Posted on 01/20/2019 2:31:09 PM PST by simpson96
Weather, clothes, furniture, décor, cars, politicians, gas prices, economy, ... was there anything that was not brutal in the 1970s?
Luckily, I’m a Valrican. I live on a mountain—it’s almost 120’ above sea level.
No, I was there when our station in Hartford CT had major issues with the inadequate phone networks of the 70s.
Its not a station thing unless the station was so good that they had more listeners than any of the other stations. So you get super ratings and the phone company wants to charge you to upgrade their networks !!
Not being snide, just a lovely reality checks from the past.
LOL.
5.56mm
I’ve got an Android tablet, no Windows. It doesn’t have the Spanish character set.
Yeah, I know that trick, but didn't want to work that hard.
My wife uses an Android phone, and she is able to type any Spanish character into any messages she sends. There are ways to get the Spanish keyboard to work when needed using Android.
Cool. The next time I need to type a Spanish character I'll call your wife 😄
Speedy Gonzales! You're the man.
The 62 models were almost a ton and a half at 2970 pounds. I’ve driven dump trucks smaller than that when I was in CE in the military. And it was not a fluff car as it was metal in the body. If you hit something, it was hit. I had a van bounce off that car and all it did was catch my bumper and bend it out. I put the bumper up against a high tension pole and bent it back in. Drove it another 6 or 7 thousand miles till I traded it in. They were pretty solid.
rwood
Main reason I was glad to be gone when it hit. And we stayed just ahead of it till we reached Del Rio, TX. Got lucky.
rwood
Thanks for the explanation! I should have realized anything built in 1962 was built with real steel.
Thank you for all the tips, friend. Have a good one.
Oh yeah! I remember...I had to drive to work in it. Half an inch in town and two inches in Brandon.
Yeah, we’ve been so innovated with smaller, lighter cars for so many years with less power we forget just how big those beasts were. Right after that I had a Mercury. The Mercury Marauder for 1969 as a fastback version of the Mercury Marquis and was repackaged as a personal luxury car. After the 1970 model year, the Mercury Marauder was discontinued. I had that one and it had the 390, 325 horse, it wasn’t completely stock, which was a strong one at that time.
Funny thing is, I sold that one in mid 1973 and in early 1975 it was used in a liquor store robbery. The cops called me at around 2 a.m. to tell me they had it and did I want it back as I guess they thought it was stolen. That was before they checked the DMV and found a bill of sale about a year and a half earlier when I told them I had submitted it. Apparently the guy that bought it, and paid cash, never re-registered it. But I just don’t think I wanted part of that one. Nooo thank you.
rwood
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