donsrods
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Seeing the cooler chest Blueyedevil has for sale brought back some memories of things we used to see but that have gone by the wayside. Here are a few of mine, please add yours to the list.
Don
Bulk oil.........when I was a kid and worked at gas stations, we would fill up the quart bottles that have those metal pointed spouts on them with oil out of a 55 gallon drum and sell it for 10 cents a quart,
Curb feelers. We had a set on our 48 Buick because my Mom parked by sound. My Dad got tired of scraped up wide whites so he put them on.
Clearance lights under the wheel wells and dashboard. We all bought those 19 cent Pep Boys colored truck clearance lights and installed them so we could impress the guys at the local burger joint and the ones under the dash were for when we would go parking with a date.
Mud flaps. Not just used on the old mans car, sometimes we bought the fancy white ones with V emblems and reflectors on them to add to our cars too.
Fake floorshifts. You bolted this shifter to your hump and it was supposed to impress your buddies. A friend of mine put one in his 50 plymouth stick shift and he would have to quickly shift the column shift and then move the fake shifter like it was actually real. [cl
Continental kits, and those Imperial ones that went flat against the trunk lid.
Reverberators and FM convertors. We didn't have fancy FM radios and stereos in the 50's and 60's, but every self righteous car guy had a reverb that gave that echo sound and an FM convertor so you could pickup the cool stations instead of the AM ones your Pop and Mom listened to.
Flock kits. Remember those Flock Kits that put a furry coating over the entire body of your car? First you shot glue all over it then you shot this fuzzy stuff over the entire surface to make your car like a Chia Pet. They were saying it was the coming thing, but I only saw one VW bug done with it and it looked like astroturf.
What are some of the things you remember???????
Don
Don
Bulk oil.........when I was a kid and worked at gas stations, we would fill up the quart bottles that have those metal pointed spouts on them with oil out of a 55 gallon drum and sell it for 10 cents a quart,
Curb feelers. We had a set on our 48 Buick because my Mom parked by sound. My Dad got tired of scraped up wide whites so he put them on.
Clearance lights under the wheel wells and dashboard. We all bought those 19 cent Pep Boys colored truck clearance lights and installed them so we could impress the guys at the local burger joint and the ones under the dash were for when we would go parking with a date.
Mud flaps. Not just used on the old mans car, sometimes we bought the fancy white ones with V emblems and reflectors on them to add to our cars too.
Fake floorshifts. You bolted this shifter to your hump and it was supposed to impress your buddies. A friend of mine put one in his 50 plymouth stick shift and he would have to quickly shift the column shift and then move the fake shifter like it was actually real. [cl
Continental kits, and those Imperial ones that went flat against the trunk lid.
Reverberators and FM convertors. We didn't have fancy FM radios and stereos in the 50's and 60's, but every self righteous car guy had a reverb that gave that echo sound and an FM convertor so you could pickup the cool stations instead of the AM ones your Pop and Mom listened to.
Flock kits. Remember those Flock Kits that put a furry coating over the entire body of your car? First you shot glue all over it then you shot this fuzzy stuff over the entire surface to make your car like a Chia Pet. They were saying it was the coming thing, but I only saw one VW bug done with it and it looked like astroturf.
What are some of the things you remember???????
Don