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We had scanners to keep track of the police. Thankfully helicopters were not as ubiquitous then as they are now.


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*picturing you lot as extras in 'American Graffiti'.

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wouldn't be far from it - more like Dazed n Confused Shades LOL



the 70's...

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Cool.
That wuz my last day at school too.
'Til I went to college of course.
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I didn't imagine you'd have Cricket bats over there that long ago though.
You colonials might not be as backward as we first thought.


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- HF_SlowHand
wouldn't be far from it - more like Dazed n Confused Shades LOL



the 70's...


Dazed and Confused in high school in the mid-'70's was nothing like my experience of it....being a 24 Y.O. freshly minted combat veteran with a desire to study being unleashed on the coed population who were more used to dealing with 20 year old males who mainly focused on binge-drinking beer and trying to impress the girls. Trust me, 3-4 years doesn't sound like much, but a 24 year old veteran seriously back is school is a whole order of threat magnitude above the beer-swigging, newly away from home 19 year old when it comes to competing for the attentions of the coed part of the class structure.


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I didn't imagine you'd have Cricket bats over there that long ago though. You colonials might not be as backward as we first thought.


Well, now - that is how a Yank uses the Cricket bat but we learned from you all..


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LOL!
Who'd have thought House would evolve from that.

In Paris just now.
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Because I know you're dying to know the rest of the story (and because I've never scanned these pics before)...here's how the run with our C Gas Dragster did against a top class Gasser body....








"Sneaky" Pete Robinson's SOHC Ford car. With Kalitta, he was one of the two top Ford racers. I don't recall if this was one of the "jack" cars or not. With this meet (this is the same race at Bristol, Sept. 70 as the Garlits and C Gas car pics), he secured the AHRA All-American at Bristol.

Pete was killed in a nasty crash with the guardrail at Pomona the next year.

In the modern day of luxo transporters that are full-bore luxury coaches with tents out the side, even the top teams back then showed up with ratty pickups and flatbed trailers for their cars.



I'm not sure, but I think this was Chris "The Greek" Karamesines dragster, also at Bristol.


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