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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Old stock condensers for cars are the same as for radios - probably not worth using if over 5 years old. I have not tried a modern mylar condenser but it should work. All 6V Chrysler products used the same condenser, .25 to .28 Microfarad. Not sure about the voltage but it has to be higher than...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Stupid Dream

    Last night I dreamed I was eating shredded wheat and when I woke up half the pillow was gone. (old joke from about 1920)
  3. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Recently I was surprised to read on the net, that Fields never drank while he was a juggler. From the age of 13 up he made his living in Vaudeville and music halls as a juggler and took his craft seriously. He would not take a drink unless he was through performing for the day, and did not have...
  4. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    A fat kid on a Schwinn can beat an MG YB sedan. This was ok in 1947 in England, not so good today. It's still a beautiful car though, on the outside and on the inside. Makes me wonder what they might be building today, if they had kept up with the times. Something like a BMW only more human and...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Probably just a cheap part. Rotors usually last for years. When I worked in garages years ago spark plugs, points, and condenser were replaced at tuneup time, the rotor if it looked real bad, the distributor cap almost never unless is was cracked or burned out. Check the cap, if the contacts...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    They carried the same cachet here. The difference was, in some parts of the country being an arrogant jackass was a bad thing.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    They are fairly common around here too. Times have changed. Cars don't carry the cachet they once did. At one time a car reflected the owner's social, financial, professional and possibly even religious and political status. Today nobody cares.
  9. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    The English motorcycle industry was behind the 8 ball by 1960 if not earlier. They were already overtaken by European and Japanese competition although it was not really obvious until Honda brought out their 450 twin in, what was it, 1966? I was a fan and owner of English motorcycles as a...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Here in small town Ontario there were a few Cadillacs, always bought used by shopkeepers and small business owners. The only exception was the mother of the local Cadillac dealer who got a new Coupe De Ville every year.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    In 1976 a real estate broker friend bought a new Buick Electra 225, fully loaded. When he told me the price I said, you could have bought a Cadillac for that money. He replied in all seriousness that if he was seen in a Cadillac it would hurt his business. I knew at once what he meant. In many...
  13. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    "I have no idea why they let everything run down like that." It was as if the whole country collectively decided to stop working and spend their capital. I don't know that it happened all at once. I think it began with the Labor governments in the twenties, the unionist idea that your employer...
  14. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    In other words if you never lusted after an English sports car or luxury car, you just aren't old enough to remember when they made cars worth lusting after.
  15. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    I owned a number of English cars when they were cheap used cars. For one thing, they were more popular in Canada and we got certain makes and models that were never sold in the US. They had a lot to offer but they did not move with the times. As other cars got better, cheaper and more reliable...
  16. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    Where do you see the word reliable?
  17. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    They made some pretty good cars in the fifties . You may have heard of the Austin Healey 100, Triumph TR3, MG TD, Jaguar XK120 and Bentley Continental but they made other kinds of cars too. In the sixties Austin had a full line of front wheel drive sedans before Honda made a car. Standard...
  19. Stanley Doble

    does Food still taste the same as back in 1900 - 1920? or 1930's?

    There are a lot of hormones, additives and GMO foods in the United States that would not be allowed in Great Britain or Europe. Even high fructose corn syrup is considered bad by some experts, and it is widely used in the US only because of America's import duties on sugar. I think France has...
  20. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you are getting old when you can remember when General Motors made great cars. You are really getting old when you can remember when England made great cars.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Your father traded in a 53 Olds 88 4 door plus $240 for an identical 53 Olds 88 four door? There must be a story behind it.
  22. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Speaking of spaghetti with canned or bottled sauce.. how about a quick cheap meal that will impress your family with what a great chef you are? We are going to make spaghetti and meat balls. Anybody can do this. Pick up some Italian sausages at the grocery store. Also some garlic bread, fresh...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Not that it matters, but I have been a fanatical seat belt user since I learned to drive in the mid sixties. This was about when seat belts came in. They were not mandatory (to use) for many years but I could see that there was no downside to using them, and they might save my life. I'm a...

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