ghostgotcha Loc: The Florida swamps

If you know the answer then you are without much doubt really, really old.

First: I turn to cars because grumpy old men gravitated to them as mechanical and ego boosting devices.
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DO YOUR REMEMBER?

"Three on the tree?"
"How to properly give hand signals and what they mean?"
"High beam and starter switch under your foot?"
"Wrap around windshield?"
"Mechanical valve, inline six?"
"Fill'er up with Ethyl?"
"The Texaco man washing your windshield after he filled your tank?"
"A tiger in your tank and a tail h*****g out the filler cap?"
"Pumping the number of gallons up into the glass tank on the gasoline pump, then draining it into your car?"
"The coke machine at the gasoline station selling bottles of coke for a nickle?"
"Almost all gasoline stations had at least one bay where they could change your oil and do minor service on your car?"
"Manual window cranks and door locks?"
"No seat belts provided - and - a air bag in the seat cuddling you?"
"White sidewall tires with moon hub caps and removable finder skirts?"
"Flat head ford v/8?"
"2 (or 4) door hard top?

Oh well, you get the idea and if you think we should bring some of these back then; you too are a "old fart"

vernon

oh yea I remember well.I also remember the party line.we were on line with a local watering hole,I got my sex education listening in.

maureenthannon

I'm on the border of "Old fart" inclusion because I don't remember most of these, and the ones that I do, I remember that when I was a young child, some of these statements were so. Kinda reminds me of once, back in the 1990's I think, I went some where with some friends, one of the guys with us said that he remembers when gas was .25 a gallon. I said,"No way, you're only 10 years older than me. Gasoline wasn't .25 a gallon in our life time. He said that he never paid .25 a gallon himself, but he remembered, as a child, his parents did. Pf the things on your list of things that, if you remember them, you're an old fart. I remember, when I was a child, when my father would stop at a gas station for as, the attendent not only put gas in his car, but would clean the windshield and check the oil(no extra charge for these services).

OPP47-72

I was born in 1947 so I am an old fart but, I remember all of these except the one about “pumping the number of gallons up —-“ and the one about a bottle of coke for a nickel. I remember a coke for a quarter but not for a nickel. I guess those two were a bit before my time. Thanx for the memories !!

Mike Easterday

Most of them yes !

vernon

nickle cokes didn't leave until the 60s you should remember that.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

I Remember All Those, And Oldsmobile Spinner Wheel Covers... How You Get a Picture of My First Wife, ha... Don D.

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PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Though I was never one to be enamored with cars, I actually remember almost all of the things you list.
However, I have not yet progressed to Old Fart. I am just at the Cranky Old Man level for now.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

If I remember correctly, Vernon, those nickle cokes also came with a deposit charge unless you presented them with a return bottle.

OPP47-72

Yo Vernon —— I still don’t remember nickel cokes but I also don’t remember whether I actually drank coke back when they DID cost only a nickel !!!!

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

Oh well, i remember 90% of them. I'm gonna just go be a old fart now.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

The two I can't recall are 'wrap-around windshield' and 'three-on-the-tree.'

popparod Loc: Somewhere else.

I remembered em all, and more, my only question is WHEN DID I GET OLD?

Big dog

I remember most but, luckily, not ALL. Does that make me old, OR just a fart ??

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

After researching them, these two that I couldn't recall were/are familiar to me. I just wasn't aware of the terminology. I guess, at sixty-nine, I am a semi-old fart.