Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[jamespowers]

Or this one:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/2773543870.html

 

[shazzabanazza]

Well, it's not my bank book. It doesn't have to be showroom, but not looking for a basket case, either. I'm guessing it'll be a Chevy, as that's Pa's preference. Just saying something similar will do, perhaps even a Ford.

Go for a Ford, Go for a Ford :thumb:

 

[jamespowers]

Go for a Ford, Go for a Ford :thumb:

Yeah, if he wants to Fix Or Repair it Daily.

 

[shazzabanazza]

Yeah, if he wants to Fix Or Repair it Daily.

:eeek: You nasty, nasty man! :lol:

 

[jamespowers]

:eeek: You nasty, nasty man! :lol:

 

[vitanola]

REAL, BEAUTIFUL CARS!!!

Fine. Show us some.

I don't see a running board in the lot!

 

[vitanola]

Yeah, if he wants to Fix Or Repair it Daily.

Or he could buy one of those dratted Axle-Breakers with the bow-tie on the radiator shell.

I live in Ford country, but of a quiet summer night one can hear the gentle sound of the doors falling off of the Chevrolets.

Don't get me started on the vacuum tanks, weak differentials, and the grabby clutches...

 

[jamespowers]

Fine. Show us some.

I don't see a running board in the lot!

Those were pigs of the age. No Duesenberg, Auburn, Cord, Cadillac or Packard in the bunch.

 

[jamespowers]

Or he could buy one of those dratted Axel-Breakers with the bow-tie on the radiator shell.

I live in Ford country, but of a quiet summer night one can hear the gentle sound of the doors falling off of the Chevrolets.

Don't get me started on the vacuum tanks, and the grabby clutches...

And don't get me started on the Edsel and Pinto. :rofl:

 

[vitanola]

And don't get me started on the Edsel and Pinto. :rofl:

As far as I'm concerned, they haven't been built yet.

 

[Wally_Hood]

I bet you... soon there'll be "Virtual Disneyland".
It'll be:
"Why bother your child with unnecessary exposing to crowd.. take him to Disneyland-online!"

..all kids nowadays have agoraphobia.. it's just that BIG SKY that's bothering them.. Just look at it, on that picture above.. too big, to.. blue? :eeek:

Interestingly enough, there was something called Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) that was floated as sort of on-line Disney thing. It's gone, I think.

 

[jamespowers]

Interestingly enough, there was something called Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) that was floated as sort of on-line Disney thing. It's gone, I think.

VMK was an online multiplayer game. It went away in 2008. The dang thing was just a big Disney promo thing anyway.

 

[shazzabanazza]

I live in Ford country, but of a quiet summer night one can hear the gentle sound of the doors falling off of the Chevrolets.

:rofl:

 

[LizzieMaine]

With all this Ford vs. Chevy talk, it's a miracle nobody's come up with a Peeing Calvin icon.

 

[rue]

With all this Ford vs. Chevy talk, it's a miracle nobody's come up with a Peeing Calvin icon.

Please don't tempt them Lizzie lol

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Now would I do something like that???

 

[vitanola]

With all this Ford vs. Chevy talk, it's a miracle nobody's come up with a Peeing Calvin icon.

Surely you know that men are but High School boys at heart when it comes to motor cars. You ladies are on the whole much more sensible.

I went to school with Watterson. The infamous "P*****g Calvin is not his work, and I'd never promote it.

On the other hand, having driven T models for years, and having also owned a Chevrolet 490 and a '28 Imperial Landau (both of which were trouble-prone headaches) I'm afraid that the Bowtie leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, for even though they may have been a bit more stylish and perhaps they ran a trifle better for the first twenty thousand miles or so they did not have the toughness of the Ford machines.

I do understand that by the Fifties this had perhaps changed.

 

[amador]

OK I don't know where this thread is going but one vintage thing that has disappeared in my lifetime, at least from where I grew up, are Outhouses. We used to tip them over during Holloween night and then help straighten then up the next day. Nice neighborhood. We used Sears catalog pages for TP. All you had to do was wad one up several times and good to go.

 

[shazzabanazza]

Now would I do something like that???

Ummm YES! :lol:

 

[shazzabanazza]

OK I don't know where this thread is going but one vintage thing that has disappeared in my lifetime, at least from where I grew up, are Outhouses. We used to tip them over during Holloween night and then help straighten then up the next day. Nice neighborhood. We used Sears catalog pages for TP. All you had to do was wad one up several times and good to go.

:eeek: ewww you used to tip them over..nasty :lol: