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

• AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t miss manual choke either.

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨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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      • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is also why in old horror movies the car never starts when you want it to. It was pretty easy to “flood the engine” - put to much fuel in the carburetor - if you were in a hurry. Then you had to let it sit for a while and let some of the gas evaporate so you could try again.

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    • NochMehrG@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Aaaaaah! Glad I’m born too late

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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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