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19 out of 20.... I said the nash... couldn't get a picture of any of the three in my head....
older than dirt... did anyone see my glasses???
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is it the volare or just the dimmer which goes bad when wet???
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i think its the volare. I miss my legacy
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I was one away from dirt with a score of 16 correct. <whew! dodged the dirt bullet there!> I still own my steel wheeled Chicago skates with leather straps and fondly recall the smell of the mimeo fluid from the tests we had in school...long, full drags until your chest would nearly burst...ahhh...kids these days don't know what they are missing! LOL
-Johnny (I laugh at those who call me a dirty old man! Now I have proof I am not one.)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by svxxx26
[B]Not to be nitpicky (OK, yes it's to be nitpicky) but cars into the '60s and '70s still had dimmer switches on the floor - at least American cars. One American car didn't have a dimmer switch. (OK - maybe as a back-up). Name the car & the first year "auto-dim" was offered. Bonus question from Ron.
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Crap, I think I knew this one at one point.....Does it happen to be a Mercury?
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I'm gonna be wrong on this for the first to do it, but I had an Uncle who drove a big Buick convertible (1959) that had an on-dash "electric eye" that auto-dimmed the lights. I remember him cussing it when driving down a lonely road and lights from a streetlamp or porch light would dim his high beams.
I had a 65 Buick Riveria that had an adjustable needle in the speedo - you set it at your cruising comfort level, and a buzzer would go off if your highway mph crept up to high - was cruise control available to any cars in those days (I don't remember any)? |
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Looks like a trip through is called for... -Johnny
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And the answer is...
In 1945, Ralph Teetor received his first patent on a speed cruise control device. Early names for his invention included “Controlmatic”, "Touchomatic”, “Pressomatic” and “Speedostat” and finally the familiar name of “Cruise Control”. Teetor thought of inventing cruise control after a jerky car ride. He was being driven by his lawyer, an avid talker, who would slow down and speed up while conversing. Cruise control was first offered in the 1958 Chrysler Imperial, New Yorker and Windsor car models. By 1960, cruise control was offered on all Cadillacs.
-Johnny (loves more than Doug does)
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<highjack>
For those interested, I found a link that describes the new "active" cruise control system. Pretty interesting. http://www.auto.com/industry/acc15_20021115.htm </highjack> -Johnny
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I have a video on my computer of the Active Cruise control on a Mercedes S class. It was taken from the Top Gear tv show in Europe.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ron Mummert
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don't know.... guess only you Ron.... what was it?
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19 of 20....I can't believe I missed the car question! I used to stand in the back seat and tell Dad every car that passed in the early 50's. I was just lucky and guessed the one about memo paper.....I guess I missed out on some highs back then.
Maybe I was too busy washing the ink of those purple passion sheets off in the restroom. They were still in use when I first started teaching (replaced by the photocopier) but I think it was the duplicating fluid and not the ink that provided the odor. Those fluid bottles had skulls and crossbones all over them....one drink and you would go blind. I sure remember those floor buttons for the headlights, but Dad's 55 Caddy had a "Magic Eye" that automatically dimmed for oncoming traffic too. The radio had a chrome bar over the dial that when pressed, made the dial pointer cruise up and down the dial for the next station. It had aircraft-style air conditioning vents in the headliner. What a car... Don
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OK, you've squirmed long enough. "I believe" the first auto-dimmer offered on a production car was on the '54 Caddy, but I may be off by a year either way. Another - The '57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser offered a unique, for its time, answer to the seat adjustment problem for multiple drivers. Anyone? Ron (....and you thought '60s Detroit only gave us opera windows).
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