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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2022, 06:47:24 PM »
Just an observation...

Kind of odd that people that have expressed anti-"democrat" viewpoints on the forum are joining groups that financially support them.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/aarp/summary?id=D000023726


But I guess its worth the 10% at Dennys.

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Never had (or will have) AARP due to their political viewpoints. I also don't spend my money going to the movies which only puts my money in their pockets to spend on their liberal causes.
Most places have a senior discount without an AARP card.
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Mine: GT1 Mustang Track Toy, 1998 SVT Cobra, Wife's: 2004 Tbird
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« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2022, 09:12:40 PM »
^^ Agreed.   

Remember when 50 seemed so old, and seniors were woefully out of touch?   

Now 50 seems so young, and (most of) the old timers are the smartest people around.   
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2006 FGT. Tungsten. Whipple, HRE 20s, Ohlin coil-overs, 3.90 gears. 210.7 mph.

Kirkham Cobra. 482-inch aluminum side-oiler. Tremec 5-spd.

Formerly:
1968 GT500KR #2575 (1982-2022)
1970 Ranchero GT 429
1969 LTD Country Squire 429
1963 T-Bird Sport Roadster
1957 T-Bird E-model 3-spd stick

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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2022, 09:49:13 PM »
Found this post by FLSAAC on another site  ;D

I've sure gotten old!​

I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,​

new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes​

I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,​

take 40 different medications that​

make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.​

Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation;​

hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.​

Can't rem emb er if I'm 85 or 92.​

Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,​

I still have my Florida driver's license.

At the end of that it should have said
"By the time I get to the car to go somewhere I've forgotten where I was going so I just go back inside and can't remember why I'm there either "

       Roy
If it starts it's streetable.
Overkill is just enough.

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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #18 on: August 30, 2022, 09:10:09 AM »
Found this post by FLSAAC on another site  ;D

I've sure gotten old!​

I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,​

new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes​

I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,​

take 40 different medications that​

make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.​

Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation;​

hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.​

Can't rem emb er if I'm 85 or 92.​

Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,​

I still have my Florida driver's license.

At the end of that it should have said
"By the time I get to the car to go somewhere I've forgotten where I was going so I just go back inside and can't remember why I'm there either "

       Roy



Actually you think you went and have arrived back home....lol
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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #19 on: August 30, 2022, 02:07:23 PM »
A number of years ago I was still in my 40s I contacted a company concerning the comics they printed, it was Rip Off Press and the

 comics  were "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". The lady I spoke to on the phone (no internet yet !) said you're a COF, I said

 whats that ? she said Certified Old Fart !   ::)   ;)

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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #20 on: August 30, 2022, 04:58:15 PM »
I have to admit (so far!) I have not inherited my parents old age issues like needing glasses, back problems, etc.
Past owned Shelby's:
1968 GT-350--Gold
1970 GT-500--#3129--Grabber Orange.
Current lifelong projects:
1969 Mustang Fastback/FOX chassis, 5 speed, 4 wheel discs, with a modern Can-Am 494 (Boss 429), Kaase heads, intake with a 1425 cfm 'B' Autolite Inline carb, ala Trans-Am style
1968/70 Olds 442 W-30

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« Reply #21 on: August 30, 2022, 07:39:22 PM »
I have to admit (so far!) I have not inherited my parents old age issues like needing glasses, back problems, etc.
Neither of my parents needed glasses - except my mom in her late 70s for reading.
My sister needed them in elementary and I got them in high school.
My dad had back problems as do I - but they were both injury caused not hereditary.
Everybody in the family lives past their mid 90s - my dad's 3great grandmother is the family record holder she was 103 when she died in 1871. They figured she lived so long because she never left the farm so she wasn't exposed to illnesses.
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« Reply #22 on: August 30, 2022, 07:45:20 PM »
Years ago i went to get my first passport, since they required either a certified copy or my original raised seal birth registration ( i was born in DC and they don't have birth certificates only birth registration certificates)  I had my original registration and the hospital issued birth certificate ( not good for any form of ID but looks cool)
The Birth Registration is printed on the cheapest paper available and in in BIG BOLD LETTERS along the top it says "This certificate is good effective March 1st, 1907"  The local post office would not accept it and I had to go into DC to the main Passport Office  to submit it. The older gentleman at the information kiosk said he had not seen an original certificate in almost 15 years. The certificate is the same one that both my mother, father in law and mother is law and my wife all had. They apparently ran out of them in the early 50's but it still makes for a crazy conversation piece.
P.S. I am not 115 years old    yet
Owned since 1971, now driven over 245,000 miles, makes me smile every time I drive it and it makes me feel 21 again.😎

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« Reply #23 on: August 30, 2022, 10:33:09 PM »
P.S. I am not 115 years old    yet
Give it a week....... or two  ;D
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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2022, 11:05:40 AM »
 ;)

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« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2022, 03:13:34 PM »
Living RENT FREE in your minds...

Home of the Hertz Musketeers 

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs.  It's jolted by every pebble on the road

I have all UNGOLD cars

I am certainly not a Shelby Expert

Life is short B happy

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« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2022, 03:13:55 PM »
I guess I am officially an 'OLD FART' since I just joined AARP...and using the discounts! Wow, where did the time fly bye to...?


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Living RENT FREE in your minds...

Home of the Hertz Musketeers 

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs.  It's jolted by every pebble on the road

I have all UNGOLD cars

I am certainly not a Shelby Expert

Life is short B happy

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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2022, 03:47:17 PM »
;)

And us old arts still drive those cool cars but our heads may have smaller wigs, or none, now. 8)

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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2022, 12:09:37 PM »
;)




Great picture...That could have been me in the 1980s! I had the Robert Plant hair, drove/raced Fords, was a dumb skinny kid, (did semi dumb shit), chased the girls...Fast forward to 2022..have some of my hair, still drive/race Fords, gained a few pounds (not too much!), dont do dumb shit anymore (now much smarter/wiser!), still chase the girls. So, some things never change. LOL
Past owned Shelby's:
1968 GT-350--Gold
1970 GT-500--#3129--Grabber Orange.
Current lifelong projects:
1969 Mustang Fastback/FOX chassis, 5 speed, 4 wheel discs, with a modern Can-Am 494 (Boss 429), Kaase heads, intake with a 1425 cfm 'B' Autolite Inline carb, ala Trans-Am style
1968/70 Olds 442 W-30

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Re: Im an OLD FART!
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2022, 03:33:04 PM »
Meaningful quote:


" I had a lot more fun being 20 in the '70s than I'm having being 70 in the '20s." 
-Joe Walsh

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