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Well all you guys are making me feel old. OH! Wait!! I am old.
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Location: Lubbock, Texas
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im 16 and was blessed to grow up in a house were i was "forced" to help Dad work on his toy, 1970 SS Chevelle, i know and love carbs, and the dimmer switches, my friends keep coming up to me wanting me to fix there cars. im about to make me some good money.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Gahanna, OH/Jacksonville, AR
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Well, I grew up around bikes. So this is definitely a lil different for me. I'm learning mainly about these old trucks and the engine as i go. And working alone is actually a lot better, get to fix or take apart things and learn by myself. Just have my friends dad, who works on race cars, come over and help me tool/info wise.
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ont. Canada
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i may be a bit slow on this but i remember b/w tv when it first came out wow then color tv my 1st drivable car was a 1952 pontiac with a flathead six and not only a dimmer on the floor but for windsheild washer there was a bubble on the floor to push with your foot as well
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hodgenville, Ky
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My 67 Mustang has the same pump lever for the washers, and it's hooked to a switch which activates the wipers too. Very nice feature for misty days. How many people here remember the "kick starters" on the older cars??
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Lubbock, Texas
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don't but got the crank rod out of a 46 in the shop or atleast tahts what i think it is...
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Location: st. louis area
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I like the floor dimmers better, easier for me to find than fumblimg for the blinker , unless your hand just happens to be over there
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ont. Canada
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i remember them the kick starters that is also i used to have a furguson tractor that the starter was activated by the gear shifter between 1st and rev.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Sacramento, CA
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My grandpa's 36 buick starts by pushing the gas pedel to the floor w/ the ignition on.
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Iron Thunder
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Phoenix Arizona
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i must be old too at 35 i know how to use a florbord starter switch. and know how to clean a oil bath air cleaner.
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"The dude abides"
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: North Dakota
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The old cars are so much fun.
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Location: Edmond, OK
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Quote:
can be used for a few things besides that, ignition kill switch, wiper squirter, dual tank switch, etc... i love mine, my dads old jeep had one, all hmmwvs, dueces and my 5ton have them as well. it doesnt feel right driving something that doesnt have one. |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Liège , Belgium
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I had also such a floor dimmer switch in my 1964 VW Beetle , a while ago...
I almost ROTFL & wetted my pants the day a friend of me asked me to drive him to the railway station , and saw I put his luggage under the front hood... he was quiet for a while but I saw that he was not really at ease... ![]() I asked him : "What's up ?" he answered : " Why did you put my luggage on the engine , you moron ?" I had to show him that the engine was in the rear , he couldn't believe his eyes... It happened 15 years ago... I had to laugh a lot a little time after that , when I went to the gas station , where a young man , very sure about himself , waiting to put some gas in the cars , turned almost three times around the beetle , as he didn't find the gas tank door... I waited a few minutes , with a "poker face" , and told him to raise the front hood , there was the tank... hehehe ! ![]() the Baron
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Iron Thunder
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Phoenix Arizona
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have u ever had chap your own fier wood too.or have u pored your own babbet barings. or have u ever have to forge your own horse shoes,or repair a windmill ony your own weatgrinder. i can go on and on...
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hodgenville, Ky
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Spewaking of gas station attendants. Had one walf around an old 56 Belair six or seven times looking for the gas door before he asked me where it was. Yes I have pored babbot bearings, and I have burnished the same bearings by connecting the engine to another and running it backwards. I have also just filed a bit of the rod end to get rid of a knocking rod. Have fixed a windmill but for a water tank not a grinder. I also love starting those old two-popper tractors... And i'm only 31. Oh yeh, the M88A1 also has a dimmer switch for its headlights (tank recovery vehicle)
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Iron Thunder
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Phoenix Arizona
Posts: 377
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i ges you can take the boy out the country but you can't take the country out the boy.
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"The dude abides"
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 472
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You said it Brian! I kind of live in the country yet, but not like I would want. We are just an agriculture farm. Small. About 1500 acres total. I want to be back out with cattle, horses, chickens, etc, etc. However, the sad fact is that money is tight out there. I make more being a computer geek then I do being a farm hand.
Oh, I have fixed a windmill but for water as well. Never poured my own bearings though.
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Iron Thunder
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Phoenix Arizona
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i know what you mean rockman. the famley farm is gone, it was onley 80 acres.grandpaw was a bean farmer in newmexico.he got real sick and soled it off little by little. so i live in phoenix and do what i have to .bot my hart is still in the country.
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