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Title: How old are you ? Post by Stones on 10/01/13 at 14:16:59 I have a general idea about this so lets find out. Just a bit of fun :) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by WD on 10/01/13 at 15:07:30 My driver's license says July 1972, which has to be a typo. Based on my attitude and physical condition, it should say July 1872. Maybe even 1672. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by rustysavage on 10/01/13 at 16:21:11 old enough to know better but........ |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by arteacher on 10/01/13 at 16:32:24 666779340 wrote:
On Friday at the end of the school day I always tell my students to have a good and safe weekend and "don't do anything I wouldn't do." Every once in a while someone will say "What wouldn't you do?" ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/01/13 at 16:55:11 I'm not quite 64 and I don't care who knows it. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by babyhog on 10/01/13 at 18:49:30 So when are you gonna reveal the results? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/01/13 at 19:46:07 58,, GOIN ON 90 |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by civilsavage on 10/01/13 at 20:07:14 Quote:
When I was in my teens, my dad used to tell me the same thing. My response was always "I'm going out with my friends to have a good time. I'm already doing something you wouldn't do". Our relationship was long on sarcasm. Currently, I'm pushing 56 years. Problem is, lately the years have started pushing back . . . ::) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Oldfeller on 10/01/13 at 20:14:21 Modify the poll so the results show as soon as you vote. Not allowing folks to see the results building will kill all the "go back and look again and see" interest in your thread. You also left out 60, so I can't vote. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by old_rider on 10/01/13 at 20:57:07 well, sixty don't count... so you are safe :D and me.... i'm still growin' up :P |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Stones on 10/01/13 at 21:13:09 Good point Oldfeller and now you can vote ;) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by PerrydaSavage on 10/02/13 at 00:37:46 I'm a Cold War baby ... the 60's were but a year and a half old when I was born :) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by prechermike on 10/02/13 at 04:38:58 47 and feeling every one of them lately. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by wambr on 10/02/13 at 08:28:20 I'm in bad ages... i'm 40...like russian says-40 years, like 40 days(when the soul is coming OUT)we're not greeting with this birthday. but I think it's a new day morning, when I feel a new colors of this beatiful life :) and 40 years like first 1000 miles for Savage! all will beginnig! sorry guys for my english...my translator is fall :( |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Serowbot on 10/02/13 at 08:58:35 The good thing about old,... it's always 15 years away... When you were 15,... 30 was old... when you are 30,.. 45 is old... when you are 45,... 60 is old... ...but, you never get there... I suspect this may change... when you enter triple digits... :-?... |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Stones on 10/02/13 at 09:29:06 Well im 53 and after some of the silly things ive done in my youth on bikes over the last 35 yrs of riding im suprised im still here ::) All grown up now and sensible like :-X |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by MMRanch on 10/02/13 at 13:14:25 Old enough to remember my (slightly older) crazzy sister skipping school to see the Beatles land in Chicago airport in the 60's. ::) but Still young enough to do 300 miles a day and still get up the next day to do it again . ;) Anybody ready for a trip to SD. next August ? Its only a 4 day ride from where I live . :-? :) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by WD on 10/02/13 at 13:23:01 You smoking something funny there Mike? 48 hours from Lynchburg to Sturgis, tops. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by LANCER on 10/03/13 at 02:32:08 Woke up early this morning still breathing able to get to the bathroom must still be alive guess I'm still the new 64 sure feels a lot like the old 64 coffee helps |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by arteacher on 10/03/13 at 12:37:01 3E333C3137206065520 wrote:
Hey- I'm 64 today! My personal philosophy is: everyone who is older than me is too old, and everyone younger than me is too young, but girls over 19 are old enough. ;) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Ralph_86-Savage on 10/03/13 at 12:54:44 I just turned 30 on Monday. Mentally I feel like i'm still 17. Physically I definately feel older than 30. I need a vacation! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by babyhog on 10/03/13 at 18:49:06 Happy Birthday guys! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by MMRanch on 10/03/13 at 21:46:49 WD you still young enough for a 1300 mile ride ? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by kimchris1 on 10/03/13 at 22:08:57 56 and happy to have made it this far. I can't believe how fast the first 56 years have gone by. I am curious as to how the rest of my life plays out.. :) kim |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by LANCER on 10/04/13 at 04:30:58 Quote:
