Posted on 04/11/2013 4:32:42 PM PDT by rawhide
Can anyone tell me what is the name of the car that this dash is a part of? What are those levers in front of the steering wheel used for? Air vents? Nice looking dash.
We used to call them “suicide knobs.”
Remember way back in the day, a couple of buddies had them on their steering wheels with pictures of rather scantly clad ladies in the clear knob.
Last post at flickr indicated the 4 slide throttle controls actually controlled the heat and air vents, 2 for the left side and 2 for the right side of the car.
The writer recalled when he slid the vent open on the passenger side, the air intake was powerful enough to throw his date’s skirt over her head. He had to make sure the floor was clean, or else all the dirt and mud would also cover the passengers.
Skyliner also had similar controls.
Ok, question. I just had a sporttronic 4 speed tranny rebuilt in my mitsubishi about a year and half ago. It seems like it will slip out of gear when I let off the power. It doesn’t happen all the time but every now an then. At normal cruise power it never slips out. Did I get ripped off?
Hahaha...reminds me of a funny story...
I was carrying out some computer application teaching back around 2000, and there were still people who really didn’t use computers much. For some of them, this was their first real PC exposure (not mainframe)
I was trying to teach the concept of radio buttons in a computer interface (which as most of us know means you can only have one item selected...selecting another item deselects the first one like...well...radio buttons...:)
There was a wonderful colleague of mine sitting near the front listening to me, and she had the most blank look on her face. With a start, I suddenly realized...
She had no idea what real radio buttons were.
She just sat there with her mouth partly open, her deer-like brown eyes gazing vacantly out of her long, slender face, the gears in her head having ground to a complete stop.
She had never seen a real car radio with “radio buttons” and watched how they work. In that split second, as I understood the situation, I felt such a melange of emotions. I felt puzzlement change to incredulity to humor, then, for split second, sadness, and then the humor flooded back in. I later relayed what I had seen to a very funny, tough female co-worker, and she growled grinningly in a good natured way, that “The only buttons she knows about are the door buttons in the backseat of the car...”
Yeah, I well remember those tanks. My dad had a few, as well as a late 50s DeSoto that could knock a locomotive over.
Don’t know anything about that trans, but it sounds like a clutch pak is dropping out, like it has too much slop between the plates (worn out?)
Fascinating when you momentarily find yourself standing with one foot in the present and one in the past, isn't it?
I've had the same experience, most often with my kids, who all came late in my life. Every once in a while I'll mention some gadget or common everyday item to them in passing, and notice the same blank look on their faces. Sometimes it takes me a second to realize they've never seen or heard of the thing I'm talking about.
Unlike the woman in your class, my kids will usually ask me, "What's that?", which opens the door for them to learn a little something :-)
Heh, I think, for me, it must have been like that moment in the early part of the 20th century where some kid held a buggy whip in his hand and said: “Dad, what is this thing?”
Does one have to be sober to post on Free Republic nowadays? An impossibly high standard, I say.
besides, I was operating under a double handicap...drunk while posting and an inveterate Pontiac fan.
Always good fun here.
It was rebuilt 30000 miles ago by a reputable shop.
My granddad was born in a little town in Northern Mississippi in 1906. He once told me that when he was a boy, every time a car would come through town, all the kids would chase it down the street to get a good look at it.
They were that rare at the time.
Mercury Monterey Sun Valley Dashboard - 1954
You are right about that color...Nash used it in a slightly darker form for their line from Ambassador to Metropolitan.
I think the Chevrolet “gull wing”(?) was in that color too...did they all use it two-tone with white? Lots of chrome in those days too.
The worst color ever was the pea green Studebaker! It was the model with the front and back so similar you wondered if it was “ coming or going”.
Memories are what we live with when old! LOL Good thing we make new ones each day!
Speed knob? Is that the same as a “neckers” knob?
You needed to drive one handed so you could keep the other around your best girl! Bench seating made for lots of snuggling!
There's something I haven't heard of in years.
Yeah. The rear view mirror on the dashboard was a common DCP feature.
When parts wwear out, the effect that you describe is what occurs. A worn front pump doesn’t deliver sufficient pressure at low engine speeds, and that allows excessive slippage of the clutches as they are engaged, which results in excessive clearances between them as they wear from the slippage, which in turn exacerbates the slippage.
A viscious circle!
I guess you must be a prehistoric old fart too! :o)
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