Mattel made the V-RROOM engine that you could strap to your tricycle or bicycle. There was a control on that was strapped to the handlebars to allow the user to rev or adjust the engine noise volume. I didn't have one of these toys - but I had friends that did. It was pretty swooft accessory for a kid to have. I had a friend, Dan Parrish, that actually had a bicycle with a molded plastic exterior that looked like a motorcycle. It wasn't a real motorcycle mind you - it was just a regular kid's bike enclosed in plastic motorcycle facade. It took the V-RROOM engine idea to another level. Dan had a bike that not only sounded like a real motorcycle but looked like one too. Now if they'd only figure out a way that a kid didn't have to pedal the thing - you'd really have something there. Dan let me ride his faux motorcycle of his once. The big plastic exterior made the bike kind of hard to pedal around but it looked cool as hell.
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We didn't have such new-fangeled foolishness.
We had pieces of cardboard..preferably something cut from a detergent box...attached to the fork of the front wheel on our bicycles. You would attach it with a clothes pin (A what?) so that as the wheel turned and the spokes passed over the cardboard...it made a really neat engine sound.
Told you we were poor. Many used playing cards. But us being such good Baptist, well you didn't have a deck of cards in your home. they were tools of the devil. Why just looking at the glossy slick cards was enough to lead you down the road to ruinnation straight to the fiery flames of hell.Hence...cardboard.
mb
I'd attach playing cards to both the right and left sides.
The playing card thing happened in our house too, but somewhere in the late sixties, the bann was lifted.
I remember we couldn't play cards on Sunday for the longest time and then all of a sudden - we could also play cards on Sunday too.
Liquor drinking and womanizing though never was allowed in the Finlayson household.
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