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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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True, but if ya think about it, SUV's are shorter(usually), taller station wagons.
The poor things just couldn't compete with Transformers.
Johnny Quest.
(37 minutes of good jazz here as well).
(37 minutes of good jazz here as well).
Not exclusively.
Some of them would be farm boys moved into the city, keeping their trucks.
Some were/are posers.
But there have always been lots of people around here driving trucks, and not all of them for work.
And if for work, that’s their regular vehicle as well.
Maybe we’re the exception and we probably are.
Now I have never owned a truck, pickup type.
But lots do, and have.
We had a couple of those when we were dirt poor. Saved us one winter when we couldn't afford propane. We would cover the beds with every blanket and comforter that we had, and then stick the hose without the bonnet up under the covers for about 20 minutes before we went to bed. If we woke up freezing in the night, we would put them under the foot of the covers on low until we got too warm.
And similar to the hula hoop, I never had the coordination to use this either.
We had many Micronauts when I was a kid. My brother had that one. We also had this one (darts would shoot):
This one, with the unfortunately-placed drill bit:
These dudes:
...and many others I can't remember.
The cool thing was that the parts were all interchangeable, so you could make your own Micronaut creations.
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Growing up in the '60s and '70s, mostly in Sacramento, CA, I'd say maybe every tenth vehicle or so would be a truck, a van, or an SUV like a GMC Jimmy, a Chevy Blazer, a Ford Bronco or a Jeep Cherokee. I don't even think they were called SUVs back then.
