I started the Sport Compact Scene.......You?

I was still 3 years away from being born.

My dad was racing Formula Fords at Mid-Ohio at the time though.

I was 11, had a second hand light blue 10 speed Schwin and spent time in my dads 75 Ventura "Driving" and shifting gears.

In 1982 I turned 16, got my license and started driving the crap out of the family cars; a rusty POS '74 VW bug and a 1970 VW camper van that we drove from beautiful Lansing Michigan to California and back that summer.

It was kind of a pivitol year in my life because I decided then I wanted to live in Northern California eventually.

I was two years away from buying my first CRX - which was one of the first on the road in the Atlanta area.

The DD at the time was a '74 Fiat 128SL - purchased new.

That car replaced a '68 Sprite Mk IV...........

I was riding a Schwinn Scrambler around the yard and amassing a huge collection of Hotwheels, Matchboxes, and Kenner Fast1s... oh, and Stompers and Rough Riders - even had the Stomper Pulling Sled!

pete240z wrote:

wlkelley3 wrote: Uhmmm.....we were doing that in SoCal in 75.

we need pictures for proof.........I ponied up my 80's picture.

Unfortunately pics are long gone. Between 76 and 82 I knocked up my high school girlfriend, got married, finished High school, had a son, joined the army, got divorced (why I don't have said pics), remarried, my oldest daughter was born in 82 and on my way to my 4th duty station in Fairbanks, Alaska. A lot of that time (2 1/2 years) I was overseas (Korea) and couldn't drive (except the army jeep assigned to me). Was either more into partying (read wasting money on the opposite sex ) or couldn't afford cool cars because of other obligations. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

PS122 wrote: even had the Stomper Pulling Sled!

I hate you.

wlkelley3 wrote:

pete240z wrote:

wlkelley3 wrote: Uhmmm.....we were doing that in SoCal in 75.

we need pictures for proof.........I ponied up my 80's picture.

Unfortunately pics are long gone. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

LOL!

pete240z wrote: What were you doing in 1982?

Learning to walk.

In 1982 I was not even an idea (well, I guess I can't prove that) and was still 10 years away from production.

My brother was born, though.

1982 I was ballin on one these

1982 I was in middle school

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my pops was tooling us around in one of these.except his was white with blue stripes. and he had 15x8 deep dish 5 hole kidney bean mags on the back with 15x 6 in the front that he had painted white... with ladder bars the 302 with the 750 holley double pumpers...4spd. and all that jazz... 1983 we got a humongous 1972 pontiac lemans station wagon... i remeber playing Hide and go seek in that gigantic vehicle on the road trips we used to take... oh yeah I was in fourth grade

riding around on something just like this

In '82, I was riding one of these:

I was driving one of these.

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Ahhh, the 3P.......