You know you're old when...

Esteban · 02-21-2022, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

Or not.

I send myself emails so I won't forget things. lol

vreihen16 · 02-21-2022, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

I send myself emails so I won't forget things. lol

I use Siri on my Apple Watch to set reminders for things that I'd otherwise forget in a few minutes several times per day, because my rememberer isn't what it used to be.....

3798j · 02-21-2022, 02:52 PM

Remembering speeding before there were speed-rated tires....in fact you were on bias-plies that if you could get18,000 miles on a set you were doing good.

rwheels · 02-21-2022, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by 3798j

Remembering speeding before there were speed-rated tires....in fact you were on bias-plies that if you could get 18,000 miles on a set you were doing good.

Or more, if they were retreaded.

Dino GT · 02-21-2022, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

I send myself emails so I won't forget things. lol

I do something similar, I send myself texts

wdb · 02-22-2022, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by dscabra

My 1965 VW Bug was still 6 volt, but I did have a fuel gauge. The worst possible driving scenario was in the dark with snow or freezing rain. The 6-volt system would make the headlights feel like candles when the wipers were on at the same time, and the defroster was based on ducting heat from the engine through thin metal flex hose that never had a shortage of holes effectively reducing the flow of warm air to the windshield.

You had warm air to the windshield?!? I carried a small ice scraper in the car -- for the inside of the windshield.

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Originally Posted by flybigjet

You know you're old if you understand (and have experienced) why the windshield wipers on a car would slow down to a crawl when you were at a stop or going up a hill.

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

I found it to be just the opposite. Low throttle (throttle barrel closed, or near closed) = fast wipers; high throttle (throttle barrel open) = slow wipers.

^^^ This. With the throttle closed, the engine has a ton of vacuum to spare (which is like saying that it has a lot nothing lol). With the throttle wide open, not so much.

When I worked in the garage at the dairy back in the '70's we started retrofitting electric motors onto the milk trucks' wipers. The drivers were astonished.

3.0L · 02-22-2022, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by 3798j

Remembering speeding before there were speed-rated tires....in fact you were on bias-plies that if you could get18,000 miles on a set you were doing good.

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Originally Posted by rwheels

Or more, if they were retreaded.

My first car, a 1964 Corvair Monza, came with recapped tires. There was no way I could speed with those tires. They were so out of balance and out of round that they acted like a built-in governor as they shook the crap out of everything, including the steering wheel.

TKDbilly · 02-22-2022, 01:40 PM

... you got one of these as a kid ...

Esteban · 02-22-2022, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TKDbilly

... you got one of these as a kid ...

Wow, "authentic," huh? lol

TiMSport · 02-22-2022, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TKDbilly

... you got one of these as a kid ...

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Wow, "authentic," huh? lol[/QUOTE

It's fake. It's made in the U.S.A!

Esteban · 02-22-2022, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

It's fake. It's made in the U.S.A!

Maybe that's where the "authentic" ones came from.

Because no real Englishmen would buy one.

rwheels · 02-22-2022, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Maybe that's where the "authentic" ones came from.

Because no real Englishmen would buy one.

But they, more than likely, wore these. I did.

Esteban · 02-22-2022, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rwheels

But they, more than likely, wore these. I did.

Yep, same here.

TiMSport · 02-22-2022, 01:56 PM

sloooooowly backing off lawn

3.0L · 02-27-2022, 10:01 AM

You ate this stuff:

JJ 911SC · 02-27-2022, 11:55 AM

You remember watching Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir

Esteban · 02-27-2022, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

You remember watching Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir

Yep, The Avengers. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

Saw her recently before she died in "Last Night in Soho."

JJ 911SC · 02-27-2022, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Yep, The Avengers. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

Saw her recently before she died in "Last Night in Soho."

Rarely a translated title version sound better than the original but this one does.

Melon Hat and Leather Boot

Esteban · 02-27-2022, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Yep, The Avengers. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg.

Saw her recently before she died in "Last Night in Soho."

Rarely a translated title version sound better than the original but this one does.

Melon Hat and Leather Boot

Never heard it called that before. I like it. 👍

Dpc2u · 02-27-2022, 06:38 PM

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flybigjet · 02-27-2022, 07:27 PM

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You remember watching Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir

"Mrs. Peel..... We're needed."

3.0L · 02-27-2022, 07:55 PM

It takes 5 minutes to take a (partial) piss... 4 times a night.

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