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My daily driver has most of what's listed in the first post, except it is injected.
I miss the vents in the floor that you could open by hand with a little pull lever by the kick panels.
I had an 85.5 car that you could still shut off all outside air when it was cold, then I got an 88 version of the same car (85.5 didn't have AC, 88 did) and suddenly there was always air coming in, even when it was set to off.
I can't stand all the digital controls these days- and I'm a techno geek. Just don't want it in my cars.
Try this on a 20 something, and watch the confusion spread across their face/
" A 55 Chevy two door hard top, with a 427 stroked and bored, blueprinted and balanced, heads shaved, pop up pistons, stainless steel fuelie valves, Isky full race cam, forged crankshaft, twin 750 Holleys, on a high rise Edelebrock challenger manifold, with a Schafer 40 pound competition clutch, and a 9 inch Ford rear, with welded spider gears, and ZOOM 4:11 gears. Running through a Saginaw box, with a Hurst 4 speed with a line lock. Baby moon caps, on reversed rims, with Power Cushion thin white walls.
Deep black paint, a red and white tucked and rolled Naugahyde interior, with the wonder bar radio, the extra interior roof light port hole package , and the dash clock and the purple lights under the dash board. Three inch exhaust, made out of drive shaft tubes, Hedman four into one hedders and Hollywood mufflers, with a cable operated cut out for the pipes, mounted under the dash.
Stylin in 69. Wish I had never sold that car.........
Change has a way of sneaking up on you. I was thinking how many automotive terms that some of us grew up with but the young have no clue what they are.
Carburetor, points, condenser, rotor, distributor, hand brake, shift knob, sealed beam, leaf springs, rear end, sway bar, I-beam suspension, vent window
On a couple of occasions. my 55 Chevy, that I mentioned earlier, couldn't get up a steep hill, in the country, in the winter time...... Think really cold and snowy, and a gravel road, and 400 hp.
An old Farmer gave me a lesson......He said " Turn it around , and go up in reverse, slowly". Sure enough the lower gear ration of the reverse gear allowed me to get up the hill, with out spinning the rear wheels.
Remember this car had a fully built 427 in it, so the trick was to lug it in reverse to the top of the slippery hill. That worked like a charm, and I have all ways remembered that little " country living trick. ".
Same thing with putting a cardboard sheet in front of the rad, to get more heat inside the car, in very cold weather. Cut an oblong hole in the center of the cardboard, about a foot square, to get direct air to the middle of the rad. And don't put water in the glass windshield washer bottle..... Remember those, before the plastic ones were introduced ? I shattered the original glass one in my 55, by not thinking ahead to the colder months. And don't lean over the carb when trying to use ether to start it when it's minus 30 F. It took about 3 months for my eyebrows to grow back........
Vacuum operated windshield wipers, hand operated choke cable, racheting emergency brake handle under the dash ( 1954 Ford Niagara) steering wheel mounted turn signals, fender mounted rear view mirrors ( 1964 Chrysler 300 D ) push button tranny, on the same car, with a 383 under the hood, ( screamer ) and the interior upholstery was sea green and gold brocade silk. The steering wheel on that 64 Chrysler was oval shaped, not round.
Rear wheel cruiser skirts, that had a hidden release wire, to take them off, so you could change a flat tire.
Car club rear bumper badges, and club jackets. Mine was purple and gold, for the Centennial Rod and Custom Club, first started in 1967, in Toronto. Club is still around, 48 years later.
Power antenna. It the status symbol in the 70s but what a disaster it was after a few years. They would invariably break and get stuck. They actually sold aftermarket kits and I was dumb enough to buy one. Wait ! They still sell them.
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