Boyfriend and I used to scoot all over the county on his Lambretta:)

TRANSISTOR Radios!!!

I haven't read every single page of this perpetual motion thread. Has someone bragged about their Slinky's yet? And had their Maypo? Did anyone ever really taste Maypo? My family wouldn't let me touch the stuff.

"Had to Have" Princess phone...... introduced in 1959.

What is Maypo???

Does anybody remember going down to the grocery store (Brannons?) with all the tubes out of the TV set and using their tube checker to figure out which vacuum tube was bad so you could get a new one and get the TV going again?

YES!!! Only we went to local Western Auto store.......extremely annoying when all the tubes tested "good" and the TV still wouldn't work....tube testing was the first/easiest diognostic step. I think I still have a RCA tube conversion book somewhere. Still have a few vacuum tubes.

I'm not exactly sure.

I'm 54. When I was a kid they had a black and white commercial for Maypo, some sort of breakfast stuff that was vaguely related to oatmeal I think. They had a bunch of little kids in the commercial who would start screaming "I want my Maypo!". Everybody hated that commercial. I'd love to know if anyone out there ever actually ate the stuff.

How bout Kodak Brownies and Instamatics..

Maypo is still available in your cereal aisle. Maple flavored oatmeal. I liked it!

I just asked my wife......she said Maypo was a Cream of Wheat type stuff with chocolate and "regular" flavors.....she said she tried it only ONCE :eek: ...."even her little brother didn't like it."
I should have asked her first......

I *do* remember the day I learned to trip flashcubes manually....:eek:

Yes operator I would like to call Amhurst or Frontier or other prefix + xxxx in X city...... Switchboards.... prior to DDD (Direct Distance Dialing).
Swithboard operators were the good looking WAFs pursued by us young comm geeks.

Good ole reliable Teletype machines .........

You have to read the whole post. It's part of the deal. Remember, this is the post that never ends. It just goes on, and on, my friend. :D

Yep, we went to the drugstore and checked all those tubes. Try going in a drugstore today and asking where you can check your vacuum tubes for the TV! :roflmao:

Plastic models of cars and ships and planes!

http://showcase.netins.net/web/mopar...asticmodel.jpg

Now you all haven't lived until you get high smelling the purple ink they used to use on those drums for the mimeograph machine. Those were the days.

And I'm holding the AMC Gremlin in reserve.

Clackers. What fun that must have been for the adults that handed them to unsuspecting kids and said "Here, go play with these!"

clackaclackaclacka-thud-OW!-crunch-OOF! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Lucas Electrics

I keep telling my students about magic smoke. "If you let the magic smoke out the circuit will stop working!"

I'm gonna steal your picture for my classroom!

Here is the narative for the photo .....

Electrical Theory by Joseph Lucas

Positive ground depends upon proper circuit functioning, the transmission of negative ions by retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as "smoke". Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work; we know this to be true because every time one lets the smoke out of the electrical system, it stops working. This can be verified repeatedly through empirical testing. When, for example, the smoke escapes from an electrical component (i.e., say, a Lucas voltage regulator), it will be observed that the component stops working. The function of the wire harness is to carry the smoke from one device to another; when the wire harness "springs a leak", and lets all the smoke out of the system, nothing works afterwards.

Starter motors were frowned upon in British Automobiles for some time,
largely because they consume large quantities of smoke, requiring very
large wires.

Here is presented for your perusal one Lucas Replacement Wiring Harness Smoke kit, P/N 530433, along with the very rare Churchill Tool 18G548BS adapter tube and metering valve. These kits were supplied surreptitiously to Lucas factory technicians as a trouble-shooting and repair aid for the rectification of chronic electrical problems on a plethora of British cars. The smoke is metered, through the fuse box, into the circuit which has released it's original smoke until the leak is located and repaired.

Unlike the cheap, far-eastern replacement DIYsmoke offered by the "usual suppliers", this kit includes a filter to ensure that all the smoke is of consistent size, It has been our experience in our shop that the reproduction Taiwanese smoke is often "lumpy", which will cause excessive resistance in our finely-engineered British harnesses and components. This is often the cause of failure in the repro electrical parts currently available, causing much consternation and misplaced cursing of the big three suppliers.

These kits have long been the secret weapon of the "Ultimate Authorities" in the trade, and this may be the last one available. Be forewarned, though, that it is not applicable to any British vehicle built after the discontinuing of bullet connectors, so you Range Rover types are still on your own.

:rolleyes:

I'll see your Gremlin and raise you a Vega and two Yugos.

I give you both...the Pacer:

http://wildwillsclassicmotors.com/ca...acer%20004.jpg

I fold.

I always wanted a stingray with a banana seat!

Then my best friend got a 3-speed English Racer!

The Pacer. I had completely forgotten about that cursed little car. Now I'm having an acid flashback.

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

I think the Pacer is the first known example of the greenhouse effect.