Back To The 70's

[storm]

Geez! It must have been more than a decade since I've been inside Ali Mall! These days, ang madalas ko na lang napupuntahan sa Cubao (aside from Araneta of course) is AutoCentro for car accessories and P.Tuazon for mags and tires.

 

Alam ko since magsimula ako mapahilig sa kotse nung '80s, may Auto Centro na. At ang P.Tuazon, bilihan na talaga ng gulong at mags. Ganun na rin ba nung '70s? (Sorry, I was still too young to drive back then ala pa ko kotse nun. Hehehe)

 

Yung P Tuazon, noon pa pero mukhang 80s na yung Auto Centro. Banawe pa talaga noon basta car accessories. Malapit lang AutoCentro sa Ali Mall and sa Cubao Shoe Xpo. May masarap na batchoyan sa Ali Mall ngayon.

 

Minsan EB tayo sa Cubao Shoe Xpo. Maraming okay na place ngayon dun. Paggaling ng leg ko pwede na ko.

[jettison_last]

Cubao... miss the animated mannequin shows nung andun pa yung COD.

my dad used to bring us there when we were kids during christmas time

 

nasa greenhills na nga ba ngayon?

[tabouki]

Cubao... miss the animated mannequin shows nung andun pa yung COD.

my dad used to bring us there when we were kids during christmas time

 

nasa greenhills na nga ba ngayon?

 

 

sa aurora blvd helera ng hongning meron din mannequin show yung isang store. si irene celebre yata isa sa mga mannequin dun, petite cutie-pie. (anak nila ni mark gil si gabby eigenmann & ira - yung nasa "scandal")

[sliderule]

Pareng Magaling, oo nga no, baka magka-batch pa nga tayo hehe

Nasimulan mo na rin ang usapang car accessories, malamang ay alam ninyo lahat ang "stereo" na ito:

Edited October 4, 2008 by sliderule

[tabouki]

Pareng Magaling, oo nga no, baka magka-batch pa nga tayo hehe

Nasimulan mo na rin ang usapang car accessories, malamang ay alam ninyo lahat ang "stereo" na ito:

 

 

sir yan ba- pioneer kp5? d best!

 

kapares nyan pioneer PT6 horn tweeter - yung makalansing na makikita nakasabit sa mga jeep.

http://telefunken.te.funpic.de/jahrbuch3/Lautsprecher/Pioneer%20PT-6%20PT-7.jpg

Edited October 4, 2008 by tabouki

[storm]

Pareng Magaling, oo nga no, baka magka-batch pa nga tayo hehe

Nasimulan mo na rin ang usapang car accessories, malamang ay alam ninyo lahat ang "stereo" na ito:

 

 

Pioneer KP5 or KP 500 yata or basta de relos! Ganyan din yung una kong sounds sa Beetle namin na tinernuhan ko ng Oval speakers at the back tapos may PT6 tweeter sa ilalim ng dashboard and coax sa side. Tapos nilagyan ko pa ng proline na equalizer. Ayuss!

[sliderule]

Tumpak mga kapatid.....separate bass and treble controls made it the car stereo to own.

 

Digging deeper into the past, mga jeep nung araw patong patong mga 8-track cartridge sa dashboard so they drive looking through a narrow slit.

 

I had friends in HS who would say they'd intoxicate themselves with high-inducing subtances and ride these jeepneys and mini-buses with "cool sounds" on a trip going nowhere. Haay buhay nga naman.

[ElRey]

K40 lang ang katapat nyan,

 

at mini lites,

 

kung mayabang ka talaga, lumalakad sa greenhills bit bit ung k40 kasi baka manakaw...

 

o ung cobra CB Radio

[robbietan]

Pareng Magaling, oo nga no, baka magka-batch pa nga tayo hehe

Nasimulan mo na rin ang usapang car accessories, malamang ay alam ninyo lahat ang "stereo" na ito:

 

one of the best dang vehicle sound component ever available here. and incredibly rugged.

 

I remember them jeepney drivers stacking those 8 track tapes at 6 pcs on their "dashboards".