Went to the Tulsa State Fair yesterday. It was a beautiful day; sunny, 80, nice breeze, and all sorts of young things in their late teens/early 20's prancing around wearing thin flowy tops & with no bras. Every little part of their healthy anatomy was clearly visible. It just makes you feel young all over. 8-) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/04/13 at 10:43:34 There was a fifteen year old owner posting in RSD the other day. So the bit about "under eighteen you cheated" isn't correct. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Blinky-FSO on 10/04/13 at 12:26:43 Well. lets put it this way. I still have a collection of eight track tapes and 33 1/3 vinyl I bought new. Think those little cassette tapes will ever catch on? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/04/13 at 12:33:43 I think I've got some 45 rpms lying around somewhere, no 78's or cylinders though. Lot's of little cassettes as well. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by WD on 10/04/13 at 13:32:03 4 or 6 wind up 78 players and a couple thousand 78 rpm records. At least 4 33 1/3 players and a metric ton or 2 of records for them. A few 45 players, haven't seen any tiny records around here. RV has a functional 8 track player (and an industrial big block Mopar engine). We do have a couple cylinder players, but I think all the Edison cylinders melted. I need to add a cassette player to one of the trucks (or the Super Beetle), all the 20s through 40s stuff out of Germany is on cassettes and can't find the cassette to CD writer, still packed up somewhere. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Midnightrider on 10/04/13 at 19:31:58 Stones I'm sorry but anybody that rides a bike will never grow up or be sensible. Best Wishes! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by WD on 10/04/13 at 19:38:39 001200121F0C030E054D0 wrote:
Not on a little toy Savage. Let me get my hands on another real motorcycle and I'll do that in under 24 hours. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by MMRanch on 10/04/13 at 20:35:41 Yea ... Suzuki should put a "Interstate Gear" in the tranny . I can put a real seat on , and I can put floorboards on , but it still doin't cruse at 75 mph very well. :-? You know what ... the wind at 75 mph isn't very plesant anyway. I like 60 mph a lot better ! ;) At my age : my hair ain't on fire anymore anyway ! ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Midnightrider on 10/04/13 at 23:53:03 I've ridden my baby Ninja over 400 miles in one day. in 2002 I rode my Triumph Trophy 1126 miles in 18 and 1/2 hrs. I posted that story on another thread. Right now I cant ride a tricycle. My carbs are stopped up on my Ninja and I cant half see. There's some real tiny parts in two 125cc carbs but I'm gonna try to get it running again. I let my almost new (its left the driveway 3 times) Lund Fishing boat set for 2 and 1/2 years and its got a fuel injected Honda outboard. I just knew I was going for a trip to the boat dealership, I know nothing about fuel injection. Last thur. I filled it up with fresh gas, flipped the key and the first piston fired and she sat there and purred like a kittycat. I know I'm not gonna be that lucky on the Ninja. I've got diabetes now along with everything else and its really messing with my eyes. The only mechanic I trust in town works at the Suzuki shop. I might see if he'll clean the carbs on the Ninja. I taught my wife how to clean carbs about 10 years ago but she's probably forgotten a lot. A crotch rocket is a lot harder to work on than the Savage even if it is little. Getting back to the subject I turned 59 yesterday. The last 4 and 1/2 years have been tough. I finally had to quit riding about two years ago and it hurts when I read about you guys taking trips but I've been on some new meds the last few weeks that seem to help me improve. I talked to an American Indian Doctor online and he told me about an old Indian medicine and its making a big improvement, my wife even noticed the difference. I'm gonna try to get the bike running again and see what happens. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Cloudy on 10/05/13 at 00:39:12 48, wife-31, ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Midnightrider on 10/05/13 at 02:20:13 Cloudy you're a child molester ;D or at the vey least a sugar daddy ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by LANCER on 10/05/13 at 03:55:53 46696A70617C51776C6E6077050 wrote:
I robbed the cradle too. ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Stones on 10/05/13 at 04:18:25 Same here ... must be my funny accent ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Paladin. on 10/05/13 at 05:33:07 676A65686E79393C0B0 wrote:
I robbed the cradle too. ;D ;D ;D[/quote] I was 39 when I married a 22-y-o. She will be turning 50 in March |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by LANCER on 10/05/13 at 07:51:37 13222F22272A2D430 wrote:
