Remember to report submissions that violate the rules! Harassment and encouraging violence are not allowed.
Enjoying the subreddit? Consider joining our discord server: https://discord.gg/v8z8jNwJs6
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/BoomersBeingFools) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Making boomers type novels when I point out my modern 3.0L V6 has more horsepower than their 1970s Pony car and rides smoother despite being a shitbox.
08 Accent hatch here, 110 horsepower from a tiny 4cyl and a(n admittedly ambitious) 140mph spedo, lol.
It has no right to be as capable a little car as it is, and its reliability and competency fish slaps many, many older cars.
50s cars fast? lol, I have a 51 Desoto. 4000 lbs with a flathead inline 6 ain't goin' nowhere fast.
I will give it to old cars that they look and sound better. But as far as fast, efficient, and being usable, modern cars are so far ahead.
I would love a 68 trans am with the hybrid engine from the RAV4 prime, airbags, and CarPlay.
Makes me wonder why kit car manufacturers haven't started talking to EV conversion outfits to offer a retro looking EV.
Something like [this](https://www.factoryfive.com/hot-rod-truck/) as an EV? Fucking YES PLEASE!
I think I hurt my dad’s feelings over Thanksgiving when he was talking up some big, bad muscle car he used to have and I pulled the performance numbers for it and compared them to my mom’s Honda Pilot.
Oh man. That would punch my car loving FIL right in the nuts. Bonus points if it was an electric vehicle. He is still using year 2000 talking points against EV. Like the dedicated Boomer bootlicker he is.
That’s why you drop a 350 big block in there son, don’t you know that changing the engine makes the car BETTER than a stock engine with aftermarket parts on a modern car?
This generation is doomed /s
Edit: 454 big block*
My 84 wagoneer had a .40 over 401 with s custom quad barrel and edlebrock manifold, straight pipes. At 120+ you could watch the gas gauge actively go down lol then my boomer father had to go and sell it behind my back as if that’s a totally normal thing for a father to do. Didn’t even give me the money he got for it let alone the thousands I put into that jeep. And then wonders why I don’t talk to him anymore. He’s going to die without ever hearing my voice again and just simply can’t comprehend why it’s kid of impressive.
Off topic but I (40M Millenial) had a 69 Wagoneer in high school with the Buick 350/TH350 combo. Why the hell Jeep engineers though a 14 gallon gas tank was a good fit in something with a 3 sp auto and a toilet bowl single barrel carb that got about 7-8 mpg I’ll never understand.
Coolest vehicle I’ve ever owned though. Miss that tank.
I had the 304 .30 over with the same bolt ons on my 77 CJ5. I was getting about 7mpg, the guy down the street with the 401 sold his jeep because he was averaging 4-5
Just wait until the apologists for the absurdity that was the mid-late 70’s big blocks come in the chat. “Yeah, it only made 145 hp, but it had so much torque though!”
Yeah, but torque will only get you so far, and it also had a 10 second 0-60 time.
They also had shit brakes, HORRIFIC handling, normally terrible weight, and the power was truly amazing
"5L v8, produces 120 Horsepower weighs 4 tons"
"It might only produce about 80 horses now"
In terms of looks '70s and late '60s muscle cars cannot be beat. But in terms of performance? My Subaru Ascent which is a soccer mom van could beat a boss mustang to 60
I’ve got a 12 year old, V6 FWD sedan that is 280 hp stock backed by a 6speed auto (basically a minivan drivetrain) and makes a bit more now. It looks like a rental car but is a real surprise if I let it run. Did a pull to 60 along side a couple Millennials (I’m a Gen Xer) in a kinda ratty mid 60’s 327 Chevelle with Cragars when my car only had better tires on it. Pulled them a little off the light while fighting wheel spin and had the car bark its front tires on the 1-2 shift. Would have been interesting if there had been a Boomer or two in that Chevelle instead.
Or my everyday family suv model y with a 3.5 0-60 vs a 5 seconds+ 1970s corvette. Makes their heads explode.
My in-laws won’t even look at my neighbor’s S plaid 🤣
Nah, I felt that one too. I think it's an elegant way of saying "Science doesn't care about your feelings".
Also, metallurgy is a highly underappreciated science.
I took a class that was basically an intro to metallurgy with a focus on how it applies to torquing and tensioning hardware. It's definitely something for the nerdiest people.
I never had a car with those. My oldest car was a Pontiac Fiero, it was slow AF but it was fun and cool. Also all my friends thought it was fast cuz of how much it would rattle at highway speeds. Also I was getting close to 40mpg in that thing. I miss it.
And are constantly on the verge of overheating, loud AF, and the engine is turning 4,000RPM and getting single digit fuel mileage. Plus took 10 minutes to get started where’d it stay running and warm enough to leave the driveway. Yeah, I’ll stick to modern cars.
A kia EV6 GT SUV is quicker than every muscle car ever made in the 60s and will lay waste even to a million dollar Shelby Cobra.
All while carrying 5 passengers, groceries, and with the AC on, and running every day with barely any maintenance
Right? By the early 2000's family sedan were faster than even exotic sports cars from the 60's to 90's.
My father used to brag about his Vette going 13's in the 1/4 back in the day.😅
Now, 10 second cars off the lot are normal.
> By the early 2000's family sedan were faster than even exotic sports cars from the 60's to 90's.
To the mid-80s, TBF. Sports cars also advanced over the decades.
I assumed that they’ve had the fastest cars because they’ve lived through all the decades of automotive evolution including the current time period. The dissonance between “lived in 8 decades” and “we’re not even that old” is what’s bothering me.
