OT--New discovery for children

Jiles · Dec 22, 2013

My wife and I had a good laugh at the grandchildren.
I inherited a Pristine 1976 MGB Roadster, from my late brother.
The three grandchildren were taking turns setting in it and inspecting everything.
One asked "what is this crank for"?
Of course they were referring to the window regulator crank and they had never seen this.
They were amazed at watching the window go up and down, while cranking--Thought they were going to wear them out LOL!

Wheat Farmer · Dec 22, 2013

That is a good one. Changing times. I remember my first power window car 1982 Subaru Kids asking how to roll down the windows. About wore out the button. I would tell them that the window knew when it wanted to be up. Took along time before they knew who was doing it.

rrlund · Dec 22, 2013

If you want to dazzle a teenager,sit them in a car with three on the column.

danmcdonald · Dec 22, 2013

I have a 77MGB those are the hardest windows to roll up or down.

Jiles · Dec 22, 2013

(quoted from post at 18:21:54 12/22/13) I have a 77MGB those are the hardest windows to roll up or down.

I know what you mean, but this one only has 10,280 miles, and has never been driven in rain! That's what I meant by Pristine.
They will still work with Two fingers like new.
I only drive it occasionally and enter it in car shows.

JF in MI · Dec 22, 2013

Try graphite powder (meant for door locks) in the window guide channels. Tough to get it in there but you will be amazed with the results.

JF in MI · Dec 22, 2013

I love that story. Reminds me of when one of my friends was trying to describe vinyl records to his kids. He was getting those looks like 'dad's been smoking his socks again'.

JRSutton · Dec 22, 2013

That should get them ready to try a rotary telephone.

T in NE · Dec 22, 2013

Or show them a V8. They'll wonder why anyone would bolt two engines together like that.

wisbaker · Dec 22, 2013

My oldest Daughter was about 6 when I got a well used '83 GMC 1/2 ton, this
was the first "new to us" car we got since her birth. First time I head into
town she asks to go with me. I say fine and she crawls up into "rusty truck"
we get out on the road and she says "Dad flip on the A/C" I reply "Maggie do
you remember how I've been telling you not all cars have A/C? Well this is one
of them" A few moments of silence...."Dad can I roll down the window?", "Sure
Maggie bear"...more silence..."Dad where's the button?", explained window
cranks to her right then and there.

Tech 7 · Dec 22, 2013

Yes the three on the tree......I learned it from the backseat when Dad was teaching my older sister to drive. She wasn't good with it then and would likley not go near one today.I was trying to explain to the soon to be 20 yr old daughter how we really were able to function before debit cards and bank machines

Jiles · Dec 22, 2013

(quoted from post at 19:57:29 12/22/13) My oldest Daughter was about 6 when I got a well used '83 GMC 1/2 ton, this
was the first "new to us" car we got since her birth. First time I head into
town she asks to go with me. I say fine and she crawls up into "rusty truck"
we get out on the road and she says "Dad flip on the A/C" I reply "Maggie do
you remember how I've been telling you not all cars have A/C? Well this is one
of them" A few moments of silence...."Dad can I roll down the window?", "Sure
Maggie bear"...more silence..."Dad where's the button?", explained window
cranks to her right then and there.

A few years ago, My wife and I and my three kids and their kids all went on vacation to Gulf Shores.
My oldest son's air conditioner went out and his wife had a fit.
I told her that when the kids were small, we didn't have AC and we made it just fine. She could not comprehend driving around with no AC!
We left for home, the next day, and my wife and I like to cracked up when they passed us--waving and laughing with ALL five of them wearing sweat bands, even the 2 year old!

pete black · Dec 22, 2013

big adventure last week, put the 52 pu in the field
and then let the 12 and 13 yr. old grand girls
drive. soon figured out the clutch/gas pedal
relation, of course the low gearing and throttle
helped. they never could crank it with the floor
mounted starter. the windows crank up and down
smoothly and easily.

Tech 7 · Dec 22, 2013

NICE truck...Dad had a 52, I remember the floor starter.....235 in there?

pete black · Dec 22, 2013

216 thrift master

Dachshund · Dec 22, 2013

I loaned my nephew a vinyl record several years ago. He brought it back and told me "half the music isn't there".
He, growing up in a CD world, knew nothing about flipping the record over....

js305 · Dec 22, 2013

My son took a part time job where I work one summer. Part of the job was to deliver stuff using the little pickup that belonged to the store. It was a standard with no air or anything else for that matter. The assumption was made that he could drive it, he was 17 at the time and was going to school. I then realized that the last standard shift vehicle in our family was long gone before he was driving. I had to take him out and practice a bit before he made his first delivery.

2x4 · Dec 22, 2013

My buddy needed to make a phone call, looked at my rotary phone & called his teen-aged son in. Kid couldn't believe a contraption like that could possibly work. His dad had'm make a call with it.

howdy1960 · Dec 22, 2013

Very mean, very amuzing, but very mean

ohiojeff · Dec 22, 2013

FIL has an old Pepsi machine in his basement,the
kind that dispensed bottles for .10c.
kids were amazed when we filled it up and turned it
on.

ShadetreeRet · Dec 23, 2013

Before there was "three on the tree" there was three on the floor. Got my driver's license in a '38 Chrysler three speed, floor shift.

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