Boomers
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True that Steve.
#2. Rabbit ears.
#5. First TV on the block allowed all the kids to come over once a week to watch Lucy & Desi.
#7. Parents scooped the cream off the top to use in coffee.
Oh yeah.
Rabbit ears or the old battered lazy-X antenna on the roof.
My dad repaired TVs since the 50s and an old lady gave him an old RCA TV that always needed fixed, he fixed it and we had the first color TV on the street. "The following show is brought to you in living color"..... Remember that ? Disney on Sunday night. It was a big deal.
A simpler but fun time.
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a car you could buy for less than $1000 (though it had higher maintenance needs). etc.
The owners manual from the ‘50’s or ‘60’s found in the glove compartment of your car, would instruct you on how to set the timing or valve lash on your engine.
Today’s owners manual tells people not to drink the antifreeze.
Talk about a generational divide.
The owners manual from the ‘50’s or ‘60’s found in the glove compartment of your car, would instruct you on how to set the timing or valve lash on your engine.
Today’s owners manual tells people not to drink the antifreeze.
Talk about a generational divide.
Most know what plugs are, but points is a different story.?
EDIT: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a6382/4338376/
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The owners manual from the ‘50’s or ‘60’s found in the glove compartment of your car, would instruct you on how to set the timing or valve lash on your engine.
Today’s owners manual tells people not to drink the antifreeze.
Talk about a generational divide.
Most know what plugs are, but points is a different story.?
EDIT: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a6382/4338376/
Most know what plugs are, but points is a different story.?
EDIT: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a6382/4338376/
The old tune-up standard, plugs, points and condenser. Did that many, many times including in my first car a 65 Ford Mustang.
I had all the tools for car maintenance in my dad's one of six bays in his two garages at the old homestead which was just sold after my mother's passing in 2019.
I had everything from ramps, jack stands, welder with bending table, every wrench, meter, hand tool, repair manuals you could imagine to fix anything.
All now just "gone with the wind"........
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Most know what plugs are, but points is a different story.?
EDIT: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a6382/4338376/
The old tune-up standard, plugs, points and condenser. Did that many, many times including in my first car a 65 Ford Mustang.
I had all the tools for car maintenance in my dad's one of six bays in his two garages at the old homestead which was just sold after my mother's passing in 2019.
I had everything from ramps, jack stands, welder with bending table, every wrench, meter, hand tool, repair manuals you could imagine to fix anything.
All now just "gone with the wind"........
The old tune-up standard, plugs, points and condenser. Did that many, many times including in my first car a 65 Ford Mustang.
I had all the tools for car maintenance in my dad's one of six bays in his two garages at the old homestead which was just sold after my mother's passing in 2019.
I had everything from ramps, jack stands, welder with bending table, every wrench, meter, hand tool, repair manuals you could imagine to fix anything.
All now just "gone with the wind"........
Too bad, the days of the “Backyard Mechanic” went by the way of the phone booth.
Two things that will define you: Your determination when you have nothing. Your attitude when you have everything. - Mike McCartney -
The old tune-up standard, plugs, points and condenser. Did that many, many times including in my first car a 65 Ford Mustang.
I had all the tools for car maintenance in my dad's one of six bays in his two garages at the old homestead which was just sold after my mother's passing in 2019.
I had everything from ramps, jack stands, welder with bending table, every wrench, meter, hand tool, repair manuals you could imagine to fix anything.
All now just "gone with the wind"........
Too bad, the days of the “Backyard Mechanic” went by the way of the phone booth.
Too bad, the days of the “Backyard Mechanic” went by the way of the phone booth.
The thing to do: get an old classic car which comes from an era where you could do all that yourself and tinker with that.
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The old tune-up standard, plugs, points and condenser. Did that many, many times including in my first car a 65 Ford Mustang.
I had all the tools for car maintenance in my dad's one of six bays in his two garages at the old homestead which was just sold after my mother's passing in 2019.
I had everything from ramps, jack stands, welder with bending table, every wrench, meter, hand tool, repair manuals you could imagine to fix anything.
All now just "gone with the wind"........