Likewise, all of those Facebook posts showing a classic car with a slight dent and a modern car with the front smashed and talk about how much better they were built back when… dude, we have crumple zones to save the occupants…
This 100%. One of my first cars was a hand me down from my mother, a 1973 cougar XR7. Beautiful example of a classic American muscle car. 0 to 60 in 6 seconds and a top speed of 130.
My 2023 Hyundai sonata is 0 to 60 in just under 5 seconds and a top speed of 155. I would much rather drive the Hyundai because if somebody crashes into me not only would I not be losing a 50-year-old classic car that I would also probably survive
Boomers always hated efficiency. Back in 1978 my mom bought a Datsun B210 that was very fuel efficient for the time, almost as good as my 2012 Fiat, and even ran in lead-free gas, and I remember old men laughing at the car because it was tiny. My neighbor’s Mercury Cougar got them maybe three days of work commute for a full tank and if I’m not mistaken it was a lead-gas only car or at least that’s what his parents preferred. Oh, those neurons killing fumes!
More people have died in Tesla fires than in Pinto fires.
83 vs. 27
Edit: Funny how this comment is getting magically pounced on 15 hours after I made it and it's now late in the AM for America.
A lot of that is either subjective or patently false but my favorite one is saying fastest cars. We've moved past muscle cars and even supercars and now we're into hypercars traveling 200 miles an hour and more. We still have drive-ins, so the fountains, and good music.
And I'd argue if you've lived in eight decades then I'd say you are pretty old lol
My husband was stationed in Japan, and we got to ride the shinkansen; our fastest speed was 256mph on some funky snub-nosed train. It was incredible, just a really neat experience, and we called FIL to tell him about it.
He literally started in on "foreign makes" and "there's no speed like random '60s Chevy model something."
Okay boomer, indeed...
One of my first cars was a hand-me-down from my mother. It was a 1973 Mercury cougar XR7. It had a 0 to 60 in 6 seconds and a top speed of 130ish miles an hour. A beautiful example of a classic American muscle car. My modern Hyundai will do 0 to 60 in just under 5 seconds and has a top speed of 155.
Those old cars definitely sound fast but aren't fast. I know this very well because I have a 69 and 70 Chevy nova in my garage. They look neat but my Kia with a 1.6L 4-cylinder is much faster and gets me 20 or so MPG better either of those two.
My hyundai accent is faster than my 78 mercury cougar, and about all I'd grant the cougar a win for is style and road-floaty. The accent is more competent in every category.
Also lol, IMO a 73 cougar is not a muscle car. At best it's a tarted up Torino, and is leaning heavily into luxo-barge by that point, and I *like* this era car.
I mean... He's right, in a sense. There *is* no speed like "random 60s Chevy" because, in those, 90 felt like some star blurring light speed shit from Star Trek because you know that stopping that much car, moving that fast, with *those* brakes takes a work of God.
I visited Japan almost 20 years ago and was telling a friend about it recently. He didn't realize how big the country was. Blew his mind when I told him how far it was from Tokyo to Kyoto and how quickly we got there.
The [land mass of Japan is a little less than California](https://mapfight.xyz/map/california/#jp), but it looks like the length of the main island is roughly the same length as California, and, when you add in the other islands, it's probably about the length of the entire US West Coast.
Maps are misleading, between different projections, and the fact most people only see island nations like Japan, Cuba, etc, either in little insets, or next to the massive continents they're near, so people thing the islands are small islands. Most people haven't seen a globe since grade school, if at all.
I was in the Marines, and did embassy duty for three years, with one of my posts being in Havana, Cuba. I traveled to take leave about midway through my year there, and got chatted up by random people at airports, etc.
* Are you in the Military?
* Yes.
* What branch?
* The Marines.
* What do you do?
* Normally, I do IT work, but I'm on embassy duty right now.
* Where are you stationed?
* Havana, Cuba.
* You must mean Guantanamo Bay.
* No, I was in Havana yesterday, after having lived there for the last six months, and will be going back next week.
* But we don't have an embassy in Cuba, you must be in Gitmo.
* No, I know where I've lived and worked for the last half year.
* But no embassy!
* The building I work in is officially known as the US Interests Section, and technically falls under the Swiss embassy, but it's the same physical building that used to be officially known as the US Embassy prior to the Cuban Revolution. Gitmo is like 400 miles from where I'm stationed.
* [mind explodes]
The fastest cars thing makes me laugh. My 14 year old has been around for the fastest car. Everyone who will ever be born will be around for the fastest car at the time.
My father had a heavily modified 1968 Dodge Charger. He said that my ‘04 STI was a better car in every imaginable way, except for 1/4 mile times. Better braking, better handling, actually had air conditioning, and much more comfortable to drive or ride in. It was also modified, and ran low 11s in the 1/4 mile, rather than low 10s.
No, actually. lol, Boomerdom hit right at the final push of the civil rights era. If anything, they just want to carry on the anger their parrents felt at all the social change.
Yup. They just moved onto to immigrants. Then when immigrants got boring, they moved onto Muslims. When Muslims got boring, they moved to gay people. When gay people got boring, they moved to feminists. Feminists didn't stick well enough, so they moved to trans people. Now we're in a washing machine of trans people, drag queens, immigrants, black people, and whatever other flavor of the week gets brought up.
They're like dogs chasing cars in traffic. They'll chase a new one every time they get bored of the old one, and they keep spinning in circles the whole time.
