Anybody Remember Back When?

[k0ua]

On my 15 RAM a quick push gets one sweep a bit longer gets 3 sweeps.
On the end of the stalk with the wiper controls.

Yup. just like my T&C 2013 minivan.

 

[k0ua]

All our cars have that, up for one sweep and down for intermittent (5 speeds on the stalk) and two wiper speeds.
Pull back for washer and four sweeps, push forward for rear washer and four sweeps.
And no matter how big the washer reservoir is you always run out at the most inconvenient time, need a washer low level warning light.

Many cars I have owned have a low washer fluid warning lamp.

 

[k0ua]

I Don't want it on a punjie stick, I want a button, on the steering wheel. I would gladly give up all the buttons on my steering wheel for this.

I don't know if I have a problem on my GMC Duramax SLT o8, but when I activate the one wipe feature it starts onto a timed cycle, most annoying.

It shouldn't. Do you just bump the "band" momentarily?

 

[bunyip]

I think your left one is safe for now,

Just watch the wiper blade doesn't grab it on the sweep

 

[lennyzx11]

On the bugs. 2 memories.
1. I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s as a mechanic and had two of them. One 1968 and I think a 1970. One had a clutch less automatic that you still had to shift like a stick.

Both of them I remember well the heaters never working and a windshield scraper living over the sun visor on both sides in order to scrape the INSIDE of the windshield those cold German winter mornings going to work.

2. 4 Army GIs load up on German beer and go backroading one late night. Many beers and bumps and carrying on as guys do, a smell of burning cloth comes from the rear seat moments before a rear seat passenger is yelling “My *** is on fire!”
Rapid exit by 4 guys on a dark deserted German woods trail and pulling up the rear seat bottom reveals the metal seat springs that have welded itself across the battery terminals (which lived under the seat) making a red hot heater inside a cloth straw stuffed seat! Took beer to put it out.
Ex wife to this day can’t get who was driving as when interrogated by ourselves or in a group We were all in the back seat.
Lenny

 

[dragoneggs]

Hold everything... I have a 1959 Rambler American... white with blue interior, auto with radio...

You are first person I have ever met that owned a Rambler American... bought a second one because it had a full continental kit... thought someday it might be something I would add to my pristine one.

Station Wagon... white exterior. Can't remember the interior color. Will have to ask my older sister. Dad did get an aftermarket A/C installed if I remember correctly. A bulky thing that hung under the dash in the middle. Memory not so good as I never used it.

Push button gears on dash, seems there were more buttons than three forward and one reverse... help on this one! My first car... hand my down when I got my license... dad bought a '70 Ford Country Sedan Wagon because he could load 4 by 8 sheets of plywood and shut the tail gate. It could swing or drop. A great place to slide around when empty as kids. :laughing:

Needless to say, I didn't drive that Rambler for long... as soon as I saved enough, I bought a '69 Camaro 327... I had made it! At 16 and a half! :cool2:

 

[ultrarunner]

On the bugs. 2 memories.
1. I was stationed in Germany in the early 80s as a mechanic and had two of them. One 1968 and I think a 1970. One had a clutch less automatic that you still had to shift like a stick.

Both of them I remember well the heaters never working and a windshield scraper living over the sun visor on both sides in order to scrape the INSIDE of the windshield those cold German winter mornings going to work.

2. 4 Army GIs load up on German beer and go backroading one late night. Many beers and bumps and carrying on as guys do, a smell of burning cloth comes from the rear seat moments before a rear seat passenger is yelling “My *** is on fire!”
Rapid exit by 4 guys on a dark deserted German woods trail and pulling up the rear seat bottom reveals the metal seat springs that have welded itself across the battery terminals (which lived under the seat) making a red hot heater inside a cloth straw stuffed seat! Took beer to put it out.
Ex wife to this day can’t get who was driving as when interrogated by ourselves or in a group We were all in the back seat.
Lenny

Seen the seat and battery problem several times... OEM batteries have a plastic shield that often gets lost or misplaced... put enough weight on the seat and the springs short across the positive batter terminal!

 

[ultrarunner]

Station Wagon... white exterior. Can't remember the interior color. Will have to ask my older sister. Dad did get an aftermarket A/C installed if I remember correctly. A bulky thing that hung under the dash in the middle. Memory not so good as I never used it.

Push button gears on dash, seems there were more buttons than three forward and one reverse... help on this one! My first car... hand my down when I got my license... dad bought a '70 Ford Country Sedan Wagon because he could load 4 by 8 sheets of plywood and shut the tail gate. It could swing or drop. A great place to slide around when empty as kids. :laughing:

Needless to say, I didn't drive that Rambler for long... as soon as I saved enough, I bought a '69 Camaro 327... I had made it! At 16 and a half! :cool2:

Could it have been slightly newer than 1960??? as there were major changes in the early 60's.

Here is one like mine...

1959 rambler american - Bing

Loved those full size wagons that could haul 10 passengers or 4x8 goods... one of the dads had one as a salesman and had to have commercial plates on it and pay higher bridge tolls because of it...

They were popular for carpenters and flooring guys that couldn't afford a van!

I had a bone stock 1968 Z28 that was my pride and joy... sadly, I had to sell... needed money for school... only 33,000 miles when I sold it... M21 transmission, stock wheels with E78-15 OEM tires with the red stripe... no power steering, air or power brakes...

 

[dragoneggs]

Could it have been slightly newer than 1960??? as there were major changes in the early 60's.

Here is one like mine...

1959 rambler american - Bing

Loved those full size wagons that could haul 10 passengers or 4x8 goods... one of the dads had one as a salesman and had to have commercial plates on it and pay higher bridge tolls because of it...

They were popular for carpenters and flooring guys that couldn't afford a van!

I had a bone stock 1968 Z28 that was my pride and joy... sadly, I had to sell... needed money for school... only 33,000 miles when I sold it... M21 transmission, stock wheels with E78-15 OEM tires with the red stripe... no power steering, air or power brakes...

Googling it... this is closest to what I remember of my Rambler. Color, luggage rack, tail design. No white walls though. :laughing:



I sold my Camaro to a friend when another friend totaled another friends new motorcycle. I parlayed my '69 Camaro into a '68 Mustang GT Fastback 302. Loved that car and swore I would never sell it. That was until I got married and built my first house and decided I absolutely needed a pick up. Still kicking myself on that... in more ways than one! :mur:

 

[Ken]

Hold everything... I have a 1959 Rambler American... white with blue interior, auto with radio...

You are first person I have ever met that owned a Rambler American... bought a second one because it had a full continental kit... thought someday it might be something I would add to my pristine one.

ultrarunner. when attending a v.a. school . worked at night parking motel auto's in underground parking lot.
year around '58/'59. This new Ramble arrived to be parked and so got in drove down to basement into a vacant slot and the door on both sides were stuck shut. Climbed out window and ran up street to driver explained the problem he walked back to and into the parking lot basement. tried doors then I helped him climb back into the drivers side seat. he said never like the car much anyway. it had around 10 miles on odometer. was returning to dealer.
Don't know what the end of the story was he never returned.
ken