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Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Bear Charge] #7407127 01/17/19 03:16 PM
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Anyone remember driving a stick that was on the steering column rather than the floor?

When I was a kid, the cheapest family car had a stick. And if you wanted to learn to drive, that was always the one you had to start with.


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Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Texas Dan] #7407129 01/17/19 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
Anyone remember driving a stick that was on the steering column rather than the floor?

When I was a kid, the cheapest family car had a stick. And if you wanted to learn to drive, that was always the one you had to start with.


Yes sir. The first and only car (went to trucks and never looked back) I have ever owned was a '67 Dodge Dart with three on the tree.

Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Choctaw] #7407271 01/17/19 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Choctaw
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Anyone remember driving a stick that was on the steering column rather than the floor?

When I was a kid, the cheapest family car had a stick. And if you wanted to learn to drive, that was always the one you had to start with.


Yes sir. The first and only car (went to trucks and never looked back) I have ever owned was a '67 Dodge Dart with three on the tree.


I suspect that today, only one kid in a million could identify the meaning of "three on the tree".


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Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Bear Charge] #7407274 01/17/19 06:45 PM
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Do kids even know where:

"Roll up that window"
"hang up that phone"

Came from?


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Probably about 21,557...

Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Texas Dan] #7407280 01/17/19 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
Anyone remember driving a stick that was on the steering column rather than the floor?

When I was a kid, the cheapest family car had a stick. And if you wanted to learn to drive, that was always the one you had to start with.


My '54 had a three speed Powerglide on the column before I swapped it for a TH350


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Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Bear Charge] #7407284 01/17/19 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by BOBO the Clown

Why did they move brights off the floor, still think that’s best place for them


Old Aggie joke, letter to the car manufactures after moving the dimmer switch off the floor board to the steering column that Aggies were involved in more fatal car crashes with their feet caught in the steering wheel while trying to dim the lightst


lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true
Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true
Mainstream news might be fun to watch
Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Texas Dan] #7407292 01/17/19 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
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Anyone remember driving a stick that was on the steering column rather than the floor?

When I was a kid, the cheapest family car had a stick. And if you wanted to learn to drive, that was always the one you had to start with.


Yes sir. The first and only car (went to trucks and never looked back) I have ever owned was a '67 Dodge Dart with three on the tree.


I suspect that today, only one kid in a million could identify the meaning of "three on the tree".


I bet you're right.

Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Choctaw] #7407337 01/17/19 08:22 PM
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Mmmmm, no. How about this one?




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Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: pnh] #7407385 01/17/19 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by pnh
Who remembers the starter button on the floor board?

My first ride was a 56 chevy pick up that had one.
It was a real fun deal when I had to stop on an uphill at a red light.
Try to take off, bog it down and kill the engine.
let's see if I can remember the steps....
Pull out the hand brake with left hand, right hand on the steering wheel.
Clutch down with left foot and make make sure i had it in low gear.
Heel of right foot on the gas pedal toe of right foot on the floor starter.
push the starter and pat the foot feet aka gas pedal. Get it running.
rev it up to a pretty good RPM, start letting out the clutch while simultaneously easing off the hand brake with left hand and giving it more gas all at the same time.

Oh, and mine had the vacuum operated wipers too! In a good hard rain, they were intermittent wipers all the way back then!! If you were out on the highway going good, you had to let off the gas pedal to make the wipers go fast. Wait for a cycle of the wipers then back on the gas till you couldn't see and let off the gas again.
Once i got used to all that it didn't seem like any problem. Sure wish I still had that old truck.

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The old 3 on the tree was also problematic about locking up between gears. You had to coast to the side and stop, raise the hood, get a tire tool or something else to pry around with, and wedge it between the linkages to free it up.

Somebody mentioned the propane conversions. That was mostly on trucks. But I knew a guy that had it in a car. The propane tank was in the trunk.

He went out one blizzard cold morning to warm it up. He didn't smell propane. He turned the key and boom. He was lucky it didn't kill him. It didn't even continue to burn. It was a flash blast that actually blew a tail light off the car. I think he had about the equivalent of a sunburn from it. The car didn't fare so well.

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Remember it?..I still own a 1969 Z/28 all original Camaro....everything is manual..including the steering.

Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Bear Charge] #7408709 01/19/19 11:48 AM
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I'm 76 and remember all of that stuff including a lot more.

Here's some of the types of stuff that "used to be".

I still remove my hat or cap when I come indoors. They weren't decorations.
Rolled our own cigarettes. Cheaper than ready mades.
I still have a 1949 Ford 8N that I need to work on and get going again.
About 50 years ago my BIL and I were trying to start a neighbors old D8 dozer with a hand crank. He was on the seat and I was up front on the crank. I got frustrated and put all my power into it pushing down on the crank instead of pulling up. It backfired and shattered my right wrist. Lesson learned.
Prior to getting electricity we had butane space heaters, a windmill and oil lamps. Lyndon Johnson was responsible for enacting the Rural Electric Association that brought light bulbs to rural areas.
No matter how cold it was, stock had to be fed and eggs gathered. Butchered our own beef and hogs.
Gleaner Baldwin combine was pulled by a Farmall tractor.
Polio
Learning to speed shift without tearing out a transmission or blowing a clutch.
At 14 YOA, 3 of us hopped a box car in Clovis to go to Lubbock for some dang reason. It didn't stop until Abilene. Thumbed our way back to Muleshoe and then caught a ride home.
Nearest Doctor was in Clovis.
Marijuana smokers were called drug fiends. They were mostly musicians. Truckers took bennies to stay awake.
Local girl got pregnant and named a local cowboy as the father. He denied it. Judge told him he had to marry her. He refused and spent 3 years in Huntsville. She later admitted that he didn't do it.



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Buying gas based on odd or even days (70's)! Turned some of us into criminals by using swapped out plates! Riding my bike to the store at 13/14 to buy my uncles cigarettes, no questions asked. Picking up soda bottles as a kid and selling them to buy fishing minnows!


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Re: How many of you remember when... [Re: Texas Dan] #7408862 01/19/19 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Texas Dan
Anyone remember driving a stick that was on the steering column rather than the floor?

When I was a kid, the cheapest family car had a stick. And if you wanted to learn to drive, that was always the one you had to start with.


My ‘68 Bronco still has 3 on the tree. I have a C4 auto in the garage for a swap.



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Speaking of wing vent glass, reminded me my 52 Chevy had a cable operated ducted fresh air system with the inlet above the headlight.

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If the 2nd amendment was written just to include guns for hunting, why is there not an amendment to protect fishing poles?
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If you a couple of bucks you add water cooled air.

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If the 2nd amendment was written just to include guns for hunting, why is there not an amendment to protect fishing poles?
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^^^^ My folks had one if those coolers on their '53 Pontiac when I was a kid. Only used it when we went to California to visit my sister.


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