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@Seattlecarnut The Corvair was knocked of of a market IT CREATED! (The Sports Compact!) The 1962 Corvair Monza Spyder had a TURBOCHARGED engine (Not a common thing until the 1980s!) This led directly to the Plymouth Barracuda and the Ford Mustang! (I list Plymouth first as they were out before ...

I still use my 700w. It was originally on Verizon and was flashed to Cricket (for budget reasons). Even though I got every function to work with the Cricket network, I will admit that Cricket IS NOT Verizion! The Phone itself is almost industructable! The power connector is damaged on mine, But I...

@regency98us A lot of people assume that there is an automatic ratio between MPG and size. I think this is not really true. When the "smog" rules wer put in effect in the late 1960's most cars were large or mdisize. The car companies had to retrofit existing engines to comply with "smog" laws. Th...

@JWROWE3 Yes! I think Killing of Oldsmobile was SAD, But Killing of Pontiac was DUMB. While I can see the argument that Olds was making cars that were too close to Buick, But at the end Pontiac was NOT making re-badged Chevys (execept G5). The G8 Ute would have been unique in the GM line! Sadly, ...

@juggaknot42 And to think in 1975 it was the SMALL Chrysler. Today a Cadillac is smaller! Bring back the '70s cars!!!

I could' never do any decent graphics on Atari BASIC I did mutch better on A TI/99 with TI Extended BASIC. I do remember these ATARI machines being about basicaly bomb proof. You could shoot it with a shotgun and not hurt them mutch. and they were a heavy as a Buick! They sure as hell don't buil...

Am I the only one on earth who liked the ADAM? I bought when I was new to computers and it was a turnkey deal! (It had decent performance and memory (for the time and market.) SmartBASIC was A LOT closer to Standard BASICs (I.E. Microsoft) than CommodoreBASIC or AtariBASIC. (The most powerfull "h...

Hey, flatscreen montiors in 1967!!! Everything thier doing in this film I do on my Treo Pro with one hand!

@Offthbadan Maybe just slightly ahead of it's time. These are from the 1970s. I remember them on TV circa 75-77!

@all66books I think it's just the way advertisers were untill quite recently. untill everything got so specialized, I belive the people who wrote the ad were writing ads for cars and furnaces for adults just before. I noticed this on many old radio ads (50's ads that sound 40's and 60's ads that ...

I think the "33" means this club serves Rolling Rock. Not quite subliminal really....Damn why do I Want a beer all of a sudden??? Not saying that Disney is not evil. I grew up on Warner Brothers & Hanna - Barbera stuff anyway. The Disney stuff was for wusses!

@slackery That is what is known as a lawyer line. People think that this silliness is recent. It's not. I have a mid 1960's Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver, In the instructions there is an 8 point paragraph describing what not to do with it! Hell, who did not knew that a HANDGUN could be so damn...

It is hard today to belive how really NEW and DIFFERENT the 1957 Plymouth was unless it is seen with a 1957 Chevrolet and a 1957 Ford. It took Chevey untill 1959 to match it and it took Ford untill 1960! (Too late as by '60 compacts were stealing the show.) When the '57 Plymouth ads said "Suddenl...

This is a classic problem with dating vintage car advertising. The CAR is a 1968 model. But due to the fact that cars are made and sold begining in the fall of the PRIOR year, So a 1968 car in a 1967 TV spot is to be expected. I had a 1977 Buick Electra that was WHOLLY different from the 1976 mod...

Ultrasonic remotes were like miniture pianos they emploued hammers that struck wires that sent out a sound keyed to TV function (usually just VOL UP/DOWN/ CHAN UP/DOWN and ON/OFF). as sutch, they did not need batteries. People with REALLY GOOD ears could detect a difference in tone, Most just hea...

@Weezydropsthebomb Don't worry about it. This setup was used on (fullzised) Buicks and Cadillacs from 1977 thru 1992. I don't recall then blowing up at all, no matter where struck.

@Nightbird I'm not sure if the telescopic steering comumn was a GM invention, But they had one on the 1951 Buick LeSabre show car!!! I had the same column shown in this video on a Cadillac DeVille AND a Buick Electra, Therefore I'll bet Oldsmobile 98s had them too! (At least starting in the late ...

@DeuceMP2 Your response fails as you did not specify the comment. As was said in the DOS days: Abort,Retry Fail?

@brucepatman Agreed, Braddock Hills has about as in common with Braddock as Mount Oliver does with Brentwood. Sure, They are close by but MANY WORLDS apart. People who built Braddock Hills up in the 1940s did so TO GET AWAY from Braddock Borough! (Bad enough that B.H.,Swissvale,Edgewood, Churchil...

He is a self loving whack job. "Wind turbines"? Won't matter... THEY STILL MAKE STEEL at BRADDOCK! This "cap and tax" and "clean energy" is just the kind of Socialist feel-good crap that destoryed Braddock! It was "The NON working" class that were encoraged to populate the area by building housin...

I am NOT defending UPMC. In fact I Hate UPMC, The part I don't understand is the "ACCESS" to healthcare for Braddock residents. I live in Brentwood and I am FARTHER from an E.R. Than anyone in Braddock. No one sued UPMC on behalf of Brenwoodites for thier closing of South Side Hospital. Oh,Yeah w...

Levis' campaign is based on the "fact" that braddock died when "the steel mill" left. WTF? Can SOMEBODY tell me WHAT MILL LEFT. E.T. is still there! And besides Braddock was a rathole when ALL Pittsburgh Mills were booming. PS I know what I am talking about. I am from the area. From the 1960's to...

@allieron Nice liberalks, who are sooo loving of the downtrodden using words like "retard" does that NOT violate your P.C. speech code???

"Lotsa people saw that".....Yeah they did, Another punk loser got his ass kicked by someone who works for a living. He may look "cool" to his "buds", But he will be watching replays of this in his mama's basement when he is 30. So will his punk ass friends. GET A LIFE.... GET A JOB!

@gal80s I agree. I grew up in the 1970s - 1980s. While I like '60s - '70s Music and movies, I think that overall the 1980s WERE a better dressed decade. The 60s and 70s clothes were alwfull enough, The last 20 years MAY be worse.

Even 1980s furniture was classier! And besides NO GENERATION was mo...

@wyecee Even though I am no a mutch of a "Ford hater" as some of my other G.M. and Mopar buddies; I do rank them third in Americas "big three" I thing "Ford" in an old Irish word that means: "Bad Transmission" ;-)

@legionaire1962 You're Right! the grille was altered for '79. But some T.V. ads (and even more so on the radio) are out of time. This ad was for the car and not some ("BIG SUMMER SALE!!!!!!) so it is possible that the station (or network) threw up what they had when a paid ad for "Buick LeSabre" ...