Remembering 1979

Sounds like most of you didn't remember much from 1979.

LOL!! You got me on that one mate.

Next time I'll post "remembering 1979/Laguna Seca/Bob Tullious/Group44/TransAm/1st over all/ Triumph TR8/SCCA/ British Leyland/ etc, etc.

Just so nobody will get confused. :-)

TR8owner wrote: There will always be an England. I loved that car. Bob Tullius and Group 44 dominated Trans Am and IMSA GTO with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AavSc_ZBUEI

Don't forget John Buffum in a TR-7 V8 "prototype" just a lil bit before that..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrtHSAtqKsQ

aussiesmg wrote: Me either but the thread is about "Remembering 1979"

sorry, I got caught up in the high school years. I was interested in drag racing in 1979 and knew nothing about road racing until 1981. Is there a 1981 thread?

I was born in 79.

Let's see - 1979: Two biggest car memories:

1) Finishing 10th at Big Bend Bash SCCA National Pro Rally (what we called stage rallying back then) in a turbo Corvair. (Think it was '79 - might have been '80).

2) Standing in the woods on a spectator stage in Paris, Texas watching John Buffum blast his new TR8 (actually a TR7-V8, but who's being picky) through the woods, sounding like a berserk NASCAR stocker and seeming to defy the laws of physics by staying on the road while looking totally out of control. Then watching Rod Millen come through next in a 2nd Gen 510 (his first year in the States, virtually no one knew who he was), equally impressive and equally sideways - then checking out the road surface and noticing that there was only one set of tracks. Talk about amazing car control, the "proper" way to drive 2wd rally cars, and the realization that these guys are truly on another level than most of us will ever approach.

1979 was when Denim... and Leather brought us all together and you set our spirits free.

Woody wrote:

Those would be Keystones or slot mags if it was 1979.

Rebuilt my new-to-me Triumph in '79, and ran my first Solo II in Bridgehampton. Same place where I sat in one of the 11 built for the street GT40s, and there was this small innocuous shop off the main drag in Bridgehampton that had all kinds of Fomula car stuff, and on more than one occasion an exotic parked outside.

Saw Mick Jagger and Anny Liebowitz walking down main street in east hampton.....parents were alive, gas was cheap, and I was on my way.....time has gone by in a flash. Yup, a few grey hairs in the moustache. Now where did the hair go from the top of my head!

gamby wrote:

Woody wrote:

Those would be Keystones or slot mags if it was 1979.

Cragar S/S

TR8owner wrote: 1979? Young fella, you have no idea how many cool cars you missed. I'll think my lucky stars that I was born 28 yrs before 1979. And I'm still not totally grey yet either.:-)

Forget about cool cars, what about affordable east coast housing prices!! (another '79 guy checking in)...

I was 5,and my RX-7 is technically a 79,but it was manufactured and purchased in 78.

-C

I was born in '92.

So, yeah.. '79... memories aren't so vivid there...

slantvaliant wrote: We like whiskey, beer, and wine Senior Class of '79!

WOOT!. And we don't have gray hair either. Who else is class of '79? Margie? Tim?

Good year for Seniors. Bad year for cars.

I did my last year of school in 1979, the next year I became a Government employee

Dr. Hess wrote:

slantvaliant wrote: We like whiskey, beer, and wine Senior Class of '79!

Who else is class of '79?

Class of 1980.

All my friends from the class of 1979 were a bad influence on me.

We had a "machine shop" field trip to an Electromotive Diesel Engine plant in McCook, Illinois and this dude picks me up in his Pontiac at 7:30am and pulls an Old Style beer bottle out from under his seat and offers me one. Beer? Then I remember him stealing a giant engine valve from the assembly line. It seems like just yesterday.............