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

[garandman]

U kno yer old when.... u take yer a.m. meds and yer no longer hungry...

 

[jpx2rk]

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?

VO 5 IIRC, but then it's 50/50 on that anymore.

I used that sticky stuff called butch wax for my flattop. Not very long tho, that stuff was an early version of tacky grease. LOL

 

[Pwc]

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.

 

[hogpatrol]

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.

 

[Ringostar]

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!

 

[Pwc]

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.

still got the tools...never us'm

 

[ShootDots]

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!!!

 

[tloehrke]

FYI... There is still an A&W drive-up stand in Middlebury Vermont... Maybe the last one in the US!!

You go back a few years when you pull in there...

PS: The prices are not the same as the 60's.

Steve Nicholas

There is one in Fond du Lac, WI.

 

[mike a]

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.

If the points were closed and you left the key on/engine off, the points would weld together. Mike

 

[T-shooter]

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.

 

[T-shooter]

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.

Did you ever charge up a condenser and toss it to someone to catch?

 

[MikeT49]

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.

 

[Rustytigwire]

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

 

[Pwc]

Hogpatrol, yup. In the AF receiver site at Barksdale AFB, LA, the "station standard" was 28vdc.....charge up a 20 mfd cap (looked like a can of green beans with two screws on top; toss it to someone.... they didn't need Viagra..

 

[Pwc]

Used to open hood and look down and see..
ground. Sat on radiator, straddled the engine and pulled the head on 1953 straight 6 Ford Fairlane. Remember adding oil to the air breather?

 

[KMart]

Hogpatrol, yup. In the AF receiver site at Barksdale AFB, LA, the "station standard" was 28vdc.....charge up a 20 mfd cap (looked like a can of green beans with two screws on top; toss it to someone.... they didn't need Viagra..

You had to be really fast to get away with that.
If you were't you got to spend some time at sick bay.

 

[jpx2rk]

There is one in Fond du Lac, WI.

We have one in my town, they have monthly "cruise in's" for all the local car clubs. Some nice rat rods, 55-57 chevys, and pick ups running around then.

 

[hogpatrol]

Did you ever charge up a condenser and toss it to someone to catch?

Numerous times.

 

[hogpatrol]

You know you're old when you hitch-hiked and didn't worry about being picked up by a child molester, serial killer, bank robber, car jacker, or other criminal element. I know I traveled hundreds of miles doing it no problems. Once in a while you'd get a guy with a few under his belt and he'd be off on the shoulder and only a few inches from the roadside vegetation . So well short of your destination, you'd say "Right up here on the next block you can drop me off, my buddy only lives up the street". After he was out of sight, the thumb went up again.

 

[Shooter13]

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?

You're probably thinking VO5 the womans hair spray ;-)