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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I thought the Harley green was called khaki but according to an online source they called it olive drab or olive green.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    Like Lizzie I come from a working class background and shows like Father Knows Best did not reflect reality as we knew it either. But who expected it to? It was a show, it was supposed to be phony. They might as well have had a pet unicorn in the back yard, or a beautiful genie who popped out of...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    Before central heating, the only way to be comfortable in winter was with warm clothing. If you could afford it, a wing back chair (to keep off drafts) in front of the fireplace, carpet slippers instead of shoes, and a smoking jacket in place of your suit coat and you were ready to relax with a...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It's not my idea. That is what Harley Davidson called it. I know what they looked like, I owned a dozen HDs at different times, the oldest a 1929 45. A friend had a 1913 V twin with transmission in the rear wheel, it was an original unrestored model and it was gray. Supposedly they switched to...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    The color used by HD was called "khaki". They started using it in WW1 (before that, their bikes were gray). In the thirties they started offering different colors.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era stars who died way before their time

    I have seen Shemp Howard as a bartender in a W C Fields picture (The Bank Dick) and in one of the Thin Man series (Another Thin Man) starring Myrna Loy and William Powell. No doubt he did other pictures, those ones I happen to have in my collection.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Room fans - Quite, etc.

    I find the vintage fans are noisy and only have one or at the most 2 speeds. Oscillating fans leave me gasping between sweeps. For the bedroom I prefer the cheapest small non oscillating fan. Usually low speed is enough for comfort unless the weather is sultry. Oil it annually with a drop of...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    While I am not a fan of green cars all the color combinations mentioned so far were popular at the time and looked good at the time. I am a little puzzled as to why blue and white is suddenly ugly. I wonder if it is because today's cars are so bland and colorless. Maybe if the younger people see...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    For some reason Nazi atrocities are exaggerated while Japanese atrocities are covered up.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...

    Is this really news to anybody? Such atrocities were common in Japanese held areas, to civilians and military POWs. The best you could hope for was neglect and starvation. I guess nobody talks about these things anymore. At one time they were common knowledge.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I mean did you grease the new pump?
  14. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Who says the old one lasted that long? It might have been replaced 10 times for all you know. I like the sealed bearings, saves greasing the water pump every 2000 miles. Did you grease them before you put the pump on the car?
  15. Stanley Doble

    Why does Indiana Jones wear a leather jacket in the dessert?

    His tuxedo was at the dry cleaners?
  16. Stanley Doble

    Oldest person you ever knew?

    Who was paying Confederate soldiers pensions? It was my understanding that the Confederacy ceased to exist after 1865. And that this led to the custom in the South, of giving wounded veterans preference when it came to civil service jobs. Eventually any kind of injury or disability became an...
  17. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made a big pot of potato soup with ham. It is really good.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Oldest person you ever knew?

    According to this US News story the federal government is still paying out one Civil War pension. http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/07/03/one-civil-war-veterans-pension-remains-on-governments-payroll As the story dates from 2013 this may have changed. They say the pension...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I have stopped radiator leaks with cinnamon and also with nutmeg when I didn't have cinnamon. It only takes half a teaspoon or less. I suppose pepper would work as well.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Oldest person you ever knew?

    Speaking of old people, how would you like to meet the grandson of President John Tyler, 10th president of the United States? Here was a man who was born in 1790, became president in 1841, and was elected to the first Confederate congress in 1861. He had 8 children with his first wife and 7...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Have heard of using oatmeal, condensed milk, and even cinnamon to stop leaks. Now if someone would suggest brown sugar and buttered toast we could have breakfast.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Water pump grease is still available but not at every garage and parts store. If you don't have any, the waterproof grease they use in outboard motor lower units is a good substitute. No more than half a pump at each oil change, don't over lube or you could gum up your radiator.

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