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On 5/9/2023 at 11:32 PM, rocketraider said:
Looking at some of the cars that show up in the "not mine" cars for sale forum, I'm struck by how many really nice 60s and 70s sedans and sometimes wagons are coming up for sale.
Am I the only one who believes that a nice old car is a nice old car regardless of bodystyle?
I like all cars - as I've said before, even Yugos have a place in the world. But I like some better than others - mainly pre-1950 coupes, wagons, trucks and open cars. Two-doors are OK but I'm not big on 4-doors or 60s - 70s except muscle and pony cars.
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14 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:
...This might have been done to make it easier for a child to climb into the rumble seat without scratching the fender?...
Yup, I've had a rumble seat with kids in it and scratched fenders.
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12 hours ago, Rata Road said:
I guessed it was a step for a rumble seat and pleased if its a model A. Only cost $1, all I need now is a Model A Coupe lol.
I'm pleased with the lights, nothing to put them on....yet!
Just so you know, those step plates have been reproduced. Not saying yours isn't original - I really don't know how to tell the difference.
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37 minutes ago, TAKerry said:
I think you would be lucky if you only encountered insects, its the wildlife without legs that scares me! Not to mention the 4 legged creatures that feed on them!!!
Lessee, black widow and brown recluse spiders, fire ants, ticks, mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads, pythons, wild boar, black bear, gators, panthers, etc, etc, etc. Nope, I won't be crawling around any old/abandoned cars/junkyard in FL. Granted, critters tend to avoid humans so chances of encountering one may be slim...but it only takes once.
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3 minutes ago, George Cole said:
...And don't forget the Ray Stevens song, "I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes..."
Regards,
George
Nope, written by Jim Stafford and David Bellamy (one of The Bellamy Brothers) and recorded by Stafford.
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On 4/25/2023 at 10:16 AM, Dave Henderson said:
'37 was of the era when 4 dr. cars typically had front-hinged front doors and rear-hinged rear doors. Consequently, 4dr's weren't as popular as 2 dr. cars for families with children due to the safety factor, and thus most low price "Big Three" 2 dr. cars outsold 4 dr.'s. Plymouth, it seems, was the exception, unless the stats are incorrect, but my source also indicates they are correct. Perhaps the explanation is the wide use of Plymouths as taxicabs.
Also, 2-drs tended to be cheaper than 4-drs
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The lens says S E M A APPROVED - assuming that refers to the Specialty Equipment Market Association, it would make the light no earlier than 1963 when SEMA was founded. Can't make out the full number stamped into the top of the metal body - that might help identify it.
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19 minutes ago, nat said:
My wife didn't like mice in the house or using death traps. I caught them in live traps. To see if the same ones came back I sprayed them down with fluorescent punk hair dye before letting them loose at the annoying neighbor's house.
Dang, glow-in-the-dark mice - that'd be pretty spooky! 😁 We had a house built and mice apparently got in the HVAC ducts before they were sealed. I'd heard a mouse could get through anyplace its head would fit. I believe it as I watched one go through the slats of a register like this:
Anyway, the wife didn't want me to poison bait the little buggers - she thought they'd smell up the ducts when they died. So I tried dead trapping them for a while without much success. I finally told her I was either going to bait them or get a snake to put in the ducts - she opted for the bait. 🤣
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35 minutes ago, rocketraider said:
Maybe some of them fancy lizards could be garage pets and keep the mouse population down!🦎🐀
I'd heard of iguanas getting too cold to move or hang on and falling out of their tree. Guess that's why Mr Wizard likes to hang out on the porch in the sun. Drizzle drazzle druzzle drome...
Yeah, I find Terrapins around here sometimes too. They like to take bites out of the melons, tomatoes and peppers. At least the lizards ain't eating the garden!
Our house is on a man-made lake that is home to lots of turtles (and the occasional gator 😲). There's an overflow pipe that gets partially exposed if the water level goes low enough. That pipe is prime turtle sunbathing real estate - they actually push each other off to get a place in the sun.
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On 4/29/2023 at 2:01 PM, rocketraider said:
Meet my house lizard. For some reason it thinks my enclosed back porch is a grand place to live and bask in the sun coming thru the storm door.
What's bad is its kin like the garage. I'm always finding little lizard gifts out there, sometimes on the car covers!
Does no good to shoo them out. They just come back. At least lizards aren't as destructive as mice. And they do eat a lot of insects. Saw this one toting a cricket in its mouth last week, head held high!
