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1974 Green Gremlins

Green Gremlins were all the rage in nineteen seventy-four. I am not talking about creepy fat-headed full bellied tiny beings. I am talking about cheap cars with a V-8 and four on the floor. Everyone had one, so common, most of us were tee-heeing. Painted a variety of colors, and riding in them made you kind of sore. We wore hip hugger bell-bottoms and had a hippie-like look. This was in ’74, and believe it or not, this is no folk lore. If you do not believe me, just look up a Gremlin in a picture book.

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Date: 5/18/2022 2:41:00 PM
Ah, how I remember that little monster! By the time Jeff describes, I was in the United States Air Force, and they sorely frowned on those fashions!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/19/2022 3:47:00 AM
I love it that you were frowning on the fashions I still love the most. I get it though. My oldest daughter was a captain in the Air Force.
Date: 5/18/2022 1:13:00 PM
Vroom…vroom! Peace!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/18/2022 1:20:00 PM
Thank you Kim. I would always rather have a V-8
Date: 5/18/2022 11:45:00 AM
The Gremlin certainly enhanced the USA's reputation for manufacturing murderous vehicles . . . .Aloha!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/18/2022 1:20:00 PM
Thank you Rico
Date: 5/18/2022 11:29:00 AM
my wife had one, but it was yellow, lol
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/18/2022 1:20:00 PM
Yellow Gremlins were really common!
Date: 5/18/2022 3:45:00 AM
I’m 6’6” and in ‘76 or thereabouts, in high school, I wore 4” platform shoes and bell bottoms to the floor and shiny polyester disco shirts. Needless to say all the photos (and all the photographers) are buried… lol, good memory!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/18/2022 10:53:00 AM
I remember and I smile

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