Show Your Age!
The following list is for "a mature audience" names of devices long ago. Do you remember them. Post one reply per person por favor unless responses run out of steam. Explain what each phrase or name m...
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1) Another car I had in college had only a four-cylinder flathead engine under the hood. It was so under powered that I had to back up one of the uphill roads on campus to get to a class building. (Reverse gear in manual transmissions is usually lower than any of the forward gears.)
2) A high school friend of mine had a car way ahead of it's time ... the gear shift for it's slush-box tranny was a rod with a knob on the end that stuck straight out of the dash. He shifted the gears by pulling out or pushing in on that knob.
If so, here goes:
1) Another car I had in college had only a four-cylinder flathead engine under the hood. It was so under powered that I had to back up one of the uphill roads on campus to get to a class building. (Reverse gear in manual transmissions is usually lower than any of the forward gears.)
2) A high school friend of mine had a car way ahead of it's time ... the gear shift for it's slush-box tranny was a rod with a knob on the end that stuck straight out of the dash. He shifted the gears by pulling out or pushing in on that knob.
