Old Enough To Remember?

ST1100Y said:
My ol' '96 Toyota estate had a "COOL" edition sticker on the rear window... ;)
Yep, AC, 4 speaker audio system with CD-changer were not common back then...
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Since you're outside of the US you may not know that the blue Chevy air-conditioned decal was from the 1960s, when automobile A/C was really rare and expensive relative to the overall cost of the car.

I remember a neighbor having a Chevy station wagon with A/C in that era, with that same sticker on the window. The reason I remember it was it was the 10-passenger version that had two 3-across seats and two 2-across seats in the far rear of the car. They'd stick us kids in those 4 back seats, roll up the windows, turn on the A/C and it wasn't powerful enough to get to the far back of the car and we'd roast our butts off. Eventually we screamed to the adults that we were dying back there and they had to open the windows.
 
dwalby said:
Since you're outside of the US you may not know that the blue Chevy air-conditioned decal was from the 1960s, when automobile A/C was really rare and expensive relative to the overall cost of the car.
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Yes, but whilst the US cruisers already had A/C in the 60ies, was such still a "novelty" over here till the mid '90ies...
Basically cause most (affordable) cars didn't even reach 100HP before that, turning the A/C ON with a 55HP, 1100~1500cc engine would have pretty much stalled it... ;)
 
ST1100Y said:
Yes, but whilst the US cruisers already had A/C in the 60ies, was such still a "novelty" over here till the mid '90ies...
Basically cause most (affordable) cars didn't even reach 100HP before that, turning the A/C ON with a 55HP, 1100~1500cc engine would have pretty much stalled it... ;)
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Especially going uphill!
My first experience of a/c in a car was in 1991 when I hired a car in Florida and parked it at the hotel, came out an hour later and saw a pool of water under the car, thought the radiator had blown!
 
ST1100Y said:
Yes, but whilst the US cruisers already had A/C in the 60ies, was such still a "novelty" over here till the mid '90ies...
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Interesting, I didn't know that. I guess Americans got used to A/C in the '70s when gas-guzzlers were still the norm, so when smaller engines started to show up in the '80s some of them also had A/C because it was expected. They didn't all have it though, and as you say the smaller engines tended to labor when the A/C was on. It probably was the early or mid-90s when A/C became common on most cars, even the small engines, and I never gave it much thought until now.
 
Fawlty said:
My first experience of a/c in a car was in 1991 when I hired a car in Florida and parked it at the hotel, came out an hour later and saw a pool of water under the car, thought the radiator had blown!
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Same on my '96 Toy with it's old style, on/off A/C compressor...
Massive cooling power though, it's parked in the basement garage and by the time I've buckled up, set the stereo and get ready to take off, I've dew on the low parts of the windscreen... on the outside...
And every now and then someone pointing downward "something's leaking!"... nope A/C on... :cool:
But as you said, it requests like 10HP from your engine...
 
ST1100Y said:
Back to music relevance...

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Have a friend who was occasionally knocking out the sheetrock at the back of her garage. Her husband installed some oversized wheel ramps and anchored them to the floor, assuming the bump would be mild and she would stop damaging the sheetrock and the car. Guess what?
 
scootac said:
Kids in back of pick-up heading to local swimming hole. No lifeguard, no water testing, keep shoes on to avoid broken bottles. No PFD.
Good times!
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You could also run around an empty lot, practicing with your air gun...
These days they call the cops on you...
Making things worse they actually respond: SWAT, APCs with gun mount, airship circling, dogs, Kevlar vests... the full program...
 
No kidding, I don't like front wheel drive in snow. Learned with rear wheel. Although when traffic is stopped new cars and old cars get the same milage.........0 mpg
 
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