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You know you are getting older when..............

You could buy a new vehicle and delete the extraneous chit you didn't want. Radio delete,, heater delete, etc. Try that now. Not allowed. Instead, you are stuck with all this electronic crap you don't want but get to pay for. I just priced new trucks. The lowest I could find was $45K. You could buy a fully tricked out big block Corvette for $4,500. Pickup trucks were less than $2K. Aaaargh!

Edit:. With all the electronic bs they put in cars now you would think perhaps a cd player would be included - not!
 
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May have missed this in fourteen pages but you know you're old when you remember before going to school or on a date, you loaded up your hair with Brylcreem or Vitalis. e-big-grin.gif Or you remember the successive Burma Shave signs along the road.

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May have missed this in fourteen pages but you know you're old when you remember before going to school or on a date, you loaded up your hair with Brylcreem or Vitalis. View attachment 1131403 Or you remember the successive Burma Shave signs along the road.

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I remember Burma Shave>>>but was too young to use it. However, I did use Vitalis! A friend of mine used Brylcream... Wasn't called "Vitalis V/S or 5?" or some such moniker?
 
Yup, Brylcream and 5" A e nylon comb in back pocket. In military, wore crew cut without wax; required headgear wouldn't allow combed hair.

Gas - $1.00 before Sat night date was 1/4 tank, Esso, tiger in my tank.

Burma Shave signs along Route 66 between OK City and Yukon and El Reno.

Jim Walker balsa gliders, 5 cents, fit the wing, tail planes.....throw and dive or stall, move the wing to see how far it would go.

Making kites with newspaper after you tore your Hi Flyer.

Strings of firecrackers....cherry bombs, T 'n T bombs rubber banded to arrows and shot into the sky, the original aerial bombs.
 
How about engine tuneups? Points, plugs, condenser, rotor, cap and don't forget the timing light and dwell meter and God help you if you had to remove the distributor and then get the gear back in the right spot.
I degreased my engine one time. After hosing it down, the car wouldn’t start. I found the little metal door on distributor cap was open. It took a while with the blow nozzle to get it dried out. Learning experience!
 
How about engine tuneups? Points, plugs, condenser, rotor, cap and don't forget the timing light and dwell meter and God help you if you had to remove the distributor and then get the gear back in the right spot.
I have never been mechanically inclined, especially working on engines. I had an '85 Delta 88 Royal. I decided to tune it myself. I bought all the periphery that you have listed above. After nearly 8 hours I finally got the plugs changed! I decided to hire out the rest! T-Rust me, I am NO mechanic! LOL!!!
 
I have never been mechanically inclined, especially working on engines. I had an '85 Delta 88 Royal. I decided to tune it myself. I bought all the periphery that you have listed above. After nearly 8 hours I finally got the plugs changed! I decided to hire out the rest! T-Rust me, I am NO mechanic! LOL!!!
When I was young, it was fix it or walk. And I hate walking! No money to pay anyone and I felt lucky just to be able to get a few parts. Usually I just cleaned what was there and put them back in.
 
How about engine tuneups? Points, plugs, condenser, rotor, cap and don't forget the timing light and dwell meter and God help you if you had to remove the distributor and then get the gear back in the right spot.
I've still got all that stuff, plus compression gage and still have to use it on the first new car I ever bought. 1980 Mazda GLC Sport. Kinda fun to actually work on your own chit. Over the the years I have put in three crate motors, finally got a good one for $250 about 10 years ago. Dropped off on my garage floor. Runs like a top. It's my spare beater. Then you open the hood of one of today's vehicles and go, ain't this a beeatch, gotta pay to have someone to do what should be easy for you to do.
 
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Take apart (brakes, distributor, carb) uh oh....
Ride tenspeed to library
Read n make copies from Chilton book, reference only, no check out
(Think lots while riding)
Go home, re assemble,
Workie?= good!
No workie= oh crap the library is closed,
Scratch head, try again.
74 75, good years
 

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