I robbed the cradle too. ;D ;D ;D[/quote] I was 39 when I married a 22-y-o. She will be turning 50 in March[/quote] Ah-ha, that puts you at pert-near 83 1/2 then...right ? ! ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Cloudy on 10/05/13 at 13:39:22 Fiona was 18 when I met her, I was 35. Her parents were not impressed- then we got engaged, that went down well!!! They came out here from Guernsey just to meet me, now they think I'm wonderful. ::) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by MMRanch on 10/05/13 at 22:48:31 Wow Your all a bunch of child molsters !!! ;D I married a younger woman too ... she's 38 days younger , but looks 10 years younger ! ::) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/05/13 at 23:12:19 Stones, are you going to send this highly useful research to Suzuki's marketing department to prove that the Savage/S40 should be targeted at the male menopause to pensioner market? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by old_rider on 10/06/13 at 09:15:38 I'm just wondering why the middle spread is only 3 yrs (44-46) apart, and the rest are like 12-13 yrs. And the age difference between man and wife is interesting too, I graduated high school when my wife was in the 7th grade.....hmmmm |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Steve H on 10/06/13 at 12:31:37 I graduated high school when my wife was still in diapers. There's 18 years between us. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Ed L. on 10/06/13 at 16:15:42 Hit sixty years old this summer and offically joined "Old Farts On A Motorcycle Club". It happened right after I joined "Got laid off from my Job Club" and around the time I joined "WTF Happened to me Club". Need to get back on the bike and just ride. >:( |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Trippah on 10/06/13 at 18:27:25 67 yrs here and my wife is v errr 5 months younger than I. Ed L, I feel your aggravation and pain. Lotsa 60 year olds are shown the door, it saves on retirement and medical benefits costs. :'( |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Ed L. on 10/06/13 at 18:40:45 Oh yeah, my wife is 1 1/2 years older so does that make me the innocent? :D |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by v-pilot on 10/06/13 at 20:14:16 Five-0 going on 13 'cause I don't want to grow up, I'm a toys R us kid :) |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by babyhog on 10/07/13 at 07:35:24 HA! I married a man 7-1/2 years younger than me.... so I can retire first... ;) Speaking of oldies... got this email from my 80+ year old ex-neighbor.... By the looks of the poll, many of us remember this stuff: -------------------------- For most of us old folks, we will remember and enjoy. For you young folks you will smile and probably say "Big Deal". FENDER SKIRTS AND SUPPER I know some of you will not understand this message, but I bet you know someone who might. I came across this phrase yesterday. 'FENDER SKIRTS' A term I haven't heard in a long time, and thinking about 'fender skirts' started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like 'curb feelers' And 'steering knobs.' (AKA) 'suicide knob,' 'neckers knobs.' Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will probably have to find some older person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you. Remember 'Continental kits?' They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental. When did we quit calling them 'emergency brakes? At some point 'parking brake' became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with 'emergency brake.' I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the 'foot feed.' Many today do not even know what a clutch is or that the dimmer switch used to be on the floor. For that matter, the starter was down theretoo. Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the 'running board' up to the house? Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - 'store-bought.' Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy. 'Coast to coast' is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term 'worldwide' for granted. This floors me. On a smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase 'in a family way?' It's hard to imagine that the word 'pregnant' was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company, so we had all that talk about stork visits and 'being in a family way' or simply 'expecting.' Apparently 'brassiere' is a word no longer in usage. ; I said it the other day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just 'bra' now. 'Unmentionables' probably wouldn't be understood at all. I always loved going to the 'picture show,' but I considered 'movie' an affectation. Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure '60s word I came across the other day 'rat fink.' Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here's a word I miss - 'percolator.' That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with 'Coffee maker.' How dull... Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this. I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like 'Dyna Flow' and 'Electrolux' and 'Frigidaire'. Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with 'Spectra Vision!' Food for thought. Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what Castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with Castor Oil anymore. Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most is 'supper.' Now everybody says 'dinner.' Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Dave on 10/07/13 at 08:22:40 Supper/Dinner: I lived in a farming community when I was young. Our family ate Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner....my dad was an insurance agent and my mom was a school teacher, and we had our family meal in the evening. The neighbors were all dairy farmers and they had Breakfast/Dinnner/Supper. I looked it up....and Dinner is the biggest meal of the day. We had our biggest meal in the evening, so our dinner was at 5:30.PM....the local farmers had their biggest meal of the day around noon so their dinner was in the middle of the day. