Comment on Even more of a challenge if you were smoking a butt while driving this type of car

Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Neither do I. I’m too young to have experienced three on the tree. But I do miss column shift automatic transmissions.

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  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t miss manual choke either.

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    • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      bench seats were the best for cruisin with the GF

      pretty good for parking too

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      • EnsignRoApologist@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Stick shifts and safety belts
        Bucket seats have all got to go
        When we’re driving in the car
        It makes my baby seem so far

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    • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Honestly I liked the manual chokes over the automatic ones, at least in the winter.

      Those old “hot as hell/cold as balls” vinyl bench seats I hope are all sitting in hell now tho.

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    • wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sorry, choke? Like on a chainsaw? Did you mean clutch?

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      • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep, choke, before fuel injection cars had carberators just like small engines in lawn mowers, chainsaws, etc. In the 70s cars started to haves “automatic chokes”, it was just a bimatalic coil that opened the choke more when the engine got hot. Prior to that there was knob on the dash that pulled out to close thee choke.

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      • NochMehrG@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Nope. I also remember choke as on the chainsaw in cars.

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My Dad had an old Fargo truck with it and I had a van for a short stint with one. I swear those linkages must have been made out of rubber bands for how sloppy it was, but it got the job done I guess.

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