Old Enough To Remember?

[St-Gerard]

Mom bought a chocolate brown 77 Gremlin, AMC.new in77 .

 

[Chris09]

quadraphonic was a big deal; you could hear it; you could decern it from stereo [two track various frequency] unfortunately by then... I was comfortably numb and it didn't mean much to me

 

[ST1100Y]

I reckon is was rated "disposable" back then...

 

[Oldbikefixr]

I reckon is was rated "disposable" back then...

Just like GM cars of the period, you could sit beside the driveway, drinking your favorite beer.....and watch it rust.

 

[Sunday Rider]

Reminds me of the rust bucket Hyundai Pony

 

[Chris09]

The Hyundai anything If I recall the Pony was initially sold without tariffs here in Canada [cheap to buy] as south korea was deemed a developing nation. I remember troubleshooting my brother in law's three year old clutch problem. We found that when the cable was activated the outer sleeve would compress like an accordian. Good thing they weren't making motorcycles.

 

[motornut]

I actually saw one running on the road once.

 

[ST Steven]

My dad, rest his soul, had a few of these. he loved quirky cars, especially gas sippers. He hated spending money on gas.

I actually saw one running on the r

 

[ST Steven]

Have one of each. still use them both. I have one of these too. From my dads toolbox. Never tried to figure out how to use it. Like a slide rule, got caught up in calculator heaven and did not look back

I remember when I was a liddle boy,,,lol, my grandfather always had one of these in his overall pocket. He would take it out and wow us kids by unfolding it into letters of the alphabet with it.

 

[ST Steven]

You left out Rodney Dangerfield: he still gets no respect!

Tim Conway, Fishing with Dorf

 

[ST Steven]

Hoosier cabinet

 

[Lee T]

I'm old enough to remember;

Hitest gasoline.
2 keys for the car.
Gapping and cleaning plugs as well as setting points.
Using seatbelts?
Drinking AND driving WAS legal in Texas.
Spam came with a key on the bottom of the can to open it (Hawaii food staple).

I remember "ethyl", and I remember when the drive from Del Rio to San Antone was a "2 beer drive". My '73 Mustang still has points and plugs.

 

[Lee T]

No, but I do remember Tiger-11 for the time and 936-1212 for the weather.

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4 digit phone numbers, party lines, high beam switches on the floorboard. Gas cap under license plate, wratchet bumper jacks....

PO549 was our phone number, and God help you if the old biddy down the road was on the party line, 'cause she was going to be on there for an hour.

 

[Lee T]

10 cent pops
Nickle candy bars
Sitting backwards in the rear of the station wagon facing the car that might rear end you
Cozy wings
In dash cig lighters and ash trays
Going anywhere we wanted as long as we were home for dinner
School bus stops where all the kids in the neighborhood got picked up and dropped off
Going to the movies for 25 cents
Vinyl records then 8 track tapes
Cars without power steering or disc brakes
Garage doors you swung open by hand and held open with prop rods
Lawn mowers with revolving blades and no motor
Hand held paper fans because there was no such thing as air conditioning

The first show I saw on a color TV was Bonanza. 1959 I believe. I still remember the map burning up and being amazed. My dad said we couldnt get one because they were too expensive.

We didn't get a color TV until 1971 or so.

 

[Lee T]

They do that c@#$ in Colorado too.

 

[Oldbikefixr]

They do that c@#$ in Colorado too.

The switch to plastic bottles was due to the pressure on manufacturers to do something about all the broken glass bottles literally everywhere. Only minor pressure to recycle.....recycle deposits of a nickel per bottle.
Our last trip, we encountered an extensive 'clean out the ditch' work in progress along a few rural roads in Arkansas. Miles and miles of piles of trash bags along both shoulders of the roads...piles were placed roughly every tenth of a mile.
Shame that 'litterbugs' aren't still put onto cleanup duty anymore....that actually helped in Mississippi for a while, 'til some influential dipstick's kid sued the state over 'cruel and unusual punishment'. Mid 1960's.
Seems we aren't learning anything in that respect.

 

[ST1100Y]

Just like GM cars of the period, you could sit beside the driveway, drinking your favorite beer.....and watch it rust.

You know why they had a heated rear window...

So you won't get cold hands when you've to push start it in the winter...

 

[ReSTored]

Just like GM cars of the period, you could sit beside the driveway, drinking your favorite beer.....and watch it rust.

Guy I know had a 1974 Ford LTD. 18 months old. When you opened the trunk you were looking at the 2 rear wheels. Both wheel wells completely rusted out and gone, like they were never there. Ford told him to pound sand, denied all claims. Aside from very poor rust proofing many manufacturers used Montreal was a brutal environment for vehicles due to the amount of salt used on winter roads.

 

[rwthomas1]

I reckon is was rated "disposable" back then...

I had a girlfriend/fiancé once that had a Yugo when I started seeing her. It actually wasn't as bad as it was made out to be. Everything on it was from something else. The basic engine/transaxle was Fiat 152? Ignition parts were VW, etc. I drove it quite a bit, and very hard. Think shift when the valves float.... And I never killed it, kinda surprised really.

 

[RaYzerman]

I believe the engine was a Renault, same one as used in the Le Car..... the way it works over there is there are manufacturers of drive trains, Renault being one. Many of their drive trains (engine/tranny) were used in Fiats, Yugos, Skodas.