Oldness poll

by **The Bison King** on Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:53 am

I remember when an AOL chat room was just a room

by **notyou2** on Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:16 pm

I remember when we had to use birch bark to wipe our asses because computers hadn't been invented and there was a world wide paper shortage because computers weren't around to save paper.

by **beezer** on Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:47 pm

I remember having to actually change the tv channels by hand without a remote control

by **porkenbeans** on Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:23 pm

beezer wrote:I remember having to actually change the tv channels by hand without a remote control

Yeah, and sooner or later the knob breaks, and you end up using a pair of pliers to to do the job.

by **The Bison King** on Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:06 am

I remember when instead of wearing shoes you had to stick your feet into small furry mammals that you walked on... on second thought, that was more just something I did.

by **darvlay** on Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:42 am

I remember a time before CDs. That's as far back as I go.

by **porkenbeans** on Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:18 pm

porkenbeans wrote:
beezer wrote:I remember having to actually change the tv channels by hand without a remote control
Yeah, and sooner or later the knob breaks, and you end up using a pair of pliers to to do the job.

Hell, I remember Black and White television. :lol:

by **2dimes** on Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:54 pm

Incandenza wrote:
2dimes wrote:mpjh as a former gear head I have to call you on fuel injection. It was available on the 1953 Corvette and I suspect existed for a while in some form before that. Impressive list still you must be rilly old.

Actually, they didn't make a fuelie Corvette until 1957. But IIRC some German cars had fuel injection before WWII, and some hot rod guys had fuel injectors in the late 40's.

/reluctant repository of an insane amount of car knowledge, but still haven't the foggiest idea how to change my own damn oil

I was thinking that origionally but my memory is like swiss cheese. Mostly solid but full of holes. I goggled it and came up with it being avalable on the first run. 1953.

by **porkenbeans** on Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:59 pm

2dimes wrote:
Incandenza wrote:
2dimes wrote:mpjh as a former gear head I have to call you on fuel injection. It was available on the 1953 Corvette and I suspect existed for a while in some form before that. Impressive list still you must be rilly old.

Actually, they didn't make a fuelie Corvette until 1957. But IIRC some German cars had fuel injection before WWII, and some hot rod guys had fuel injectors in the late 40's.

/reluctant repository of an insane amount of car knowledge, but still haven't the foggiest idea how to change my own damn oil

I was thinking that origionally but my memory is like swiss cheese. Mostly solid but full of holes. I goggled it and came up with it being avalable on the first run. 1953.

I remember when a brand new vette was $5,000.

by **2dimes** on Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:12 pm

Well I think I'm seeing the problem here. There were side draft carburators available for the little straight six. I suspect someone's looked at them and decided they must be fuel injection units.

http://www.web-cars.com/corvette/1953.php wrote:The largest gain was achieved via an upgrade to the induction system (right). Three Carter type YH sidedraft carburetors featuring "bullet" air cleaners with an aluminum manifold were incorporated and the output soared to 150 bhp at 4,500 RPM.

http://www.web-cars.com/corvette/1957.php wrote:Chevrolet pulled something amazing out of the hat for 1957: Fuel Injection. First run in 1956 at the Sebring race, the Rochester Ramjet injection was an answer to Mercedes-Benz which featured fuel injection in the 1954 300SL. The innovation solved a fuel starvation problem caused by sloshing while cornering with carbureted engines under race conditions. The fuel injection system, displayed in a cutaway drawing to the left, also enabled Chevrolet to boast of 1 hp per cubic inch of displacement with the 283 cu. in., 283 hp engine.