Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:23:48 -0700
Reply-To: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
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From: David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A FUNNY AT THE LOCAL QWIK LUBE
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Hmmm..... . Our vehicles were strange back in the day, and some of the
oddities still don't make sense to me, though I have come to live with
them. I certainly can see how young folks who ARE interested in vehicles
would still find them odd. Most of them I encounter really are interested
in them, though, and ask more interesting questions than some of the ones
posed above. Find out on their own? There are far more makes of vehicles
now than back in the day, and ours are going away. I don't recall as a kid
in the fifties looking into gas tank placement on 1920s era automobiles,
though I did take an interest in automobiles.
But are all the design eccentricities really all that odd, or do they just
add up to odd when taken collectively? The oil filler placement for
example: Is that any more odd than the placement of the gas filler
placement under the license plate on fifties era sedans must have seemed
when it first appeared?
All that said, I really find it odd that the things people today shopping
for a vehicle look at are how many and where the cup holders are, and
whether it has tires thinner than a pancake (considered desirable, for what
bizarre reason I cannot fathom).
old man mcneely
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:06 AM Raimund Feussner <ray@v6bus.de> wrote:
> Especially young car mechanics need to have enough interest in classic
> 30+ year old automobiles,
> otherwise they chose the wrong job.
>
> And with our beasts becoming classics,
> any german shop´s young guys asking these questions make me leave
> instantly.
> I expect at least the curiosity to find out on their own (I admit the
> washer fluid is a tough one).
>
> Cluelessness about our cars might have been acceptable in 2000, but not
> today!
>
> Regards
> Raimund´s 2p for Beetles, Vanagons, steering column shifters,
> carburettors, and all these other quirks...
>
> Am 19.09.2021 um 15:39 schrieb Jim Felder:
> > This was also happening 30 years ago LOL
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 19, 2021, at 5:34 AM, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Pulled my van in for some servicing. First question by young attendant
> was
> >> 'What is it?"
> >> Second question; "Where is the engine?"
> >> Third question: "Where do you put the oil in?"
> >> Fourth question: "Where do I check the brake fluid?'
> >> Fifth question; "Where do I check the washer fluid?"
> >>
> >> I do get so amused at the expressions on these young guys face as they
> hunt
> >> for service points on my 30 year old van.
>
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