Saturday stuff (Page 3): Wise decision by her, IMO. Good work saw, raising a young lady to use her head that way .......

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

saw1 wrote:

My thoughts exactly. br When my daughter was in Ir... (show quote)

Wise decision by her, IMO. Good work saw, raising a young lady to use her head that way .......

Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

DozerDave wrote:

Got my first license, with Dad’s 51’ Studebaker. 3 on the tree. 🌴 starter button on the floor. “Hill Holder” clutch. Wish I had it…

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Nice truck! My dad had a 53 Studebaker champion which later was the model the Muppets drove around in. I forgot about the floor starter. How did the Hill holder clutch work?

DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.

Mauwehu wrote:

Nice truck! My dad had a 53 Studebaker champion which later was the model the Muppets drove around in. I forgot about the floor starter. How did the Hill holder clutch work?

Yeah, Dad also had a late 40’s champion in the early 50’s. I’m not sure of the mechanics of the hill holder clutch’s. But to activate it you would hold the clutch down and then push down hard on the brake and release. It would hold until you released the clutch. Innovation way before it’s time. And the starter button was on the floor at the bottom of the clutch pedal. So you had to depress the clutch pedal to push the starter button. Another safety feature, before it’s time…

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Kayakpaddle Loc: Henderson, NV

Cam, those posts gave me a smile, the frogs must hold degrees in survival, and the stick shift was a great deterrent indeed.

nutz4fish Loc: Colchester, CT

DozerDave wrote:

Yeah, Dad also had a late 40’s champion in the ear... (show quote)

Dozer, those are two really good features. Both make a lot of sense, and from seventy year old technology!

Dogman68 Loc: Merced California (centralvalley)

saw1 wrote:

LOL, IDK.
Drivin a stick in San Francisco is the worst.

First time I came to California driving my 66 VW beetle I damn near burnt the clutch out on those hills in SF!

Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

DozerDave wrote:

Yeah, Dad also had a late 40’s champion in the ear... (show quote)

Thanks Dave for your answer.
I remember him showing me that on a hill. I guess I was 8 or 9 at the time. My friends and I would wait at the bottom of the street for him to come home from work. Then we would ride on the hood with our feet on the extended bumper. I guess today he would have been arrested for it. No seat belts back then. I’d ride in the front seat and if he braked hard his right arm would extend and stop me from hitting the dashboard.

DozerDave Loc: Port Orchard Wa.

Mauwehu wrote:

Thanks Dave for your answer.
I remember him showing me that on a hill. I guess I was 8 or 9 at the time. My friends and I would wait at the bottom of the street for him to come home from work. Then we would ride on the hood with our feet on the extended bumper. I guess today he would have been arrested for it. No seat belts back then. I’d ride in the front seat and if he braked hard his right arm would extend and stop me from hitting the dashboard.

Yeah, Mau. Them were the days. I think all the cars had that same right arm safety feature. It was faster than an “airbag”…

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Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

DozerDave wrote:

Yeah, Mau. Them were the days. I think all the cars had that same right arm safety feature. It was faster than an “airbag”…

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Definitely had more love!!

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

Back in the day, no car came with seat belts.
When they passed the seat belt law, cars manufactured before seat belts, were exempt.
Eventually they changed that law to make seat belt mandatory in all vehicles.

Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

saw1 wrote:

Back in the day, no car came with seat belts.
When they passed the seat belt law, cars manufactured before seat belts, were exempt.
Eventually they changed that law to make seat belt mandatory in all vehicles.

Strange that there are still people that don’t wear them and die in accidents …….getting thrown from their cars.

saw1 Loc: nor cal Windsor

Mauwehu wrote:

Strange that there are still people that don’t wear them and die in accidents …….getting thrown from their cars.

Yep, same to be said bout wearin a life vest.
So many deaths could be avoided if people just wore their life vests while out on the water. 😥👎

Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

saw1 wrote:

Yep, same to be said bout wearin a life vest.
So many deaths could be avoided if people just wore their life vests while out on the water. 😥👎

👍🛟🛟🛟🛟👍

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Mauwehu wrote:

Thanks Dave for your answer.
I remember him showing me that on a hill. I guess I was 8 or 9 at the time. My friends and I would wait at the bottom of the street for him to come home from work. Then we would ride on the hood with our feet on the extended bumper. I guess today he would have been arrested for it. No seat belts back then. I’d ride in the front seat and if he braked hard his right arm would extend and stop me from hitting the dashboard.

Just like tail gate riding on the pick up or a station wagon not that we see any of those around anymore. Definitely a no no these days.

Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

plumbob wrote:

Just like tail gate riding on the pick up or a station wagon not that we see any of those around anymore. Definitely a no no these days.

Forgot about that Plum!
We did that on a 56 Chevy wagon tailgate. All this craziness BEFORE we got our drivers licenses.