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  1. tonyb

    Golden Era Anathema

    The Three Stooges shtick was wasted on me when I was a kid, when it was on TV pretty much every weekday around the time kids had control of the viewing options — after school but before dad got home. I was kinda baffled by what anybody saw in that brand of comedy until I got much older. I get...
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    I’ve driven ’em with busted clutch cables. I don’t recommend the practice, but it can be done. You really gotta make yourself one with the drivetrain to do it more or less smoothly.
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    Check out what sellers are asking for ’56 sunroof Beetles these days. A friend had her early Karmann Ghia body put on a later pan. That was among the more extreme of the many changes she made to that thing. She put a mountain of money into it.
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    It makes me just a little ill to see the prices those things fetch today. If I miss owning any of them, it’s mostly for that reason. Much as I love a long road trip, it might take some convincing to get me to travel coast-to-coast in a 36 hp VW. They were kinda fun, though. And so simple and...
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    Those rear-engine VWs were more forgiving than most. I had a few — a ’58 Ghia, a ’56 Beetle, a ’62 panel van (doors on both sides; Boeing Co. surplus), and a ’66 passenger van. I recall compression starting the things (dead battery) singlehandedly. But I was much younger then. The most...
  7. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    I pirated the image, so I know nothing about it, really. Although I am old enough to remember scenes such as this. And I’m old enough to have been a pump jockey myself. Didn't have a uniform, though. Check yer oil, Ma’am? Let me wash that windshield for ya.
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    ^^^^^ It’ll never replace the horse.
  9. tonyb

    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    That’s kinda sad. But then, just what is an *American* car anymore? Components come from hither and yon. European and Asian brands have plants here. Final assembly might be in the USA, but I know of no entirely American-made automobile.
  10. tonyb

    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    At age 16 I was driving a ramp tug at SeaTac. It was a tractor, pretty much. Plate steel fenders. I’m guessing it dated from the ‘50s. Maybe earlier. I wouldn’t want to commute in it. Or on it. I’d as soon commute in the ’47 Dodge school bus I once owned. Unlike most people you’d find in this...
  11. tonyb

    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    Most of my driving these days (pre-COVID, anyway) is in-town, during rush hours, in a major metropolitan area. I learned how to drive in manual transmission cars, and I wouldn’t let the lack of an automatic steer me away from a second car (a pickup, maybe), but for that daily commute? Give me...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If your condition was such that it significantly limited your mobility (like, if walking a hundred feet or more was a real strain), in many jurisdictions you would likely qualify for a disabled person’s parking permit. It might involve a signature from a health-care provider attesting to that.
  14. tonyb

    Golden Era Anathema

    Early success has ruined many a talent. I don’t know if that’s more true of popular entertainers of more recent times, but we could easily rattle off the names of many a one-time big-name rock ’n’ roll act now doing what amounts to an oldies revue on the tribal casino circuit.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was 62 years old when I got my first brand-new, never-been-slept-on bed. I didn’t feel particularly deprived by this. I had plenty of perfectly serviceable, reasonably low-mileage mattresses throughout my life to that point (and maybe a couple of not so great ones). But the queen-size bed we...
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    Golden Era Anathema

    Bob Hope.
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    A month doesn’t go by that I don’t get at least a couple of mail solicitations from undertakers. Those offering cremations only (there’s more of them than I ever realized) are big on direct mail. I half expect them to offer sale pricing. Get your decrepit self reduced to ashes now before the...
  19. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’m hardly ancient (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it), but I’ve long found the best place to be on Friday night is in my own quiet home. Even back during my carousing days I preferred saloons with plenty of unoccupied seats, which was far likelier to be found on a Monday or Tuesday.
  20. tonyb

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    Same room from another angle. The 48–star flag covers a pair of steel bifold closet doors, which are in good condition both cosmetically and functionally and are original to the house, so I didn’t wish to take them out. But they don’t fit the vibe of the room as it is now, so I mounted a curtain...
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ That’s why I don’t ski. (Well, that and the expense. Have you seen what lift tickets cost these days?)
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Is that the same kind of Dodge Ram pickup sold here in God’s Country? Pickups are best-selling type of personal vehicle over this way.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I may not live to collect, but I’d bet that self-driving cars will prove safer than what we have at present. People will die due to malfunctions, just as people die (very rarely) in commercial airline crashes, but far fewer than die now. Traffic fatalities are on the rise. It’s good to see law...

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