Comments on: What’s New (Jul, 1966)

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:51:31 +0000

Ah! Nehru jackets. Next there was bell-bottom pants, then finally a polyester leisure suit worn with a white belt and white shoes. Then there was folks that looked like clones of the Brady Bunch or Partridge Family.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:41:13 +0000

David Moisan: It’s not the same product. It doesn’t have the illumination but rather consists of a series of digital time displays like this example http://www.gadgetizer.com/2007.....-with-map/

The one pictured in the article is a series of counters with lists of cities over each one. Nothing “coincidental” about it.

Here’s an analog version of the one that I’m talking about http://www.theclockdepot.com/B.....Clock.html

The current version of the Geochron started with this one which looks nothing like the one in the article either http://www.google.com/patents/.....BPAAAAEBAJ

(By the way, that whole different inventor thing was an important clue…)

By: David Moisan

David Moisan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:57:54 +0000

Geochrons are still around (http://www.geochron.com/Home.html) though Geochron cites a different inventor. The clock in the article is too coincidential not to be the same product. Way more than $25 now though.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:41:12 +0000

Tracy B: Even worse was the fad of putting a Rolls Royce grill on a VW Beetle http://www.oldbug.com/Mvc-004f.jpg
I’m sorry to say my Dad was contemplating doing this when I was a kid. This is the same guy that made me wear a Nehru jacket to a school function. What taste!

http://www.vwworldseries.com/B.....maica.html
http://www.priceofhistoys.com/.....olls-2.jpg
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zer.....9#55427669

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:53:58 +0000

The only thing worse than stick-on buick portholes were add-on tail fins that would make your car grander than a ’59 Caddy.

Why would one want bullet holes, when all you have to do is drive in the wrong section of L.A. and you can get them for free.

By: Jari

Jari — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:16:49 +0000

Firebrand, Neil: As I have to regularly change between summer- and winter tyres, they got checked 2 times a year. And I’ll need to buy new set of winter tyres before December, as there’s only 1-2 mm tread left. They would be illegal in next month

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:35:19 +0000

Neil Russell: It’s still easier to look at Abe’s head from the side then to crawl behind the tire and look for the numbers, I’m thinking.

By: Neil Russell

Neil Russell — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:01:48 +0000

I guess the US Mint can finally do away with the Lincoln penny now that tires tell you how much tread is left. I used to just go by how much of Abe’s head was showing when you stuck a penny in the grooves.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:08:22 +0000

Jari: That is the damnedest thing! http://www.nokiantires.com/inn.....;width=215

By: Jari

Jari — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:36:54 +0000

My tires have numbers imprinted in treads, that directly tells, how many millimeters there’s still left, making depth gauge obsolete.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:26:01 +0000

I’m not sure what’s worse, those or the stick-on Buick portholes on non-Buicks.

By: docca

docca — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:00:06 +0000

So that’s where those darned ridiculous “bullet hole” stickers come from… now available at all your local kwik-marts, newsstands and on that wonderful car that cruises in front of your home every day with over 150 decibels of pure “gangsta”, yo…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:23:58 +0000

The stick on bullet holes made a come back a few years ago.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:29 +0000

I got my first good bicycle in about ’69 when my best friend just HAD to have a Stingray so he sold me his year-old Gitane 10-speed. The first time we rode more than about a mile together he realized that maybe he hadn’t made such a good choice . . . .

By: Tracy B

Tracy B — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:54:14 +0000

My spyder bicycle (stingrays were made by schwinn) which I got for christmas in 1966 didn’t have a sissy bar, but it did have a 3 speed hub. Most spyder bikes had coaster brakes; the really rich kids had a five speed spyders with a stick shift. The 5 speed bike would have to wait until early 1971 at which point I had outgrown my murray spyder.