You know you're old when...

UncleWede · 10-05-2022, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by F87M2.

The face comes?

Off, yes. When driving, if my synched watch shows some random caller, I press the detach button and it hangs up on them.

3.0L · 10-05-2022, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by zgood4u

Did the same thing in my dad's garage as the kid helper. Don't know how he did it, drilling holes in fenders for antennas too.

Ha, did that as well. 3/4" or 1" hole saw. Man, did that make me sweat! We triple checked the hole placement before drilling.

Then there was routing the antenna cable to the radio...

Oh yeah, and don't forget installing a capacitor across the generator or alternator connections to eliminate the whine. Heh!

UncleWede · 10-05-2022, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

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Originally Posted by zgood4u

Did the same thing in my dad's garage as the kid helper. Don't know how he did it, drilling holes in fenders for antennas too.

Ha, did that as well. 3/4" or 1" hole saw. Man, did that make me sweat! We triple checked the hole placement before drilling.

Then there was routing the antenna cable to the radio...

Oh yeah, and don't forget installing a capacitor across the generator or alternator connections to eliminate the whine. Heh!

I'm remembering that cap trick. In the 77 bug, if I turn on the headlights, I lose the LA radio stations.

CarsAndGuitars · 10-06-2022, 10:41 AM

I threw out my back putting in my contact lenses this morning. Ugh

M_Six · 10-06-2022, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by CarsAndGuitars

I threw out my back putting in my contact lenses this morning. Ugh

Those damn things are heavier than you'd think.

Esteban · 10-06-2022, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by CarsAndGuitars

I threw out my back putting in my contact lenses this morning. Ugh

I tried them but never really got used to them.

I'm sure they have newer, thinner, and better ones now but it's so simple for me to put on or take off glasses whenever I want. Besides, with the cataract surgery I had done some years ago I barely need glasses anymore.

CarsAndGuitars · 10-06-2022, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

Those damn things are heavier than you'd think.

I didn't lift with my knees..

It was the lean over the sink for the close-up in the mirror that did me in.

zgood4u · 10-06-2022, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

Ha, did that as well. 3/4" or 1" hole saw. Man, did that make me sweat! We triple checked the hole placement before drilling.

Then there was routing the antenna cable to the radio...

Oh yeah, and don't forget installing a capacitor across the generator or alternator connections to eliminate the whine. Heh!

The worst ones were the automatic antennas that were on the rear fender, what a PITA!! Forgot about the cap trick, a lost art.

sygazelle · 10-07-2022, 06:00 AM

...when you used to have a orange 76 ball on your antenna.

sygazelle · 10-07-2022, 06:05 AM

....when you are up at 4am on a damn Bimmerpost off topic forum because you went to bed at 9am and you are wide awake.

cmyx6go · 10-07-2022, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Wesley0304G

When you have had the function of TV remote for your parents in 2000s

When you were your parents remote in the '60s....

Get off my lawn

vreihen16 · 10-07-2022, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when you used to have a orange 76 ball on your antenna.

...when your cars actually *had* (telescopic) antennas!

M_Six · 10-07-2022, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

...when your cars actually *had* (telescopic) antennas!

...for the AM only radio in your car.

cmyx6go · 10-07-2022, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

...for the AM only radio in your car.

Manual roll down windows, the front triangle vent windows and no passenger side view mirror yet.

garyfried · 10-07-2022, 08:06 AM

When you had to pump the windshield washer with your foot. Get off the lawn

Dino GT · 10-07-2022, 08:15 AM

When your first cars had the high beam switch on the floor.

cmyx6go · 10-07-2022, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by garyfried

When you had to pump the windshield washer with your foot. Get off the lawn

I don't remember this one....

CarsAndGuitars · 10-07-2022, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Dino GT

When your first cars had the high beam switch on the floor.

under-dash pull vents

tree shifters

gas tank access under the flip down license plate

~5 hard plastic radio buttons that you pull all the way out, then push all the way in to set your favorite AM(/FM??) stations- after dialing in your station with the knob and belt driven frequency needle

Dino GT · 10-07-2022, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I don't remember this one....

Neither do I

3798j · 10-07-2022, 10:34 AM

Duck and Cover! Cold War car radios so you could tune into Radio Armegeddon...(up to 1963)...

Esteban · 10-07-2022, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I don't remember this one....

Heard of it but never had a car equipped with it.

3.0L · 10-07-2022, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

...for the AM only radio in your car.

AM = American Music

FM = Foreign Music

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