Where were you 40 years ago last weekend?

i was 7 and would have been up at Lake Eildon at the Caravan and would have been doing some water skiing and motorbike riding on a mates XR75. We'd go there ever other weekend and it was great. the days before Time Share resorts on the Weir and everyone was having a great time. I was in about grade 2 and Moved house about then too.. Away from my friends from birth into a new suburb and new friends. Back when the Outer East was still Croydon which was still farm land! Roville did not exist and the Freeway finished at Doncaster! Pentridge Prison was still open and we'd have to skirt around it to get onto Sydney Rd because the Hume was still a Goat track that started beyond Kalkalo.

The neighbour across the road had just got the first Colour TV in the street and all the kids would gather there to watch Batman and Robin in colour! The Grass was SOOOOOO GREEN!!!

My bicycle was a Malvern Star Dragster with a Tbar gear shift and a big Far koff Sissy bar! Livin in the 70s was Kool! Dad drove a HQ Panel Van and mum drove an EH Wagon which we owned from New.

I was still 10 years and 11 months away..

Roofy was 26yrs old living in Queensland. He was a station hand on a property in central Queensland. Bit of droving, stock mustering and riding wild horses. Living rough out of his swag and riding bulls in rodeos. That's why he suffers a bit these days bodywise. Can tell lots of tales about those days.

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Originally Posted by biggqwesty

I was still 10 years and 11 months away..

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Same but 11 years and 6 months for me

8 yrs old, just moved to Narara from Gundagai 2 days before Christmas.
Got a new malvinstar, no gears still thought it was the bee's knees, & rode & rode my little brains out.
Arrh The good old days & a 4x4 was just about as rare as hens teeth

Touring,, mainly Nth western area in WA
You name it I was going there going places
Id been across the Nullabor 3 times and not once
was it tarred. Ah the stories,,,, come find me lol

My dad was driving a HQ station wagon which he had from new. It was his company car and doubled as the school bus for our street, could get a dozen kids in easily. He bought it off the company and kept it for years and I got to learn to drive in it.

Water Skiing on the Hawkesbury River.

This I know 'cause that was all we did for years... finish work on the Friday arvo, launch the boat, grab the sheilas and the beer, set up on the Ski Beach and ski from dawn to dusk until it was either Sun night or the money ran out for more fuel and beer

Might also add I met the love of my life and we are still
together, 31 years of wedded bliss.Her name is Lily
a hot blooded Italian, wouldn't have it any other way

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Originally Posted by taslucas

I was happily settling into retirement

>>>tappin from tassie

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Hell @taslucas you don't look a day over 85 mateAttachment 66182 you saying you retired at 45?