 

one of the bad macoy decisions is to ban them..

[sally bogna mathay]

Game 1 sa ilalim ng goal, and I'm pretty sure nadinig ni Wilson yung mga expletives ko hehe, Game 3 sa likod ng Beda bench, katabi namin si Sudan...cant wait for Season85 man ! Nasa Mendiola ka after? 2AM and the party was still on, so the cops arrived....hala....pina shot ng Beda boys, nakisali sa inuman ang mga pulis ! Whatta' night.

 

Yung New Frontier actually ang walang pagbabago. Bulok pa rin. If I'm not mistaken, the very first McDonald's was there. Mga 1981 my then GF forced me to watch Dina Bonnevie's first movie "Katorse" in New Frontier. Nation theater naman was where I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. Having watched it many times as an adult, I still don't understand that movie until now. Can you imagine my confusion watching it in 1969? Meron dun Funhouse dati, the ancestor ng mga Time Zone. The Towering Inferno, sa Quezon theater. The original Death Race : 2000, sa Coronet ko sana papanuorin, bwisit - For Adults Only, d ako pinapasok ! Wala naman akong sedula. :grr:

 

Well, Araneta isn't exactly the same anymore what with Gateway now protruding from its side. Reminds me of Seth Brundle fused to the Transporter Pod (I am of course referring to "The Fly" 1986 version). At saka wala na yung original National Book Store sa ground floor.

 

A slight corection, pareng slider. The first Mcdo was on Morayta near Recto.

 

Hi to all the 70s people. Been very busy these past three weeks writing stuff. Congrats to the Bedans for the 3-peat. Attended a very muddy bonfire last Wednesday at ADMU to celebrate the double championship. It seems many of SBC's high school players (Casio, Revilla, etc.) are highly prized recruits of ADMU and DLSU. Same with Baste (Buenafe, Salamat, etc.). Only goes to show that their HS basketball programs are good. Am sad though that UP, my college alma mater, did not do too well this year. I thik it will take another trio of Paras, Magsanoc and Altamirano to do the trick.

 

Hope we'll all see each other for an EB soon!

[storm]

K40 lang ang katapat nyan,

 

at mini lites,

 

kung mayabang ka talaga, lumalakad sa greenhills bit bit ung k40 kasi baka manakaw...

 

o ung cobra CB Radio

 

 

Okay yang minilites. Tawag namin banana type. Madaling linisin. K40 is used in CB radios. Nauso rin noon yung mga rubber duckies at bullwhip antennas.

 

http://www.vengminis.nl/images/FOR%20SALE/RoverMinilites4.5x12.JPG

 

Nakatok yung KP500 ko. Buti na lang insured kaya nang maka - claim sa insurance I bought the better sound -- KP 5000 yata model (not sure) with separate amplifier. Lalim ng bass. I matched it with woofers TSW-3 yata with TS T3 tweeters yata tapos coax sa gilid. Hindi ako nahilig sa CB.

[storm]

A slight corection, pareng slider. The first Mcdo was on Morayta near Recto.

 

Hi to all the 70s people. Been very busy these past three weeks writing stuff. Congrats to the Bedans for the 3-peat. Attended a very muddy bonfire last Wednesday at ADMU to celebrate the double championship. It seems many of SBC's high school players (Casio, Revilla, etc.) are highly prized recruits of ADMU and DLSU. Same with Baste (Buenafe, Salamat, etc.). Only goes to show that their HS basketball programs are good. Am sad though that UP, my college alma mater, did not do too well this year. I thik it will take another trio of Paras, Magsanoc and Altamirano to do the trick.

 

Hope we'll all see each other for an EB soon!

 

Kelan pre? Samantalahin natin hanggat centennial year natin.

[bods1000]

A slight corection, pareng slider. The first Mcdo was on Morayta near Recto.

 

Hi to all the 70s people. Been very busy these past three weeks writing stuff. Congrats to the Bedans for the 3-peat. Attended a very muddy bonfire last Wednesday at ADMU to celebrate the double championship. It seems many of SBC's high school players (Casio, Revilla, etc.) are highly prized recruits of ADMU and DLSU. Same with Baste (Buenafe, Salamat, etc.). Only goes to show that their HS basketball programs are good. Am sad though that UP, my college alma mater, did not do too well this year. I thik it will take another trio of Paras, Magsanoc and Altamirano to do the trick.

