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OT: Runaway

Remember the song, Played on the radio of my 55 Chevy. I was 20 years old, working at a dead end factory job. After 4 years in the Navy things got better. Stan
 
I wasn't there, guess I was riding around with my Dad as he sold Case machinery
 
I would have been 7 years old.

Remember listening to it in the car with mom, some at home, across the street at my cousins house, she was 3 years older and way cool!

One place it was not allowed, in the presence of my dad! He detested anything that wasn't country and the language would turn very blue!

I guess he felt the same about r&r then, as I do about rap now! LOL
 
Summer of '62 I had just finished my soph year of college, and spent the summer in Venice, Louisiana, working in the oil patch. Drove a '50 Ford flathead 8.
 
1962 Christmas Island in the Pacific south of Pearl H., on a tin can, watching the Russians watching the US explode the last above ground nuke weapons tests.
 
Painting the wagon red for Grandpa with oil based paint the day before I started the 1st grade. My brother and I were both more red than the wagon. I remember mom being very upset about that.
 
Just goin' into senior year HS. Doin' chores nite & morning for
neighbor dairy. Drivin' 53 Dodge, 4door. Heh Heh Heh. Yeah, that's whut I had!
Started every time, would waller the snow (3inthetree Fluid Drive), but had to wait
for the radio to warm up. Listening to Danny Neveritts (Sp) out of KB radio, Buffalo.
 
Where was I in 62? ? Well if this song came out in the summer of 62? , I was probably busy in training. Potty training that is, I was only about a year and a half old, lol. No wonder it seems like I have been hearing this song all of my life, I have. Good tune, Bruce
 
Finished 8th grade in May, went to work for neighboring farmer the next day. Changed irrigation pipes, put up hay, handled cattle, pretty much everything. Drove a '49 Chev pickup back and forth to work and from field to field. I could drive on gravel roads only (no cops- they didn't like the dust).

I remember the song very well, but I thought it was at a faster tempo than that. Maybe a different version? Dunno.
 
I was one year old in 62, my parents and friends always said I was born too late cause I liked the late 50?s and early 60?s music more than I did from my own generation. I was a hotrodder from the git go, drove a 57 Chevy two door hardtop in high school and a 56 Chevy two post, after school graduation I acquired a 37 Ford Coupe and through my early 20?s was giving the local law a challenge on the road
 
He spent some time in my home town, singing at the Hi Low club, the club is long gone now but there is a memorial honoring him, Runaway one of my favorite songs,
 
From 57-67 I was working on my Dad's dairy farm in N Indiana. Graduated in 67 and went to college. Dad sold the dairy in 67. Guess you could say I RAN AWAY from the dairy farm.
 
Before my time but great song and beautiful cars. Not really any cars from my coming of age years (early 90?s) would qualify as a classic or be deemed collectable lol
 
Turned 17, January '62, joined the Navy in March. Boot camp in San Diego then NAS Lemoor in central California. Best decision I ever made was joining the Navy. We won't talk about some I have made since.
 
Working my way thru college , trying to figure out which way to go in this old world. been a long time and have not figured it out yet. LOL
 
Sophomore at Ann Arbor Pioneer high school driving a '39 Ford 2 door coupe, Flathead and 3 on the floor.
 
First time I watched american graffiti told myself I need to get a car like the one Milner was driving.Saw the movie for the first time back in 1981,I was twenty years old.I think the movie originally came out in 1973,anyway went out and found myself a 1934 Plymouth five window coupe.Fixed it up and cruised the wheels off it and some late night racing as well.Years later I was at a hotrod show and Milner was there signing autographs,can't remember his real name.Told him about how the movie,him and his car inspired me to build a car and do the same thing he did in the movie.He got a real kick out of that.
Paul
 
1962 was 11 years before I was born. Never watched American Graffiti, but after seeing the cars in that clip, I think I will. Runaway has been one of my favorite songs for many years. I think it was also used on the tv series Crime Story.
 
In 62 i got my license and a 1956 Ford rag top with a 292 T Bird special and a slush box . Did not take long for the 3/4 grind isky cam the dual quads and dual point and headers to be added . But never really liked that car. I did not drive it a full year before something else caught my eye . That as a 1961 Ford Sunliner rag top . Down side was it was a six cylinder three on the tree . Just about got laughed out of school over it . Three days of taunting and we were on a quest for something else . One of the local junk yards got in a cop car that had a 352 Dual quad and a four gear and the owner of the yard made me a deal for 200 bucks he sold me everything to drop this puppy in and i mean everything , engine , trans, drive shaft rear springs ft. spring the new shocks all around complete exhaust system radiator shifter and cover plate . If i would help him remove it . I used the company i worked for pick up truck to haul everything back to the shop where i had all the tools to work with to remove and install . Two long evenings and it was done with the help from my boss . Yep it was way faster then my 56 , but the down side was i now owned a fog machine as she was and oil burner since the engine had almost 90000 miles on it and third gear scynro was weak . SOOOOooo wanting MORE horse power began the great 390 build from a brand new bare block with everything new and that could bolt on and F E ford block . The age of Horse power was upon us and one could not have enough .
 
12 years old at the time. Knew just about every make a model car at the time and what engines were offered. Same thing with tractors.
 
Building my first wood frame/rubber wheel go-kart of many. I was about 7 at the time, and kept building karts/cars and stuff all through HS.

Always had a taste for early R&R. After Army, went to college and worked at A&M records P/T in LA as an asst sound engineer(go-fer). My most famous artist was Bernie Taupin(Elton John writer/composer). I did some of the mixing on Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Bernie lived in the hills north of LA, and came down for the tapes from England where we mixed some of the tracks, and sent it back to England.
 
In early '62, I was 10 on a farm south of Boone, Colorado. I learn to drive the wheeled tractors (A, B, 450 and WD-9) the crawlers (TD-6, then D-4, then TD-18s) the trucks (KB-7 and Dodge ton) and the folks '59 Rambler station wagon.
5 years later I bought my first car. '58 Chevy, 2dr Belair, 348, 3-2s, headers and Hurst shifter.
 
I was crusin' in a '57 Chevy but not behind the wheel, was in the back seat of my grandfather's turquoise & white Belair. 4 years old at the time.
 
12 years old in 1961, when ths song was released. listening to a GE transistor radio that Grandpa gave me, while I was doing my homework. got a lot of clear channel AM stations at night, like WKBW from Buffalo, WCFL and WLS from Chicago, CKLW from Windsor, Ontario, and WOWO from Fort Wayne. some of the best music ever made.
 
I remember listening to WLS from Chicago and WOWO from Ft Wayne.

Earlier I listened to WCKY and WLW Crosley Broadcasting in Cincinnati.

During WWII, WLW transmitted at 500,000 watts. Soldiers could sometimes hear it in India.

Dean
 
I was 16 going on 17. Got a gun metal gray 57 Ford 292 hardtop for $350. Took my now wife of 52 yrs to see the movie. Loved it.
 
In 1962 I was 17 years old and driving one of the longest cars they ever made,A 1959 olds 98 4 door sedan,and listening to WLS WCFL and WMPP from Chicago_One year later I bought a 1955 chevy ,had till I got drafted in 65,and in 1966 went to vietnam
 
I was 6. Probably had a Tonka truck. Summer of 74 I had a 69 Nova SS I had a very bad 350 with a four speed.
Ron
 
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