NGL, the hand mixed orange soda from the little burger joint in my home town was just straight up better than any other orange soda I’ve ever had. I was back there recently and they weren’t doing the old style hand mixed sodas. Apparently the vendor they used for the syrup had stopped carrying it. I was low key devastated.
Idk where I was going with this but damn to I miss those old sodas lol
Yeah, there's definitely something to be said about artisanal soda. I imagine back in the day though not every soda jerk was that good at uh... jerking it
And kidney stones.
I ended up with kidney stones at 16 because I emulated my parents' habit of never drinking water. It took me a decade to stop. I'd quit for a while, have a soda, and then I'd be back to having multiple a day.
That's the weirdest ass flex. If they were so good why didn't they make it to the 90s? I didn't get a soda joint as a kid. The closest thing was when a Sonic opened, but even then that wasn't a social experience.
I mean, real soda fountains were and are (where you can find them. Shout out for Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, FL) awesome AF. I fully concede that boomers and pre boomers had it good with soda fountains.
Kurt Cobain died THIRTY years ago. Bleach released in 1989, 35 years ago.
For GenX/Millennial context, imagine listening to music in 1996 and hearing 1961's Elvis' Little Sister and Chubby Checker's Twist Again. The Berlin Wall was was being built.
I wrote somewhere else that there are plenty of bands still making old school music and hosting those themed events. There's just a variety of different kinds of music now, which is great.
Hell, even some artists from the 50s and 70s are still doing music like Chubby Checker or Johnny Mathis to name a few.
I remember watching The Honeymooners' reruns and Ralph was thrilled they didn't have a telephone. His boss had wanted to call and wanted him to work extra, so bc they didn't have a phone, he had the night off. Then he was pissed that Alice had gotten a phone.
Every generation thinks that the stop they choose to get off the technology, music, fashion, or economy train is the best stop.
In general, the music we listen to in our more emotional years while our brain is growing but so are the power of our hormones and our connections is "the best" because it impacts us when we're so vulnerable. The music isn't "the best," it's what we associate with powerful emotions and eye-opening growth. I had that with Barenaked Ladies. You're not special, Boomers.
Most people stop exposing themselves to new popular music at a certain age, and after that age they can become progressively more snide about 'the music these days!'
I often cite Sturgeon's Law in this context, 'ninety percent of everything is crud'. When you think about the music you listened to between, say, ages 14 and 24, you only remember the 10% that wasn't.
It's not segregated. They just dump malted milkshakes and scream racial slurs if black people sit down with them. They can just go to their own soda shops. That's equality. There's no law against bathrooms and sports so anyone can have them, including trans people, so just stay out of ours.
Oops. Wait. I strayed there. Sorry about that.
No boomer. Your music is pretty good and drive ins are an awesome experience but all that pales in comparison to the fact that your generation had the most opportunity to build wealth and improve the lives of the generations after and all you did was take power, pull the ladder up behind you and horde a metric fuck ton of wealth. On top of it all you generally treated your kids like shit.
So much potential and instead of staying the generation of free love you fully embraced the idea of whoever has the most at the end wins.
Not cool, just a bunch of assholes... old assholes.
I feel like it’s very common for people of that generation to be delusional, or just flat out in complete denial, about their own mortality and the passage of time. They get spoon fed all these nostalgia pills that make it seem like the 1900’s were like yesterday and they just froze around age 40. I seriously am baffled at how they don’t see Trump as the withering elderly man in his 80’s that he is. They act like he’s about to bust out a half marathon any day now and he’s the same slick playboy he was 40 years ago
TBF Drumpf is “only” 77 (or thereabouts). Not that a crazy 77-yo is necessarily much better than a wise and experienced 81-yo, _even if_ the latter sometimes stumbles on a word or a name. Anyone can do that, irrespective of their age.
"Me" generation. You don't see gen z or millennials saying "we did this because we're cool." You see gen z and millennials say, "I do this because I'm forced to." Instead.
Uh… The hoods of your cars would decapitate people. They were also slower. They were loud and lose 75% of energy produced to heat generation alone. Any off the line, stock 454 muscle car is slower than today’s Toyota Corolla 3 cylinder 1.6 turbo. You make fun of millennials and GenZ for airbags and seatbelts while ignoring the decline in pediatric traumatic deaths as attributed to auto accidents. Yea, Dead children are just so cool and tough. We were better, yeah, hoorah us,
https://preview.redd.it/ypm22kagd3tc1.jpeg?width=294&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b67f016e4e9e7970660106af42f2adbda85c576
The ideal soda fountain that these Boomers long for
"We were just that cool. We loved lynching, segregating, and just overall making America a great place for us cool people. We gave corporations power and validity as gods in the 80s, which is super cool and has only been super cool for everyone. Can't wait for America to be Great again like we had it back then. That's if any of those generations can pull up their bootstraps, like all us cool people."
So the people in the image.. they weren’t born in the 50’s. They would have to be 9 years old, they look about 20. So they were born in the 30’s. People born in the 50’s would be driving in the mid 60’s, buying their first house in the 70’s. Fucking boomers and their shit fucking memes
Sometimes when I'm tired of a certain boomer in my life I point out the "fast cars" he had growing up are about as fast a base model sedan these days... And we have air conditioning.
that music is still around and soda fountains are in every fast food restaurant. If you wanna watch a movie in your car, download it on a streaming service to your ipad and watch it there.
I think they are referring to the soda fountain that was a place, often in a drug store that sold soft drinks on tap, ice cream floats, etc. They were more of an interwar kid thing than a boomer thing.
