How OLD are you.
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nah, a few steps forward actually, imo
This is the first 'video game' I ever played at my local roller skating rink.
On My grandfathers doodlebug you had to move the spark, timing and AFR adjusters all the way to the right, you also had to pull out a knob and screw it tight for high idle.
Then you had to push down one of the foot pedals (don’t remember why, you would lurch if it wasn’t down)
Then you could start, once it fired you had to move the spark and timing adjustments towards the middle and let it warm while fiddling with the AFR.
For first you had to clutch and hold one pedal to the floor, the throttle was on a thing that reminded me of a hand brake in your right hand.
Once it got good and warm you could lean the AFR and spark and advance the timing.
Second and reverse were both wierd being controlled by foot pedals.
I’m not that old, my grandfather just had a lot of old vehicles
Then you had to push down one of the foot pedals (don’t remember why, you would lurch if it wasn’t down)
Then you could start, once it fired you had to move the spark and timing adjustments towards the middle and let it warm while fiddling with the AFR.
For first you had to clutch and hold one pedal to the floor, the throttle was on a thing that reminded me of a hand brake in your right hand.
Once it got good and warm you could lean the AFR and spark and advance the timing.
Second and reverse were both wierd being controlled by foot pedals.
I’m not that old, my grandfather just had a lot of old vehicles
Manual steering, manual drum brakes, mechanical ignition and manual transmission all standard.
I rode around in a 60s something cars that didn't have seat belts and have a scar on my head from a minor fender bender to prove it.
My dad bought a car in 1961 that did not come with seat belts, and then he got them installed a year or so later. Back then, at least in the 1960's the seat belt only went around your waist. I did drive a 1979 Pontiac Bonneville that had the shoulder seat belt.
I'm old enough to know better, yet young enough to do it anyway.
I'm so old I remember attending stock car races in the early 1960's at Langhorne Speedway in PA rooting for Fireball Roberts and sprint car races at Reading Fairgrounds Speedway in PA rooting for Eddie Sachs. RIP to both.
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I'm older than you. I remember a party line and I was married at the time!
I'm so old I don't buy green bananas.
Only one of my Gr 12 classmates had an electronic calculator - it had a hungry red LED display that ate up a 9 V battery in eight minutes. It was prudent to turn it off between operations.
The following summer most of us going on to college bought electronic calculators. Mine was a Sears Digimatic D8. TI and HP calculators were more common. One fellow in 1st-year physics was still running a slide rule for at least the first few months.
I am so old, I remember as a young child a neighbor owned a Henry-J automobile.
And my uncle owned a Pontiac that, when you turned on the headlights, Chief Pontiac's amber head on the hood ornament lit up.
And my father bought a brand new Buick with a straight 8 engine.
And my uncle owned a Pontiac that, when you turned on the headlights, Chief Pontiac's amber head on the hood ornament lit up.
And my father bought a brand new Buick with a straight 8 engine.
I have the first 2 out of 3 k1xv posted.
I'm so old, I remember people being friendly to each other.
Seriously, I'm so old, I remember seeing sacks of cocoa beans being delivered to Li Lac, a top NYC chocolatier, in earlier days.
I'm so old, I remember people being friendly to each other.
Seriously, I'm so old, I remember seeing sacks of cocoa beans being delivered to Li Lac, a top NYC chocolatier, in earlier days.
I remember a few years ago on here of some members saying an orange was a special treat and often a Xmas stocking stuffer when they were growing up.
My mom grew up that way. We always had an orange in the toe of our Christmas stockings, though she just got it out of the kitchen as we weren't so poor we didn't buy fruit. I guess it felt like a tradition for her.
I am so old, my dad did own a Henry J, not for very long though.
I am so old, when I started driving the ole three on the tree required coming to a full stop to drop it into first.
I know what a skate key is, what a 45 record insert was, you had to have a church key to open a can of soda or beer, we played auto bingo on trips, everyone had hula hoops, we rode an old school buss to pick berries for 60 cents a flat, people still remembered WWI and gold was very valuable at $35 and ounce.
