People born in the wrong decade

wpod said:
I turned 18 in 1971 and it was amazing.
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Same here - left school at 16 in 1970 and started working for a living. NZ was in a bit of a time lag - but growing up in the '50's and '60's and then being let loose as teenagers into the adult world in the '70's was heady stuff - we didn't have a clue what was going on, but it didn't matter, we just ran with it.

My 50 years working in the motor trade has been good - starting out working on '50's and '60's stuff, and then just rolling onto the high tech stuff of today...the best of times. But I think the perfect years for the motor trade would be from 1950 to 2,000. Starting out working on pre war vehicles, and then into the prosperous '50's and '60's, then the drama from the '70's on...and then stepping off the bus in 2,000, before things got too complicated.
 
JT20 said:
I watched this movie for the first time in full on Christmas. It was... meh.

I laughed when I saw a Ford Mustang, looked vaguely like an EXP or whatever the Mercury version was... as an SUX 6000.

I had a 1985 Ford Escort EXP in Midnight Purple. I miss that one.
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I'm not sure why the Blaupunkt set him off although maybe that was because it was a German audio system instead of American and he wanted the American car. Or maybe it was too high end at the time for the car he wanted. It reminded me more of the Pontiac 6000 which was a model at the time although it never had a V8.
 
Propflux01 said:
Had a few of these. They looked better than they performed, but were still good. They were pricey, too. In many ways I miss that era. When recording, one had more control over the sound. and, of course, the ever argument of which noise reduction was better, Dolby or DBX.
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I think they were $10 a piece back in 1985 when I bought a couple. I think I bought them at OG Wilson. My cassette deck had Dolby B,C,and HX PRO (Aiwa F-990). I still have it around here somewhere.
 
ollie said:
It takes a lot of fossil fuels and pollution to create a EV. Do the math and you will have to drive a EV car for over 50 years to get any reduction of the air quality used to produce just the batteries.
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It does take quite a bit, but it's not 50 years. Here's one study:

Which shows lifecycle emissions (including manufacture, shipping, all the inputs) for an EV are lower over 150,000km in places with clean electricity than say a Ford Focus. The Focus has lower upfront emissions due to manufacture, but obviously higher during operation:
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tyman said:
I should have been 18 in 1967-1972...that would have been amazing.
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There was a little party in SE Asia about that time that was bad news for young American men. Not being political, just pointing out that you could get shot. My draft number kept me from having to go; I know I'd have gotten myself killed over there.

Otherwise, the late Sixties to the mid-Seventies were pleasant for a young man. Women's Lib was just starting to take hold, which means most girls your age had not grown up with it and were still feminine. Gas was still about .30/gal. until '73 or '74. You could find a job, get fired and find a new one -- and start working at it -- without having to go through all the personnel approval nonsense of today. Sure, we didn't get paid much, but then rents and even house prices were more in line with what the average person brought home in a week. So were food and liquor and beer.

Yes, a lot of dumb stuff abounded. But we were freer.
 
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OVERKILL said:
It does take quite a bit, but it's not 50 years. Here's one study:

Which shows lifecycle emissions (including manufacture, shipping, all the inputs) for an EV are lower over 150,000km in places with clean electricity than say a Ford Focus. The Focus has lower upfront emissions due to manufacture, but obviously higher during operation:
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Funny you bring this up. EV life cycle really depends on how much you drive and where you get your electricity from.

I would imagine iMiEV won't last as long as a plug in Prius and Tesla won't have the same raw material production cost as iMiEV but last 150k because it is expensive to replace.

Also this graphs suggests that vehicles that park most of the time and not driven much should remain gasoline powered: rental cars, government fleet. Where as for EV they really should get battery pack swap technology going so delivery vehicles, or those who can run all day, should be using the vehicle non stop with battery swap.

Alternatively: Long range EV should start lives in US and as range reduce be exported to small island to finish off life as golf cart transportations (Hawaii, Cuba, etc) or gets battery cheaply refurbished in 3rd world countries (swapping out bad cell as it goes, maybe once every 6 months).
 
Benzadmiral said:
There was a little party in SE Asia about that time that was bad news for young American men. Not being political, just pointing out that you could get shot. My draft number kept me from having to go; I know I'd have gotten myself killed over there.

Otherwise, the late Sixties to the mid-Seventies were pleasant for a young man. Women's Lib was just starting to take hold, which means most girls your age had not grown up with it and were still feminine. Gas was still about .30/gal. until '73 or '74. You could find a job, get fired and find a new one -- and start working at it -- without having to go through all the personnel approval nonsense of today. Sure, we didn't get paid much, but then rents and even house prices were more in line with what the average person brought home in a week. So were food and liquor and beer.

Yes, a lot of dumb stuff abounded. But we were freer.
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I served 8 years in the Infantry and a year in Iraq. I would have done the same during Vietnam. ;)
 
tyman said:
I served 8 years in the Infantry and a year in Iraq. I would have done the same during Vietnam. ;)
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Good for you. I considered going for the Navy and trying to get into submarines. But at 18 I was in no way ready to be an infantryman. No matter how much training they gave me, I'd have done something stupid over there and gotten killed or maimed.
 
Benzadmiral said:
Good for you. I considered going for the Navy and trying to get into submarines. But at 18 I was in no way ready to be an infantryman. No matter how much training they gave me, I'd have done something stupid over there and gotten killed or maimed.
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Hell, you can not do something stupid and still get killed lol

Or you can do stupid things here at home and get killed.
 
Benzadmiral said:
Which was part 2 of what I was afraid of.
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Before we arrived in Iraq, a guy walking across the dirt road from the trailers to the PX was hit by a Humvee at night and killed. Another time, an LMTV rolled into one of the canals on its top on base and killed 3-4 people by drowning because no one could open the doors and get out.

:(
 
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Benzadmiral said:
There was a little party in SE Asia about that time that was bad news for young American men. Not being political, just pointing out that you could get shot. My draft number kept me from having to go; I know I'd have gotten myself killed over there.

Otherwise, the late Sixties to the mid-Seventies were pleasant for a young man. Women's Lib was just starting to take hold, which means most girls your age had not grown up with it and were still feminine. Gas was still about .30/gal. until '73 or '74. You could find a job, get fired and find a new one -- and start working at it -- without having to go through all the personnel approval nonsense of today. Sure, we didn't get paid much, but then rents and even house prices were more in line with what the average person brought home in a week. So were food and liquor and beer.

Yes, a lot of dumb stuff abounded. But we were freer.
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I was A ready and was number 4 when the draft ended.
 
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