What is this part?

[70NPORT]

Yep, couldn't agree more. At least we had the decency to stop running them when he died....

I had to google the name to find out who this dude was, DAAAAAMN!! dude had HUGE titanium balls for sure. I love the get up he wore. I wish America still had guys like that running around these days. Man I really missed a good party.

 

[polara71]

I had to google the name to find out who this dude was,

Your kidding? There really is a generation stop gap from guys that were born after 1973

 

[70NPORT]

Your kidding? There really is a generation stop gap from guys that were born after 1973

Dude, my early memories starts at around the 1980s,-1 or 2. I'm supposed to remember Evil K. like I was there, really?

 

[polara71]

Yes, surely you heard the name before now

 

[70NPORT]

yes, I've probably heard the name in passing before, don't know when or where.....never thought to google him. Christ you were only 10 or so when he was popular right??

 

[Zymurgy]

Hear is one of my all time favorite toys growing up. I was probably 7 or 8 when I got it. It was an event every time he was on TV. I think he was usually on the Wide World of Sports (look that one up too). I can remember that the jumps must have been live, because my Mom would tell me that what he was doing was very dangerous and he could die.

 

[70NPORT]

THAT's cool. Here's one of mine, although it was not a car.....

Played with this thing in my room for hours a day when I wasn't in school...wish I still had it.

 

[Stormer]

My cousin had one of those wind up deals. Yep, I remember watching Evil on wide world of sports.

It was pretty sad seeing him at the end of his life. He was a real mess physically.

 

[Zymurgy]

If he had the suspension of today's bikes, I don't know what he could have done. It seemed rare that he didn't crash after a jump. We will never see someone take the risks that he did, without the aid of a computer and a superior bike. I don't know how he didn't kill himself.

 

[Zymurgy]

THAT's cool. Here's one of mine, although it was not a car.....

Played with this thing in my room for hours a day when I wasn't in school...wish I still had it.

I had to look up the Star Bird. It definitely took advantage of Star Wars influences, but I find it interesting because today nothing is made that doesn’t have a direct movie reference.

 

[70NPORT]

I had to look up the Star Bird. It definitely took advantage of Star Wars influences, but I find it interesting because today nothing is made that doesn’t have a direct movie reference.

Yeah...Star Wars toys and rip offs were big during my adolescence....he'll they still are. Oh to be George Lucas.

 

[commando1]

Your kidding?

X 1,000! That is down right FN scary. You claim you don't need to know ANY pre-80's culture??

 

[1978 NYB]

Wow, our toys when I ws growing up were BB guns, wooden clothes pins holding playing cards hitting the spokes of our bikes, and we had lead paint chips for snacks.

 

[polara71]

I may have only been 10 but I remember all that stuff .....

I remember the late sixties too whats your point?

 

[1978 NYB]

I saw E.K. jump a tank full of sharks in Chicago in 1975 on this H.D.

 

[polara71]

You were there?

 

[1978 NYB]

Yep, he was a big promotion for H.D. (Milwaukee) so all of his jumps were highly advertised and on the local news. Yep, I was there with my brother, I was 20 then. He jumped buses in Milwaukee several times seen all but one of them.

 

[70NPORT]

X 1,000! That is down right FN scary. You claim you don't need to know ANY pre-80's culture??

WyTF is that so hard understand??? No I didn't grow up on Howdy Doody or goddamn Frosted flakes ok...can't stay 1951 forever.

 

[commando1]

WyTF is that so hard understand??? No I didn't grow up on Howdy Doody or goddamn Frosted flakes ok...can't stay 1951 forever.

NO?? :crybaby2: Why? :icon_sad:
Ya know, Pamela keeps swearing at me about the same thing. Only she's been listening to me whine for almost 30 years. And she's getting sick of hearing how I held on to my rotary dial phone with dear life.

 

[70NPORT]

She must really be an angel and sees something in you. God bless her soul.