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DEMONSTRATION!!!!!!!!! Video link!!!!!
My computer skills suck, but hell if I can do pics I will see about video chit. I made that one about 5 years ago to ignite a stubborn brush pile using gasoline for an accelerant. That WOOF upon ignition can be problematic. I had three good matches in the RV and used them. I think the EPA has stepped in and the matches I got locally won't ignite. I ordered some from Amazon, be here in a few days. Hopefully they work and I can figure out videos.
 
We would run out of fire crackers that we got from the long haul truckers at the A & A. Then you would break off one roll from the stack and using your dad's hammer you would whack the roll on the sidewalk. Very loud. What ear protection? You could get sometimes three good Kabooms form one roll. My dad couldn't figure out why the sidewalks were breaking up. :cool:
 
I remember Yosemite Sam, The Three Stooges , Bugs Bunny, Road Runner ,Sky King and some the rest.
They were more entertaining than some of this crap that they say is entertainment.
The political agenda said ole Yosemite was too violent. I think the Three Stooges became politicians. Bugs was too smart for them,Road Runner was too fast for them,Sky King was too honest for them.
Oh well,life goes on.

Road Runner was my childhood physics class. Bugs Bunny was my childhood smartass class.
 
I remember manual adjust brakes on vehicles. There is a story that goes with that.
Vacuum powered windshield wipers that don't work during acceleration.
When A/C for cars was the windows rolled down. It got hot during a rain.
No power steering, brakes, windows on cars
Bumper jacks for changing tires. Real fun when the side of the road wasn't flat.
When tires had inner tubes and tires were called casings
Retred tires
Free air at the service station. Now they are not even service stations
The only Jeeps available was military surplus
Motorcycles only had kick starters
Tractors all had iron wheels.
You had to be a farmer or a Redneck to have a P/U truck. No self respecting city slickers would be caught in one.
Deer strapped to fenders of cars because city slickers didn't have P/U's
When women looked like women and men looked like men
 
I remember Volkswagen's having drum brakes.
With a Porsche motor up grade,out with the old and in with the new.
Rear disk brake system design and fabricated $10,000 to fit early 50's 16" wheels widened 2" with no backing plate.View attachment 1217624
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I need my helmet and crayons....
I'll be takin a ride on the short bus!!
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Here's a early 50's getting mocked up.View attachment 1217626

Brett, you work and craftsmanship never ceases to amaze me.
 
....playing "Kick the Can" and "Annie Annie Over". Putting pennies on the railroad tracks to make them as big around as a fifty cent piece and quite thin. I remember fifty cent pieces. Back in the day if you had one you had what is known today is major buying power. You could get a couple of tubes of BBs, enough candy to last all day and still have change.
 

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