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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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WillyB wrote:
... a 61 Triumph TR3 with a crank starter that went through an opening in the rad and side curtain windows in a panel that lifted off the door ...
Check back earlier in this discussion: I did mention the auto that I had during college with a crank starter that I actally had to use a few times and another auto I had during college that was so under-powered that I had to back it up hills because reverse was a lower gear than first gear.
The car with a crank was a 1956 MGA with it's twin six volt batteries and a (Lucas?) electric fuel pump behind the two bucket seats, canvas side curtains that lifted off, and a canvas taneau cover.
The car with the low reverse gear was a split screen convertible Morris Minor, that probably had an engine crank ... too.
P.S. I once was the navigator in a friend's Triumph TR3 roadster during a desert time-and-distance road rally that he nearly got us killed in!
Oh ... I almost forgot ... when I was a youngster I used to wake up to the sound of steam engine trains in the railroad switching yard across the river from our house!!
:C and :E
