Boomer Support Thread

[Stephanie B]

Ok people, so what was your first car?

Learned to drive on a '64 Chevy II and learned to drive a manual on a '64 Chevy Greenbrier (Corvair minivan). First car was a '72 RX-2 with an engine that lasted another 5,000 miles before the apex seals gave out.

[deputyG23]

Ok people, so what was your first car?

65 VW “Notchback Sedan”
Bought it used in ‘75 for $250.
This model was not sold in US.
A man brought it to NC from France.
1500 cc VW flat engine with two one barrel carbs that used premium gas.
Could beat anything off the line in first gear but that was it.

[revchuck38]

Learned to drive on a '64 Chevy II and learned to drive a manual on a '64 Chevy Greenbrier (Corvair minivan). First car was a '72 RX-2 with an engine that lasted another 5,000 miles before the apex seals gave out.

They made a pickup version too:

[jtcarm]

RJ, you can't bait me with your vile unpatriotic 1911 bashing in this or any or thread. I simply won't fall for... waitaminute... dammit!

I remember when a “nineteen eleven” was known simply as a “forty five”.

No elaboration was needed.

[Stephanie B]

They made a pickup version too:

With a side-loading ramp, too.

[blues]

First car I ever drove was my uncle's 60 something blue Corvair.

[momano]

In the early 70's, I learned to drive a '56 Ford Ranch wagon with a "3 on the tree". In the small town we lived in we had 3 digit phone numbers and live operators (this was in the late 60's).

[BehindBlueI's]

In the small town we lived in we had 3 digit phone numbers and live operators (this was in the late 60's).

When going through my grandmother's stuff I found a phone book with Henryville-8118 type phone numbers. We didn't have a phone ourselves until until 1986 when they finally ran phone lines out by our property.

My other grandparents had a party line. They ended up being the last ones on it, so basically a private line at that point but with a bonus. You could call yourself. There were three phones on the property, the old original farmhouse, the new house, and the barn. You could call the others by dialing your own number and then hanging up. The phone would then ring until you picked your own receiver up. There was no way to know if someone answered the other phone or not as it'd keep ringing even if they picked it up, so you'd just let it ring six times then pick up on your end and see if they were there.

[Drang]

I remember when a “nineteen eleven” was known simply as a “forty five”.

No elaboration was needed.

Back when "automatic" or "automatic pistol" meant a pistol that automatically loaded another round after you fired, as distinguished from fully automatic.

[0ddl0t]

I also remember my grandmother's instructions to my mother, "When you get home, call my phone and let it ring twice. That way, I'll know you're home." Thereby gipping Ma Bell out of like 8 cents for a answered toll call.

When they got rid of human telephone operators and just recorded your name for collect calls you could do this: