OT Your First Car

[riverman]

Not cool bro.

psssst….hey buddy...wanna buy a puppy? buy 2 get one free...no I don't know what they are called

 

[Lanny]

I'm not sure how to reply to this.

Nothing to reply to. I'm now too old to go to strip clubs. Wouldn't know what to look for although I do have a memory of it being a good thing.

 

[Lanny]

psssst….hey buddy...wanna buy a puppy? buy 2 get one free...no I don't know what they are called

They're called dogs. Oh, you mean what kind. Little dogs kind.

 

[Orion Bailey]

1980 Ford fairmont
graduation present.

Sold it to a “friend”who drove it through the next door neighbors garage door.

No pics. Didnt wanna break anyones phone.

My second car was better though. A little yellow opal!!!

The throttle cable broke on me once and i used a couple low E guitar strings to get me home.
Yes im a fan of Mcguyver

 

[riverman]

1980 Ford fairmont
graduation present.

Sold it to a “friend”who drove it through the next door neighbors garage door.

No pics. Didnt wanna break anyones phone.

My second car was better though. A little yellow opal!!!

The throttle cable broke on me once and i used a couple low E guitar strings to get me home.
Yes im a fan of Mcguyver

I did that with a band on the road once in a VW microbus only it was Guatemalan belts somebody had a bunch of instead of guitar strings...the engine is in the back so we tugged on the belts chained together out the driver window to accelerate or decelerate...got us into Berkley....

 

[SlyPokerCat]

 

[Lanny]

1980 Ford fairmont
graduation present.

Sold it to a “friend”who drove it through the next door neighbors garage door.

No pics. Didnt wanna break anyones phone.

My second car was better though. A little yellow opal!!!

The throttle cable broke on me once and i used a couple low E guitar strings to get me home.
Yes im a fan of Mcguyver

My first car had a breaker plate in the distributor that would occasionally fail. I could stabilize the breaker plate with the gum stimulator off a tooth brush so I kept plenty of such tooth brushes on hand. The breaker plate would no longer rotate thereby advancing or retarding the spark but I could limp home on back roads going a maximum of 35 mph. I used to get stoned and then my plate would fail and I'd get this rush as I tried to fix it MacGyver style.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Man, there is that line of bullshit again. Faster than the speed of light. Embarrassing.

He’s probably telling the truth.
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2011/09/a_tektronix_oscilloscope_that.html

 

[MarAzul]

He’s probably telling the truth.
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2011/09/a_tektronix_oscilloscope_that.html

I don't thinks so.
As the article confirms, nothing is actually moving faster than the speed of light. Nothing with physical properties ever does. Einstein's theory containing "C"
still means the speed of light, not a Tek 7104.

Rate as in sweep rate, does not covert to speed.
The only thing in scope that could exceed "C" is the focal point of the beam sweep. The electron beam that is sweep across the CRT can be made to move at near C speed
at the point of magnet field controlling the side to side sweep, which can become faster that C at the focal point. Faster by the lever arm length factor. But the focal point is not a thing, it is but the point of aim. A digitally controlled beam, could probably be made even faster but for what purpose? Circuits running such speed, are physically altered out of character by the touch of the daintiest probe, or even the most inventive sensor. IBM invented tools to serve in my day, I am sure Intel has their own today.

The key of this scope was, it lite up the focal point on the screen at such speed. No way a phosphorous backed CRT screen could be lite up at that speed.
We were have trouble scoping Computer circuits in the 70's at the sweep rates need as well as other problems with Scopes. Where Tek made the best there was.

 

[riverman]

I don't thinks so.
As the article confirms, nothing is actually moving faster than the speed of light. Nothing with physical properties ever does. Einstein's theory containing "C"
still means the speed of light, not a Tek 7104.

Rate as in sweep rate, does not covert to speed.
The only thing in scope that could exceed "C" is the focal point of the beam sweep. The electron beam that is sweep across the CRT can be made to move at near C speed
at the point of magnet field controlling the side to side sweep, which can become faster that C at the focal point. Faster by the lever arm length factor. But the focal point is not a thing, it is but the point of aim. A digitally controlled beam, could probably be made even faster but for what purpose? Circuits running such speed, are physically altered out of character by the touch of the daintiest probe, or even the most inventive sensor. IBM invented tool to serve in my day, I am sure Intel has their own today.

