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      05-13-2020, 08:02 PM   #639
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You know you are old when your relative pics yield ones like this (80's?):
Grandma Grace Guthy & Aunt Kathleen Strobach.
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      05-13-2020, 08:11 PM   #640
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I doubt any of you kids built these. ;at $2.00 a pop!
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I doubt any of you kids built these. ;at $2.00 a pop!
Sure did! Did of few of the Rat Fink series too!
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You know you are old when your relative pics yield ones like this (80's?):
Grandma Grace Guthy & Aunt Kathleen Strobach.
You're missing the greater point. Look at that couch!!!
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You're missing the greater point. Look at that couch!!!
And where is the plastic cover?
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And where is the plastic cover?
Someone is about to get their ass whooped for sitting on the good couch!!
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You know you are old when your relative pics yield ones like this (80's?):
Grandma Grace Guthy & Aunt Kathleen Strobach.
And somewhere in this living room is one of these.
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And somewhere in this living room is one of these.
Holy crap, we had one just like that! I can remember playing Convoy by C.W. McCall over and over again on that thing.
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And somewhere in this living room is one of these.
Hey! All the above comments about my family pic... are true.

Check out the piano legs, and what's on that appetizer plate?
"Would you like a Whiskey Sour, or a Manhattan?"
And yes, the "stereo" was rococo just like that one.

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Anyone have one of these? True story; when I was in first grade this kid, I knew, came to school wearing sunglasses. So obviously, I asked him what was up with the sunglasses, and he answered that he had a small mishap in that he wanted to look in the tank, of his go-kart, to see if it still had gasoline; except he used a match. Matthew wasn't the smartest.
When I was 12 or so, I built a go-cart pretty much just like that from a broken go-cart frame a friend gave me. The right front spindle was broken off. I fabbed one from an old Schwinn fork I had. My dad had a friend in PA with a full home fabrication shop (he built boats). We took the frame up in my Dad's '72 Mercury Marquis (it fit in the trunk) along with my parts (the fork and a bunch of 1/2-inch bolts) and fabbed the repair with the help of my Dad's friend.

I engine'd the thing with a big-ass McCullough (50cc I'm guessing now) chainsaw engine from an old chainsaw we had. Took a while to find a centripetal clutch that fit the engine and ran go-cart drive chain. Probably the 1st 2-stroke go-cart in history
Back in the day the McCulloch engines were quite popular on racing carts. I remember one in particular that had twin McCulloch 101s on it. Super fast! A place I use to get my Sunoco racing fuel from built one with a 3 cylinder Kawasaki 500 2 stroke engine in it. It was insane.
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Back in the day the McCulloch engines were quite popular on racing carts. I remember one in particular that had twin McCulloch 101s on it. Super fast! A place I use to get my Sunoco racing fuel from built one with a 3 cylinder Kawasaki 500 2 stroke engine in it. It was insane.
If I remember correctly, most go-carts in my nabe had 2 1/2 hp lawn mower engines.
Then Artie got a 3 1/2 hp engine....

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And where is the plastic cover?
You beat me to that! My grandmother had a similar couch wrapped in clear plastic, and we took it out of her house using a shop vac because the couch dry-rotted so bad under the plastic!

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Holy crap, we had one just like that! I can remember playing Convoy by C.W. McCall over and over again on that thing.
Bonus points if you can put your hands on the 45 RPM today. Mine (along with Disco Duck) is out in the garage, collecting dust next to my record player.

Long live vinyl!!!!!
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And where is the plastic cover?
And that feeling when you fell asleep on grandma's couch and your face was stuck to the plastic when you woke up.
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Back in the day the McCulloch engines were quite popular on racing carts. I remember one in particular that had twin McCulloch 101s on it. Super fast! A place I use to get my Sunoco racing fuel from built one with a 3 cylinder Kawasaki 500 2 stroke engine in it. It was insane.
Hope you had better brakes than the bike those engines powered. Yikes. Widow maker.
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And somewhere in this living room is one of these.
Whoah! That is the exact piece of furniture/stereo that I mentioned in one of my previous posts regarding my father recording 8-tracks from vinyl. A flood of childhood memories just beat me about the head. Wow.

After reading everyone else's post, these may have been standard issue back then.
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Remember this?

We always wanted to "eat" the cereal right away, but first had to dig through it to find the free toy.
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and smear the "flamboyant one"
Flamboyant enough (ie, had the balls) to want to pick up a ball in the middle of 10-20 other testosterone-fueled males and then try to make a mad dash to a place where you could breathe? And THEN let them all gang-ban err ah, dog pile on top. That game?

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We always wanted to "eat" the cereal right away, but first had to dig through it to find the free toy.
Reminds me of when you got a cheesy, but real toy in Cracker Jack's. Now it is a sticker or lick & stick tattoo.
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An example of high-quality injection molding there. Bet it was Made in the USA.
Crackerjacks, before the lawyers got involved.
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An example of high-quality injection molding there. Bet it was Made in the USA.
You do realize a good mold, regardless of where it's produced, can yield the same product, right?
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