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  1. Stanley Doble

    Stars And Their Cars

    "About 5 years ago, I was cruising down a rural Maryland road with my brother-in-law, and we approached a yellow Auburn Boat-tail out for a cruise ahead of us. As the Auburns were only built by direct commission, and were never a production car (the production car was the Cord), there's always a...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Box-back coat

    It took 8 years but here is the answer. The box back coat is the one on the left.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Progress Suit Catalog - Fall/Winter 1920 w/ Illustrations and Swatches

    "The famous Progress box back" At last we know what a box back coat looks like When I die, bury me in straight laced shoes, A box back coat and a Stetson hat Put a 20 dollar gold piece on my watch chain; So the boys'll know I died standing pat If you don't remember, here is the thread that...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Possible origin of the use of X's for price/quality level designation

    The hatter's bill might have looked like this: Hat, 37 shillings ( or 1 pound 17 shillings) Hat band, 60 shillings ( or 3 pounds) Feather, 20 shillings ( or 1 pound) Total, 117 shillings or 5 pounds 17 shillings at the time 5 pounds 17 shillings was about the same as 997.60 pounds...
  5. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    They water down the ink.
  7. Stanley Doble

    My new toaster

    The first blender was the Waring blender invented by bandleader Fred Waring. He was a health food nut and wanted a device he could take on the road to make healthy fruit drinks. Ironically the first market to really take them up was bartenders. Another old name in blenders is Vitamix In...
  8. Stanley Doble

    the changes in foods since your childhood? doesnt taste the same as it use to?

    Lizzie couldn't you put half the loaf in the freezer for later? That is what I do. You are right about 7up. Now I hop it up with the juice of half a lemon per glass. Or lemon and lime. Tastes good in hot weather and I am getting my vitamin c.
  9. Stanley Doble

    What characteristics make up a "Zoot Hat"

    I did a little searching on the net some time ago. It seems the first "zoot suit" was made for a young black man in Georgia who went to his tailor and had a suit made in the style of the "Prince Albert" coat worn by Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind, which was just out at the time.
  10. Stanley Doble

    The Greatest Inventions of the 1940s

    May I give an honorable mention to DDT? It saved millions of lives in WW2. One of the reasons that war was comparatively free of epidemics was the use of DDT in Allied controlled areas.
  11. Stanley Doble

    The Greatest Inventions of the 1940s

    Let Orson Welles explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNo8ld7ak8w
  13. Stanley Doble

    the changes in foods since your childhood? doesnt taste the same as it use to?

    One thing that has improved is the selection of foods at the local grocery stores.
  14. Stanley Doble

    the changes in foods since your childhood? doesnt taste the same as it use to?

    I'm not sure if it's just me. But the Kentucky Fried Chicken we got in the sixties and seventies seemed different. The stuff you get now seems very greasy. I don't remember it being soaked in grease, it seemed lighter and the quality of the chicken seemed better and less fatty. Tim Horton's...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I wish you could examine the Chrysler brakes and appreciate what went into the design. And why they were better, and why you probably wouldn't notice the difference unless you had to make an emergency stop. I could also point out, that Chrysler invented the Safety Rim wheel about 1940, and held...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Never heard of overheating brakes damaging bearings. Or even seals which are more heat sensitive. I agree with rjb about old Chrysler products being over complicated in some respects. Every part on a Chrysler built car looks like it costs more to make, and is better quality, than the...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I will agree that in normal driving most people would not know the difference between GM and Chrysler brakes, as long as they are working properly. It is kind of a reaction to the idea that drum brakes are no good and must be replaced by disc brakes. In most cases, on an old car the drum brakes...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    If you had worked on both Chrysler built and GM built cars of the fifties, as I have, you would know that the Chrysler brakes are more complicated, more expensive, harder to service correctly, but miles better than anything GM had at that time. Chrysler brakes, if they are set up right, will...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Unlike the loose leaf brakes featured by inferior makes, all Chrysler products had precision brakes. They will stop the car straight and true, and are not prone to locking up unexpectedly in hard stops. They were state of the art for the times. However they must be put together right, and...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Not properly adjusted, or not properly assembled. The NOS cylinder could have been faulty or full of rust but they should have checked it before they installed it. Wait till it cools down, jack up the wheel and see how hard it is to turn, if you are curious. Or return it to the garage by tow...
  22. Stanley Doble

    The Greatest Inventions of the 1940s

    The Bendix automatic washer Torque converter transmission (essential to the modern automatic)
  23. Stanley Doble

    Tobacco Field

    Here's how we do it in Canada. Believe it or not, we grow tobacco here too. Stompin' Tom Connors expounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqzgcAA8XzY "Tillsonburg, Tillsonburg, my back still aches when I hear that word"

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