Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555 
Club RR Member Number: 33
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One can only assume that the intention here was to focus on the American tin, and the quality period feel of these photos. And the 1100/1300 in the background  |
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Paul Y
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I have quite a lot of family in the USA and somewhere in my pile of tat I have a home movie of cruising Van Nuys ( can you all stop sniggering please) Will dig it out and post it up - not sure of the year but it will be early 70's as that's when my Uncle Bill moved to California and he wanted to show us all at home how different it was Awesome pictures, subscribed for more. P  |
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“Welcome Back” Brian Nice post. More? Paul Y waiting to see your cruising. |
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Everything 4 wheeled I love in one post
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I've seen a lot of these photos before but they're always worth revisiting. I really illustrates how different the US was to Britain. Cars are/were so much more ingrained into youth culture over there. It's also worth remembering that most of the cars there were domestic models, less than ten years old. Obviously they've become classics now but at the time they were probably well within the budget of someone in their teens or early 20s with no other responsibilities.  Somewhere on the HAMB there's a thread titled something like "What were you driving in high school?" (I can't track it down now) which underlines that cultural gap even more. From a UK perspective it seems hard to believe that teenagers too young to buy a drink can still drive V8 powered rods and customs- or even afford to. |
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