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    • yeah, grandson likes to look at EVERYTHING ELSE, but the damn road ! fuck the radio station.

  1. Think that’s bad? Wait until one of the precious darlings discovers that there used to not be power steering or power brakes. And no AC. Tires that lasted 10,000 miles or less.

    A generation of pussies. Fuck them all, whining little shits.

      • You got that many miles out of the points and condenser? I changed mine every fall along with the rotor cap,spark plugs and every other year the spark plug wires. Rotated the front tires to the back and bought a new set of front tires.

        • Better living through chemistry – we have better and longer-lasting components nowadays. Electronics under the hood has helped, as well. I could give a master class in how automotive technology has morphed into what we have now. I was there.

          FWIW, you had to lubricated the chassis and front end joints (everywhere you saw a zerk fitting!) every 10-15K miles! I had the Shop Manual for my Dad’s 55 Chebbie station wagon, I know whereof I speak.

  2. 8 tracks gotta get that match book in there just right, cassettes and CD’s
    Six packs cigarettes Radio presets

    • 1 or two VACUUM TUBES in the radios!

      Anybody remember the Wonderbar radios in Chebbies? I’ve fixed a few – usually a bad relay. Yes, relay.

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