These Are Your Favorite Dead Car Trends

CB Radios! While this was more a 70’s and 80’s thing, in my hometown it saw a great resurgence as us late-80s and early 90’s kid’s got our licenses and first cars. We grew up watching Dukes of Hazzard re-runs, so naturally, for the youth of Jefferson County Ohio, the first order of business upon getting your freedom sled was to head straight to King’s truck stop for a shiny new CB.

If you were one of the in-crowd in our little area, a CB radio was important as a set of tires.

So funny to think looking back, but it actually worked great for us. Even though it was the mid-2000s, very few of us had cell phones. No real reason for them, as there was no such thing as cell phone reception until you were a half hour away from home. But if you needed a quick jump, ran out of gas, wanted to find out what hole everyone was fishing or who’s field was having a bonfire, or if you just wanted to BS with the old guys driving truck at the mine, the dump, or the lumber mill, all you needed do was reach over and key-up the mic!

“Breaker breaker boys and girls, what’s everyone getting into tonight?”

Good times.