You Know You're Getting Old When…

[Jim Koepke]

A thread in the Neanderthal Haven made me think of posting this.

You know you're getting old when…

You can't remember why you have your teeth in.

You feel like taking a nap after putting your socks on.

You record your favorite programs on TV to watch again later because you are likely to fall asleep while watching them the first time.

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[Lisa Starr]

When you go to a car show and the "classics" were brand new when you were in high school.

[Kev Williams]

When you go to a car show and the "classics" were brand new when you were in high school.

back in my youth I bought a '67 Dodge Coronet R/T for $600, a '70 Dodge Coronet R/T for $1700, a '56 Ford F-100 for $1500, and a '70 Mustang Mach I for $1500...
In reasonably good condition that $5300 worth of vehicles are now worth nearly a 1/4 Million. I've seen versions of each with asking prices over $100k...

--wasn't there a 'what would you tell your 18 year old self NOW' thread not long ago?

[Jim Koepke]

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[Ed Aumiller]

My father (I think) told me to buy a new car and put it in protected storage.. When I would be ready to retire, the car would make it possible...
If I had a 1964 anything car with basically 0 miles, it would be valuable now !!! Especially if it turned out to be a classic !!!

[Jim Koepke]

My father (I think) told me to buy a new car and put it in protected storage.. When I would be ready to retire, the car would make it possible...
If I had a 1964 anything car with basically 0 miles, it would be valuable now !!! Especially if it turned out to be a classic !!!

A 1964 Mustang or Corvette would be nice.

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[Jim Matthews]

Publicity photos of performers younger than you are of old people.

[Todd Trebuna]

You start paying attention to expiration dates, almost as if you’ve suddenly got one.

[Alan Rutherford]

When you realize 1 of your lifetimes takes you back to before the start of WWII, 2 is before the Civil War and 3 is the Revolution.

[Mike Soaper]

The movie Indiana Jones is 40 yrs old, Star Wars is 44.

You remember using a slide rule in high school.

[Aaron Rosenthal]

Sorry folks, but putting a car away for 40 years will only guarantee that it’ll be junk when you go to sell it.
That Plymouth that was buried in Arizona in 1957 (if memory serves) was a brand new, time capsuled rotted out piece of junk.
Most cars need to be maintained and run to be viable.
Better off buying stock in the company.
Now me, I know I’m getting old because as I try and raise our 105th child (foster), while the wife and I are in our 70s, I keep on saying “I could never have spoken that way to an adult, more and more”.

[Ole Anderson]

Suspenders, hearing aids and comb-overs.

[Larry Edgerton]

Sorry folks, but putting a car away for 40 years will only guarantee that it’ll be junk when you go to sell it.
That Plymouth that was buried in Arizona in 1957 (if memory serves) was a brand new, time capsuled rotted out piece of junk.
Most cars need to be maintained and run to be viable.
Better off buying stock in the company.
Now me, I know I’m getting old because as I try and raise our 105th child (foster), while the wife and I are in our 70s, I keep on saying “I could never have spoken that way to an adult, more and more”.

Look up the 71 Hemicuda convertible, then and now. Just any car yes, but if you picked the right car$$$. Also who in their right mind would bury a car and expect it to be OK? Of course they need to be maintained. On the other hand the fund I was invested in just disappeared one day, so if I had it in a car I would have been further ahead.

[Kev Williams]

Funny, I know a guy in Las Vegas who has a '71 Hemi Cuda convertible. Or HAD the last time I talked with him which was several years ago. He's not an old guy so pretty sure it's still making him money. And no it's not rusting away

[Ken Combs]

Sorry folks, but putting a car away for 40 years will only guarantee that it’ll be junk when you go to sell it.
That Plymouth that was buried in Arizona in 1957 (if memory serves) was a brand new, time capsuled rotted out piece of junk.
Most cars need to be maintained and run to be viable.
Better off buying stock in the company.
Now me, I know I’m getting old because as I try and raise our 105th child (foster), while the wife and I are in our 70s, I keep on saying “I could never have spoken that way to an adult, more and more”.

Just storing it any old way is sure death. Burying it in an unsealed concrete vault is surer death. That's what was done in Tulsa. Beautiful 57 Plymouth turned to rust by extreme humidity.
On the other hand, I knew of a Chevy dealer that had several 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s cars stored in a barn, concrete floor with vapor barrier. They all brought premium prices at his estate auction.

That's no way to enjoy classics, IMNSHO.