Too bad, the days of the “Backyard Mechanic” went by the way of the phone booth.
Too bad, the days of the “Backyard Mechanic” went by the way of the phone booth.
A lot of great memories of late summer nights working on cars and shooting hoops with the radio playing in the garage, oh yeah in high school and beyond.
I remember one summer night when I tore off the exaust pipes with a friend on my 1969 Camaro Z-28 and installed a set of Thrush headers but before putting on the header bolt on header mufflers I couldn't resist firing up the Z with the open headers and taking it for a ride.
It was after 10 pm but what the hell. I fired it up in the garage and you couldn't hear anything it was so freaking LOUD !
I backed up onto the street and let it rip. Down our street and up the next and turned around in the fire station lot about a mile away and flew back home.
On the way home EVERY house had their outside lights on and we're out looking to see what the rumble was. OMG what a ride, that Z could fly !
In the garage, pulled down the door and installed the bolt up header mufflers and reflected upon the run, wow.
My brothers said stuff was rattling on the shelves in the house....... what a summer night.
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Too bad, the days of the “Backyard Mechanic” went by the way of the phone booth.
A lot of great memories of late summer nights working on cars and shooting hoops with the radio playing in the garage, oh yeah in high school and beyond.
I remember one summer night when I tore off the exaust pipes with a friend on my 1969 Camaro Z-28 and installed a set of Thrush headers but before putting on the header bolt on header mufflers I couldn't resist firing up the Z with the open headers and taking it for a ride.
It was after 10 pm but what the hell. I fired it up in the garage and you couldn't hear anything it was so freaking LOUD !
I backed up onto the street and let it rip. Down our street and up the next and turned around in the fire station lot about a mile away and flew back home.
On the way home EVERY house had their outside lights on and we're out looking to see what the rumble was. OMG what a ride, that Z could fly !
In the garage, pulled down the door and installed the bolt up header mufflers and reflected upon the run, wow.
My brothers said stuff was rattling on the shelves in the house....... what a summer night.
A lot of great memories of late summer nights working on cars and shooting hoops with the radio playing in the garage, oh yeah in high school and beyond.
I remember one summer night when I tore off the exaust pipes with a friend on my 1969 Camaro Z-28 and installed a set of Thrush headers but before putting on the header bolt on header mufflers I couldn't resist firing up the Z with the open headers and taking it for a ride.
It was after 10 pm but what the hell. I fired it up in the garage and you couldn't hear anything it was so freaking LOUD !
I backed up onto the street and let it rip. Down our street and up the next and turned around in the fire station lot about a mile away and flew back home.
On the way home EVERY house had their outside lights on and we're out looking to see what the rumble was. OMG what a ride, that Z could fly !
In the garage, pulled down the door and installed the bolt up header mufflers and reflected upon the run, wow.
My brothers said stuff was rattling on the shelves in the house....... what a summer night.
I'm wasn't sure whether to play "Those Were The Days My Friend" or "Summer Nights". So I compromised.?
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My parents loved their green stamps. They would turn is stacks of them to get a toaster.
I remember having to use can openers to puncture cans...like cans of Hi-C.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn. -
My parents loved their green stamps. They would turn is stacks of them to get a toaster.
I remember having to use can openers to puncture cans...like cans of Hi-C.
My parents loved their green stamps. They would turn is stacks of them to get a toaster.
I remember having to use can openers to puncture cans...like cans of Hi-C.
My mother was always looking for good deals for the 8 of us and collected S&H, Plaid and Top Value stamps by the books !
What a nice time to grow up, our weekly trips to the A&P in Niles Ohio as kids.
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My parents loved their green stamps. They would turn is stacks of them to get a toaster.
I remember having to use can openers to puncture cans...like cans of Hi-C.
I remember having to use can openers to puncture cans...like cans of Hi-C.
I watched "Hud" with Paul Newman this week and twice in the movie he opens cans of Coors with that triangular shaped opener. Irony is that "Hud" takes place on a Texas cattle ranch in the early 60's and back then you could not get Coors in Texas. But it was Newman's favorite beer, so it got in the movie.?
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