Meh. Here in Flaw-duh, we got some of these:
more of these:
a few of these:
way too many of these:
and lots of really big ones:
Both green and brown anole males have the red dewlap they can expand and contract as a mating/territorial display. We get one on the lanai (FL screened porch) occasionally - if we can't shoo it out, we eventually find it petrified somewhere. My nephew's cat would grab them by the tail, which would break off and grow back. There were a lot of tail-less lizards running around his neighborhood. The iguanas sleep in trees. When the temperature gets below freezing (yes, it sometimes gets that cold in FL), it paralyzes them and they can't hold on to their branch. TV weather people actually issue falling iguana warnings - getting hit on the head by a 10-pound frozen lizard would smart! 🤣
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21 hours ago, Paul Dobbin said:
W.e buy groceries online at Walmart, then drive to the store and they load them in the car. We're in our third year of doing that and love it Also ordered 4 whitewall tires for our 81 El Camino. They shipped them to the store free and I picked them up and had them mounted at a local shop for 50% less than Walmart wanted. They do free shipping on lots of stuff, to the store. Beats paying Amazon Prime!
Us too, been doing it since COVID. We put several plastic tubs in the open bed of our pickup, call in to store and they bring stuff out and load it into tubs - no contact. We put lids on tubs and check load before we leave - some of the delivery folks aren't real careful about how they pack stuff. Still easier than going in store as we have mobility problems...and safer - here in Flaw-duh if you don't catch COVID at Walmart, you may get shot there instead. 🤣 If there's something wrong with an item, you didn't get it, etc, you can request and get a refund online. Walmart will ship to home free for orders totaling at least $35 - not hard to come up with that much nowadays. They've also free home shipped some stuff we ordered that was out of stock at local pickup store. Or they'll substitute for out of stock - your choice or their choice or you can specify no substitutions.
To be fair, Amazon will free ship orders of at least $25 - problem is, getting them delivered to the right address.
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The last vehicle I had with roll down windows (not counting antiques) was in the late-80s - longer than that for a rotary phone.
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5 hours ago, yachtflame said:
I had the same problem with Amazon. They shipped it to the wrong address in my town. I went to the house and asked for the item, was told no and to contact Amazon. I had paperwork showing the two addresses and wanted a refund. Amazon said that it was delivered. Had a scan of it being delivered (scan showed delivered to the wrong address) so no refund. I won’t purchase anything through Amazon ever again!
My house is on a corner right across from the street sign and my house number is in big numbers over the garage door - pretty hard to miss. My orders had the correct address but were left at the wrong house and worse, a different wrong house each time. They even emailed me pictures of the packages at the front doors. Problem is they obviously aren't MY front door and I have no clue whose they are. I disputed the charge with my credit card company and sent them and Amazon pictures of my door as well as the wrong one - no resolution yet but I expect it will be favorable. If an item on Amazon is from a third party, I've found I sometimes can order direct from that party for the same cost.
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At least Walmart can get my stuff to me - two of my last three Amazon orders were delivered to the wrong address. We started using Walmart mail order and curb pickup during COVID - it's so convenient we kept on doing it. Home Depot is another one I use - free shipping on a lot of their stuff.
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13 minutes ago, JFranklin said:
I learned to sharpen drill bits on a grinding wheel when I got a job at an alarm company that specialized in all hidden wiring from every window, door, and hatch!
PS: if anyone knows why my computer automatically starts using itallics let me know!
Maybe you accidentally clicked the italics button? Left click anywhere on the italicized words - if the "I" in the upper left corner is shaded, that's the problem. To fix it, select the italicized words (hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor across the words) - when they're shaded, left click the "I" button to un-shade it.
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On 4/13/2023 at 10:09 PM, Bryan G said:
Ah, yes, memories of the places my father and uncle would take an old Impala or El Camino or Country Squire. Nobody had four wheel drive around here then.
CHuDWah, Big Bend was probably my favorite vacations. The gravel roads were too rough to drive very fast, but other than that I didn't see anything wrong with them. Lots of dirt roads back where I live but hardly any rocks and the county keeps the washboard at bay most of the time. Another memory: in the 30s, when nothing was paved around here, my grandfather peddled Watkins goods from the backseat of a 37 Chevy. All narrow, one lane gravel or oyster shell roads, much of it through marsh.
We stayed a few days at the Gage Hotel - it's mission-style built in the late-20s. High quality place, very clean, comfortable and excellent food but they definitely preserved the 20s experience - room had no TV or phone and the communal bathroom was down the hall. 🤣 Everyday, we'd take a lunch, drive down to Big Bend and spend the day driving where we could in the park and hiking where we couldn't. In the evening, we'd have cocktails watching the sunset from the rockers on the big front porch, followed by a great Tex/Mex dinner, visiting with other guests after dinner, then retiring to our room and sleeping like logs. The most restful vacation we ever had.
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On 4/13/2023 at 6:09 PM, PAV8427 said:
And that gold Firebird was I believe a special order Trans Am w/o the Trans Am bird, flares and spoiler.
Going off memory that could be a little weak.
He was a big time off road racer as well.On 4/13/2023 at 7:50 PM, Rusty_OToole said:The Firebird in Rockford was the Esprit model not the more expensive Trans Am. They may have been optioned up for stunt work.