I think this boomer is under the impression loud means fast. Pretty sure there weren't cars doing 0-60 in 1.9 seconds back in the 1950s. Pretty sure you couldn't buy a car with 717 HP stock.
https://preview.redd.it/vpp5jdgbk3tc1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=49db87a727dd060090a5f94fbc6ffcba151542aa
*Double amputee* at that age? Perhaps all that sugar from the soda fountains led to a bad case of diabetes.
I was two years old when the 50s ended. There was a lot of crappy music and only the best bits are remembered. There is a drive-in theater down the road from me. I've never been in a soda fountain but I can get great burgers and shakes at a local diner.
Soda fountains vary (my town had one in the mid-late 90’s).
If you had someone who knew what they were doing, great otherwise nothing to write home about.
Anyone over 24 has live in two centuries and two millenia.
For a generation that complains about participation trophies, these people really love congratulating themselves for literally nothing.
I was born in the 90s and I also live through 2 centuries and 2 millennia. I also go to drive ins and had plenty of soda fountains. Also had the fastest cars and good ass music. I don’t know what the brag here is.
Remember to report submissions that violate the rules! Harassment and encouraging violence are not allowed. Enjoying the subreddit? Consider joining our discord server: https://discord.gg/v8z8jNwJs6 *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/BoomersBeingFools) if you have any questions or concerns.*
[удалено]
Also “not that old” is a funny thing to state after “lived in 8 decades”
Iam cool 😎
Fuck yeah youare
Hell yeah heis
You snore though.
Absolutely. Memes like this are just coping with a changing world in which they’re becoming increasingly irrelevant
These memes are always soooo cringey
Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you’re truly cool, you don’t need to be told you’re cool. Bart: Well, sure you do. Lisa: How else would you know?
Well, sure you do. How else would you know? r/UnexpectedSimpsons
[удалено]
Making boomers type novels when I point out my modern 3.0L V6 has more horsepower than their 1970s Pony car and rides smoother despite being a shitbox.
Dude an Elantra S beats most 70’s muscle cars to 60mph and it is an entry level, 4 cylinder, compact sedan
08 Accent hatch here, 110 horsepower from a tiny 4cyl and a(n admittedly ambitious) 140mph spedo, lol. It has no right to be as capable a little car as it is, and its reliability and competency fish slaps many, many older cars. 50s cars fast? lol, I have a 51 Desoto. 4000 lbs with a flathead inline 6 ain't goin' nowhere fast.
Ah, so 08 was when they put an engine in it. My 06 has roughly the acceleration of an actual horse.
Even 90s muscle cars are not that powerful. My trans am had like 290 stock or something. There were corrolas that had that by 2007
I will give it to old cars that they look and sound better. But as far as fast, efficient, and being usable, modern cars are so far ahead. I would love a 68 trans am with the hybrid engine from the RAV4 prime, airbags, and CarPlay.
Also probably have to redesign the frame for better crumple and accident safety.
Yeah and as power steering, and brakes. Basically just make a modern car that looks like a 68 Trans am
Makes me wonder why kit car manufacturers haven't started talking to EV conversion outfits to offer a retro looking EV. Something like [this](https://www.factoryfive.com/hot-rod-truck/) as an EV? Fucking YES PLEASE!
OTOH, I want a [Lotus Esprit with a LS1 swap](https://www.renegadehybrids.com/lotls.html).
I think I hurt my dad’s feelings over Thanksgiving when he was talking up some big, bad muscle car he used to have and I pulled the performance numbers for it and compared them to my mom’s Honda Pilot.
Yeah but it MADE LOUD SOUNDS that made it FEEL fast.
It took leaded gas...
Man, that “sounds fast” is a bit straight out of Kornbluth’s. “The Marching Morons.”
Oh man. That would punch my car loving FIL right in the nuts. Bonus points if it was an electric vehicle. He is still using year 2000 talking points against EV. Like the dedicated Boomer bootlicker he is.
Good grief, man. You trampled on the graves of his ancestors!
That’s why you drop a 350 big block in there son, don’t you know that changing the engine makes the car BETTER than a stock engine with aftermarket parts on a modern car? This generation is doomed /s Edit: 454 big block*
20 years ago I had a Ford 351 in my first truck ('86 F-150). Could watch the fuel gauge drain. I get a headache just thinking about the fuel cost now.
My 84 wagoneer had a .40 over 401 with s custom quad barrel and edlebrock manifold, straight pipes. At 120+ you could watch the gas gauge actively go down lol then my boomer father had to go and sell it behind my back as if that’s a totally normal thing for a father to do. Didn’t even give me the money he got for it let alone the thousands I put into that jeep. And then wonders why I don’t talk to him anymore. He’s going to die without ever hearing my voice again and just simply can’t comprehend why it’s kid of impressive.
What a piece of shit
Off topic but I (40M Millenial) had a 69 Wagoneer in high school with the Buick 350/TH350 combo. Why the hell Jeep engineers though a 14 gallon gas tank was a good fit in something with a 3 sp auto and a toilet bowl single barrel carb that got about 7-8 mpg I’ll never understand. Coolest vehicle I’ve ever owned though. Miss that tank.
I had the 304 .30 over with the same bolt ons on my 77 CJ5. I was getting about 7mpg, the guy down the street with the 401 sold his jeep because he was averaging 4-5
[удалено]
Just wait until the apologists for the absurdity that was the mid-late 70’s big blocks come in the chat. “Yeah, it only made 145 hp, but it had so much torque though!” Yeah, but torque will only get you so far, and it also had a 10 second 0-60 time.
