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For some reason my school lunch box popped into my head

I had the Rat Patrol lunch box.

Do you remember retro stuff from your earlier years ?

Still have my first "LAVA LAMP"....!! My car is retro "1973 Chevy Camaro" 4barrel 35o I'm the original owner

CARLA wrote: Still have my first "LAVA LAMP"....!! My car is retro "1973 Chevy Camaro" 4barrel 35o I'm the original owner




Hows the car looking 33 yrs later ?

Still looks good and run like new..!!

CARLA wrote: Still looks good and run like new..!!








Nice :-6 Your seeing fewer and fewer of them on the road. You can still get parts or you have to go through a special parts supplier ?

Most of the time I can get parts pretty easy. It stuff like replacment seat belts and interior items that I have to special order.. !!

CARLA wrote: Most of the time I can get parts pretty easy. It stuff like replacment seat belts and interior items that I have to special order.. !!




And the lava lamp ? Can you get replacement lava ? :p

Here you go Nomad, you can but this set from a retro site for $225!

abbey wrote: Here you go Nomad, you can but this set from a retro site for $225!








Yup thanks Abbeynormal.

I lived in Fl for a few yrs and when I moved back home I took a stroll through my elementary school. Nothing had changed. Its amazing the things you remember sometimes.

I remember loads of stuff Nomad, and it's funny to see some of it came back into fashion....we had wallpaper like the piture below....

Bez wrote: I remember loads of stuff Nomad, and it's funny to see some of it came back into fashion....we had wallpaper like the piture below....




whooo thats pretty bad Bezzy

I used to have an Action Man that I was really into. I loved the Mountie outfit and the Astronaut, but it was always an ordeal putting his Cricket jumper on.

However, the MOST disturbing thing about this figure was that his name was Rodney. I named him after Ryan O'Neals character, Rodney Harrington in Peyton Place

Nomad wrote: Yup thanks Abbeynormal.

I lived in Fl for a few yrs and when I moved back home I took a stroll through my elementary school. Nothing had changed. Its amazing the things you remember sometimes.


Talking of school days....we had scratchy pens and ink wells in little recesses in the desk....just after the chalk and black slate age..

Nomad wrote: whooo thats pretty bad Bezzy


Well ...it was pretty trendy at the time...imagine the orange lampshade and brown 'dralon' 2 pc. suite that went with it...

Uncle Kram wrote: I used to have an Action Man that I was really into. I loved the Mountie outfit and the Astronaut, but it was always an ordeal putting his Cricket jumper on.

However, the MOST disturbing thing about this figure was that his name was Rodney. I named him after Ryan O'Neals character, Rodney Harrington in Peyton Place




Oddly enough this troubles me as well unc.

Uncle Kram wrote: I used to have an Action Man that I was really into. I loved the Mountie outfit and the Astronaut, but it was always an ordeal putting his Cricket jumper on.

However, the MOST disturbing thing about this figure was that his name was Rodney. I named him after Ryan O'Neals character, Rodney Harrington in Peyton Place


I never heard of a 'rich kid' action man Unc....bet he didn't get his clothes dirty very often !



I'm off to buy a bike with my bingo winnings in a minute....18 + gears on a road bike....scary... only had 3 on the last bike I had in the 1980s

oh jesus....peyton place. i remember when that was a bad thing. when we passed the book around in junior high school. it's so innocuous now.

lady cop wrote: oh jesus....peyton place. i remember when that was a bad thing. when we passed the book around in junior high school. it's so innocuous now.


A bit like Lady Chatterleys Lover and the Karma Sutra...we used to cover the books in plain paper so no one would know what we were reading....specially the parents...

oh Bez...you told on us! LOL i was so dumb as a kid i had no clue what lady chatterly was talking about! duh.

I guess thats par with looking at National Geographic for boob pics.

Bez wrote: I never heard of a 'rich kid' action man Unc....bet he didn't get his clothes dirty very often !



I'm off to buy a bike with my bingo winnings in a minute....18 + gears on a road bike....scary... only had 3 on the last bike I had in the 1980s


Don't forget the tassles on the handlebars Bez:D

And playing cards with clothes pins in the spokes...makes that groovy click clicking

Nomad wrote: I guess thats par with looking at National Geographic for boob pics.


Do you do that Nomad...tell us more !!

Uncle Kram wrote: Don't forget the tassles on the handlebars Bez:D


Looked everywhere for tassles Unc....no luck...I have bought some groovy (?) fluorescent armbands though...and some cycle clips (hehehehe) Halfords will put it together and I'm picking it up on Tuesday...can't wait to get out and 'test my nerve'.

Bez wrote: Looked everywhere for tassles Unc....no luck...I have bought some groovy (?) fluorescent armbands though...and some cycle clips (hehehehe) Halfords will put it together and I'm picking it up on Tuesday...can't wait to get out and 'test my nerve'.


On yer bike Bez

Nomad wrote: And playing cards with clothes pins in the spokes...makes that groovy click clicking


You can get little neon lights now to clip onto your spokes too!



And ToysRUs sell tassles ~ I got some for my daughters scooter!

Rapunzel wrote: You can get little neon lights now to clip onto your spokes too!



And ToysRUs sell tassles ~ I got some for my daughters scooter!


Right then...I'm off to ToyRUs tomorrow....just to please Unc.



Where can i get the 'neons' from Rapunzel ? Now I know I really am cranky

We used old playing cards with clothes pins to put them on the spokes of our bike tires, to make them sound cool!

Bez wrote: Right then...I'm off to ToyRUs tomorrow....just to please Unc.



Where can i get the 'neons' from Rapunzel ? Now I know I really am cranky


Lol! Ebay sell them for about a fiver Bez, plus p&p. But you should also be able to get them in any car/bike shop too! :-6

Happy peddling! :-6

Bez wrote: Right then...I'm off to ToyRUs tomorrow....just to please Unc.



Where can i get the 'neons' from Rapunzel ? Now I know I really am cranky


A South-Coast cyclist yesterday

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Rapunzel wrote: Lol! Ebay ell them for about a fiver Bez, plus p&p. But you should also be able to get them in any car/bike shop too! :-6



Happy peddling! :-6


Hope to be as fit as a 40 year old soon....he he !

I think I'd better get a siren and some big flashing lights as well.

If the pic. doesn't flash...click on it..

A cool basket on the handlebars too now.....................

chonsigirl wrote: A cool basket on the handlebars too now.....................


Believe it or not Chonsi they still make these....wicker or a more modern metal version....think I'll go for the carrier that goes on the back.



Basket on the front reminds me of a Miss Marples type character.

Oh, that is a pretty basket! I laughed at Miss Marple!

I miss shag carpet! I love shag carpet!:D

We had a nice pukey orange in one of the houses we lived in when I was little!

Yuch! They were so hard to vacuum!

chonsigirl wrote: Yuch! They were so hard to vacuum!


I never thought of that!

they do have a modern version now that's not as wild! LOL!