Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days............

[k0ua]

What I remember about Chrislers in the 70's was the starters always sounded different. Them ole slant 6's was one of their toughest motors.......

Yep, no matter how dark the night, you could always tell a Chrysler spinning the engine. Sure didn't need to see it.

 

[k0ua]

Same here. I gave up riding 12 years ago but kept the endorsement

I think I quit riding about 1985 or 1986, but still keep the endorsement. I don't know why.

I had a 450 honda twin, a 550 honda 4 and a Kawasaki 650 4 cylinder. Now THAT bike would flat move.

 

[two_bit_score]

Twice in recent years I've gotten barely passing scores on the DL renewal test. Got every question right except ... I failed every question asking the $ amount of traffic fines.

I never thought to study that part of new traffic laws.

You should get extra credit for not knowing those because obviously you haven't had any tickets to find out how much the fines are. :laughing:

 

[Jstpssng]

I think I quit riding about 1985 or 1986, but still keep the endorsement. I don't know why.

I had a 450 honda twin, a 550 honda 4 and a Kawasaki 650 4 cylinder. Now THAT bike would flat move.

I had a CB 175 twin, a CB 450 with the DOHC which would put you up on the rear wheel even when you didn't want it there, and a Yamaha 400 DOHC. I quit the day a woman pulled out of a parking lot in front of me... then sat there swearing at me because when I kicked the rear out and skidded around her, the bike stalled and I took the time to work it down the gears before getting out of her way. My head was about 18 inches from the snowplow frame on front of her truck... I almost T-boned her.

I believe that those old Chrysler starters had 3 brushes instead of the normal 2. They may have sounded funny; yet would also turn over with a low battery when others would just click.

 

[JethroB]

I had a Kawasaki H2 750 Triple. Scary machine. That was the end of my motorcycle days.

When I hear an old Chrysler starter whine I always think of my grandparents. They loved their Chryslers.

 

[PILOON]

And I seem to recall we'd get about 35 MPG.
You simply could not kill those old Bugs but rust usually got to them first.

ISTR their gas mileage being closer to 25, but still a lot better than anything else in their day. I saw a bumper sticker on one at a car show that said "0-60, eventually".

Hey!
In Canada we have real gallons!
Correction, HAD, now we have metric ones----AKA liters

But do agree----Eventually!

In my twenties we drove from Montreal to Mexico and on the return trip near New York my VW would not start one morning.
The points were so worn out the spark simply could not make it fire.
I always was handy and a screw driver and a dime feeler gauge fixed that.

I recall that some winters the carb would ice up if U did not flip that lever to prevent carb icing.

As a teen my son also drove a BUG.
One day he called for help as his wheel fell off.
You had to torque the left rear with a 3 foot pipe to assure proper torque or the nut would back off.

Yep! Good ole days.

Only one way to drive those old bugs, FLAT OUT.
And they were great in snow, as long as you had weight up front.

 

[user.69169]

Try de EMPIRE State. Emperor needs money, so (removed) gets raped. License good for probably 2-3 years after (removed) dead tho.

All I want is car license wid air brake endorsement. NOPE: can't downgrade. Why not, got no more Medical card. Computer got no way to remove endorsements UNLESS revoked by a Judge. OK, where I find Judge? No good, Judge can only revoke after finding me guilty and fining me. How about I let License run out and come back for car License? Can't do dat. Can I go on welfare cause you takin all my money?

Absolute best part, number of years back Supreme Court wizards in dresses decided you don't need driver license if you never got one and you legal to drive. Look it up on Google. If you had License you gotta keep license, can't drive widout it.

Brilliant!

 

[MossRoad]

I had a Kawasaki H2 750 Triple. Scary machine. That was the end of my motorcycle days.

When I hear an old Chrysler starter whine I always think of my grandparents. They loved their Chryslers.

The definition of "death bike".

 

[Jstpssng]

Absolute best part, number of years back Supreme Court wizards in dresses decided you don't need driver license if you never got one and you legal to drive. Look it up on Google. If you had License you gotta keep license, can't drive widout it.

Not true, you really need to stop going to Facebook for legal advice. The above is brought to you by the same people who claim that you aren't required to pay income taxes.

 

[OldPaint]

Can the average person even comprehend a time when you could go the whole day without getting any outside information or talking to anyone? A man would go to work in the morning and not have any contact with his wife untl he came home. You might communicate with a sibling at Christmas and on birthdays, and that was it.

Yes, I can comprehend that quite well. I lived so far back in the sticks growing up that we got yesterday's newspaper. We pumped in sunshine, and pumped out moonshine. The world is flat, and I can prove it because I lived right out on the edge. It was 26 miles one way to school, all the way across the county, meaning at least an hour and a half on a school bus. I had perfect attendance all but one year, simply because missing school and being home was not a good option. We didn't have a phone, and only had 2 1/2 channels on TV (3 if I went out and turned the antenna). The television NEVER got turned on until after the supper dishes were washed. Late night, if I could get away with it, I'd tune into the old AM radio super stations WLS in Chicago or KNOR in New Orleans to listen to music my folks didn't like. My mother got the first riding mower after I went to college to cut the four acres of grass I used to cut with a 22" push mower. The most I had to do on weekends was cut grass or watch it grow. Sports? Yeah, right, that was hunting and fishing to put meat in the freezer, and hope the power didn't go out long enough to ruin everything we'd put in. We bought sandwich bread, flour, sugar, milk, and a very few snacks for my school lunches at the Navy PX in the nearest large town that had a Navy Base. Otherwise, if we couldn't catch it, grow it, or steal it, we didn't have it. We were taught once a month not to steal by the circuit preacher that came to our little church on every 4th Sunday. That limited our procurement options some. Sometimes, we had church services twice in the same month. The best part about those Sundays was going to a small town nearby that had an ice cream bar with soft serve, and then going to watch the tug boats locking through on the Tombigbee river while we ate the ice cream. We were so poor, we couldn't even pay attention. And I thought I had it rough back then. I just wish I could get back to that simple way of living now. I had no idea how precious that peace and tranquility was. I left there just before I turned 18, slapping my knees outta my face. I didn't care where I went, as long as it was AWAY from there. I put myself through college, without any student loans that I expected someone else to pay back for me, got my degree, became an engineer, thinking I was headed for a better life, and that I'd never look back. I was wrong, and it's no small task for me to admit that. I've spent most of my life trying to make sure I was right. I'm not as poor as I was, but I can't say I have a better life than I had then either. It certainly isn't nearly as simple as it was when I had to ride a mile one way on my bicycle to get the Sunday paper from the nearest neighbor that actually subscribed to it. I had firewood to get in, corn to pick (by hand), gardens to plant, chickens to feed, cows to round up, fences to mend, a plow horse that was ornery as ****, and 17 hunting dogs that depended on me for their supper. I had no idea just how good I had it. The good part about it was knowing what to expect, what to do, and HOW to do it all. I was grown way beyond my years, and didn't know it. If you think I'm exaggerating, I can give you GPS coordinates of every place mentioned above.