 

Hope we'll all see each other for an EB soon!

 

Were you there during the bonfire?

If I knew, sana sumama ko sa mga anak ko who were there too hehehe...

 

Balita nga another Baste high school jewel, Bringas is being lured over to the Ateneo. Kawawa naman yung San Sebastian. Buenafe did not play for them in college, tapos baka si Bringas pa, who is reportedly a 6'6 behemoth..

 

Gone are the glory days of San Sebastian. Correct me if I'm wrong, guys, pero I remember San Sebastian having some sort of mini-dynasty way back in the 70's or 80's. Nun yatang panahon nina Greg Otazu?

nice to see the old pares back - sliderule and Magaling hehehe

cheers!

[tabouki]

Okay yang minilites. Tawag namin banana type. Madaling linisin. K40 is used in CB radios. Nauso rin noon yung mga rubber duckies at bullwhip antennas.

 

oh yeah the citizens band craze eto mga 10-x codes ng u.s., im sure iba sa atin.

 

alala ko "brown bottle" - beer (sanmig)

 

]Select Citizens' Band 10-Code Phrasing 10-code Message

 

10-1 "Receiving poorly" 10-2 "Receiving well" 10-3 "Stop transmitting" 10-4 "Message received" 10-6 "Busy, stand by" 10-9 "Repeat message" 10-10 "Transmission complete, standing by" 10-11 "You're talking too rapidly" 10-12 "Visitors present" 10-17 "Urgent business" 10-20 "Location" 10-21 "Call by telephone" 10-22 "Report in person" 10-26 "Disregard last transmission" 10-30 "This does not conform to FCC rules" 10-35 "Confidential information" 10-38 "Ambulance needed" 10-42 "Traffic accident at..." 10-84 "My phone number is..." 10-91 "Talk closer to microphone" 10-99 "Mission completed, all units secure" 10-200 "Police needed at..."

http://www.fm2way.com/pro510.jpg

 

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minibus from quiapo legarda to pasig with blacklights & sometimes strobelites, rock music blaring from 8track stereo. halos wala na makita driver sa stack ng tapes nya. saksakan ng bilis parang f1 driver...pagbaba mo ng bus = wow hebi, sakit sa tenga!

 

8track tapes:

http://www.collectmad.com/COLLECTIBLES/upac8tr1.jpg

Edited October 5, 2008 by tabouki

[Magaling]

Gone are the glory days of San Sebastian. Correct me if I'm wrong, guys, pero I remember San Sebastian having some sort of mini-dynasty way back in the 70's or 80's. Nun yatang panahon nina Greg Otazu?

nice to see the old pares back - sliderule and Magaling hehehe

cheers!

 

Baste joined the NC in '69 and became contenders practically overnight. They won their first title in '73 behind a team led by Benjie Cleofas, younger brother of Joy Cleofas who played for Ateneo a few years earlier and later for Yco in the MICAA alongside my other favorites Freddie Webb and Mike Bilbao. In the 80's, the (Golden) Stags had a 5-peat at around the same time as UST (Glowing Goldies) was having their 4-peat. We call these the "Golden" years in collegiate basketball.

[Magaling]

Okay yang minilites. Tawag namin banana type. Madaling linisin. K40 is used in CB radios. Nauso rin noon yung mga rubber duckies at bullwhip antennas.

 

http://www.vengminis.nl/images/FOR%20SALE/RoverMinilites4.5x12.JPG

 

Nakatok yung KP500 ko. Buti na lang insured kaya nang maka - claim sa insurance I bought the better sound -- KP 5000 yata model (not sure) with separate amplifier. Lalim ng bass. I matched it with woofers TSW-3 yata with TS T3 tweeters yata tapos coax sa gilid. Hindi ako nahilig sa CB.

