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Confessions of a J. C. Whitney Abuser – The iPhone of its Time,
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Posted on 06/14/2014 8:41:18 AM PDT by virgil283
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To: MeshugeMikey
Amen! I remember borrowing the catalogs from my dad’s side of the bedroom floor and paging through, looking at all the great parts for my non-existent Mustang.
To: virgil283
Thanks for the great Father’s Day gift — the memory of my Dad on getting his Whitney in the mail. We knew he’d be busy for days — and want so much to share his “great finds” with my Mom, sister and I but we just didn’t get it. It’s a guy thing and a wonderful memory for me. Wish I’d shared more with him when he was here.
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:28:50 AM PDT
by
bunster
To: virgil283
I’m so glad you posted that cat ad. Our neighbors had a cat like that in the rear window of their car whose eyes would glow red. I thought it was satan’s cat. Now I know it was just a fake. Wait a minute. That cat was grey.
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:29:06 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Nowhere else on eart could you buy an under-dash 8-track player for $20!
Yea, you saved bucks on the player but spent a fortune replacing the tapes they ate............LOL!
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:31:30 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(By now, everyone should know that you shoot a zombie in the head. Don't try to reason with them...)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I still have both the book and the car.
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:31:34 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: virgil283
A Holley Double Pumper with two fuel lines. 650 to 1150 cfm. You had to be running a lot of revs to keep the thing from strangling on the fuel. 4.11 rear end, valve springs so tight to slam them closed fast nothing would hold them in place.
The Quadrajets had two fuel dump jets. A secondary spring picked them up when you romped on the gas and just dumped gasoline into the intake from a reservoir until the vacuum could pick up.
I tuned almost every Saturday and cleaned spark plugs, filed points, set advance springs.
I learned about engineering from vendor catalogs. They were chock full of rules of thumb, nomographs and formulae.
I remember one late summer night coming through the mountains and a long banked curve, a full tank of 18 cent gasoline, a new pickup, a blonde farm girl and KVOO on the radio. Life has never been any better than that. It was the height of Nam, we young men were anxious but we had FREEDOM!
I married the girl and still have the pickup and her.
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
***womens lingerie and a bunch of other junk.***
Remember when the models wore black leotards with the undies over them?
When they did away with the black leotards, I know of some moms who tore those sections out of the catalog before the kids and the Old Man saw them.
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:33:49 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
To: rabidralph
ahahahaha I underwent a very similar set of “window shopping” “buying sprees”
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:34:31 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: virgil283
And also Allied Catalogue - for electronic parts, tubes and speakers for amplifiers and ham radio gear.
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:39:03 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: virgil283
I still like JC Whitney “books” but I miss the Western Auto store.
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:54:22 AM PDT
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: upsdriver
'Anyone remember Herter?'..
..Yes I sure do. Their catalog was a favorite for perusing camping and hunting gear. .....I bought one of their odd sheath knives;
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posted on
06/14/2014 9:59:29 AM PDT
by
virgil283
(GOD loves you...'He's not mad....He's not even in a bad mood'...)
To: virgil283
I used to LOVE receiving my J.C. Whitney “book” in the mail each month!
the good old days.....
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:01:50 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: virgil283
Yep, that’s the one! My cousin and I ordered a reloader and supplies for 12 gauge shot shells back when we were in our teens.
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:05:03 AM PDT
by
upsdriver
(Palin/West '16)
To: virgil283
When I was in fourth through about tenth grade, I was an abuser of the Fisher Scientific catalog.
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:10:56 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
To: virgil283
Oh, the lists I used to make from that publication...
Let’s not forget Hemmings, either.
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:11:27 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Nowhere else on earth could you buy an under-dash 8-track player for $20
I have such fond memories of 8-tracks. Remember how the cartridges tended to get "car sick" and they unraveled inside the tape deck?
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:21:44 AM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: factoryrat
My first real job at age 16 was working the parts counter at an auto parts store.
I worked at a parts store back way back when also. I remember going through those books chasing down parts for the customers. Speaking of old VWs, one of our regular customers converted his garage and back yard into a small repair business, he was the local go-to guy when it came to German cars. I only knew him by his nickname, Sputnik. We called him that because years earlier he his wife and then newborn son escaped from E. Berlin with only the clothes on their back and whatever money they had. If communism is such a great thing, why was that damn wall built in the first place? To keep the Mexicans out?
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:28:04 AM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: upsdriver
Herter’s ...yes I spent hours huddled under the basement stairs AKA my fly tying shop lusting over feathers, fun and hooks.
I saw the name Herter’s on ammo and hope soared...only to be dashed.
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posted on
06/14/2014 10:42:23 AM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
To: virgil283
Wow. I remember seeing those glowing-eye cats in cars! It was like a furry precursor to the third brake light.
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posted on
06/14/2014 11:05:08 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
To: virgil283
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posted on
06/14/2014 11:32:45 AM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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