Just saw a really weird movie last night--one of those old American International B-flicks--called "Wild in the Streets." It was about a young rock star, Max Frost, who takes over the U.S. government, first by convincing a senatorial candidate to lower the voting age to 14. This becomes a national law, and then he "persuades" Congress to amend the Constitution to where the minimum age for Congress and the presidency is also lowered to 14. (Congress becomes more receptive to the idea after Frost and his "troopers" spike Washington's water supply with LSD.)  He then runs for president (as a Republican!) and wins by a landslide, since (according to the film) 52% of the U.S. population is under 25. After he is elected, Frost then begins a program where all citizens over 35 are forced into "retirement camps" and pacified by daily doses of LSD.

Groovy!

"The Shape of Things to Come" (the theme song for the movie) actually got some airplay.  I was going to watch it but it came on at 3 am my time.

"The Shape of Things to Come" (the theme song for the movie) actually got some airplay.  I was going to watch it but it came on at 3 am my time.
This movie had two actors which recently passed away, Shelly Winters and Richard Pryor.

Aside from "The Shape of Things to Come," the music in the film was so awful that it's impossible to see how Max Frost could have become a major rock star, let alone become charismatic enough among young people to even have the slightest possiblity of spearheading a second American revolution.  Then again, the premise of the entire movie is so laughably implausible that it's not even worth nitpicking about, and that's what made it so damned funny. (The obligatory bad LSD trip scene, shot in classic 60's B-movie fashion through a fishbowl lens and with bright orange, green, and red filters, was priceless.)  ;D ;D ;D

This movie is definitely worth a look if it's on AMC or Turner Classics sometime, and even makes a good rental choice if you get a kick out of goofy B-movies (which I do).

"Don't trust anyone over 30"
I saw that movie at the drive-in when it first came out.
cool then. probably not so much now :)

Last night I saw a Target commercial with "The Shape of Things to Come" as the music.

"Don't trust anyone over 30"
I saw that movie at the drive-in when it first came out.
cool then. probably not so much now :)


Yo! Schmartypantz, yeah! I saw that movie in the drive-in too. The plot was fitting for that time with us kids changing the world not tusting the "establishment" and living with a "generation gap" and we really thought that people over thirty were not one of us the "hippy generation" " free love" " "Pot heads" "commune life" "acid trips" "Beatles" "Guru influence from india, Yogi somebody who had us doing "transidental meditaion" or something like that, remember the a- hole? " and that other Guru who was a boy who said he wanted us to give him appliances like toasters and handmixers for us to live a better life, and people fell for that crap!! HA! Ha! HA! What the hell were we thinking!!!

I think Charlie Manson saw that movie too and tried to make it a reality, his rampage mimiced the plot very closely...right? Do you remember at the end of the movie when that kid who started the camps for the over thirty people was turning into those same people when he tried to keep his younger brother in line and yelled at him for not listening to his house rules now that he put his parents in that camp and he was in charge of the house and his 10 year old borther turns to the camera and says "our generation don't trust any one over twenty years and we are going to put you all in camps"...it made you think.

Those were the days my friend, I thought they never end! bring back the 60's we were all f--ked up then but it was a fun time...HA! HA!HA!

HW

Yo! Schmartypantz, yeah! I saw that movie in the drive-in too.
What kind of car did you have back then? I'm way into classic automobiles from the 50's and 60's.  ;)

wax , you remember more of that movie than I do.

oh, and I do have a truck from the 50's that I drive daily..

What kind of car did you have back then? I'm way into classic automobiles from the 50's and 60's.  ;)


Hi AL-Bee, it was my first car when I got my license in 1964, it was a present from my parents...a 1960 Delta 88 Oldsmobile Convertible, 2 dr. Casino Cream exterior(white) with dark red interior and black rag top. 260 horsepower V-8 engine automatic trans. It was 4 years old and in showroom condition when I got it. A big car, 18 feet of car, a real beauty on wheels. I loved that Olds and still have dreams of it, I just might go and find one somewhere for sale and buy it, I'm sure it will be much more in price then the $1,200. my parents paid for it.

My father loved his cars too, he'd come home with all kinds of old cars and keep them for a while and sell them and come home with another, to many to count, but I have pictures of some of them before I was born...1933/34 LaSalle, Model "A" Ford, 37' Plymouth, 38 ' Pontiac, 47' DeSoto, 49' Mercury, 50' Olds Rocket 88'...too many, he paid pennies on the dollar to buy them and sold them the same way, if he would have kept some of them, today they be worth thousands, but back then they looked at old cars as junkers and no-one thought of them as collectables until 60's when it became big a business. His pride and joy car was his 1955 Chevy Nomad stationwagon, it was love at first sight when and bought it off the show room floor for $3,200. the day it came out in September1954. A turquoise green with a white roof beauty, a real classic car today. It was stolen and found 3 times in the 14 years he owned it. He finally dealt it to a collector from out West in 1969 for $3,000 and a 1968  Plymouth Valliant and I saw a tear in his eye when it was trucked away on a flat bed.

Do you collect old cars or just a hobby interest? and what was your first car? 