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by civilsavage on 10/07/13 at 10:22:18 Years ago, when I was a college student, I used to work for a boss at a summer job who, at lunch time, would always say, "OK, boys, let's go eat dinner". He was originally a farmer as well. When my best friend got his driver's license, his first car had "three on the tree", instead of the more-desirable "Four on the floor". I'll guarantee my kids wouldn't know what those terms meant. Also, think of all the sounds that have gone away, things we used to hear daily and which are ingrained into our brains if we are over a certain age. Kids don't remember those, either. Like the sound a dial telephone makes when you release the dial and it rotates back. The sound of typewriter keys clacking, and the "ding" at the end of a line. The "ding-ding" sound when you pulled into a gas station and ran over the rubber hose, announcing your presence to the "pump jockey". More pertinent to motorcycles, how much longer will it be before no one knows what a "kickstart" is (at which point, that Motley Crue song will make no sense at all . . .)? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Serowbot on 10/07/13 at 11:09:29 ...and why does this knob go up to 13?... :-?... http://blog.echovar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/vhf_tv_knob.jpg |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Dave on 10/07/13 at 11:25:52 283E29342C39342F5B0 wrote:
Because without it you could not tune in to Channel 13.....WQED in Pittsburgh! That is where I watched Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers when I was a kid.....it was the PBS station. I had forgotten about those knobs. When you tuned to the VHF portion of the TV the knob clicked at the 13 channels and stopped....and some TV's had a larger knob for fine tuning. When you tuned in the UHF portion of the TV the knob just rotated and you had to move it slightly left and right until you got the reception just right! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/07/13 at 12:23:36 Until recently I made a "living" as a bus driver. I remember a conversation between two thirteen year old girls. One of them said this. "My mums really into Elvis, she's got these things, they're called LPs, they're like big CDs, and you put them in this thing and it plays them". |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Cloudy on 10/07/13 at 13:39:07 3F3626213A3E3026550 wrote:
I had a similar incident just after i had met fiona. I still had a turn table back then and had a record playing when it finished I asked her to "turn it over". Had her completely stumped! :-? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/07/13 at 18:47:25 Well Cloudy, send her down the Bowser to get a couple of gallons of benzene. Civil Savage, our pumps used to go ding with every passing gallon. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Cloudy on 10/07/13 at 22:15:11 3D342423383C3224570 wrote:
You sound like my Dad |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by thumperclone on 10/07/13 at 22:23:00 5046514C54414C57230 wrote:
for the air shocks on a hardley? |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Demin on 10/08/13 at 09:01:05 Panheads were coming to an end,when I was born.Sept 1964....49 going on 80.Should've listened in my younger years. :P |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by kimchris1 on 10/08/13 at 10:47:57 Several years ago, boy about 14 comes into my shop. Asked me what these were? They were 8 track tapes. I laughed at first, then realized he really didn't know what they were. I explained to him that before CD, their were cassettes and the 8 track were before the cassette and so forth. We also had LP's and vinyl records hanging on the walls. I showed him those as well as a record player. Also even a couple of the cylinder types. Gave the young man a history lesson and enjoyed it. Then after he left, I thought how sad that the youth of today have missed out on things like this. Also I remember nothing in the car but the am station. Guys remember when their wasn't even an fm station? OMG I am getting younger by the minute.. :) kim |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Dave on 10/08/13 at 12:34:26 7A787C727963786220110 wrote:
Yep: My first car I got in 1972 was a 1950 Pllymouth. I lived in Ohio near Youngstown, and after dark I tuned the AM radio to WCFL in Chicago. Then a while later I got a converter to change the 6 volts to 12 volts and installed a SEARS 8 track player under the seat. I listened to Melanie, The Guess Who, Johnny Cash, The Ventures. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by old_rider on 10/08/13 at 16:32:13 I still have a pioneer ps-1 turntable in storage along with a few boxes of albums and even some 45's and 78's. It has the red and white push plugs so it will still hook up with anything that will accept that type of connection. Our family still had the big Stereo Console you could play all types of records on and it had the new fandangled fm dial too! I graduated in 77' and mom and dad still had it in 85' when I went to visit on leave from the air force. I don't know what ever happened to it, my parents were adopted and after mom passed, dad remarried and we lost contact. