To Those of Us Born 1925 - 1970

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Have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were
No video games,

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Some of us did have "Video Games"...

Oh sure Frank just flaunt your 1% status

Some of us had just a refrigerator box and a magic marker

You had a magic marker!!??!!?? Damn richy rich kid!!


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Quote: FWP wrote in post #5

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You had a magic marker!!??!!?? Damn richy rich kid!!


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Quote: Eglman wrote in post #4

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Some of us had just a refrigerator box and a magic marker

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I've got a survival story that beats just about everyone's.

Our family had one of these:



My dad bought it new in 1960. Just like the one pictured - even to the baby crap green color. Not only did we survive it (Ralph Nader's "Unsafe At Any Speed" notwithstanding), my dad ended up putting over 100,000 miles on it.

Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #8

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my dad ended up putting over 100,000 miles on it.

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No - it really did make to 100K. (I think it threw a rod at about 105K, though)

The amazing thing is my dad did not maintain his vehicles very well - so this was doubly impressive.

I remember at around 80 K or so, it got very loud. Dad took it to his mechanic who ran a Sunoco station though and the guy did a valve job. That's about the only major work that was ever done to it.

One piece of trivia about these (Frank you probably know this). Because they were air-cooled, the Corvairs (the early ones, anyway) had a weird heater that ran on gasoline. It was located in the front of the car (the trunk). We lived in western PA the first couple of years we had it (cold winters) and the darn thing hardly ever worked. My dad would stop the car, open the trunk and fiddle with something or other and **voilia** amidst much smoke and soot we'd have heat.

At least for a while.

Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #7

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Quote: Eglman wrote in post #4

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Some of us had just a refrigerator box and a magic marker

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Now who is being uppity. We didn't even know what a refrigerator was because my cheap old man insisted on using an icebox he got an an estate sale. Not only were we the last folks on the block with ice deliveries, my sandwiches were soggy because of the constant melting.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #10

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Because they were air-cooled, the Corvairs (the early ones, anyway) had a weird heater that ran on gasoline. It was located in the front of the car (the trunk). We lived in western PA the first couple of years we had it (cold winters) and the darn thing hardly ever worked. My dad would stop the car, open the trunk and fiddle with something or other and **voilia** amidst much smoke and soot we'd have heat.

At least for a while.

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