Most below 35 yrs old won’t have a clue, lol

We used to buy “Buck oil” reprocessed oil in cardboard cans out of coin operated dispenser like a coke machine at a gas station across from Park and Shop in Charlotte in the very early 70’s.

When your VW with a cracked block went through more oil than gas, you had to economize.
 
I lack the spout but have a couple quarts in tin cans.
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This thread is starting to look like an episode of American Pickers. :D
This is the pull tab I remember..

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That image of the pop top immediately made me think of this...

I blew out my flip-flop
Stepped on a pop-top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on



:D
 
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Here’s something else where folks under 35 won’t have a clue!


I caught a YouTube video of Ellen where she did a similar thing. She had some millennial that had to find a listing in a phone book, find it on a map and then fold the map back up correctly, then dial the number on a rotary phone. Or something close to that. Was pretty funny.
 
When I was a kid just old enough to help dad change the oil my job was to hold the can after dad poked the spout on and started the pour.

The drips didn't matter much on those old tractor engines... it was pretty normal to have as much oil on the outside as in.

This was the early 70s and I recall the county had a sprayer truck which they filled with their old motor oil to keep the dust down on our dirt road.

They did that where I lived in KS into the late '80's. We lived just over 3 miles from the nearest paved road.

Even though I'm "only" 50 (NEVER thought I'd say that), I learned to drive in a 1936 Plymouth dump truck.

Who here knows what the switch/button to the right of the gas pedal was?
 
I would guess it is the switch for the two speed rear axle although the trucks I drove had nearer to the shifter. It might be something with the heater moving the airflow. Not sure though.

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They did that where I lived in KS into the late '80's. We lived just over 3 miles from the nearest paved road.

Even though I'm "only" 50 (NEVER thought I'd say that), I learned to drive in a 1936 Plymouth dump truck.

Who here knows what the switch/button to the right of the gas pedal was?
Starter if it's the a same as the truck I had, a 50 model Chevy truck that was my daily driver for several years.
Wish I had never sold it.
 
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Here's s simpler one. What was the foot switch that was usually located on the floor board on the upper left side, under the parking brake?
 
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Here's s simpler one. What was the foot switch that was usually located on the floor board on the upper left side, under the parking brake?

The dimmer switch...




Now tell me what this is - was in the same location on a car.


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I thought it was one of those things women folk use to pee while standing up.

True device.

BTW...I'm several clicks over the 35 mile marker and I've never used or seen one of these in real life. I pretty much grew up in a garage my whole teen life, too.
 
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Not sure whether I’ve told this story...

While working in Italy, the company’s Production Director appears in my office asking me to accompany him and two other managers for a distant plant visit. He asks me to meet them at the motor pool at a certain time.

At the appointed hour, I arrive at the motor pool and find the three guys, each standing by a door of a blue BMW 318i. The car had been purchased for another American manager who eventually left the company. What was curious is that they had left the driver’s door free. They obviously expected me to drive. Why is that curious? Well, in Italy, driving is a manly art and I’d have expected them to be “rassling” around on the ground for the right to command the vehicle. That none of the three wanted to drive AND that they were willing to relinquish this to a foreigner should never have happened.

We all got in and I asked why they had nominated me to pilot. The Production Director explained, “None of us know how to drive this car”.

It had an automatic transmission. :D
 
Yuck! I sure don't miss that dreck. I was probably the only kid on earth that wouldn't drink any of those fruit punch drinks.
Nope, I never liked fruit punch anything. Still don't.
 
I worked at an Eso station as a teen. The oil cans had a red or blue plastic ring in them that could be redeemed for prizes, kinda like Green Stamps but for station people only
 
Here’s something else where folks under 35 won’t have a clue!


Ha. You want real hilarity, hand someone a candlestick phone, WITHOUT a dial, and ask them to make a phone call :D Even today, it can be done. Pick the receiver up, tap the switch hook twice, and you'll get the operator, whom you can ask to place the call! That's POTS for you...and that's how it was done "back in the day."

I have a candlestick phone, but it's been "modernized" with a dial...
 
I worked at an Eso station as a teen. The oil cans had a red or blue plastic ring in them that could be redeemed for prizes, kinda like Green Stamps but for station people only
Most here probably don't know Green Stamps. I remember the booklets and a redemption center here in town. Now, I'm also remembering the demise of A&P.
 
Most here probably don't know Green Stamps. I remember the booklets and a redemption center here in town. Now, I'm also remembering the demise of A&P.

We had Blue Chips.... before they were made of corn..on the west coast.. about 1970 I can recall
 
Most here probably don't know Green Stamps. I remember the booklets and a redemption center here in town. Now, I'm also remembering the demise of A&P.

I remember my mom having me paste those darn things in the booklets! Then dragging me to Fitchburg, MA to redeem them for stuff I'd never like. :(
 
Here’s something else where folks under 35 won’t have a clue!


32 here, and rotary phones are easy. I had to teach my 29 year old wife how to use a payphone though. She had never done that.
 
I lack the spout but have a couple quarts in tin cans.
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Those were the EXACT type of can my Granddad always bought his oil in. I have changed many cars using those cans with the spout. Granddad also had one of the glass jars with the metal funnel lid. We would prop the used cans up against the wall to drain into the glass jar and that jar was used for lubing all the other things and topping off cars that got a bit low. I'm not quite 45 and my Granddad was a mite cheap!
 
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