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I'm so old I worked on cars that only had drum brakes, disc brakes were used on aircraft.
We had a 1966 Chevrolet Malibu wagon, and later, a 1975 Ford Maverick, both with manual drum brakes. The Malibu had a reasonable pedal effort, while the Maverick took a lot of force to apply the brakes. What I remember about cars built during that time is now easy it was to lock up the rear axle. My first car with anti-lock brakes was a 1997 Pontiac Grand Am. My 2019 Buick Encore has 4 wheel disk brakes, electric steering, and AWD.
Back when car dealers were willing to let you drive something on the used car lot for no charge while your car was being serviced, my dad was given an imported sports car with a 5 speed manual. Of course my dad (and mom too) could drive manuals. The car salesman (a friend of my dad) told him that 5th gear was for highway use. Since he was just running errands in town, he would not need to use it. I was not old enough to drive yet. While I was familiar with 4 speeds, this was the first 5 speed I had encountered.
Most of my cars were 5 speed, but I started out with a couple of 4 speeds. I think that always affected my driving. With 5 speed I would often skip gears.
I remember one time I was driving with my girlfriend late at night. I took off from a traffic light, and I accelerated fast in 2nd until I got to the speed limit, then I went to 3rd until I was about 7 mph over the speed limit, then I skipped to 5th. My girlfriend looked at me and said "You are driving in 5th on the surface streets?" I said, "sure why not?"
That was my crews control. I knew I wouldn't gain any more speed after I was in 5th. Which was my goal. I didn't want to be way over the speed limit and attract the attention of cops at that time of the night.
My car was a 39 Studebaker Commader coupe and it was on the column.
A 6-speed manual shifter on the column? Like I said I'm trying to imagine how that would even work. I can't find any images or videos of it. I would love to see video of something like that.
I might have mentioned this before but Marathon candy bars. Braided chocolate and caramel goodness. I would buy one after school every day along with a Mountain Dew. No wonder my teeth suffered. What can I say it was the 70's.
I do too. The silver coins (90% silver, 10% copper) were considerable softer than today's coins (75% copper, 25% nickel on the outside, 100% copper on the inside except for the nickel). As a result, they tended to show a lot of wear. When I was working at a laundromat, a customer asked me to exchange a dollar with her, as her dollar would not work in the change machine. After looking at it, I agreed. It was a silver certificate dollar. I showed it to my parents when I got home.
I do too. The silver coins (90% silver, 10% copper) were considerable softer than today's coins (75% copper, 25% nickel on the outside, 100% copper on the inside except for the nickel). As a result, they tended to show a lot of wear. When I was working at a laundromat, a customer asked me to exchange a dollar with her, as her dollar would not work in the change machine. After looking at it, I agreed. It was a silver certificate dollar. I showed it to my parents when I got home.
Was that recent? I thought they'd all be out of circulation by now, one way or another.
I've got a couple of $1 and $5 ones stashed away. Probably pretty useless but I like looking at them sometimes.
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