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2022
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Even the ever so slightest hint of a politically based joke will get a report button here.
no, maybe they were also used for that.
These were how sears packaged hardware in the 70s. They used cardboard boxes with clear slide of sleeves in the 60s and in the 70s they introduced these.
Sears carried everything in their tool area. You name it, they had it back then, in small quantities, I think I went with my dad 3 times a week.. The containers were cool , they even sold a rack to hold them, (think drawers that these turned into). We didn't have one..
I know I have one of the cardboard storage boxes somewhere.. they were handy for holding things.
just reminded me of Gene Tracy
Not really a 'joke', just a humorous memory from childhood. Pop had a '51 Studebaker, one like the muppets had in the movie. I think a 'Star Light Coupe'(?) Since he was dealing with polio, having no use of his legs, he used a hand control system. He learned to drive in a Model T Ford which I understand took 3 feet and both hands to drive in town. Anyway, on the Studebaker, for a throttle he had a choke cable like with a "T" handle (PTO?) along side the steering wheel, the last 16 inches or so floated so it could be moved with the wheel.
I had a 'baby' seat between Pop and Mom, the center of the car. Wanting a throttle of my own, I found a "T" handle under the dash, essentially in front of me. On a trip from Charlottesville west up US 250 across 'SkyLine Drive", I was playing with the found "T" handle. When we hit the mountains, Pop was commenting that the car needed a tune up, it didn't have much power. After crossing Sky Line Drive, there was a lonnggg grade into Waynesboro and we had no engine braking. Almost burned up the brakes. . . It seems I had found the engagement for a planetary overdrive in that "T" handle. On the flat lands west of Ch'ville, it didn't change until Pop downshifted for the mountains. Downgrade into Waynesboro was a wild ride, the brakes smoking and Pop laying on the horn the whole way.
I only have a vague memory of it all, most of the details were related by Pop in later years. All I can remember is the "T" throttle and a wild ride down into Waynesboro with the horn blaring. [Ch'ville and Waynesboro being central Virginia]
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I had a 'baby' seat between Pop and Mom, the center of the car. Wanting a throttle of my own, I found a "T" handle under the dash, essentially in front of me. On a trip from Charlottesville west up US 250 across 'SkyLine Drive", I was playing with the found "T" handle. When we hit the mountains, Pop was commenting that the car needed a tune up, it didn't have much power. After crossing Sky Line Drive, there was a lonnggg grade into Waynesboro and we had no engine braking. Almost burned up the brakes. . . It seems I had found the engagement for a planetary overdrive in that "T" handle. On the flat lands west of Ch'ville, it didn't change until Pop downshifted for the mountains. Downgrade into Waynesboro was a wild ride, the brakes smoking and Pop laying on the horn the whole way.
I only have a vague memory of it all, most of the details were related by Pop in later years. All I can remember is the "T" throttle and a wild ride down into Waynesboro with the horn blaring. [Ch'ville and Waynesboro being central Virginia]
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Bi11, That's a great story, but there's a problem or two. The OD handle is on the left, first off from the fender, and when pulled out it cancels the overdrive, enabling engine braking. The downhill run wasn't your fault, you didn't do it.
Did they ever get the chips????
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