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Let kids ride in the vehicle with no child's seat or seat belts, sometimes in the backwards facing bench way in the back.
Things you had to do to old cars that you don't have to anymore with newer cars. Go!
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Use a death wish bumper jack when you get flat. Then put a bottle jack in the vehicle for next time.
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)Pray that the car would start. No start was usually due to choke plate sticking open or closed.
Pray that the engine wouldn’t stumble while trying to quickly accelerate across an intersection when a school bus or dump truck is heading towards you. (I still remember that school bus coming towards me while the engine nearly stalled out abruptly. Fortunately it regained power in the nick of time)
Fill the gas tank only 1/4 full due to the rust holes in the seam of the tank. (Many cars were not well made back in the 70s)
Pray that the engine wouldn’t stumble while trying to quickly accelerate across an intersection when a school bus or dump truck is heading towards you. (I still remember that school bus coming towards me while the engine nearly stalled out abruptly. Fortunately it regained power in the nick of time)
Fill the gas tank only 1/4 full due to the rust holes in the seam of the tank. (Many cars were not well made back in the 70s)
Hang a canvas water bottle on the front bumper when on vacation to remote locations, so you can refill the radiator when needed.
Open the driver and passenger footwell vents for ventilation during the summer months.
Manually turn the headlights on and off.
Have the engine rebuilt at about 80k - 90k miles.
Replace vacuum tubes in the radio.
Open the driver and passenger footwell vents for ventilation during the summer months.
Manually turn the headlights on and off.
Have the engine rebuilt at about 80k - 90k miles.
Replace vacuum tubes in the radio.
And you threw away an entire headlight assembly instead of just a bulb. And, you did it often. They didn't last all that long.
My dad lost his left leg in Korea so he had to rig up a rod gizmo to push the dimmer with his hand. He was happy when they moved the dimmer to the steering column.
Twist a dial to set the speed on your cruise control.
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Roll down the windows.
Reach out through those rolled down windows to adjust the side mirrors.
Pull out one of the five “buttons” to lock in a new radio station. You either get this or you don’t.
Flip the toggle on the rear view mirror at night to get the headlights of the car behind you diverted.
Look at a map to figure out where to make turns, directions.
Reach out through those rolled down windows to adjust the side mirrors.
Pull out one of the five “buttons” to lock in a new radio station. You either get this or you don’t.
Flip the toggle on the rear view mirror at night to get the headlights of the car behind you diverted.
Look at a map to figure out where to make turns, directions.
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Ride backwards in the "well" seat of a station wagon.
Drove the BMW today to fill it up. Didn't have to take the key out of pocket for anything. Just push a button to start. One quick button to change the seat all the other settings were changed based on my key fob. Didn't have to touch the HVAC everything automatic. Granted it is a BMW but most cars have these feature now days. Compared to the 91, 00. 02 and 04 like 15 less steps.
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Those features are pretty much absent on my car, and I don't mind not having them even though they are nice. However, I do like the key fobs to lock/unlock the doors and trunk. The Camry didn't have such a fob when I got it, so I had the key and a new fob programmed for the feature.
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You must have been changing tubes on older cars. By 1955-56 most, if not all, cars came with tubeless tires, with the 1954 Packard being one of the first, if not the first, to offer them on their cars.
I'll second replacing the tires so often. I remember getting maybe 20,000 miles on a set of tires.
And I don't miss the squishy feeling of driving on bias ply tires - needing to constantly adjust the steering while driving straight down the highway.
And one more, using Brillo pads to clean the whitewalls.
And I don't miss the squishy feeling of driving on bias ply tires - needing to constantly adjust the steering while driving straight down the highway.
And one more, using Brillo pads to clean the whitewalls.
Ask the kid at the pump to "Fill'er up with ethel."
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