You know you're old when...

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

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I still wear it, and it probably had something to do with my two kids being born!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by dscabra

I still wear it, and it probably had something to do with my two kids being born!

Yep, I wore it before I was married and still wear it today as well. Wonderful, clean, manly fragrance. Nothing comes close imo.

[vreihen16]

...when you know that a flooded engine has nothing to do with water!!!!!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...when you know that a flooded engine has nothing to do with water!!!!!

Yeah, I’m sure a lot of people today don’t even know what a carburetor is, or that pumping the accelerator too much could flood it with gas.

[Lady Jane]

Sir, yes Sir...

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Yeah, I’m sure a lot of people today don’t even know what a carburetor is, or that pumping the accelerator too much could flood it with gas.

And pumping the brake pedal. For some inexplicable reason, I still do that.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by dscabra

I still wear it, and it probably had something to do with my two kids being born!

My Dad used to wear Fabergé cologne and aftershave. When he passed away, my Mum gave his clothes to charity but kept his uniforms. When she opens the closet you can still smell the fragrance and it triggers a lot of memories.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

And pumping the brake pedal. For some inexplicable reason, I still do that.

Nothing wrong with that. We're all old enough to have experience with threshold braking in the days before ABS, and matting the throttle pedal before cranking a cold engine to set the "automatic" choke.

I used to have to drive around the ABS function in one of my former competition cars, because it was programmed to prevent me from doing what I was intentionally trying to do.....

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Yep, I wore it before I was married and still wear it today as well. Wonderful, manly fragrance. Nothing comes close imo.

Not Brut?
Not Jade East?

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

Not Brut?
Not Jade East?

Nope... not even Hai Karate.

[M_Six]

Dad was an Old Spice guy. Way back when I wore cologne, it was Ralph Lauren Polo.

[dscabra]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Yeah, I’m sure a lot of people today don’t even know what a carburetor is, or that pumping the accelerator too much could flood it with gas.

Or that if it is flooded, you can probably start it by pressing the gas pedal all the way to the floor.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Yeah, I’m sure a lot of people today don’t even know what a carburetor is, or that pumping the accelerator too much could flood it with gas.

...or a choke,

or wind wings, roll up windows, bench seats, headlight dimmer buttons on the floor, stick shift on the column, 26 cent per gallon gas, smog, oil stains in the driveway and everywhere else,....you know, the good ol' days.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...or a choke,

or wind wings, roll up windows, bench seats, headlight dimmer buttons on the floor, stick shift on the column, 26 cent per gallon gas, smog, oil stains in the driveway and everywhere else,....you know, the good ol' days.

Three on a tree, double-clutch, doing it in the back seat...

Don't like oil stains, and yeah, we still have smog.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

....doing it in the back seat...

I had this VW back in the day. The drive in was my favorite place to go with my girlfriend. The back seat was the place to be. We were like pretzels! I cannot imagine doing that now. My back hurts thinking about it. Also, I never did understand what made the windows fog up!

The car is long gone but I still have the same girlfriend!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I had this VW back in the day. The drive in was my favorite place to go with my girlfriend. The back seat was the place to be. We were like pretzels! I cannot imagine doing that now. My back hurts thinking about it. Also, I never did understand what made the windows fog up!

The car is long gone but I still have the same girlfriend!

I've seen that pic a few times, you look so young there, and you probably don't remember, but I had a Bug too. Was my first car. A 1968. Bought in 1973, I was 18. Sorry, no pics.

When I was younger, I borrowed the family’s '66 Chevelle. Had a roomy backseat.

[tturedraider]

Originally Posted by dscabra

Or that if it is flooded, you can probably start it by pressing the gas pedal all the way to the floor.

This was my very next thought when I read that!

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...or a choke,

or wind wings, roll up windows, bench seats, headlight dimmer buttons on the floor, stick shift on the column, 26 cent per gallon gas, smog, oil stains in the driveway and everywhere else,....you know, the good ol' days.

check, check, check, check, check, check, check (23 cents is the lowest I remember - gas wars), I grew up in wide open west Texas with big skies, so no worries about smog for us, not too many oil stains either. Except one big oil stain when I somehow got the wrong size oil filter for my 1978 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham and pumped five quarts of black as night carbon infused oil out in the driveway when I started it up. I’m thinking that was the original Mobil One oil, but I can’t remember for sure. What is that thing they say about memory??

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I've seen that pic a few times, you look so young there, and you probably don't remember, but I had a Bug too. Was my first car. A 1968. Bought in 1973, I was 18. Sorry, no pics.

When I was younger, I borrowed the family’s '66 Chevelle. Had a roomy backseat.

I can never remember what I've posted in the past. It's part of the whole "...you know you're old when" thing.

[tturedraider]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

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I don’t think I ever wore Old Spice. But I remember having it around, so my dad must have worn it some. Now that I say that I must have worn it some, too, because I’m remembering shaking it out of that little hole opening on the top of the bottle. My cologne of choice was and still is Halston Z-14. I still have a bottle of it, but I rarely wear it anymore. I used to wear it every time I left the house.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...or a choke,

or wind wings, roll up windows, bench seats, headlight dimmer buttons on the floor, stick shift on the column, 26 cent per gallon gas, smog, oil stains in the driveway and everywhere else,....you know, the good ol' days.

I remember driving my 64 1/2 Mustang 4-speed on a curvy road with the high beams on. I came around a curve in the middle of a shift and a car appears coming the other way! I felt a bit sorry for the other guy as there was no way I was going to dump the clutch to switch off the high beams!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

I can never remember what I've posted in the past. It's part of the who "...you know you're old" thing.

Yep, the first thing to go... I think.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Nothing wrong with that. We're all old enough to have experience with threshold braking in the days before ABS, and matting the throttle pedal before cranking a cold engine to set the "automatic" choke.

I used to have to drive around the ABS function in one of my former competition cars, because it was programmed to prevent me from doing what I was intentionally trying to do.....

I drove for so many years in cars pre ABS that to this day I have never activated it on or off track. I have been programed to innately sense that razor edge where control used to end, and my limbic brain will push no further. At the first sense of a loss of traction my foot automatically goes into back off and reapply mode.

As for the track, continuously relying on ABS in the braking zone is a bad practice that will bite you in the ass someday.