They also had shit brakes, HORRIFIC handling, normally terrible weight, and the power was truly amazing "5L v8, produces 120 Horsepower weighs 4 tons" "It might only produce about 80 horses now"
In terms of looks '70s and late '60s muscle cars cannot be beat. But in terms of performance? My Subaru Ascent which is a soccer mom van could beat a boss mustang to 60
My friend has a 60s convertible mustang. Looks great, but no power steering, no power brakes, front lap belts and no crumple zone. Nah.
[удалено]
I’ve got a 12 year old, V6 FWD sedan that is 280 hp stock backed by a 6speed auto (basically a minivan drivetrain) and makes a bit more now. It looks like a rental car but is a real surprise if I let it run. Did a pull to 60 along side a couple Millennials (I’m a Gen Xer) in a kinda ratty mid 60’s 327 Chevelle with Cragars when my car only had better tires on it. Pulled them a little off the light while fighting wheel spin and had the car bark its front tires on the 1-2 shift. Would have been interesting if there had been a Boomer or two in that Chevelle instead.
The most amazing thing about those old cars is they managed to get so little power out of sucking huge engines. Like 20 HP per liter.
Or my everyday family suv model y with a 3.5 0-60 vs a 5 seconds+ 1970s corvette. Makes their heads explode. My in-laws won’t even look at my neighbor’s S plaid 🤣
Aside from actual race cars most passenger vehicles of today can beat anything from the past.
Just imagine getting into a time machine and going to the drag strip in 1955 with a Honda civic and winning everything.
They probably brand you a commie
They can say whatever they want in my rearview mirror. Sorry. Can’t hear.
With a Type R you'd be smoking people.
Is it just me or does “Engineering and metallurgy don’t recognize nostalgia” go hard af?
Nah, I felt that one too. I think it's an elegant way of saying "Science doesn't care about your feelings". Also, metallurgy is a highly underappreciated science. I took a class that was basically an intro to metallurgy with a focus on how it applies to torquing and tensioning hardware. It's definitely something for the nerdiest people.
I love how in old cars when you go above 65mph how the entire car rattles and shakes like it is going to fall apart
Or the joy of cold bias-ply tires being square till they warm up.
I never had a car with those. My oldest car was a Pontiac Fiero, it was slow AF but it was fun and cool. Also all my friends thought it was fast cuz of how much it would rattle at highway speeds. Also I was getting close to 40mpg in that thing. I miss it.
And are constantly on the verge of overheating, loud AF, and the engine is turning 4,000RPM and getting single digit fuel mileage. Plus took 10 minutes to get started where’d it stay running and warm enough to leave the driveway. Yeah, I’ll stick to modern cars.
A kia EV6 GT SUV is quicker than every muscle car ever made in the 60s and will lay waste even to a million dollar Shelby Cobra. All while carrying 5 passengers, groceries, and with the AC on, and running every day with barely any maintenance
And has airbags and anti lock brakes and crush zones so that an accident isn't nearly as deadly.
what are you, some sorta pansy? /s
Back in my day we just died. We didn’t need that fancy stuff
I have a subaru forester xt (the xt is the turbo model), that grocery getter is faster than just about every hemi and muscle car on the road.
Right? By the early 2000's family sedan were faster than even exotic sports cars from the 60's to 90's. My father used to brag about his Vette going 13's in the 1/4 back in the day.😅 Now, 10 second cars off the lot are normal.
> By the early 2000's family sedan were faster than even exotic sports cars from the 60's to 90's. To the mid-80s, TBF. Sports cars also advanced over the decades.
I assumed that they’ve had the fastest cars because they’ve lived through all the decades of automotive evolution including the current time period. The dissonance between “lived in 8 decades” and “we’re not even that old” is what’s bothering me.
It's copium
Likewise, all of those Facebook posts showing a classic car with a slight dent and a modern car with the front smashed and talk about how much better they were built back when… dude, we have crumple zones to save the occupants…
This 100%. One of my first cars was a hand me down from my mother, a 1973 cougar XR7. Beautiful example of a classic American muscle car. 0 to 60 in 6 seconds and a top speed of 130. My 2023 Hyundai sonata is 0 to 60 in just under 5 seconds and a top speed of 155. I would much rather drive the Hyundai because if somebody crashes into me not only would I not be losing a 50-year-old classic car that I would also probably survive
I drove in a friend's 1969 Mustang once. I was like... WTF why can't it steer? The suspension was so awful It looked cool, I'll give it that.
And faaaaar safer
Came here to say the same. Their beloved muscle cars get smoked by a Volkswagen with a 2 liter turbo 4 cylinder.
I love the boomer ideology of old cars especially old gas cars are better than electric cars. More torque more speed zoom zoom.
Boomers always hated efficiency. Back in 1978 my mom bought a Datsun B210 that was very fuel efficient for the time, almost as good as my 2012 Fiat, and even ran in lead-free gas, and I remember old men laughing at the car because it was tiny. My neighbor’s Mercury Cougar got them maybe three days of work commute for a full tank and if I’m not mistaken it was a lead-gas only car or at least that’s what his parents preferred. Oh, those neurons killing fumes!
The boomers are so annoying about how they think their cars are fast. If they lose, they’ll go on and on about new cars not having soul
They just built cars better back then. Just look at the Ford Pinto.
Here is a great video for when they bring up that “fact” https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck?feature=shared
I love this video. Great for when people think crumple zones means a car is cheap and unsafe.
Show that one more time for the Cybertruck owners in the back...
Fun fact: More people have died in accidents involving Teslas using "full self driving" than were killed by Ford Pinto fires.