 

As far as I can remember, ang pinaka-astig na brand ng mags noon ay yung Campagniolo although dito rin unang sumikat ang Rota Italia for the cheaper version. The standard size for those banana type mags was R13. Can you imagine how small they are by today's standards? Actually, bihira noon ang R15. Ngayon R15 comes as stock. Kids would prefer R17.

 

Naririnig ko na rin yung Cerwin Vega nung araw from my older cousins pero I don't know anyone who owns one. Sa mga magazines ko lang nakikita. Ang natatandaan ko lang Jensen speakers happy na sila. Astig na yung mga Pioneer o kaya yung speaker na pambahay ikakabit sa kotse. Proline equalizer, yes. I don't think Jensen and Proline are still around today. Pioneer is now considered "basic" and one of the cheaper brands. Made in India, not Japan.

[sliderule]

Balita nga another Baste high school jewel, Bringas is being lured over to the Ateneo. Kawawa naman yung San Sebastian. Buenafe did not play for them in college, tapos baka si Bringas pa, who is reportedly a 6'6 behemoth..

 

I think I had a glimpse of Bringas when I caught the tail end of Baste vs Letran game1 Jrs. indeed he is a behemoth and I think he is more than 6'6" pa yata! BUT, and this is a big but, he's as thin as a reed. A stiff wind would blow him over!

 

Think of a local Manute Bol and that's it. With the prevalence of much beefier foreign players in both leagues, I doubt if this guy will be effective at least in his rookie year. He could be a Ballesteros in a few years though.

 

Pareng Bods...long time no see!

[sliderule]

As far as I can remember, ang pinaka-astig na brand ng mags noon ay yung Campagniolo although dito rin unang sumikat ang Rota Italia for the cheaper version. The standard size for those banana type mags was R13. Can you imagine how small they are by today's standards? Actually, bihira noon ang R15. Ngayon R15 comes as stock. Kids would prefer R17.

 

Fast forward a little bit to the early 80's and Compomotive 3-pc wheels naman nauso. Ito hindi ko na ma afford ito dahil sobrang mahal. Kung mayrun kang Corolla "Liftback" na naka "lifters" (lahat naka lower so sikat ka kasi ikaw lang ang naka lifters) sabay Compomotive 3-pc mags mo.....instant babe magnet! Ako hanggang Gernog imitations lang ako. Lintik ang bigat ng manibela pag katapos ikabit....wala pa power steering dati.

 

Tapos hehehe.....kakabitan pa ng Momo steering wheel na pag ka liit liit ! Ang hirap mag U-Turn, lalaki talaga biceps mo sa pag mamaneho!

 

Hops......wag kayong sasandal sa wheels ko....baka mag ka alon! hehehe

 

At saka dahan dahan lang pag basa ang kalye......kaka Armor All ko pa lang ng gulong ko!

[Magaling]

At saka dahan dahan lang pag basa ang kalye......kaka Armor All ko pa lang ng gulong ko!

 

Before the advent of tire black, there was only Armor All...even for the tires, and mud guards and the fender interiors... yep, dahan dahan pag basa ang kalye.... and avoid those intersections where street kids might apporach your car to leave finger marks...

 

My first car was a '78 Corona... fire engine red, white seat covers, wood Luisi steering wheel with matching wooden shift knob, Pioneer HU (forgot the model), Dai-ichi speakers and NO tint.... Yes, no tint but that didn't mean it wasn't ready for action :goatee:

 

Which reminds me...in those days, airconditioning didn't always come with the car. You've got to have it installed in shops like Mark IV, Nippon Denso, etc.

[storm]

Yung bike ko nung high school na racer ay campagnolo ang gruppo tapos cinelli pa ang frame. Astig. Binayad sa father ko kapalit ng crudo. May oil crisis noon and we had a Petron gasoline station then. There was a time pa na somebody paid my mom a rolex in exchange for gasoline or diesel. Marami kasing factories in Malabon. Hawig dito yung bike kaya lang mine was white.

