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

• 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨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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      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        On cold stars choke was a nightmare. My grandpa left my mom a truck that requested a choke and it was painful to be a kid watching her struggle with it

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