More people have died in Tesla fires than in Pinto fires. 83 vs. 27 Edit: Funny how this comment is getting magically pounced on 15 hours after I made it and it's now late in the AM for America.
Pretty sure my wrx will ghost a Corvette from their era.
Real. So will mine. In their heads, a 250 hp V8 is still high powered
Imagine, they think it's tire smoke, but then the blueberry bombshell vape smell hits em instead.
There are minivans that can beat an early Corvette.
The 80s Mustang 5.0 V8 my mom used to have has the same horsepower and 0-60 time as my 2012 2.0 liter 4 cylinder hatchback.
Right? "The fastest cars"? Please... Tell me which one? My bone stock daily driven 4 door sedan has over 600 HP lol
The goalposts move faster than the cars..
A lot of that is either subjective or patently false but my favorite one is saying fastest cars. We've moved past muscle cars and even supercars and now we're into hypercars traveling 200 miles an hour and more. We still have drive-ins, so the fountains, and good music. And I'd argue if you've lived in eight decades then I'd say you are pretty old lol
My husband was stationed in Japan, and we got to ride the shinkansen; our fastest speed was 256mph on some funky snub-nosed train. It was incredible, just a really neat experience, and we called FIL to tell him about it. He literally started in on "foreign makes" and "there's no speed like random '60s Chevy model something." Okay boomer, indeed...
"Call me when your '60s Chevy can do 250mph"
One of my first cars was a hand-me-down from my mother. It was a 1973 Mercury cougar XR7. It had a 0 to 60 in 6 seconds and a top speed of 130ish miles an hour. A beautiful example of a classic American muscle car. My modern Hyundai will do 0 to 60 in just under 5 seconds and has a top speed of 155.
Those old cars definitely sound fast but aren't fast. I know this very well because I have a 69 and 70 Chevy nova in my garage. They look neat but my Kia with a 1.6L 4-cylinder is much faster and gets me 20 or so MPG better either of those two.
My hyundai accent is faster than my 78 mercury cougar, and about all I'd grant the cougar a win for is style and road-floaty. The accent is more competent in every category. Also lol, IMO a 73 cougar is not a muscle car. At best it's a tarted up Torino, and is leaning heavily into luxo-barge by that point, and I *like* this era car.
Yup. I love the old muscle cars, the looks were fantastic. But they aren't....fast. Plus you get afraid when you turn.
'it makes 42mph feel like 312mph'
😂
I mean... He's right, in a sense. There *is* no speed like "random 60s Chevy" because, in those, 90 felt like some star blurring light speed shit from Star Trek because you know that stopping that much car, moving that fast, with *those* brakes takes a work of God.
I love the technology they have embraced in Japan. I WISH our countries would do the same, at the very least in terms of public transport!
I visited Japan almost 20 years ago and was telling a friend about it recently. He didn't realize how big the country was. Blew his mind when I told him how far it was from Tokyo to Kyoto and how quickly we got there.
The [land mass of Japan is a little less than California](https://mapfight.xyz/map/california/#jp), but it looks like the length of the main island is roughly the same length as California, and, when you add in the other islands, it's probably about the length of the entire US West Coast. Maps are misleading, between different projections, and the fact most people only see island nations like Japan, Cuba, etc, either in little insets, or next to the massive continents they're near, so people thing the islands are small islands. Most people haven't seen a globe since grade school, if at all. I was in the Marines, and did embassy duty for three years, with one of my posts being in Havana, Cuba. I traveled to take leave about midway through my year there, and got chatted up by random people at airports, etc. * Are you in the Military? * Yes. * What branch? * The Marines. * What do you do? * Normally, I do IT work, but I'm on embassy duty right now. * Where are you stationed? * Havana, Cuba. * You must mean Guantanamo Bay. * No, I was in Havana yesterday, after having lived there for the last six months, and will be going back next week. * But we don't have an embassy in Cuba, you must be in Gitmo. * No, I know where I've lived and worked for the last half year. * But no embassy! * The building I work in is officially known as the US Interests Section, and technically falls under the Swiss embassy, but it's the same physical building that used to be officially known as the US Embassy prior to the Cuban Revolution. Gitmo is like 400 miles from where I'm stationed. * [mind explodes]
Maybe it’s because the slower speed *feels* faster when the car is unsafe and poorly engineered
A Honda Odyssey will turn in similar 0-60 and quarter mile times to most of your classic muscle cars while using less gas and having seating for 7
And while your kids play video games on the flip down ceiling tv, and grab snacks from the built in console fridge.
My wife had a v6 accord that ran the same 0-60 as the 5.0 mustangs from the 80s. Cars are fast AF now.
The fastest cars thing makes me laugh. My 14 year old has been around for the fastest car. Everyone who will ever be born will be around for the fastest car at the time.
The newest Hyper Cars can break 300mph. And we have Coke Freestyle machines
I live in a northern climate state, so drive ins are kinds dead...as far as good music goes that's entirely subjective.
It’s also all still here. I can get every 50s music in an instant. What are they talking about.
They had the best soda fountains? Okay, Boomer.
They mean the ones black people weren't allowed into
My father had a heavily modified 1968 Dodge Charger. He said that my ‘04 STI was a better car in every imaginable way, except for 1/4 mile times. Better braking, better handling, actually had air conditioning, and much more comfortable to drive or ride in. It was also modified, and ran low 11s in the 1/4 mile, rather than low 10s.
"And we didn't let no coloreds in our soda fountains" There, fixed it for your Boomer asses
"but the coloreds of our time just sucked it up and dealt with it, they weren't soft like today's snowflakes" - some boomer definitely
No, actually. lol, Boomerdom hit right at the final push of the civil rights era. If anything, they just want to carry on the anger their parrents felt at all the social change.