 

http://www.campyonly.com/images/mystuff/2006/cinelli-red/cinelli_side.jpg

 

The first car I brought to school in college was a VW beetle 1302S. Stock nya ay R15 na. When we changed the tires, pinalitan ko ng 14" na mags tsaka Bridgetone steel belted radial. Walang aircon noon pero ok lang. I used that car for 11 years until I got married. I returned it to my parents when we bought our first car in 1989 - an SKD corolla 1.3.

Edited October 7, 2008 by storm

[16track]

I remember the Wide Ovals!

 

Bagay na bagay sa Mini-Lites.

[LYCHEE]

40 t0 50 thou in the 70s will be enough to buy a brand-new corolla dx or a lancer the L type.

[storm]

I remember the Wide Ovals!

 

Bagay na bagay sa Mini-Lites.

 

 

E yung radial T/A, bagay sa american racing. hehehe.

 

Toyota corona, ford cortina, Datsun 180B or colt galant na mabibili mo nun for 40-50k pero mahirap pa ang pera nun. Konti pa lang bumibili ng cars. Yung Holden Torana, ford escort, isuzu gemini, dodge colt and corolla sl wala pang 30k. In 1972, most of the small japanese cars were pegged below 15k pero hindi type ng mga Pinoy. Mabenta nun ang mga american and german cars. Nagstart pumik up ang mga japanese cars ng magkaroon ng oil crisis.

 

Pilit kong pinabibili nun yung Opel Manta pero Beetle yung binili ng father ko. Nung magcollege ako, punta kami Mitsubishi, I thought bibili ng Lancer pero nauto ng salesman, Lambda ang binili. Kapag tinatakas ko, alaskado ako. DOM na DOM ang dating. Hayun, tumanda ako na beetle ang dala ko. Walang aircon, bentilador lang.

[sliderule]

E yung radial T/A, bagay sa american racing. hehehe.

 

Toyota corona, ford cortina, Datsun 180B or colt galant na mabibili mo nun for 40-50k pero mahirap pa ang pera nun. Konti pa lang bumibili ng cars. Yung Holden Torana, ford escort, isuzu gemini, dodge colt and corolla sl wala pang 30k. In 1972, most of the small japanese cars were pegged below 15k pero hindi type ng mga Pinoy. Mabenta nun ang mga american and german cars. Nagstart pumik up ang mga japanese cars ng magkaroon ng oil crisis.

 

Pilit kong pinabibili nun yung Opel Manta pero Beetle yung binili ng father ko. Nung magcollege ako, punta kami Mitsubishi, I thought bibili ng Lancer pero nauto ng salesman, Lambda ang binili. Kapag tinatakas ko, alaskado ako. DOM na DOM ang dating. Hayun, tumanda ako na beetle ang dala ko. Walang aircon, bentilador lang.

 

Samantalang ngayon pareng Storm yung 15K isang bagsakan na lang sa Classmates, Heartbeat or Pega.

 

Ang aircon pa dati ay yung hanging type. Yung built in although more pleasing aesthetically, mahina ang buga ng lamig!

 

Walang cellphone kaya hanap trenta sentimos at pulang telepono. Swerte kung gumagana. Tawag ka sa "haybols" ng barkada, hoping they would be there. Lintik, kaka-alis lang daw! Hirap mag organize ng impromptu na lakad !!

[Magaling]

The first car I brought to school in college was a VW beetle 1302S. Stock nya ay R15 na. When we changed the tires, pinalitan ko ng 14" na mags tsaka Bridgetone steel belted radial. Walang aircon noon pero ok lang. I used that car for 11 years until I got married. I returned it to my parents when we bought our first car in 1989 - an SKD corolla 1.3.

 

Once in a while, I get to see a well-restored Beetle on the road. Madami pa rin kasing pyesa na available. I've always dreamt of owning a Karmann Ghia. O kaya an Austin Mini (I almost did earlier this year). Not sure lang kung handa na ako para sa ganun klase ng sakit ng ulo. Matrabaho rin kasi mag-alaga ng ganyan sasakyan.

 

When I was in college (engineering school), I had the chance to overhaul a 1300 VW Beetle engine. Just don't ask me to do it again. Baka lalo lang masira. Hahaha. :upside: