Let's face it. We're too blood y old - dinosaurs!

But try telling today's youth about all the 'fun' we had, and they won't believe you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

And we used to meet up without the use of a mobile phone!

DEB

I'm not quite as old as you guys but all those car photos reminded me of this, one of my favorite family photos despite the lack of quality.

Taken in Footscray in the early 1950's I think.

Love it, love it, love it, Punchie  

DEB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww&list=RDFA3Royf9_zM&index=7

Are you ready boots?  

DEB

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@lloydslights wrote:

Gawd, I'd forgotten about my little sister sleeping on the "parcel shelf".

 

Come to think of it, why is it called a parcel shelf?   Didn't the boot/trunk hold enough for the purchases of the day?

 

Remember standing on the hump in the back to see over the bench seat, and seeing kids sitting in the back of utes facing backwards.

 

DEB

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Lol, my auntie had a VW and 3 of us used to squeeze into that 'parcel ?' space behind the back seat when there wasn't room for all of us.

And it was nothing in those days was it to sit up against the back window in the ute - we used to love it ! 

And in later years when I owned a panel  van we'd to go to the drive in movies with a heap of mates hiding in the back (Shame on us).   Oh yes, those were the days.  Did things we'd never allow our kids to do these days

What a magnificent and happy thread ..... 

Oh yes, I remember mum used to be utterly disgusted in that fashion of long boots & hot pants in the middle of winter !  But I do recall we wore a jacket as well (Not a long one though !)

And pantsuits, pedal pushers and culottes (Simplicity pattern)(before the age of being allowed to drive-ins)

DEB