Anybody Remember Back When?

   / Anybody Remember Back When? #171  
How many times ya reckon this Coke bottle has been refilled??


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   / Anybody Remember Back When? #174  
Re gas heater; I seem to recall that it was Stewart Warner that made the south wind heater and that it was not very different from the Eberstuder gas heaters found as options in early VW 'bugs'.
Some early aircraft also used them.
 
   / Anybody Remember Back When? #175  
Speaking of 'dumping overboard' in my teens there was a very popular municipal beach in the town next door.
The sandy beach always had a fine layer of silt near the shoreline, it sort of oozed between your toes.
The claim was that the sand had a clay content.
WRONG
The municipal sewage was simply free flowing into the river and that was a mere 1000 ft or so upstream.
The fine 'clay' was simply poop.
 
   / Anybody Remember Back When? #176  
My first Jeep was a WW2 military jeep. It had some brand of gasoline fired heater. As I remember, it was either on or off. It would get that louvre, running under the windshield, REALLY hot. Run the heater and your gas mileage was just about cut in half.
 
   / Anybody Remember Back When? #177  
I had a 74 VW Thing with a gasoline heater.
 
   / Anybody Remember Back When? #178  
Then I guess the first three sentences from my post # 167 don't mean anything. The GM data must be all wrong. :confused3:

I'm not looking for a pizz fight over sematics; my point was that they came from the factory WITHOUT a heater. I bow to you and the GM archives, from which the statistics flow. I know that my 41 Chevy and my two 50 chevys all had hot water heaters, which I assumed were factory options. In this area, a heater was almost a necessity...ergo a dealer "accessory" would funnel a few extra bucks to the dealership. Makes sense; considering the "accessory" was more than likely made by, or for, GM.
 
   / Anybody Remember Back When? #179  
Speaking of 'dumping overboard' in my teens there was a very popular municipal beach in the town next door.
The sandy beach always had a fine layer of silt near the shoreline, it sort of oozed between your toes.
The claim was that the sand had a clay content.
WRONG
The municipal sewage was simply free flowing into the river and that was a mere 1000 ft or so upstream.
The fine 'clay' was simply poop.

That paints such a pretty "mind picture"... :yuck:
 

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