Hot Wax    

Hi AL-Bee, it was my first car when I got my license in 1964, it was a present from my parents...a 1960 Delta 88 Oldsmobile Convertible, 2 dr. Casino Cream exterior(white) with dark red interior and black rag top. 260 horsepower V-8 engine automatic trans. It was 4 years old and in showroom condition when I got it. A big car, 18 feet of car, a real beauty on wheels. I loved that Olds and still have dreams of it, I just might go and find one somewhere for sale and buy it, I'm sure it will be much more in price then the $1,200. my parents paid for it.

     That sounds like one sweet ride. I love those big old ragtops.
     
      A lot of people here seem to have this big thing for the 80's (I guess they must think K-Cars are cool or something), but I myself sometimes wish I was born 20 years earlier (I was born in 1970) and I find myself envying people your age from time to time, especially when they talk about the cars they had when they were young. Very few, if any, of today's cars have anything that even approaches the style and elegance of those that were built in the 1950's and 60's. As I once heard in a movie, "Modern cars, meh...they all look like electric shavers."
Do you collect old cars or just a hobby interest? and what was your first car? 

Hot Wax    

     I wish I had the kind of money to collect classic cars. I don't know if you've seen this, but on the Speed Channel they've been showing the Barrett-Jackson Auction, where they've been auctioning off vintage cars (the majority of which are rare muscle cars and a lot of them are going for well over six figures), and if you haven't seen it yet I give this show my very highest recommendation.

     I guess you could consider my interest in old cars to be a hobby, but I've been fascinated with them since I was a litle kid. I'm not exactly mechanically gifted, I've just always dug them. I've never had a really "nice" old car, but on my 16th birthday my sister gave me her 1971 Olds Cutlass (I guess we have something in common--we both got Oldsmobiles on our 16th birthdays!), though it was pretty rusted out when I got it and it died less than a year later. My next two cars were both 1968 Chevy Impalas, and although they too weren't in exactly the best condition I absolutely loved those cars (particulaly the second one, which was a 2-door hardtop that my brother handed down to me, which he called "The Shark.") I loved the way you could set the cruise, put one thumb on the wheel, and just ease on down the highway. My current car is a 1999 Ford Crown Vic, and a big part of the reason why I chose it was because it was the closest thing I could get to an old 60's car.

     Maybe we ought to start a new thread for this topic, I really enjoy discussing this with you.

     That sounds like one sweet ride. I love those big old ragtops.
     
      A lot of people here seem to have this big thing for the 80's (I guess they must think K-Cars are cool or something), but I myself sometimes wish I was born 20 years earlier (I was born in 1970) and I find myself envying people your age from time to time, especially when they talk about the cars they had when they were young. Very few, if any, of today's cars have anything that even approaches the style and elegance of those that were built in the 1950's and 60's. As I once heard in a movie, "Modern cars, meh...they all look like electric shavers."      I wish I had the kind of money to collect classic cars. I don't know if you've seen this, but on the Speed Channel they've been showing the Barrett-Jackson Auction, where they've been auctioning off vintage cars (the majority of which are rare muscle cars and a lot of them are going for well over six figures), and if you haven't seen it yet I give this show my very highest recommendation.

     I guess you could consider my interest in old cars to be a hobby, but I've been fascinated with them since I was a litle kid. I'm not exactly mechanically gifted, I've just always dug them. I've never had a really "nice" old car, but on my 16th birthday my sister gave me her 1971 Olds Cutlass (I guess we have something in common--we both got Oldsmobiles on our 16th birthdays!), though it was pretty rusted out when I got it and it died less than a year later. My next two cars were both 1968 Chevy Impalas, and although they too weren't in exactly the best condition I absolutely loved those cars (particulaly the second one, which was a 2-door hardtop that my brother handed down to me, which he called "The Shark.") I loved the way you could set the cruise, put one thumb on the wheel, and just ease on down the highway. My current car is a 1999 Ford Crown Vic, and a big part of the reason why I chose it was because it was the closest thing I could get to an old 60's car.

     Maybe we ought to start a new thread for this topic, I really enjoy discussing this with you.


Al-Bee, you know what I miss the most from the old cars is that you could actually tinker around with the motor and carburator and alot of the other stuff under the hood, not that I or most who owed cars were any kind of a mechanics back then, it was just the thing to do with your cars...you fix the minor stuff yourself. Adjust the idle on the carb, change your oil check your battery etc. it was what you did with your car. In some ways it brought you closer to car, you bonded to it like a good buddy, you knew it's every shake and shimmy and knew when it needed your help. You can't do that anymore with aall the cars today computer controlled cars. The Government and Ralph Nader took the fun out of owning and driving cars today un-like years ago when seat belts were a luxury item at extra cost and bumpers were chrome plated.

I can go on and compare but what's the sense? you'll never know first hand and it's not going to change. All the styles look alike from every car company, you can't tell a $10,000 car from a $50,000 car and both drive the same way too. After a lot of bugging from my wife, I bought her a new 1989 Cadillac De Ville because it's a good car and you can always identify it from 100 other cars on the road. It's now 17 years old with 42,000 miles original miles on it and in showroom condition as it sits in the garage most of it's life. I'm going to do what my father didn't do with all his cars...keep the Caddy as a collectors item and maybe in 10 more years I'll get my purchase price back out of it! but I'll only buy Cadillacs DeVilles for now on, if they don't change in style, you more car for the money and their not much more then an Impala Chevy today...compare prices you'll be surprised...I've been, because my wife is bugging me again!!

HW