YES! Banana seats, sissy bars, SLICKS with redlines....You know what I'm talking about. Just think of all these kids who will never know the treasures we knew! It's like we're living on another planet from the one we grew up on, isn't it? Its like we know it and we want everyone else to know it. It's not that Play Stations and X Boxes are bad....but they will never be a stingray. They will never be a rubber innertube on a hot day at the lake with nuthin' to do except listen to Chicago and Yes and Led Zeppelin on the radio.

*sigh*

:)

AMEN!!! I teach the kiddos in public school. I use references from my life at times. The blank stares scare the heck out of me sometimes. To think that the youth has no clue about Watergate, Nixon, the HotDog car, Big Daddy Roth, Quisp and Quake, the Frito Bandito, the TV guide issue that announced the new season of Saturday Morning cartoons - complete with overviews and pictures (oh Scooby Doo), gazing entranced at the LARGE lyrics and pictures (and sometimes posters!) that made up the album packaging, ... oh man. I'm moving.

I couldn,t agree with you more o-lugs & mcjnic, there were stingrays all over the yard during the summers, thats why my son and myself are restoring his 1973 Dodge Challenger he had in High School. The new Challenger just doesn,t do it for me or him, the SOUND doesn,t equal the bigblock carburetor engine of his old (think vintage) Challenger.

PS:Don't forget Little Feat,Roy Oberson, Dion and all us VINTAGE guys that played their music. It was one good trip and is still alive!

TOM - Drummer

Depends on your ageflower

My Stingray was, of all the colors you could get, Green, Blue, Red, Orange, Silver METAL FLAKE, it was Blue...and my brother had a green one. Then anyone remeber the chrome Mattel with shocks? Oh yeah, I had one of those, and several Daisy pump BB and pellet guns, bith sizes, .177 and .22 cal. Shooting frogs for the legs and selling them, iced down in baggies, on the corner instead of lemonade....hunting turtles in the canals and selling the ,eat...oops, I kinda got carried away. And Ozzy, Deep Purple, Grateful Dead...Eagles...

What makes it vintage? the smell haha

Don't you think that's a little bit of sentimentality?

No disrespect, to older drums, I love my kents, ludwigs, I had a set of '70s Pearls and I have several vintage (I think) Gretsch snares, '60s, I have been searching for a great, affordable, Gretsch or Rogers kit. I love those drums and I love playing them. I gig with the ludwigs, jazz, and get great feedback from the other musicians and audience members about the sound. I have a real respect for what we probably all agree is vintage.

Banana bikes??? What about those big fat tire touring bikes of the '50s, what about those skinny tire, curled handlebar racing bikes of the later 70s, or the titanium mountian bikes of the 80s? It's purely subjective, each generation has it's sentimental attachments and insists that the next generation just will never understand. I hear my Dad talking about the cars, and music, and movies of the '40's and '50s and I appreciate some of that stuff, but he thinks Zeppelin and Floyd are crap! I think when we are all long gone, the next generations will decide what is vintage. I think to say that nothing made after a certain date will ever be vintage, well maybe that's true to you and I but we can't say what future drum guru's will decide.

I know guys who collect "vintage" macs, and macbooks. Are they really vintage? Who says?

I guess I originally asked the question "What makes it vintage?" because I've seen the term abused, like on ebay and craig's list. It sounds nicer than saying Old or used, so people use it to make a sale.

I agree that vintage is characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal, and maturity is really age, enduring appeal is subjective, excellence while less subjective is still in the eye, or ear of the beholder to some extent.

Banana bikes?

What about hot wheels, the original ones, like the '69 stingray, sure beats sitting in front of a screen playing Grand Theft Auto, but that's just my opinion.

The first series was released in 68 and included the 69 corvette.

Funny you should say, because I realized that as soon as I hit "submit reply"

It also included the firebird and the couger, not sure what years but they were great.

That premier run of Hot Wheels gave us the first look at the new corvette. Imagine, a kids toy revealing the new model of automobile. Totally cool. I had those, and every one of 'em after that until about 75. I also had all of the Major Matt Mason toys. Talk about cool! That bubble vehicle that attached to the space crawler was the best toy ever.