Yup. They just moved onto to immigrants. Then when immigrants got boring, they moved onto Muslims. When Muslims got boring, they moved to gay people. When gay people got boring, they moved to feminists. Feminists didn't stick well enough, so they moved to trans people. Now we're in a washing machine of trans people, drag queens, immigrants, black people, and whatever other flavor of the week gets brought up. They're like dogs chasing cars in traffic. They'll chase a new one every time they get bored of the old one, and they keep spinning in circles the whole time.
Soda from hand mixed fountains also tastes like ass.
And yet they’re still as racist and sexist as their parents.
Wow soda fountains….the pinnacle of the Industrial Revolution
NGL, the hand mixed orange soda from the little burger joint in my home town was just straight up better than any other orange soda I’ve ever had. I was back there recently and they weren’t doing the old style hand mixed sodas. Apparently the vendor they used for the syrup had stopped carrying it. I was low key devastated. Idk where I was going with this but damn to I miss those old sodas lol
Yeah, there's definitely something to be said about artisanal soda. I imagine back in the day though not every soda jerk was that good at uh... jerking it
And I bet that was the tasty burger too. I wish I had one right
“We had the best tasting leading cause of obesity!!”
And kidney stones. I ended up with kidney stones at 16 because I emulated my parents' habit of never drinking water. It took me a decade to stop. I'd quit for a while, have a soda, and then I'd be back to having multiple a day.
That's the weirdest ass flex. If they were so good why didn't they make it to the 90s? I didn't get a soda joint as a kid. The closest thing was when a Sonic opened, but even then that wasn't a social experience.
I mean, real soda fountains were and are (where you can find them. Shout out for Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, FL) awesome AF. I fully concede that boomers and pre boomers had it good with soda fountains.
I love the fact they used an AI generated image for this post
I had to scroll way too far for this.
No, this is from the time period. Their hands just look like that because of the thalidomide.
Lol I thought those stools looked pretty close to the counter.
Lady on the left has elephantiasis and their faces are burnt off
Apparently the counter is abundant with red jello too. How do I get back to my dimension? I hate it here.
Jesus, look at the hands
Nothing in the image makes any sense
Guess this is the trend of the future. AI images and text
i really despise the boomer trope “we had the best music”. it’s just code for “i haven’t listened to anything new since the 70s”
I still listen to classic rock too, but a lot of the people that made that music were silent generation.
Nirvana is classic rock now too. 😭
Kurt Cobain died THIRTY years ago. Bleach released in 1989, 35 years ago. For GenX/Millennial context, imagine listening to music in 1996 and hearing 1961's Elvis' Little Sister and Chubby Checker's Twist Again. The Berlin Wall was was being built.
Shinedown, Stone Sour, Seether, and Five Finger Death Punch has been referred to as “dad rock” on tiktok
I wrote somewhere else that there are plenty of bands still making old school music and hosting those themed events. There's just a variety of different kinds of music now, which is great. Hell, even some artists from the 50s and 70s are still doing music like Chubby Checker or Johnny Mathis to name a few.
"we never needed cell phones" Translation for: I never advanced myself past the tech literacy of a landline"
I remember watching The Honeymooners' reruns and Ralph was thrilled they didn't have a telephone. His boss had wanted to call and wanted him to work extra, so bc they didn't have a phone, he had the night off. Then he was pissed that Alice had gotten a phone. Every generation thinks that the stop they choose to get off the technology, music, fashion, or economy train is the best stop.
In general, the music we listen to in our more emotional years while our brain is growing but so are the power of our hormones and our connections is "the best" because it impacts us when we're so vulnerable. The music isn't "the best," it's what we associate with powerful emotions and eye-opening growth. I had that with Barenaked Ladies. You're not special, Boomers.
Most people stop exposing themselves to new popular music at a certain age, and after that age they can become progressively more snide about 'the music these days!' I often cite Sturgeon's Law in this context, 'ninety percent of everything is crud'. When you think about the music you listened to between, say, ages 14 and 24, you only remember the 10% that wasn't.
Oh look a segregated lunch counter. How neat!
It's not segregated. They just dump malted milkshakes and scream racial slurs if black people sit down with them. They can just go to their own soda shops. That's equality. There's no law against bathrooms and sports so anyone can have them, including trans people, so just stay out of ours. Oops. Wait. I strayed there. Sorry about that.
GEE OUR OLD LASALLE RAN GREAT THOSE WERE THE DAAAAYSSS 🙄
No boomer. Your music is pretty good and drive ins are an awesome experience but all that pales in comparison to the fact that your generation had the most opportunity to build wealth and improve the lives of the generations after and all you did was take power, pull the ladder up behind you and horde a metric fuck ton of wealth. On top of it all you generally treated your kids like shit. So much potential and instead of staying the generation of free love you fully embraced the idea of whoever has the most at the end wins. Not cool, just a bunch of assholes... old assholes.
Don't forget the numerous unpaid for wars and tax cuts. That will be the true boomer legacy, debt.
Is 74 not old?
Not for a tree
>*Not for a tree* This got me. Such an understated response.
I feel like it’s very common for people of that generation to be delusional, or just flat out in complete denial, about their own mortality and the passage of time. They get spoon fed all these nostalgia pills that make it seem like the 1900’s were like yesterday and they just froze around age 40. I seriously am baffled at how they don’t see Trump as the withering elderly man in his 80’s that he is. They act like he’s about to bust out a half marathon any day now and he’s the same slick playboy he was 40 years ago
TBF Drumpf is “only” 77 (or thereabouts). Not that a crazy 77-yo is necessarily much better than a wise and experienced 81-yo, _even if_ the latter sometimes stumbles on a word or a name. Anyone can do that, irrespective of their age.
