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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
^^^^ I’ve also read that people of immediately subsequent generations often find magic in the artifacts of their parents’ and grandparents’ early years. If not for that, it’s doubtful this online community would exist. But then, many of the material goods of my parents’ and grandparents’ early...- tonyb
- Post #137
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
Nothing lasts forever. The magic of old things, especially old things with questionable intrinsic value, is entirely in the head of the beholder. Yes, an old car is still a car, which can still be driven to the supermarket. So it’s good for that. But rare is the collectible vintage...- tonyb
- Post #136
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
A ’52 model would be a TD. The earlier TC’s are more desirable (those 19-inch wheels, versus 15’s on the TD, made a pretty big difference in its appearance). That car of theirs is about as simple and and straightforward as a tractor of the same vintage. It’s not that there aren’t things to know...- tonyb
- Post #124
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
I concur. After the ’08 model year they got gaudier. The latest ones ain’t so bad, though. I’ve considered getting an ’05 through ’08, decent examples of which can be had pretty cheap, especially the six-bangers. They’ll comfortably go the speed limit and well above it all day long anyway. I...- tonyb
- Post #123
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
Back in my British sports car days I was a faithful reader of Practical Classics, a British rag devoted to the care and feeding of lower-end collectible vintage cars. But limey cars weren’t such an unusual sight back then. The cars were of recent enough vintage that many were still in regular...- tonyb
- Post #119
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
^^^^^ My oldest brother had a helluva hard time learning how to smoothly move away from a stop with a manual transmission. When it wasn’t a jerky, bouncy takeoff, he killed the engine, often in the middle of an intersection. The other drivers honking their horns and the Old Man barking at him...- tonyb
- Post #117
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
The MGA engine had three main bearings. The B engine had five. Beefier. A friend had an MGA coupe (fixed hardtop) way back when. I recall thinking it not as cool looking as the top-down car. (I thought much the same about the MGBGT v. the ragtop version.) But then, the coupes are relatively...- tonyb
- Post #113
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
Among the Old Man’s habits that rubbed off on me was a propensity for swearing. It’s kinda unfortunate, in some ways. It puts off some people, I’m sure, when the aim is not to be off-putting. But then, sometimes people go looking for reasons to be offended. F*** ’em, I say.- tonyb
- Post #112
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
A fellow I’ve known since my teen years, whose family’s financial circumstances were every bit as modest as mine, and who, like me, patched together well-worn cars lest he have no car at all, offers this view on the relative simplicity of old cars v. more recent ones ... “I never open the hood...- tonyb
- Post #103
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
^^^^ When I get to regretting that I sold for peanuts decades ago cars that would fetch big money today I pull myself back to the real world, where cars wear out, get in collisions, cost real money to maintain and repair and insure, require a certain amount of real estate to park (which ain’t...- tonyb
- Post #99
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
Sent a chill down my spine.- tonyb
- Post #97
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
^^^^^ Several years ago I witnessed a court-ordered cleanup of a property you might fairly call a junkyard, located where such uses are clearly not allowed. This was outside of Olympia, Wash., the land of fir trees and ferns and perpetual dampness. Among the vehicles left essentially abandoned...- tonyb
- Post #94
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
I had a couple of BIG Fords — a ’73 LTD with a 460 and an E350 van (can’t recall the model year, early ’80s, I think) that positively gulped gasoline — like 11 or 12 mpg.- tonyb
- Post #88
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
^^^^ My ’56 Beetle had a little lever down by the footwell that you had to flip to access the “reserve” fuel when things got to sputtering.- tonyb
- Post #86
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
^^^^^ With most of my older cars I kept a small collection of tools and parts (ignition points, fan and/or generator belts, fuses, a length of wire with an alligator clip on each end, etc.) in the trunk. And often a few square feet of cardboard, to lie on while performing those roadside repairs...- tonyb
- Post #82
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What advice would you give to your younger selves?
Close enough, I suppose. I’ve heard it argued that everything a person does is self-serving, ultimately. To whatever degree he serves others would be proportionate to the degree he perceives the fortunes of others tied to his own.- tonyb
- Post #35
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What advice would you give to your younger selves?
Yeah, but anticipating what might bring regret serves to moderate behavior.- tonyb
- Post #33
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What advice would you give to your younger selves?
One word: “Plastics.”- tonyb
- Post #22
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
^^^^ It was nearly 30 years ago when I first saw a youngster befuddled by a rotary dial telephone.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
^^^^^ With us the accommodations were mostly school gymnasium floors and American Legion and VFW halls. Looking back on it, we kids did a good enough job of policing ourselves. No fatalities, no serious injuries. Adults along for the ride — staff and a few parents — kept mostly to themselves...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