The key of this scope was, it lite up the focal point on the screen as such speed. No way a phosphorous backed CRT screen could be lite up at that speed.
We were have trouble scoping Computer circuits in the 70 at the sweep rates need as well as other problems with Scopes. Where Tek made the best there was.

Glad you could clear that up for me!

 

[MarAzul]

Glad you could clear that up for me!

Glad to be of service.

 

[Lanny]

All dogs go to heaven.
All cats go to hell.

 

[Lanny]

He’s probably telling the truth.
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2011/09/a_tektronix_oscilloscope_that.html

Thank you. I couldn't remember if it was the 7904, which could paint a picture of exceedingly fast events using a type of digital sampling or if it was the 7104.
By the way, they used to put Tek scopes down the test blast holes of nuclear explosions. The signal would travel up some coaxial cable with the cable disintegrating right behind the signal. Yep, Tek was vital to our development of nuclear warheads. When I started with the company in 1969 I assembled some of those scopes.
Also, the article was very accurate when it said no single object was moving faster than light it was simply a pattern of glowing dots and a phosphor screen that was being shaped by one dot after another. Trying to explain this to people was frustrating for me and for them.
I used my scope in the early 80s. If memory serves me, it came out in the late 70s. I had an instructor in a night class who was on that development team. Amazingly, he had no college degree.
A friend of mine from college was a design engineer working on the Tektronix 5000 series scopes. He took some time off and worked with a team that got the effective mass of a photon at a different quantity than was ever known before. My memory is foggy but I think they calculated it at about 1/3 of what they previously thought. Now, how cool is that?

 

[Mediocre Man]

69' Ford Mustang

Bought it from my uncle for $3000

Looked just like this one

 

[andalusian]

69' Ford Mustang

Bought it from my uncle for $3000

Looked just like this one

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So, what you are saying is that you were an Exceptional Boy that turned into a Mediocre Man?

 

[Mediocre Man]

So, what you are saying is that you were an Exceptional Boy that turned into a Mediocre Man?

I loved the 80s

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I loved the 80s

Perhaps the source of the mediocrity.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Perhaps the source of the mediocrity.

It was glorious

 

[THE HCP]

I loved the 80s

You're IN your 80s, of course you do! #OldManBAM

 

[MarAzul]

very accurate when it said no single object was moving faster than light

Very well. Carry on.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

1980 Ford fairmont
graduation present.

Sold it to a “friend”who drove it through the next door neighbors garage door.

No pics. Didnt wanna break anyones phone.

My second car was better though. A little yellow opal!!!

The throttle cable broke on me once and i used a couple low E guitar strings to get me home.
Yes im a fan of Mcguyver

You're IN your 80s, of course you do! #OldManBAM

You're probably in the 80 range and you're 40-45 aren't you?

 

[THE HCP]

You're probably in the 80 range and you're 40-45 aren't you?

I was replying to MediocreMan saying he loved the 80s.

 

[Stevenson]

1971 Firebird.

I couldn't even drive over a speed bump without that friggin' car bottoming out!

 

[Lanny]

You're IN your 80s, of course you do! #OldManBAM

Finally, someone older than me. You did say he was a 110, right?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Finally, someone older than me. You did say he was a 110, right?

Half that

 

[dviss1]

Sage green 1978 Chevy Monte Carlo

I paid $1700 for it used when I was 19.

My ex totaled it.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

As soon as I turned 16 I bought a 1958 English Ford Prefect for $150. It looked absolutely nowhere (nowhere) as good as the one below......and had 4 doors (car shown is an Anglia. Oops......)

 

[Shaboid]

1988 BMW 325. It was my dad's daily driver for a long time but once I turned 16 and he was serving in Iraq I got to cruise it around. He passed it on to me after he got back and bought himself a new car. That was a fun car to drive. Most work I ever put into a vehicle, to be honest. Probably saved thousands doing the work on that German engine by doing it ourselves. Had to replace the thermostat with my dad one time, which involved dropping the entire transmission, just to find out that wasn't the problem. Most angry I think I've ever seen him. Well, beside when my mom told him that she was pregnant for the 5th time.

 

[Orion Bailey]

You're probably in the 80 range and you're 40-45 aren't you?

45

 

[MARIS61]

63 Rambler Classic 660 4dr sedan, for $385 in 1971. Saved the money mowing lawns.

Owned by a little old lady whose son didn't want her driving to church anymore.

65,000 miles on it, showroom condition with no dings and like new interior.

Mine was 2 tone but with a pastel Green, not like the picture.

Seats folded down to form a bed.