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Remember when?
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:44 pm
by Danny D
Don has been talking about this for a while. I hope you don't mind, Don, when I start this.
Remember when...
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:50 pm
by Danny D
Remember when in the fifties and sixties when the automobile manufacturers would try to hide where the gas fillers were on a car?
1957 Chevy - behind the chrome tail fin?
1959 Cadillac - behind the pointed tail lights?
And so on?
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:57 am
by Klem
Remember when you ran straight 50w oil in your bike. It would aways wet sump overnight and it would take 10 min. of hard kicking to get the oil out of the crankcase so you could start it. By the time you got it running you had worked up a good sweat, then froze your butt off riding to work.
Remember when?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:19 pm
by Woody469
Remember when all motorcycles had a kick starter? I miss that!
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Re: Remember when?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:26 pm
by Klem
How about drive in theaters. Scraping the snow and Ice off the windshield so you could see to leave.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:59 pm
by JerryM100
I can remember glass milk jugs delivered to our front door, and large cans of Charles Chips delivered as well.
How about raking and burning all the leaves in the fall??
How about going to a movie with your girlfriend and spending 15 cents each to get in, and another dime for the popcorn??
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:46 pm
by johnjr
Gas was .19 cents a gallon...........................
I drove my Olds 442 empty just to fill it back up
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 5:58 pm
by DennisG
Going to western movie on Sat. in early 50"s in Salina Ks for 10 cents. Watched several cartoons an Gene Autry, Durango Kid, or Roy Rodgers movies were just a few. Go to drive in in Abilene in mom and dad's old 36 Chevy pickup with my two younger sisters and brother. We sat or layed down in bed with blankets and brought popcorn to eat that mom made at home. Drank Nehi grape pop in small bottles that we brought from home. Usually paid so much per car to get in.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:58 pm
by shfls
Remember when...the dimmer switch was on the floor and the light for hi-beams was red, not blue.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:33 am
by Klem
Leaving home on a Saturday morning with $20. Have a nice ride, meals,drink beer, sleep in the park, Sunday Races, ride home and still have change left.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:57 am
by BeemerBill
Ha-Ha-Ha !!!! Yes, I do remember doing that very thing.... But, that was the norm, or at least I thought that was the way you did it. 
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:33 pm
by arkyleo
Nortons, Triumphs and BSA's were languishing in garages across the nation--unwanted and unloved because of the "superior" Japanese bikes--and could be purchased for about $1.00 per cc. Cushman's also had not appreciated and there were rare finds. Fast forward--now the throwaway jap stuff is collectible. Who knew?
Maybe we should buy up Hyosongs.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:29 pm
by cyclone
Remember when the spark advance was on the left handle grip. Thats way back when pop and a single dip cone were both a nickle.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:43 am
by Klem
Did you ever pass your buddy and reach down and turn off his gas or ignition on the way by?
How about "parking" with your motorcycle, riding into the park to the pick nick tables.
Re: Remember when?
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:10 pm
by arkyleo
Klem wrote:Did you ever pass your buddy and reach down and turn off his gas or ignition on the way by?
How about "parking" with your motorcycle, riding into the park to the pick nick tables.
Yes, I do remember pulling the key out of the brit bikes that had them on the side panel--and as far as "parking" on your bike--I think us early riders had far more opportunity in picking up "companions" as during that golden era, bikes were less common and presented a "mystique" to the babes.
Anyone remember kickstarting the early XLCH Sporsters? Quite a drill. Often took the heel off your boot if it backfired during a lame kick--and sometimes caught the air cleaner on fire, which required another complete kick to put it out.
What would we do without "the button"