The guitar helped me serenade my now wife the day we met, is a source of happiness entertaining people, and inspired me to write songs.Thank you Ace Frehley. R.I.P.
It was a learning experience and I became a little less naive and a little more cynical.
Out of a group of four of us the youngest guy was 15 and he avoided the ticket by hiding in the bar bathroom.
For me it was The White Mountains by John Christopher and the two other books in this trilogy. Science fiction immediately became a fascination for the rest of my life.
Bought 4 of these at a flea market for 12 bucks. Year date on the bottom is 1973 and 1975. They look brand new. This stuff is indestructible.
I had two. A mint 1968 Galaxie 500 and then a gorgeous 1971 Satellite Sebring Plus with a 383. Smashed up the Galaxie and sold the Satellite. What an idiot I was.
I had on old Ford Falcon that had no emergency brake, steel wool stuffed in the tail pipe in lieu of a muffler, the manual shifter would come out of the steering column and was eventually replaced with some vice grips, no shocks, a hard pull to the left, and used oil from from another vehicle when that one had an oil change. But that sucker had a straight six that would start every day even if it was 40 below outside and not plugged in. Got pulled over once by a holstein who found everything wrong with it, but that's another story.
Edit: So many great stories! Bring back memories for me. Will try to read them all but there are so many!
I would sit there and listen to the signal fade in and out for a long time knowing I was hearing something very special.