I'm so old I Remember when:

[member 655102]

If you have 25 min. to spare, the first Beverly Hillbillies.

I have the 1st and 2nd season on DVD. Granny was always my favourite.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I have the 1st and 2nd season on DVD. Granny was always my favourite.

Mine, too. Irene Ryan was 60 when the show started. Just a few years older than I am now.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember bumper hitches on cars for towing trailers. Bumpers were built for bumping. You could buy clamp over trailer hitches for the family car to tow moderate utility trailers for a project and then remove it.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when automobiles had a real frame. Once the frame got bent from a crash there were frame shops to straighten it back out. Supposedly. Body work has changed a lot in the last half century.

 

[Brooks_]

Body work has changed a lot in the last half century.

More the insurance industry changed. They would rather (cheaper) pay total loss than repair.

 

[R2elk]

More the insurance industry changed. They would rather (cheaper) pay total loss than repair.

Yes, older vehicles with not so bad damage are being "totaled" very quickly.

 

[Ruler of the Roost]

8-Track tapes.

No real recollection of those, but for a time I wanted to get an 8 track player to put on my motorcycle.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Yes, older vehicles with not so bad damage are being "totaled" very quickly.

I live in a flood prone area and loss two cars to street flooding.
All the water has to do is get into the electronics (under the seat) and it's totaled.
I remember when as long as the water wasn't above the air intake you kept your foot on the gas enough to keep the water from flooding the tailpipe and you were going to make it home.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

 

[Hayden Goseek]