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Yepper I remember all of those things

 

Good read!

 

Yer makin me feel old, The good old days, I miss them.

 

"old folks" hell, i remember all those things and i'm just a pup

 

That was a great read!!!! Sometimes I wonder if it would do us all a great justice to set and think back once in awhile to ponder where we came from and where we are going??? Goodluck,,Rick

 

A good read. Yup, I remember those things. Wasn't that only last week?
Good memories! Wonder what the kids of today will remember with nostalgia 30 years from now?

 

55-57 is my dream car...

I'm 22 so most of that is before my time, but I have always heard it from the older generations....

 

Wish I could re-live them.....every one.......

 

dont remember the card bord stoppers but have had my milk deliverd!

 

Got all of 'em. I delivered milk in glass bottles, worked in the bottling room,bottle washer and PurPak machines.

How about these:

1. opening the driver door was a signal for a turn?? seeing grandpa do it, then dad and being taught.
2. there weren't turn signal switches. you used arm signals. Ever hang your arm down and out the window to signal stopping or slowing?? Knew about it but only did it to toss a can across the road into the ditch. haha.
3. no power windows. cranks usually didn't work either.
4. the blast of cold air coming through the split in the windshield of a model T??
5. know how to crank a model T??
6. starting the model T in -20 weather.? It took a newfangled electric starter and the crank. Watch out for your thumb!!
7. wiring a model T coil to the rose bush and firing it off when the neighbor's dog hiked his leg on the bush??
8. know which pedal is reverse in a T??
9. changing a flat in the rain? Like putting in a patch?
10. getting the 2 mules out to get the 40 Ford truck unstuck. ( I didn't have anything to with getting the truck stuck that time haha.) My buddy's dad gave him the belt and I ran like ......home.
11. ever get the hose in the principal's office for fighting in school?
12. $.15 gas?
14. working for a $1.00 and hour at the gas station and feeling wealthy with $50 in your pocket?
15. buying a 3 year old car for $500 with 45k showing.
16. first Hurst floorshifter?
17. getting hit by the beer truck and getting paid off for keeping quite with a couple cases of Bud?
18. made to stand in the corner at school for "being so dumb"

any others showing your age???

 

YOu mean when going to LA was over the red asphalt that two land Route 66 was then, with ruts so deep that you could let go of the steering wheel.

How about sneaking out at night, taking a straw and popping the tops off the Pepsi in the slide in cooler at the gas station.

The nights laying on the floor listening to Inner Santum, Lone Ranger, the Squeeking Door, and a few others.... no TV yet.

45's ? My first records of Rock were 78's.

How about three layer shims for the rods and babbett for the Chevy's. Filing off the rod caps to tighten them up. And Cadallac's with Dynaflow. Yep, thats not a mistake.

The one that I always get a kick out of, the old cars always had plain gray for the interior, than came modern times with colors and tuck and roll, what happened?

A fast car was two Strombergs on a 239 flathead Ford. How about three ones on a Chev six. Course you had to find a wrecked Vette for the manifold.

 

My first car was a "57" Chevy.

How the heck did I end up with a DODGE CDT?


Must have been the drugs in the 60's.

 

Love it guys. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. No, I'm not old enought to have experienced many of them but that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy the trip.

 

I'll be remembering driving 40 year old tractors when I was 6, getting told by my mother that "The principal DOES have permission to beat you at school! ), going to the coffee shop with dad, and finally, driving my own hot rods (CTD and Chevelle )

See, it's not all gone, yet

Chris