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[GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 17:21

bdub

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Posted about an hour ago by a 25 year old new owner trying to learn his way
around: Can anyone tell me what this is? It clicks when I push it in.

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/member-galleries/p59155-whats-this.html

65 comments in less than an hour by mostly us wise older gurus feeling oh
so old now.

At first I laughed out loud, now I just feel old. :-) :-(
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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287179 is a reply to message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 17:38

larry.whisler

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Hey Billy,

I remember back when those folks in Detroit moved that switch
up on the steering column.

My problem was I wasn't agile enough to be able to operate the
switch with my left foot, I kept getting all of this oncoming
traffic flashing their lights. lol

larry

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287182 is a reply to message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 18:00

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Reminds me of when I was riding with a FHP trooper one night in the late 70s and an oncoming car wouldn't dim her lights and of course he had to oblige her and find out her problem. I remember she said she would have been happy to if he would tell her how, it was her daughters car and she had no ideal where the new fantangled light dimmer switch was.
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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287185 is a reply to message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 18:26

Carl S.

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When I visited my old hometown in PA for the first time in about 25 years (a while back) my uncle came to pick me up at the airport. He was a bit advanced in years and had a friend drive him down to Baltimore to get me. His friend told me the PA DOT was requiring the auto dealers to recall new cars and retrofit the dimmer switch back to the floor. The reason??? The blondes were getting their feet tangled up in the steering wheel. Rolling Eyes

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287187 is a reply to message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 19:10

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I noted when someone said the new steering columns could be set up to dim the GMC headlights, I wil;l give up the dimmer switch when they pry it from my cold dead toes. I bought a '68 Datsun wagon which had the first column dimmer I ever saw. And disliked intensely (the dimmer, not the car)

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287194 is a reply to message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 20:12

USAussie

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Bdub,

Thanks for the laugh!

You're not old just wizened!

Regards,
Rob M.
The Pedantic Mechanic

-----Original Message-----
From: Billy Massey

Posted about an hour ago by a 25 year old new owner trying to learn his way
around: Can anyone tell me what this is? It clicks when I push it in.

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/member-galleries/p59155-whats-this.html

65 comments in less than an hour by mostly us wise older gurus feeling oh
so old now.

At first I laughed out loud, now I just feel old. :-) :-(
Bdub

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287209 is a reply to message #287178]

Sun, 13 September 2015 23:27

Gadabout

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Bdub,

Your being fooled, any 25 year old hot rodder would know that is the Nitrous Oxide activation switch.

Laughing

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287216 is a reply to message #287209]

Mon, 14 September 2015 00:43

Scott Nutter

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Good stuff Billy!!
A little factoid on that switch. Peter Framton invented/used an effect pedal on the Frampton comes alive album called a talk box. His on/off foot switch was whatever that thing in that picture was. BTW, how did they even find that whatever it is thing under all that groovy shag carpeting!!!

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287224 is a reply to message #287178]

Mon, 14 September 2015 07:31

bdub

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gmclist [mailto:gmclist-bounces@list.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Billy
Massey
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 4:21 PM

Posted about an hour ago by a 25 year old new owner trying to learn his way
around: Can anyone tell me what this is? It clicks when I push it in.

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/member-galleries/p59155-whats-this.html

65 comments in less than an hour by mostly us wise older gurus feeling oh
so old now.

At first I laughed out loud, now I just feel old. :-) :-(

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287248 is a reply to message #287185]

Mon, 14 September 2015 11:26

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That one's been running for decades about Texas Aggies, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, and any number of other groups you want to insult.

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> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:26:52 -0600
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
> From: carljr3b@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers
>
> When I visited my old hometown in PA for the first time in about 25 years (a while back) my uncle came to pick me up at the airport. He was a bit
> advanced in years and had a friend drive him down to Baltimore to get me. His friend told me the PA DOT was requiring the auto dealers to recall new
> cars and retrofit the dimmer switch back to the floor. The reason??? The blondes were getting their feet tangled up in the steering wheel. :roll:
> :roll: :roll:
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> Carl Stouffer
> '75 ex Palm Beach
> Tucson, AZ.
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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287289 is a reply to message #287248]

Mon, 14 September 2015 19:18

Carl S.

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k2gkk wrote on Mon, 14 September 2015 09:26

That one's been running for decades about Texas Aggies, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, and any number of other groups you want to insult.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
~~ ~ D C "Mac" Macdonald ~ ~~
~ ~ Amateur Radio - K2GKK ~ ~
~ ~ Since 30 November '53 ~ ~
~ ~ USAF and FAA, Retired ~ ~
~ Member GMCMI and Classics ~
~ ~ ~ Oklahoma City, OK ~ ~ ~
~~ ~ ~ "The Money Pit" ~ ~ ~~
~ ~ ~ ~ TZE166V101966 ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~ '76 ex-Palm Beach ~ ~ ~
~~ k2gkk + hotmail dot com ~~
~ www.gmcmhphotos.com/okclb ~
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
______________
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"--OO--[]---O-"

> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:26:52 -0600
> To: gmclist@list.gmcnet.org
> From: carljr3b@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers
>
> When I visited my old hometown in PA for the first time in about 25 years (a while back) my uncle came to pick me up at the airport. He was a bit
> advanced in years and had a friend drive him down to Baltimore to get me. His friend told me the PA DOT was requiring the auto dealers to recall new
> cars and retrofit the dimmer switch back to the floor. The reason??? The blondes were getting their feet tangled up in the steering wheel.
>
> --
> Carl Stouffer
> '75 ex Palm Beach
> Tucson, AZ.
>
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Yeah, I heard it 17 years ago, almost to the day.

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Re: [GMCnet] The New Younger GMCers [message #287326 is a reply to message #287178]

Tue, 15 September 2015 14:58

cbryan

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Doesn't that operate the starter bendix?

Carey

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