I'm so old I Remember when:

[sourland]

Sounds fun.

It was - rolling it from hand to hand. Hmm, that may explain a lot.

 

[azurbanclucker]

That reminds me of

I remember when
if you broke a plate
All you had to do was glue it back together

If you broke unbreakable Corning ware
You now had a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle that you swept up and threw away

 

[azurbanclucker]

My Dad wants me to have one of those.

I'm very biased. I've had 12 over the years and the first car I bought with my own money was a '67 bug. They have their pros and cons.

Pros:
* Classic styling, even the late models
* Incredibly easy to work on
* A great car to learn basic maintenance and more advanced mechanical skills on
* High "smiles per gallon" factor (fun to drive)
* Will run well in more or less any weather
* Cheap to insure
* Strong aftermarket for parts availability
* Reasonably priced parts
* Infinitely upgradeable
* Later models are still cheap and abundant
* You will be one of very few of your age group who knows how to drive a manual.

Cons:
* Lacks basically every modern safety feature depending on model year (70's models have crumple zones and disc brakes at least).
* No A/C
* Practically no Heater
* No modern tech (but you can add most of it as needed
* Easy to steal (there are simple tricks to stop this)
* Literally 4 dudes can pick it up and move it so screw with you.
* Small. Not a ton of room to haul big stuff.
* Not a lot of resale value so if you put a ton into it to get it drivable, you may not make that back.


Now, Many of the cons are fixable with aftermarket parts. Just depends on what you want to put into it. As basic reliable transportation that you can literally repair with some duct tape and bailing wire on the side of the road in a pinch, you can't beat them.

 

[Rick589]

Sounds fun.

IT WAS!!!!!!!

 

[Rick589]

I remember in

1980 when I was working at the drug store
Cigarettes were forty-five cents a pack plus tax
1993 working same drug store $5.25 plus tax

Candy bars were a quarter

What are cigarettes up to these days? $12-15 a pack? somewhere around there?

 

[Rick589]

It was - rolling it from hand to hand. Hmm, that may explain a lot.

My industry used to use mercury as an on/off switch is some of the controls and they would last for decades. Of course, mercury being the great taboo caused the industry to switch to micro-switches/ snap switches which are comprised of multiple moving mechanical parts so naturally the failure rate and frequency of replacement increased substantially.

 

[AntiqueB]

Old thermostats used mercury switches. They never malfunctioned.

 

[Rick589]

Old thermostats used mercury switches. They never malfunctioned.

exactly!

 

[tripletfeb]

It was more resistant than glass or ceramic because it's made like safety glass. Having said that, when it breaks, it's hundreds of shards.

It's also because of dish washers and the heating element that dries the dishes. It really dries out the glass and makes it very brittle

 

[azurbanclucker]

It's also because of dish washers and the heating element that dries the dishes. It really dries out the glass and makes it very brittle

Who's got the dough to run heated drying?