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REMEMBER WHEN?
• Remember when you had to air up one of your tires every day instead of having it fixed? Air was free at the gas station back then.
• Remember when you carried a quart of oil because you needed to add some if you drove too far? You opened the can with a church key. Then, you had a half quart open can (no screw cap back then) and you put it in a box in the trunk so it wouldn’t fall over.
• Remember when you parked on an incline just in case it wouldn’t start?
• Remember buying the “best” used tire at the service station?
• Remember telling your passenger to not lean on the door because it would come open on a curve?
• Remember the radio buzz from the vibrator?
• Did you ever overfill the oil bath air cleaner?
• Remember putting the silver powder in the radiator to stop the leak?
• Remember how hot the Fingerhut clear plastic seat covers were?

Remember suicide steering wheel knobs with your favorite Movie Star inside them
Remember you had one so you could drive with one hand and put your arm around your date
Remember clip on white walls because you couldn't afford new ones
Remember vacuum shift transmissions that took speed shifting to a horrible level
Remember lowering blocks on the rear springs because you wanted the rear lower than the front
Remember hanging your graduation tassle on the rearview mirror
Remember hanging your Club Plaque on chains below the license plate on the rear bumper

Remember..... Aw Crap, I can't remember what I was going to say!!!

Me, too, Roger. I remember a lot of stuff, but by the time I get a chance to tell anyone, I can't remember what I remembered.
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I have great memory and retention but "none of it is worth anything"

Fords took champion H 10 plugs
Chev took AC plugs
Gun rack across pick up rear window
Baling wire
Barbed wire
twin cylinder John Deeres--pow,pow,-------,------,pow ,pow,------,------
Oil bath aircleaners
Oil filter-whats that?
spot lights
sun visors
fender skirts, cruizer skirts, continenal kits---------Radio? push button??
full wheel hub caps? Flipper/spinner hubcaps

Evaporative swamp cooler that went on the passenger side window
45 RPM record player in the car
Vibrosonic reverb
4 track and 8 track tapes (Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass!)
Nylon seat covers that were good for a bizillion volts to shock your sister's neck because she got the front seat
Metal dash - what's a seat belt
The little kid seat that hooked over the front seat and had a steering wheel
Reserve fuel lever in Volkswagen beetles
Roller gas pedal in Volkswagen beetles
Freezing your a$$ off in a Volkswagen beetle (really bad heaters!!)
Rislone
Gum wrapper or cigarette foil was good for 20 amps when wrapped around a blown fuse
Really bald spare tires
Wood grain contact paper on the dash
Ed Roth and RFD

I have a Vibrosonic reverb somewhere in the garage

Originally Posted by NTFDAY

I have a Vibrosonic reverb somewhere in the garage

I think I may have one somewhere too - it was made by Motorola and had a big spring inside as I recall....

two reasons for vibrasonic--the sound and you could reach your beer cooler in the trunk thru the hole the speaker used--------

Originally Posted by glennsexton

..... and had a big spring inside as I recall....

Oh yeah, hit a pothole with the volume cranked and "SPROOOOOOIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGG"

Originally Posted by rspears

Oh yeah, hit a pothole with the volume cranked and "SPROOOOOOIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGG"

And the song "Wipeout" was born!

I had a Guitar Amp with the spring reverb and when I would sing "Raining in my Heart", I would kick the amp first and it sounded like thunder - - - - OK, so it wasn't smart but the Girls thought it was cool.

Originally Posted by MelloYello

I had a Guitar Amp with the spring reverb and when I would sing "Raining in my Heart", I would kick the amp first and it sounded like thunder - - - - OK, so it wasn't smart but the Girls thought it was cool.

Which was all that mattered at that point......

Originally Posted by MelloYello

I had a Guitar Amp with the spring reverb and when I would sing "Raining in my Heart", I would kick the amp first and it sounded like thunder - - - - OK, so it wasn't smart but the Girls thought it was cool.

Lol! Back in the nineties, I would bring my old Standle amp to gigs for one song "I had too much to dream" by the Electric Prunes (which I played as young man back in the sixties too). That amp sat on stage unused until the beginning of the chorus of that song, at which time I would kick it and Roooooar! It would crack everyone up, every time...