Posted on 09/16/2015 1:50:45 PM PDT by Cowman
Because I know how to fix a buckboard, I can understand how to fix a car. Because I can fix a carburetor, I can understand how to fix injection.
Simple systems provide understanding - HOW it works - A concept which is very nearly gone in this day of remove-and-replace and computerized diagnosis.
We grew up in cars, many foreigners did not. Makes a big difference. I learned to drive racing go karts. One of the ABS sensors on my car went bad, I just pulled the ABS fuse. Now it drives like the cars I drove in my first 50 years of driving, and I feel like I have control of the brakes! I like it!
So the war on masculinity claims yet another part of the culture.
I realize that the word “carburetor” is an ancient word but millions of vehicles and engines...including your lawn mower....still use them.
If you drove a 1975 Ford F-100 you would still have to know how a carb works.
My best advice is to make the “kid” go through all of the tests we used to have to do back in 1960. Even though the vehicle probably can do it, make them do it. There’s nothing like the experience in actual defensive driving of the older world.
Mobsteel took an old IH Loadstar and made it into their shop truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=7&v=SCEZQPRyePU
LOL! Eight forward gears and a Georgia overdrive!
In a time when all you have to do is call Daddy's AAA on your cell phone, 3:00AM in the middle of nowhere is no big crisis.
And the Maniac with the Hook doesn't even have a loop on the door handle to catch his hook on, any more.
If you don't live on a farm, chances are you don't know what a gear is, let alone having to change them.
The nice thing about talking on a cell phone while driving is that the Stupid is self correcting... Eventually, BANG!!! One or more less Democrats.
Italy is where lane markers are just a suggestion and driving 3 or 4 across 2 lanes is normal.
I’m a Bondurant grad...’73 at Ontario.
Man the smog in the afternoon was killer, being from Ohio I had never experienced the “burn” in your lungs.
“Blame it on modern cars, which have gotten so forgiving...”
There’s a lot of truth to that. I went from a ‘78 Delta 88 with no frills except power steering to a 97 Cadillac. The difference in handling was insane. I really had to lighten up on the brake foot, the first time I drove the Caddy I used the normal pressure I needed to brake the Olds over a few seconds, and the Caddy screeched to a halt in a heartbeat :)
Ha! I was watching that “Lilyhammer” show, and the American guy tries to go get a license in Norway, thinking it will be an in & out thing, because he already has an American license. The Norwegian DMV guys just busted out laughing, “oh, no, no, you will have to learn to drive the NORWEGIAN way”!
Yup. Was driving hay trucks in the field as soon as I could reach the pedals... Backing up trailers and implements shortly after that. I could drive way before high school...
LOL
I learned to drive on the Long Island Expressway. Manhattan is a breeze to drive through compared with any city I’v driven in down here.
If there was snow, that car has long since dissolved from the salt.
LOL! I take it we ain’t talkin’ Ontario Canada then. Everything I’ve read, the air in the LA area is a whole lot better now days. I remember going out there in the mid ‘60’s and it was pretty bad. The last time I was there was in ‘99 I think and it sure seemed better.
Yeah it was the old Ontario Motor Speedway which has long since been bulldozed. I think Bondurant started at Riverside, then Ontario, then Sonoma and finally moved to Phoenix where it is now.
Bob is in his 80s.
he lasted longer than Mickey Thompson
On March 16, 1988, Thompson and his wife Trudy were killed by two hooded gunmen outside their home in Bradbury, California in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.[2] On the morning of the murder a pair of unknown assailants waited outside the Thompson home for the couple to leave for the day. Mickey opened the garage door for his wife to pull out in her vehicle, and as he headed for his own car the gunmen attacked. He was shot and wounded, then dragged out into the driveway while one of the attackers went after Trudy as she backed out. Killing her, the gunman then came back up the driveway where the other gunman was watching over Mickey and shot him fatally in the head.[2] The attackers then made their escape on the bicycles they had ridden to the Thompson residence.
Just another reason to dislike bicycles
Think there’s one in south Florida too. School that is.
My proposal for a new driving test.
The applicant must wear a helmet with front/rear recording capability, and then provide 4 hours of footage of the applicant walking through a crowded shopping mall.
How the applicant walks through a crowded shopping mall is a good indicator of how they will drive on a crowded freeway.
I have personally seen people walking at the mall that I have really hoped did not have a driver’s license.
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