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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #60 on: 22 April 2020, 20:29:55 »
I was expecting somebody to list it.......so now I will:

Starting handles

Remember those times you kept turning the engine over after getting a flat battery, or one that needed added human effort, to get the engine started. If it kicked back you could break your wrist.

You used it also to adjust things like the tappets.

Oh what horrible memories of doing that all in the rain or snow! :P :P

 ;D ;)



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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #61 on: 22 April 2020, 20:58:12 »
Last car we had with a starting handle was in 1986...

A Citroen 2CV :D
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #62 on: 22 April 2020, 21:05:52 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 22 April 2020, 20:58:12
Last car we had with a starting handle was in 1986...

A Citroen 2CV :D

 ;D ;D  I bet when you turned the starting handle the car would turn over, scrapping those infamous door handles on the ground again :D :D ;)
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #63 on: 22 April 2020, 21:12:34 »
Never failed to start 8)
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #64 on: 22 April 2020, 21:16:09 »
Those hugely long "whip" aerials that used to have the free end clipped to the rain gutter above the doors.
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« Reply #65 on: 22 April 2020, 21:21:04 »
There are sub pikey types here abouts with those still...
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #66 on: 22 April 2020, 22:02:39 »
Quote from: BazaJT on 22 April 2020, 21:16:09
Those hugely long "whip" aerials that used to have the free end clipped to the rain gutter above the doors.
 

With a fox tail on the end..

 I've got a 9ft stainless 1/4 whip antenna in the garage,  never clipped it back.
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #67 on: 22 April 2020, 22:13:47 »
Telephones with a rotary dial.  :)
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« Reply #68 on: 22 April 2020, 22:20:43 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger QC on 22 April 2020, 22:13:47
Telephones with a rotary dial.  :)
On that note, payphones :'(
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #69 on: 22 April 2020, 22:30:06 »
Kids sitting on pub steps eating arrowroot biscuits.
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #70 on: 23 April 2020, 07:51:12 »
Wireless running off an accumulator.
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #71 on: 23 April 2020, 09:35:44 »
Sheep rummaging in dustbins :y
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #72 on: 23 April 2020, 09:57:02 »
Ford V8 Pilots & Bubble cars. Loads round South London when I was a kid.
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #73 on: 23 April 2020, 10:08:03 »
Fordson Major, David Brown and 'Little Grey Fergie' tractors.  :)
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Re: Things you don't see today.
« Reply #74 on: 23 April 2020, 11:27:24 »
Quote from: Shackeng on 23 April 2020, 07:51:12
Wireless running off an accumulator.

Wow, that took me back a few years! In my short-trouser days, I used to go with my grandfather to the village to exchange his accumulater for a fully charged one: cost sixpence!
Of course, due to the arduous bus ride he had to refresh himself in the pub next door.....

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