A morning rumination on speed limts

[GoldOxide_imp]

... I found that much easier back in the 70s and 80s. Used to score average 9 out of 10.

I'd get things wrong around cars like Horizon vs. Omni.

[Whoops]

... I found that much easier back in the 70s and 80s. Used to score average 9 out of 10.

I'd get things wrong around cars like Horizon vs. Omni.

I'd be lucky to get 1 of 10 now and I'm not sure why. Don't drive as much after dark? Age related mental deficits? LED/HID lights being brighter? Many more makes of vehicles? I certainly can't identify them like I used to.

[the Ferret]

I used to spot light bars and bubbles easily years ago, but they dont use them much anymore.

[Gone in 60]

Whoops, my pleasure. I've been a car nerd from birth. My Mom says that when I was two, I asked her why a Camaro and a Firebird look the same, just with different faces. I'm sure had she known, she would have explained that both cars were built on GM's F-Body platform. I became such a good car spotter at a very young age that when we drove across the country on trips, Dad would prop me up in the passenger seat on a stack of phone books and hand me a pair of binoculars. The first time we'd see a state trooper when we crossed into a new state, he'd say "Ok kid, Arizona is gold with a blue stripe, looks like they're using Fords." My job was to be the spotter.
"What's that up there on the hill, kid. Looks like a trooper."
"Nah, dad, just a gold Lincoln."

Of course, a kid sitting on a stack of phone books in the front, with no seatbelt was perfectly OK in the 70s, as you well know. Heck, I went though the windshield once in a bad crash, but danger in general hadn't been invented yet. Maybe that's why I can't do math.

[the Ferret]

we used to sit facing backwards in the rear seat of my dads Chev wagon (the seat was made like that) so we could watch the car that was going to rear end us.

[Gone in 60]

we used to sit facing backwards in the rear seat of my dads Chev wagon (the seat was made like that) so we could watch the car that was going to rear end us.

I loved my Boy Scout Master's Country Squire wagon. Not only could you sit in those seats in back (The Ford had side fold-out seats that faced each other), but you could trap the nerd kids under those seats when they were folded down.

[Whoops]

we used to sit facing backwards in the rear seat of my dads Chev wagon (the seat was made like that) so we could watch the car that was going to rear end us.

I loved my Boy Scout Master's Country Squire wagon. Not only could you sit in those seats in back (The Ford had side fold-out seats that faced each other), but you could trap the nerd kids under those seats when they were folded down.

I loved my Boy Scout Master's Country Squire wagon. Not only could you sit in those seats in back (The Ford had side fold-out seats that faced each other), but you could trap the nerd kids under those seats when they were folded down.
Yep. We had multiple station wagons, including a big old blue Country Squire which my Dad affectionately called Buford (Big Ugly Ford). We used it to pull the fishing boat. It got 8-10 mpg going up the canyon with the boat behind. You hardly knew the boat was there. It also happened to get 8-10 mpg going down. It came with the most advanced seat belt system at the time, my Mom's arm that would pop out whenever the need for sudden braking popped up. Man oh man did that thing squeak and rattle though. All those metal parts rubbing against each other. Enough to drive you crazy on a road trip.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Man, I remember those big station wagons of the 70s, some with fold out back seats. Even those without them (think Plymouth Satellite wagon), kids would load in the back, close the "power gate" and watch all the cars at the rear - and no air conditioning!

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

In shopping for car insurance recently, I found that I'd have to get a phone app so the insurance company could track my every move, or pay more. I rarely really speed, but I do like a sporty pace, especially on my bikes, so a tattletale tracker would end that. I decided to stay with my current carrier, who doesn't require apps.

[GoldOxide_imp]

In shopping for car insurance recently, I found that I'd have to get a phone app so the insurance company could track my every move, or pay more. I rarely really speed, but I do like a sporty pace, especially on my bikes, so a tattletale tracker would end that. I decided to stay with my current carrier, who doesn't require apps.