According to Hagerty, the Rockford Firebird was a Formula 400 modified to look like an Esprit. Since Rockford usually just scraped by, Garner figured he couldn't afford a Trans Am. So his car looked like an Esprit but had the Formula 400 performance needed for stunt work. They usually had two or three identical cars and got new ones every year except 1979-80. Garner didn't like the look of the 79 redesign so they kept the 78 for the last two seasons of the show.
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5 minutes ago, Walt G said:
I wonder how many here reading this knew who Wallace Beery was . One of the greatest "character" actors of the time when the old cars we collect were new. His son was also a main character actor in the TV show The Rockford Files with James Garner in the lead role. And I am sure now people are looking up to see who James Garner was ............🙃
Actually, Noah Beery Jr was the son of Noah Beery, Wallace's brother. Both Noah and Noah Jr had extensive movie credits and Junior had many TV appearances as well, including as Rockford's father. And to keep this about cars, Rockford drove a gold Firebird but was always borrowing his girlfriend/lawyer's Porsche or his dad's GMC pickup. Folks may not know the Beerys or Garner but they probably know the actor who played the recurring role of Lance White on Rockford. None other than Tom Selleck...yep, Commissioner Reagan. He drove a Cadillac on Rockford.
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19 hours ago, ply33 said:
Back in the 1990s while on a vacation my wife and I drove from Williams, Arizona to Jerome, Arizona going across the Verde River and Mingus Mountain via a back road that was dirt for most of the distance. I enjoyed the trip and it reminded me of the roads we took on Southern Arizona family camping trips in the 1960s with Dad driving the station wagon. Yes it was unpaved. Yes, it was steep in places. And yes, it was narrow in places. But it did not require an extraordinary amount of ground clearance and was perfectly passible in a sedan or hatchback as long as you drove carefully.
A few months later a much younger fellow in my office was planning a driving vacation in the same area and I mentioned how much I liked the road and the scenery along the way. So he added it to their itinerary. When the got back he blasted me for sending him down a road he though was only suitable for a high ground clearance 4x4.
Different era with a different concept of what type of vehicle is needed. Seems like nowadays a bunch of folks think you need a 3/4 ton 4x4 crew cab pickup truck to brave the trip to the local grocery store.
Nowadays there are so many idiot drivers in 3/4 ton 4x4 crew cab pickup trucks that you DO need one to brave the trip to the local grocery store...in self defense! In the Texas Big Bend area, we drove some roads like you describe. It was in an 80s Ranger pickup, a little more ground clearance than a sedan but not 4x4 or lifted - one of our best vacations.
As for the OP, no clue about the existence of the bus but it's interesting, didn't know Beery was a hunter/fisherman. When I was a kid, they showed a lot of his old movies on TV and I loved them. One of my favorites is Treasure Island with him as Long John Silver - he, and later Robert Newton, owned that role. Arrr! Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! 🤣
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On 4/7/2023 at 4:46 PM, joe_padavano said:
Is there any doubt?
Dunno, why don't you ask MGG? Like you said, his call...
On 4/6/2023 at 10:43 PM, joe_padavano said:Some Craftsman retailers still exchange tools, but you get a new imported tool to replace your broken US made tool. Your call.
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2 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:
I would really enjoy learning the origin of that statement and all the variations.
I bet the first one was pointing his finger Bernie Sanders style when he said it.
Dunno...why don't you research it and let us know?
Getting back on topic, the repair kits cost almost as much as a new wrench. The OP will have to decide whether repairing old vs new imported is worth the cost. My Dad was a Craftsman true believer and I inherited a bunch of tools from him. I doubt any are newer than 50 years old, and many probably closer to 60 or 70. In my case, repair would make sense if I ever break one.
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3 hours ago, 60FlatTop said:
And The Beach Boys did a good job memorializing him...
4 minutes ago, JamesR said:Craig Breedlove was one of those iconic automotive figures from when I was a little kid in the 1960's and an older kid in the '70's. I'm very sorry to hear of his passing. I didn't realize that Beach Boys song was about him and his jet powered car. Thanks for that info, as I'm a big Beach Boys fan. According to Wiki, he also got a '68 AMX up to over 200 mph (though his official run was 189.) Many condolences to his family.
Spirit of America also was on the Little Deuce Coupe album. I pretty much wore out that vinyl.
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12 minutes ago, MountGileadGuy said:
Thanks - good to know about Lowe's.
I do have cheap, newer ratchet I'll bring in.
As Gossp states, I hate to give up a great older tool, even though it doesn't work!
eBay might be the next step for a 44985.
Thanks again!
Apparently this is a fairly common problem as there's a repair kit for it...
craftsman 1/2 ratchet repair kit 44985
I've also seen them on Amazon or Lowe's may have them. They ain't cheap though.
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3 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:
Less than 10?
Irrelevant
Nice is nice
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My Dad had one of those. It didn't take me, a teenager at the time, long to figure out that folding down the back seats and throwing in some cushions and blankets made a great make-out car. 🤣