Old car ads
Dec 1, 2023 15:52:33 #
twb930s wrote:
Try dumping your used engine oil in the back yard today - with or without gravel!!
Ignorance was bliss. Until people started dying from pollution. At least a third of the population still believes that if you can't see something, it does not exist. BS...
Maybe it has to do with Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin...
Reality bites, if we let it.
Dec 1, 2023 16:33:05 #
bikinkawboy
Loc: north central Missouri
twb930s wrote:
Try dumping your used engine oil in the back yard today - with or without gravel!!
In the so called good old days used motor oil was used to control dust on gravel roads. Now they use beet juice or some kind of tree sap stuff. The beet juice works better and doesn’t stick to the vehicle like some of the tree stuff does.
Progress does march on. My dad worked at an oil refinery and before WWII the asphalt portion was considered a waste product and was burned, creating huge plumes of black smoke day and night. And then some genius thought up mixing it with gravel for paving roads.
Dec 1, 2023 16:49:50 #
bikinkawboy wrote:
In the so called good old days used motor oil was ... (show quote)
Genius from a marketing and a practical standpoint... idiocy, though, because asphalt contains hundreds of hazardous chemicals.
Dec 1, 2023 20:27:31 #
sodapop wrote:
And why do my seats smell like exhaust?
Not having enough exhaust to create the venturi effect.
I am recalling the effort that went into cleaning the valves at the exhaust point.
Dec 1, 2023 20:38:17 #
bikinkawboy wrote:
While in grade school in the 60s we never did the hide in a shelter or under a desk thing. Maybe someone knew a flimsy wooded desk wasn’t going to save anyone in an atomic bomb blast.
FWIW: My high school has four foot concrete con rock walls. The local warden came by, looked at it and slapped on the Shelter Designation markers.
Dec 3, 2023 19:16:31 #
WOW. As a retired pest management professional I sure missed the boat on treating for “wheel ants”. That would have generated a lot more income with folks having 2 or 3 cars. LOL
Dec 4, 2023 07:46:13 #
"Spread your legs!?" "Wheel ants!?" I'd say someone used that car cleaning exhaust much too often.
Dec 4, 2023 23:31:45 #
‘Spread your legs’
Isn’t this a bit inappropriate now and in the’60s. If the ad agency and Pontiac approved of it then Congrats copywriter.
Isn’t this a bit inappropriate now and in the’60s. If the ad agency and Pontiac approved of it then Congrats copywriter.
Dec 5, 2023 06:16:31 #
One Rude Dawg wrote:
Spent lots of time in the back window on long drives, especially at night. Fun when you are a kid. 
I'd get back there until my parents told me to get down, but we had a cat who loved riding there and getting the sun.
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