Drive in's

[Tucool]

I just read about a drive in night in the events forum, ahh that took me back to my youth... Mad Max , Running on empty, great movies ,summer nights trying to sneak four of your mates in the boot to save cash I can remember a night we all paid to get in and walked next door to KFC and asked to manager for some empty (I think they were called barrels of chicken in those days) packaging to smuggle in some stubbies which then bought from the pub across the road and walked back in without a second glance :hihi: ahh to be 18 again.... anybody else got some tales to tell?

[Falcman0o7]

I wish mate! :

[Jastel]

In my teens I lived near a drive in, we could sit on the roof and watch the movies, sound was only good when the wind was blowing the right way

Or jump the fence and get in for free, there was a playground under the screen we sat on we would turn up the front row of old fashioned speakers to hear (the rear half were the new fangled aerial attaching types)

Another time we took some empty silver wine bladders to sit on as cushions, just blew them up, people were saying look at those drunk kids etc

Another time we were having a party at the house, some musician friends were playing trumpets, sax etc, the drive in manager came around and complained people couldn't hear the movie

Then I got my license and actually PAID to go in with my car???

Still there were some advantages to having a car....

[Mad Maxine]

Higher vantage point? LOL, only kidding!

Shazz

[zdcol71]

I took a mate on the back of my bike to the local drive- in to see "Stone" when it first came out ,we rode in too fast and I got caught up in the humps, with little control over the bike, and ended up looking like a pair of wild bikie types running amok at the D-I.
When it turned out that the copper in the movie was riding a Norton,(same as mine), we were suddenly the coolest guys in the place. We went back a week or so later to relive the experience, but this time there was a bunch of "real" bikies all on Z900's (as rode the Coffin Cheaters),and given that we were just a couple of young kids, we were found out to be a little less cool than the first time we went!
(Also remember sneaking around to hide in the bus shelter over the road to watch the "soft core" ,I think Emmanuelle rings a bell. Didn't seem to matter to us as 17-18 year olds that there was no sound!!)

[Bucknaked]

Used to visit the drive inn which is now a block of units in Canberra. The old sign is still there. Used to go in the Sandman Panelvan I owned. Mine had a one peice tailgate with glass top to bottom. Perfect for those cold winter nights. On the matress, kick back, enjoy the movie.

[Mickxr8]

hmm where to start. as a kid going to the drive in`s with the olds, getting a license and car and taking your girlfriend there (hehe). taking the work truck (piled with couches,eskys), these days just taking the ol cruisers out on the ol car cruise .

[Powdered Toast Man]

Yep went with a mate who hooked up a couple of old nightclub speakers and amp to his car stereo. Then we sat next to his car on fold up chairs, 4 foot speakers to each side of us.

[FG XR]

hide in the boot and get out once you were in!