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rhagfo
Aug 29, 2014Explorer III
colliehauler wrote:ryanw821 wrote:My 2007 F-350 has window cranks. Now if you go way back my 55 Dodge truck No A/C, and no power anything. The 55 did have a tube AM radio. 273 V-8 with 3 in the tree. The fan belt turned the water pump and 6 volt generator. The wippers were vacuum so the faster you drove the slower they went. The back bumper was a section of railroad track.Sport45 wrote:
Ever find yourself reaching with your left foot for the button to dim your headlights?
(Or worse yet, trying to use your left foot to pump water onto the windshield :))
Hate to admit, but I've done both. Of course our '83 F-100 still has the floor button for the hi-beams. The floor mounted washer pump was on an older truck I drove when I was a teenager working at a Boy Scout Camp.
I had an 86 Bronco "winter beater" a few years back with the high-beam still mounted on the floor too. Being in my early 30's gotta say that was a trip, first for me, gotta admit it took me a while to figure that one out. Totally remember crank windows though, I've never had a vehicle with them, but I remember my parents/grandparents having them when I was young. Never heard of foot pump for washer fluid though.
Dang, Hate that we Hijacked this a bit, BUT!
1964 Econoline Van, no windows except rear doors. Old Bell Van.
144 ci straight six with three on the tree! It was my ski wagon, until one day coming home from skiing, pedal to the metal doing about 55 mph, up a slight grade, had a loaded log truck pull out from a side road behind just as I passed, within two miles, he went past me like I was standing still!!
That Van got a transplant 302 ci V8 and a C4 auto, never had that problem again.
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