How aggravating is it to go to the gas pump and spend upwards of $3 a gallon for fuel when just a few decades ago you could pull up and fill your tank for less than $7? Aside from that, what has happened to the full-service lane at the pumps? Long gone are the days that an attendant checked your oil and kicked your tires. The world has slowly slipped away from being a culture of people caring about other people and affordable gasoline. It's not uncommon to become melancholy thinking of the times long gone.
If you think back to the cars of 1966, there were some pretty bold styles along with some pretty famous duds. What did you need out of a vehicle, though? Were you trying to look more hip than anyone else at the malt shop, or were you trying to haul feed to your chickens? The more things change, the more they stay the same. People's choice of transportation is often one of those things.
Take a moment and place yourself in a driver's seat in 1966. Breathe in the surroundings, including the vinyl seats and leaded gas. What were you doing? Where were you going, and what were you listening to on the radio? Take this quiz and find out if we can guess what you were driving. The results might be startling accurate!
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Reminiscing on your travels, on what road would you most likely be found?
The Pacific Coast Highway, searching from some tasty waves
County Road 400 in Indiana, heading to the grain store
Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, heading for Wrigleyville
The Pennsylvania Turnpike, heading to a football game
Before the wild, scary age of the internet, people got their information from magazines and newspapers. What would be the subtitle under the picture of your car on the cover of Motor Trend?
The census maps have drastically changed over the years, and what used to be a cornfield is now a Fleet Farm. Where did you live before urban sprawl set in?
An inland paradise called Twentynine Palms, California
Concord, a lovely suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina
A rural community called Fryeburg, Maine
Colfax, Virginia. As if there's anywhere else in the world to live!
The cinema was huge in the late '60s, with all varieties of movies being introduced to the public. If a film was made about your car, what would it have been titled?
Although you loved your vehicle and chose it as the perfect mode of transportation for you, what is one thing you remember wishing had been different about it?
You wished that people didn't touch the paint.
You wished there was a bigger fuel tank.
You remember wishing people didn't protect their children when you drove by.
You wished you could squeeze an extra person in the back seat.
Vehicles weren't just a medium for you to look cool in. They were also practical to haul stuff. What do you remember transporting the most in your vehicle?
Two surfboards, one sleeping bag, a cooler and a large dog named Jack
A couple of bales of hay and a sack of modestly priced chicken scratch in an asbestos bag
A designer overnight bag and a passenger who talked incessantly about "Star Trek."
Three kids and seven sacks of groceries in paper sacks that would break the second you tried to pick them up
Science fiction movies and television programs were really picking up steam back then, and time travel was a common theme. If you were to time travel, what year would you travel to and what vehicle would you select?