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by civilsavage on 10/08/13 at 19:56:31 Even most people alive at the time didn't see one of these- they were pretty rare. http://www.uaw-chrysler.com/images/news/magadlarge.jpg |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/08/13 at 20:24:25 Very interesting, I'd heard of and listened to 16 rpm records, they were made for talking or conversations, I remember them as either 78 or 33 size. I take it the ad is mid 'fifties to early sixties. Most American stuff avadable here at that time was what you guys would have thought was very basic. Chev Belairs. Ford Customlines or Galaxies, Dodge Kingway and the Plymouth equivalent, and a bit later Pontiac Laurentians and Chev Impalas. They were very expensive and difficult to obtain. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Steve H on 10/08/13 at 20:50:04 My 21 year old son just got to see his first record being played a few months ago. He thought that was so neat! You should have seen him with the old double bell wind-up alarm clock. It quit working in a couple days. He asked me to take a look at it. Told me he thought the battery might be dead. Had to explain the whole concept of winding it up. He was 16 or 17 at the time. He lived most of his life with his mom. I just got to see him on weekends. Guess she didn't teach him very much about things like that. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by civilsavage on 10/09/13 at 02:52:43 Quote:
It's 1956. I believe that was near the end for DeSoto. Chrysler only offered the record player for 1956 as it wasn't very popular. It didn't work very well, the records would skip on all but the smoothest roads. They re-introduced a better version in the early 1960s, but that, too, only lasted a short time. "Pontiac Laurentian" reminded me that US car makers used to re-badge cars for the Canadian market- that was one of the brands. The same car in the US was called the Catalina, I believe. Guess they thought that the Canadian models needed their own identity or something. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by babyhog on 10/09/13 at 04:56:49 I have an upright record player/radio (radio on top, drawer that pulls out with the record player on it down below) that belonged to my grandfather, my mother says she remembers them buying it when she was in high school, either 1949-50. Can't remember what size records it plays. Plans have always been to restore it, but haven't done it yet. Its in really good physical shape though. My husband always wanted to get one of the new old-looking players to pop in it so it would actually play. Also have an old friend's cabinet style, wide record player/8-track/radio and tons of albums that we still throw on, on occasion. Sounds like crap, but still runs well. I like to put on Carole King Tapestry while I clean house... Was also thinking about "film". I referred to filming something, but everything being digital now, do the kids still call it filming? Are major motion pictures still shot with film? And are they still called "major motion pictures"? Funny to think about that term too... |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by civilsavage on 10/10/13 at 07:04:20 They still call it "filming", although a lot of it is digital these days. Similarly, the nice lady voice's on my car's Bluetooth hands-free tells me to say "dial" when I want to make a call, even though no cellphone has ever had a dial . . . |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by jcstokes on 10/10/13 at 11:12:33 Curiously enough, a lot of our 1951-4 Dodges Plymouths and De Soto's came from a factory in Belgium. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/10/13 at 11:24:16 My first car was a 62 Chevy/4door/283/2 speed slip & slide I found an 8 track that had a head adjustment knob, so I could tune the head to read the tape & not "dual-track"..I got a Slide In mount & put one in the house. Bass 48 speakers were the hot ticket in 71 or 2. With a little 12 V supply in the house I had a tape deck in the bedroom & it slipped in the car. 62 chevy had the glove box between the seats, in the dash, so, it went in there, just left the thing open,, |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by rl153 on 10/10/13 at 13:13:09 I had a 64 fleetwood with the slide out 8 track,but left the door unlocked in the city, while on an errand, and the 8 track dissapeared. Durn it. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Yonuh Adisi FSO on 10/10/13 at 16:04:14 Was born 12/10/1971 and my wife was born 07/03/1963 I remember eight tracks, LPs, cassettes, and do ya'll remember the first digital movie disks? The size of a 33 record and you even had to turn them over to watch the second half of the movie. They obviously didn't last long but we were the kings of the neighborhood to the neighbor kids when my mother bought one. We only had three movies. Benji, Grease, and Cannonball Run, but that didn't matter. I also remember three on the tree, four on the floor, and actually having to push and pull the door locks to lock and unlock the car from inside and actually using the key to do it from the outside. The high beam switch on the floor or more commonly known as The Brights. Don't forget the ill-fated Beta video cassettes. ;D I also remember cars you could work on yourself straight from the factory without having to have a degree in computers or having to have a truckload of special electronic gadgets. A torque wrench and a set of sockets was the least you needed and you could practically rebuild the entire car. