To add to how things have changed

[MARK ROBKE]

It was my job to spread manure starting when I was 9. Dad would wake me up, and say, the ground is froze, so I want you to haul manure while I milk. No coveralls, just long johns and a couple of sweatshirts under my jean jacket. Manual steering loader tractor, IH 300u. Ground drive spreader, so jump on and off tractor to run it. I loved it back then even when I was froze, but would hate it now, 60yrs later! I enjoy the memory, was proud to do it back then, but don't want to relive it. Now a days with beef, I spread in the fall, maybe one day only, in decent temperatures. Mark.

 

[petertay]

Rrlund, at age 16 in 1964, I took my first driving test using hand signals!

 

[rrlund]

Rrlund, at age 16 in 1964, I took my first driving test using hand signals!

We had to learn them in driver's training, and I think they were on the written test to get my license, but blinkers were standard by then.

 

[Brown David]

Just ignore It if it bothers you.

Oh I can ignore it no problem and do most of the time.

The stuff where someone has multiple issues and operations, etc., etc., and give all the credit to an unseen entity instead of the doctors, nurses, etc., etc., who are the ones directly responsible for their recovery and well-being is what annoys me most.

 

[TractorDad3]

Do you hit a triple?

3 singles in 5 years

 

[New to Blue]

I'm as nostalgic as anyone about "the good old days" but I have NO desire to go back to open station tractors, carbureted cars and trucks and no A/C!

Heck, I feel put upon if I don't have cruise control!

Bought my first tractor last year and refused to look at anything with a carburetor, talk about black magic from the past!

 

[Rich'sToys]

Oh I can ignore it no problem and do most of the time.

The stuff where someone has multiple issues and operations, etc., etc., and give all the credit to an unseen entity instead of the doctors, nurses, etc., etc., who are the ones directly responsible for their recovery and well-being is what annoys me most.

The doctor I used to go to had a sign in his exam room which said, "I treated him. God cured him".

 

[GChief]

Pretty sad when your doc is lying to ya

I would have been looking for another

 

[jon f mn]

Pretty sad when your doc is lying to ya

I would have been looking for another

Likely the doc was sent by God.

 

[Jimmydog]

Remember add on blinkers for vehicles that were made without them? Dad had a pickup without and used hand signals. I doubt you'll find over a half a percent of drivers who even know hand signals. Crank windows and hand signals in the cold. Yep, those were the days.

Where you been? hand signals are still around, they've just been modernized, they use fingers instead.

 

[plattman]

Dunno about the seats (tho I'm pretty sure I could get used to them...) but I'd LOVE a heated steering wheel. Especially with my old, arthritic hands.

Have both in the 2014 minivan and use them regularly.

 

[Dave Westlund]

Remember add on blinkers for vehicles that were made without them? Dad had a pickup without and used hand signals. I doubt you'll find over a half a percent of drivers who even know hand signals. Crank windows and hand signals in the cold. Yep, those were the days.

I remember the add on blinkers

 

[Brian G. NY]

I do miss wing windows an floor dimmers tho

I haven't missed "wing windows" much since I quit smoking years ago. LOL

 

[Brian G. NY]

Power windows and mirrors are also a nice option to mention just a few. I don't know half of the options in my car

Vito

And.... the back-up camera is handy for old pharts.
Not to mention the warning when someone is behind you while backing and the warning when someone comes up alongside.
I am really beginning to appreciate the automatic headlite dimmers in my wife's car.....they are almost foolproof and even dim when coming upon a vehicle from behind. The headlites also come on automatically at dusk and when it starts to rain.
We've come a long way since I started driving in 1959!!
PS: A guy in our town had a '55 or '56 Caddy with automatic headlight dimmers........If you're as old as me you can remember that big bullit looking thing on the dash of those Caddys.

 

[rrlund]

I haven't missed "wing windows" much since I quit smoking years ago. LOL

I remember as a kid I was used to pulling on the post in the wing window to pull the door shut. I got in Howard Russell's Corvette convertible to go for a ride and took a hold of the post and found out in a painful split second that it didn't have them. I crushed my fingers between the door post and windshield frame.

 

[Fawteen]

As much as I dread the repair costs associated with all the doodads on today's vehicles, I'm with you Brian. I particularly like all the camera views on my F250. Hooking up to a trailer, parking in tight spots, the crossing traffic and back-up warnings are all very useful.

My 2013 Tundra didn't have any of that and I'd get out of my RAV4 and miss the backup camera and adaptive cruise control. Now I get out of my F250 and miss the extra cameras and the proximity warnings. I DO wish the truck had adaptive cruise, that's handier than a pocket on a shirt. Couldn't afford to upgrade the trim package to get it tho. The basic XL package was enough to take my breath away as it was.

 

[trackrat]

As much as I dread the repair costs associated with all the doodads on today's vehicles, I'm with you Brian. I particularly like all the camera views on my F250. Hooking up to a trailer, parking in tight spots, the crossing traffic and back-up warnings are all very useful.

My 2013 Tundra didn't have any of that and I'd get out of my RAV4 and miss the backup camera and adaptive cruise control. Now I get out of my F250 and miss the extra cameras and the proximity warnings. I DO wish the truck had adaptive cruise, that's handier than a pocket on a shirt. Couldn't afford to upgrade the trim package to get it tho. The basic XL package was enough to take my breath away as it was.

all that scares me about the dodads is when they quit will people still know how to drive without them

 

[rrlund]

all that scares me about the dodads is when they quit will people still know how to drive without them

What do you mean? They don't know now.

 

[trackrat]

What do you mean? They don't know now.

You got it

 

[NDIHC]

My niece worked for a business that required driving company vehicles. One time she and a coworker got into one of the minivans they used. It didn't have a backup camera. My neice backed the van out and as they were driving the coworker was amazed and couldn't figure out how she was able to reverse without a camera. Neice was in her early 30s and coworker was near her age, maybe a little younger.