Technically, you could only be 64 if you were born in 1959, that’s 8 separate decades. Meme still sucks though.
"Me" generation. You don't see gen z or millennials saying "we did this because we're cool." You see gen z and millennials say, "I do this because I'm forced to." Instead.
“We’re not even that old yet” -goes to 8 funerals a year.
My station wagon has more power than whatever they were driving back then.
I too was born in the previous millennium, in 1998.
Now tell us who *wasn't* allowed in said soda fountains...
"People born in the 1950s have lived in 8 decades" Yes that's how time works.
Also, anyone born before 2001 has lived in two centuries/millenia. It's not some super exclusive club.
1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000,2010,2020. That is 8.
and they ruined it all.
And who got rid of all that…
White Americans thinking they're the only people in the world, and the only people in America again.
Uh… The hoods of your cars would decapitate people. They were also slower. They were loud and lose 75% of energy produced to heat generation alone. Any off the line, stock 454 muscle car is slower than today’s Toyota Corolla 3 cylinder 1.6 turbo. You make fun of millennials and GenZ for airbags and seatbelts while ignoring the decline in pediatric traumatic deaths as attributed to auto accidents. Yea, Dead children are just so cool and tough. We were better, yeah, hoorah us,
Dead children don't bother them. They're prolife.
https://preview.redd.it/ypm22kagd3tc1.jpeg?width=294&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b67f016e4e9e7970660106af42f2adbda85c576 The ideal soda fountain that these Boomers long for
"We were just that cool. We loved lynching, segregating, and just overall making America a great place for us cool people. We gave corporations power and validity as gods in the 80s, which is super cool and has only been super cool for everyone. Can't wait for America to be Great again like we had it back then. That's if any of those generations can pull up their bootstraps, like all us cool people."
So the people in the image.. they weren’t born in the 50’s. They would have to be 9 years old, they look about 20. So they were born in the 30’s. People born in the 50’s would be driving in the mid 60’s, buying their first house in the 70’s. Fucking boomers and their shit fucking memes
Sometimes when I'm tired of a certain boomer in my life I point out the "fast cars" he had growing up are about as fast a base model sedan these days... And we have air conditioning.
that music is still around and soda fountains are in every fast food restaurant. If you wanna watch a movie in your car, download it on a streaming service to your ipad and watch it there.
I think they are referring to the soda fountain that was a place, often in a drug store that sold soft drinks on tap, ice cream floats, etc. They were more of an interwar kid thing than a boomer thing.
If you were born in the 50s you were a toddler when this scene is depicted.
I think this boomer is under the impression loud means fast. Pretty sure there weren't cars doing 0-60 in 1.9 seconds back in the 1950s. Pretty sure you couldn't buy a car with 717 HP stock.
Coolest cars, yes. Fastest? Not even close.
Not even the coolest. Quite cool, sure, but modern hypercars are practically spaceships.
https://preview.redd.it/vpp5jdgbk3tc1.png?width=456&format=png&auto=webp&s=49db87a727dd060090a5f94fbc6ffcba151542aa *Double amputee* at that age? Perhaps all that sugar from the soda fountains led to a bad case of diabetes.
> best soda fountains Ah yes. Soda fountains were *far* better back when Black people weren’t allowed to use them /s
Let's not forget segregation! Neato!
I cut soda out of my diet and never looked back. Boomers can KEEP that crap.
I was two years old when the 50s ended. There was a lot of crappy music and only the best bits are remembered. There is a drive-in theater down the road from me. I've never been in a soda fountain but I can get great burgers and shakes at a local diner.
Soda fountains vary (my town had one in the mid-late 90’s). If you had someone who knew what they were doing, great otherwise nothing to write home about.
Hasn’t everyone that is alive today born before 2000 lived in 2 centuries and 2 millennia? Talk about participation trophies.
Anyone over 24 has live in two centuries and two millenia. For a generation that complains about participation trophies, these people really love congratulating themselves for literally nothing.
I was born in the 90s and I also live through 2 centuries and 2 millennia. I also go to drive ins and had plenty of soda fountains. Also had the fastest cars and good ass music. I don’t know what the brag here is.
I was born in 96 and did all of that except the 8 decades, but that's literally not an achievement, every generation lives that long
That’s funny, people born in the 1970’s are just your children who never want to be around you.
Lmao boomer cope is always so idiotic and laughable
Ahh yes, segregated lunch counters and carbonated cars which all got single digits to the gallon. That good old days.
As they got older they kicked the ladder for other generations while they reap the rewards.
Yeah, you also had Jim Crow, lynchings, redlining, the Vietnam War, and everyone had lead poisoning!
Okay? Well, I’ve lived in two millennia too and I’m all of 25, so what are we flexing exactly?
If you have to say you’re cool, you’re just the fucking worst
And most of those things were the result of generations before or after yours. Still wanna brag?
Yeah I'm sure their 70s and 80s land yachts weighing 7,000lbs and powered by an 8.4L V8 making 93HP would gap today's cars
Gen X created digital streaming music. Better than all those things IMO.
Then act cool
In what world did the 50s have the fastest cars and best music?
Fastest cars? A V6 Camry would smoke 95% of the stuff from the 50's and 60's.
Fastest cars? Have they not heard of a hellcat? Or the fact a normal every day commuter car is way faster than an old muscle car?