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Leo Tanner

#20
April 18, 2008, 05:09:48 PM
I got ma right knee cap ripped out by a window crank in a pick up roll over when I was 15.  Try ta explain what happened and some folks wonder what I'm talkin about.  I guess they think that little button did the damage ;D

My buddy had a '66 Conti and it had the suicide doors.  You could seat eight in the back an twice that many in the trunk :D  It's a fact!  Which leads me to another fergotten....the drive in, not the eatin type but the movie kind.  They started makin it so you could get the sound on yer car radio (don remember if it were AM or FM) and the window speaker was gone.  So were the drive ins soon after :'(  Now most of them are nuthin but lots fer swap meets.


Leo

"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

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Ozark Tracker

#21
April 18, 2008, 05:51:04 PM
Del, we get a lot of waves around here, even up at Ft. Smith, you see people waving, and I mean they are using their whole hand ;D

Eythel gas,

retread tires.

using a roll of toilet paper for an oil filter. :o
We done it for Dixie,  nothing else

"I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved."

Leo Tanner

#22
April 18, 2008, 06:05:27 PM
UHF
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Delmonico

#23
April 18, 2008, 06:27:26 PM
How'bout the NBC Peacock?

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Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Lucky Irish Tom

#24
April 18, 2008, 06:33:36 PM
Speakin of Drive-Ins and car trunks.  Anyone remember sneaking a group of friends into the Drive-in in your trunk?

Push button transmissions

metal dashboards

No seat belts or air bags

Dyna-flow transmissions

Gas for a quarter a gallon, a service attendant would fill your car up, wash your windows and check your oil at no extra charge.

A service station would put air in your tires for free.

The days when a good mechanic could drive your car around the block and tell you exactly what was wrong with it.

Timing light

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Major E A Sterner

#25
April 18, 2008, 06:50:20 PM
We still have a couple Drive-in movies here, One is in the town just south of me, I think they did away with the speakers a couple years ago, Last time I went was when I took my Daughter to see "Over the Hedge", funny movie.

Tom, I had a 65 Fury with a push button tranny, Was a fun car to drive, Lots of steel around you.
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Forty Rod

#26
April 18, 2008, 07:04:12 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on April 18, 2008, 05:09:48 PM
I got ma right knee cap ripped out by a window crank in a pick up roll over when I was 15.  Try ta explain what happened and some folks wonder what I'm talkin about.  I guess they think that little button did the damage ;D

My buddy had a '66 Conti and it had the suicide doors.  You could seat eight in the back an twice that many in the trunk :D  It's a fact!  Which leads me to another fergotten....the drive in, not the eatin type but the movie kind.  They started makin it so you could get the sound on yer car radio (don remember if it were AM or FM) and the window speaker was gone.  So were the drive ins soon after :'(  Now most of them are nuthin but lots fer swap meets.


Leo

I bought a 2005 Chevy Cavalier with cranks.  Also manual mirrors, door locks, seats, etc.  Took weeks to find it and had to settle for a used Enterprise rental.  Couldn't find a stick shift, though.  Little sucker gets 33 mpg and there isn't much to go wrong with it.

People like me are the reason people like you have the right to bitch about people like me.

Texas Lawdog

#27
April 18, 2008, 07:30:43 PM
Del, the waving seems to still be done in rural areas in farming and ranching locales. I bought a new 1980 Buick and kept pawing the floorboard for the dimmer switch. Had to get the Owners' manual out to find where the dimmer was at.  Sonic driveins are everywhere now. They are keeping the carhops on rollerskates alive.
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Delmonico

#28
April 18, 2008, 07:39:25 PM
I got usedto the dimmer there when I drove Beetles,they put it there in 65.
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Major E A Sterner

#29
April 18, 2008, 07:48:26 PM
No Sonics in ny... :(
Respectfully,Major E.A. Sterner
G.A.F #118
R.A.T.S.#125
"If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim." - Jeff Cooper

Texas Lawdog

#30
April 18, 2008, 07:50:50 PM
How about we used to do that or I'm fixin' to do that.  My new GMC has roll up windows, it took a little while to get used to. I got a good deal on it because it didn't have alot of options.
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Texas Lawdog

#31
April 18, 2008, 08:08:36 PM
We didn't get a color tv until 65, we still had out first one we got in 53.  We only had 2 channels until 61, when we got ABC, just in time for all the westerns that they came out with.  Bonanza and Tales of Wells Fargo were the only programs that were broadcast in color, both of which were on NBC.  RCA had the first color set.
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   Col.  CAF  NRA  TSRA   BOA  Dooley Gang  BOPP  ROWSS  Scarlet Mask Vigilance Society Great Lakes Freight and Mining Company  Cow Cracker Cavalry   Berger Sharpshooters "I had no Irons in the Fire". "Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie"?

Ozark Tracker

#32
April 18, 2008, 08:29:44 PM
remember those screens they set in front of a TV and they were supposed to colorize it. :o

didn't have a color TV to watch till 1971, after I'd got married the first time, 
We done it for Dixie,  nothing else

"I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved."

Arcey

#33
April 18, 2008, 08:46:25 PM
The wife's cars had all the goodies. I bought my stuff stripped with AC. Install my own stereo, cigarette lighter 'n clock. Drove Momma's Grand Marquee with a pile of folks in it to a Redskins game. Fell in love with cruise control. Never used it before. Went to Montgomery Ward 'n got me an aftermarket CC unit 'n stuck it in the truck I had.

When I got the Olds it was loaded. All I've had since have been too. Kindah used to it now. Do think power mirrors are a bit much.
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Steel Horse Bailey

#34
April 18, 2008, 11:20:39 PM
Arcey, that power window on the RIGHT side is handy!
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litl rooster

#35
April 18, 2008, 11:39:08 PM
Quote from: Steel Horse Bailey on April 18, 2008, 11:20:39 PM
Arcey, that power window on the RIGHT side is handy!


heated power mirror is right handy no more scratched glass
Mathew 5.9

Curley Cole

#36
April 18, 2008, 11:52:43 PM
Del
When I first took my wife up thru the Central Valley of California, she noticed 3 things about the pickup trucks drivin around there
1. They all waved at each other
2. Most of them had an old engine in the bed.
3. They would all be weavin in and out of the lanes, whether they was drivin 20 or 90mph, they ALL was checkin on the CROPS!

I had an old Plymouth that had pushbutton shiftin on the dash board

One time we stuck Old Top into the Trunk of my 63 VW (he waz skinnier then) to sneak him into the drivein....I would hit the breaks every few minutes, and laff when he would bang on the hood, We pulled into a station for gas...the Attendant came out (remember when we had attendants,) he opened the hood, and Top said "Two Dollars Please", and scared the hell outta Flash.
When we got to the pay booth at the drive in, there was the sign in BIG red and black letters: $1.50 PER CARLOAD.... people looked at us really wierd when Top climed outta the trunk...

Do ya all remember installin' a Hurst floorshifter in your car?  We put on in Tops old 50 Chevy bomber...(I still have a dent in my chest where we dropped the back of the tranny on me....

Ah memories...
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Texas Lawdog

#37
April 19, 2008, 06:31:26 AM
I put one of those fiberglass bed cover on the GMC, it makes a good storage area to keep your stuff dry. It is a regular cab so there's not much room in the cab area. I also got a RHINO bed liner sprayed in it. I didn't get the power mirrors. a right side power mirror would be nice.
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Silver Creek Slim

#38
April 19, 2008, 07:22:21 AM
"You have more tools than Carter has liver pills." ;D

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Silver Creek Slim

#39
April 19, 2008, 07:32:47 AM
Fibber McGee's closet

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