happened then?

[TK73]

That is some COOL Sheet!!   


Saw a cheapie Shieb job once on an AMC they painted right over bird sh!t on the trunk...

[nvrbdn]

  thats funny. encasing it in paint.

[Indygenerallee]

Awesome! Im 32 and I remember as a little kid in the early 80's seeing as I would call them "Hot Wheels" because they had Hot wheels cars that had a lever that would raise the cars rear higher!!  If I did not build my General Lee I always wanted a 69 Daytona all jacked up on 15x10 Cragars on the rear and some 14x8 Cragars on the front give it that look!!!

[hemi68charger]

Very cool........ 

[Chryco Psycho]

Great site & memories 
I was able to snag a number of good deals on used cars but by the time I could drive the best new vehicles available were the Aspen R/T or Volare RR & the Warlock trucks , I did eventually get a Warlock , the bank turned me down 1/2 dozen times when I first tried to get one but I bought one in 85 , always prefered the Warlock to the Lil Red as you could option big blocks , manual trans & 4x4 into a Warlock , mine was an E58 360 4spd 4x4

[dkn1997]

bunch of sissy bitches with your traction bars and "ass up" stance!

...Me at age 16 the day I picked it up from a fresh Earl Sheib 1/2 off winter special, that's right, I paid 50 bucks for paint job.  1986:

LOL @ Earl Scheib    Friend of mine had his car painted at a Maaco once - same idea on paint/quality... Anyways, while washing the new red paint job, it flaked in sheets 

they painted right over the front parking lights.  I guess the rule was below the bumper: not my problem lol.  I gotta say other than that, the paint job itself was pretty good. no runs, and where my bodywork didn't totally suck, it looked good lol.

[Old Moparz]

Cool web page, it even has a couple of photos on it that I took.   

The high up back end was definitely a cool look until you got to drive a car set up like that. Hitting the brakes & making a sharp turn would double your heart rate!   

And what about traveling along the highway that was concrete pavement, rolling on bias ply tires & having the joint in the pavement between lanes grab your tire & send you left & right?

[myk]

I got the part about the bikini girls and the street tubes...

[Bob T]

Cool web page, it even has a couple of photos on it that I took.   

The high up back end was definitely a cool look until you got to drive a car set up like that. Hitting the brakes & making a sharp turn would double your heart rate!   

And what about traveling along the highway that was concrete pavement, rolling on bias ply tires & having the joint in the pavement between lanes grab your tire & send you left & right?

With drum brakes 
Pretty cool site anyhow

[MOPAR FANATIC]

  I remember those days and wish i could go back in time.heck the 71 chally i'm restoring still has the 5 slot aluminun mags on now.the list of cars that were around in my small hometown of michigan:
70 aar cuda
69 roadrunner 440 4sd
my 70 charger 383 a/t
68 roadrunner 383 4spd
69 1/2 super bee 440-6 4spd
2 more roadrunner 440 4spd
69 superbee 383 4spd
my 71 charger 383 a/t tx9 triple black{still wish i had this one}
69 chevelle 454 4spd
68 camaro 4spd
69 roadrunner 383 4spd
those were the days,alot of drag racing went on back then on a strecth of highway out of town.still remeber being the flag man on many runs.
1 can still remember my buddy beating me to the AAR CUDA WHEN THE GUY SOLD IT FOR $500.00 back in 1979.
damn that still burns my butt. lol