Imagine how the freeways used to sound like in 1972
Seventy teu? Let's see I owned......................
440 sixpack, 3.54 Dana, A 833, headers. The sixpack had been replaced long ago with an Edelbrock and various Holleys, mostly a 800 DP, sometimes an 850. Just under 14 MPG. You can't see in the terrible old photo, but it had the striped hood and air grabber. Aftermarket hang - on AC
The plates on the car, in fact, were obtained while home on leave in 73. My brother and his friend had died in a terrible crash in which he was driving. They weren't drinking, just out "having fun." My Dad said that "at least he didn't die in a rice paddy in 'Nam"
I don't have to "imagine" because I was THERE
AND...............evidently, for those few years in the vicinity of 70-74 that I was in San Diego, "they" were "ahead" of the curve on freeway construction, so you could ACTUALLY drive on the freeway as opposed to PARKING on the freeway.
I used to LOVE onramps. There used to be a NICE one somewhere in Mira Mesa going onto higway 15. It must have been Clairmont Mesa Blvd, but it's much different (Google Maps) than it was then!!!
Anyhow, I went sailin' around this neat little corner and this cop stopped me. I couldn't figure out what his beef was. He told me "you almost hit that curb going around the corner." My response was "I must have missed it by at LEAST a FOOT!!" He never did actually give me a ticket, but I'm sure he'd just loved to have.
AMAZINGLY I got few tickets in that car down there. (Not true when I returned to Idaho!!) Back then, the CHP was not allowed to use RADAR on the freeway. If you kept your eyes open.........
I found out that I-5, ??4?? lanes back then up N of Miramar was VIRTUALLY DESERTED early on Sunday mornings. I used to roll out and "go for a drive" up there. After I put the Sig cam in 'er that thing would crank 145. It had G-60X 15's and 3.54 gears, so it was relatively low geared for top end. 70 mph was 3000 RPM as I recall.
AND THEN came the "gas shortage" of 1973. I used to get SO PISSED. I had installed a Johnson/ Evinrude tank in the trunk, all tied down, with a pump hooked to dump the contents into the main tank.
You'd be down in a freeway "cut" look up there and here'd be about 4 signs goin' round. So you take the ramp, and the stations are CLOSED!! LOCKED!! But the damn SIGNS are still on!!!
I can remember at least TWICE I rolled into an open station and BOTH pumps were rattlin' on fumes!!
Seventy teu? Let's see I owned......................
440 sixpack, 3.54 Dana, A 833, headers. The sixpack had been replaced long ago with an Edelbrock and various Holleys, mostly a 800 DP, sometimes an 850. Just under 14 MPG. You can't see in the terrible old photo, but it had the striped hood and air grabber. Aftermarket hang - on AC
The plates on the car, in fact, were obtained while home on leave in 73. My brother and his friend had died in a terrible crash in which he was driving. They weren't drinking, just out "having fun." My Dad said that "at least he didn't die in a rice paddy in 'Nam"
I don't have to "imagine" because I was THERE
AND...............evidently, for those few years in the vicinity of 70-74 that I was in San Diego, "they" were "ahead" of the curve on freeway construction, so you could ACTUALLY drive on the freeway as opposed to PARKING on the freeway.
I used to LOVE onramps. There used to be a NICE one somewhere in Mira Mesa going onto higway 15. It must have been Clairmont Mesa Blvd, but it's much different (Google Maps) than it was then!!!
Anyhow, I went sailin' around this neat little corner and this cop stopped me. I couldn't figure out what his beef was. He told me "you almost hit that curb going around the corner." My response was "I must have missed it by at LEAST a FOOT!!" He never did actually give me a ticket, but I'm sure he'd just loved to have.
AMAZINGLY I got few tickets in that car down there. (Not true when I returned to Idaho!!) Back then, the CHP was not allowed to use RADAR on the freeway. If you kept your eyes open.........
I found out that I-5, ??4?? lanes back then up N of Miramar was VIRTUALLY DESERTED early on Sunday mornings. I used to roll out and "go for a drive" up there. After I put the Sig cam in 'er that thing would crank 145. It had G-60X 15's and 3.54 gears, so it was relatively low geared for top end. 70 mph was 3000 RPM as I recall.
AND THEN came the "gas shortage" of 1973. I used to get SO PISSED. I had installed a Johnson/ Evinrude tank in the trunk, all tied down, with a pump hooked to dump the contents into the main tank.
You'd be down in a freeway "cut" look up there and here'd be about 4 signs goin' round. So you take the ramp, and the stations are CLOSED!! LOCKED!! But the damn SIGNS are still on!!!
I can remember at least TWICE I rolled into an open station and BOTH pumps were rattlin' on fumes!!