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by old_rider on 10/10/13 at 22:36:33 I remember rebuilding the carb on my brothers 63 chevy in the auto parts store parking lot with a Phillips, a standard, a small crecent wrench and a pair of regular pliers. Dang thing ran great after we tore it apart sprayed the heck outta the insides and put it back together! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by LANCER on 10/11/13 at 06:12:35 It's time to get back to basics. I'm selling my '08 Dakota and looking for a 70's model Ford p/u with the 300 straight 6 and standard 4 speed. No computers; plain & simple electrical system; enough room under the hood to actually crawl in there and sit next to the engine while working on it. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Dave on 10/11/13 at 06:19:30 Lancer: What you need is one of those Chevy vans that had the straight 6 engine in between the two front seats. Remove the engine cover and you can work on the engine while sitting down......and even if the weather is rainy.....you can stay dry while working on the engine! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by arteacher on 10/11/13 at 06:47:31 02393423323E252338303D22510 wrote:
I had one of those!!! Only mine was a GM. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/11/13 at 10:53:20 I had a chevy pickup, 6 banger, I put the head on it in the rain,, just pulled the hood down & stood astride the crossmember. Had a ford van with a 6 banger, too,, hadda pull the engine & send it off for a rebuild, cost a whoppin 9 hundred bucks, replaced 5 busted pistons,, Pulling & replacing an engine in a van is a fine kettle of fish,, |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Yonuh Adisi FSO on 10/11/13 at 14:23:41 I used to have an 83 Chevy van with a 305 V8. Doing a tune-up was fun, just remove the doghouse and sit in the seat while you pulled the plugs and replaced them. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Suzukisavvy on 02/05/14 at 07:58:53 I'm 16 now and I bought my Suzuki Savage December 5th, 2013. I'm going to pick it up from the dealer, because it is on layaway, on Feb. 17, 2014. No I'm not cheating, and yes in Nebraska you can have a motorcycle license when you are 16. You can get it when your 14. If you dont believe me, ask me to prove that I'm 16. Thanks! |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by seedubs1 on 02/05/14 at 10:05:32 28. I've been riding for 10 years now, and I've only owned Suzuki's. I've ridden crotch rockets and dirt bikes mostly, and the LS650 is my first bike that doesn't wreck my body after a 5 hour ride. |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Art Webb on 02/15/14 at 23:42:52 47, been riding since I was 16 |
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Title: Re: How old are you ? Post by Steve H on 02/16/14 at 09:36:31 I turned 50 this past Christmas Eve. My mind still thinks I'm in my early 20's. Sometimes my body feels like I am in my 80's. For the last few years, I've been getting aches and pains. I get tired much easier. Don't eat as much as I used to and am still growing a belly. People at stores and restaurants have started calling me sir. I have been getting things from AARP -addressed to me! I'm actually in pretty good health for someone who does not go to the gym, has smoked all his adult life, and eats good ol southern food. I have no medical conditions that I know of, am not on any medication. I've been riding since I was 10 or 11 and would still much rather ride than be in a car. But bad weather affects me much more now than in the past. I can't stand cold. I remember riding to work on the Goldwing when the temps were in the low 20's many, many times just 'cause I felt like taking the bike. I have a full set of late 70's / early 80's "heavy iron" audio equipment that works perfectly. I have a functional 8-track player/recorder deck (can't buy tape for it), a cassette deck, equalizer, top of the line turntable made just as vinyl was going out, big speakers, 110w and 80w and 85w and 45w receivers and amps, lots of vinyl to play. Vinyl is making a BIG come-back. People are discovering that digital lack of quality is nowhere near as good as all the nice, natural harmonics and feeling you get from good analog recordings. It lets you make exact copies with never losing quality and doesn't wear out but the quality just isn't there from the beginning. I remember many of the cars we had only had AM radio in them. You could crawl in with the engine and work on it with just a few hand tools and a torque wrench. Only the 1 wire to the ignition required to make the engine run. (try that these days). Pretty much every bike had a kick starter...some even had one of those new electric starters that worked sometimes. I remember when gas hit $.25 per gal. my dad fussed about being ripped off and sold his big american car and bought a VW so "those thieves" would get as little out of him as possible. Looks like the Savage should be marketed to older guys getting back into riding or tired of the tiny crotch rocket inspired offerings these days. I was sure happy to see something of recent production that wasn't all plastic and computer controlled. I just wish they had better seats and maybe a little more room. Thanks for letting me ramble, guys. It's really been nice reading all the stuff in this thread and remembering some things I haven't thought of or heard in years. |
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