Jon Barry....the basketball "dork!"

[franklin]

....I go back when gasoline was 22 cents a gallon, and they would sometimes have "gas wars" which reduced it to 20 cents a gallon! They'd also wash your windshield, check your oil, and make sure you had the right amount of air in your tires.....while the gas was pumping! Old school pitching, from the likes of Koufax, Gibson, Marichail and Drysdale....would absolutely KILL these baseball players today, that's for sure! Mays and Aaron would have hit 1,000 homers each if they played in these modern "banjo parks" and hit against these AAA major league pitchers today! And oh, by the way, the wide open jumper will ALWAYS be a higher percentage shot than the forced fadeaway turnaround jumper with a defender growing out of your ear!

*yawn*

I googled "ornery old man + good old days" before making that post and read exactly this on the first 7 or 8 blogs that came up. I expected you to plagiarize this in true Trout fashion. FYI, you left out back when "cars were made by artists and not windtunnels or [well trained] engineers", "unfiltered water was healthy the lead based poop won't kill you", and "medicine schmedicine, I can cure anything with bacon grease", but go on.

 

[carolinajazz]

FYI, you left out back when "cars were made by artists and not windtunnels or [well trained] engineers",

.....yeah, love those well trained engineers.....I just spent 700 bucks to replace a fuel pump, most of the cost going to labor because one of your well trained engineers decided the best design was to put the fuel pump IN THE GAS TANK, so that it would have to be removed to replace it when it goes bad.....and it will go bad! The fuel pumps back in my day were right up front and could be replaced with one wrench and a new gasket and took all of 10 minutes to do!

 

[bigb]

.....yeah, love those well trained engineers.....I just spent 700 bucks to replace a fuel pump, most of the cost going to labor because one of your well trained engineers decided the best design was to put the fuel pump IN THE GAS TANK, so that it would have to be removed to replace it when it goes bad.....and it will go bad! The fuel pumps back in my day were right up front and could be replaced with one wrench and a new gasket and took all of 10 minutes to do!

If the cars from back in your day were so much better, why don't you drive one of them? Instead, you drive a modern car covered in jailhouse tats.

 

[carolinajazz]

If the cars from back in your day were so much better, why don't you drive one of them? Instead, you drive a modern car covered in jailhouse tats.

...frankly, I have no choice, do I? The older model car's are now "collector" items....and cost more than the new ones!

 

[franklin]

.....yeah, love those well trained engineers.....I just spent 700 bucks to replace a fuel pump, most of the cost going to labor because one of your well trained engineers decided the best design was to put the fuel pump IN THE GAS TANK, so that it would have to be removed to replace it when it goes bad.....and it will go bad! The fuel pumps back in my day were right up front and could be replaced with one wrench and a new gasket and took all of 10 minutes to do!

Are you talking about the ones that suck power directly from the camshaft and only last about a year before gumming up and clogging that already fuel guzzling carburetor?

I have to go put up some lathe and plaster now. I'm going to cover it with wallpaper!

 

[carolinajazz]

Are you talking about the ones that suck power directly from the camshaft and only last about a year before gumming up and clogging that already fuel guzzling carburetor?

...so your saying that a fuel pump could not have been designed/invented that would work just as well, but NOT be located in the gas tank???

 

[franklin]

...so your saying that a fuel pump could not have been designed/invented that would work just as well, but NOT be located in the gas tank???

In tank fuel pumps are superior yet such a simple idea that, in hindsight, it's hard to imagine ever doing it another way.

As to your point of costing $982 or whatever... competent real men capable of using simple mechanical tools and reading a manual can change an in tank pump in about an hour for a few bucks. A lot of men have become weak minded and are too scared to turn a wrench. So they take the car to the dealership as their wives tell them to do.

 

[carolinajazz]

In tank fuel pumps are superior yet such a simple idea that, in hindsight, it's hard to imagine ever doing it another way.

As to your point of costing $982 or whatever... competent real men capable of using simple mechanical tools and reading a manual can change an in tank pump in about an hour for a few bucks. A lot of men have become weak minded and are too scared to turn a wrench. So they take the car to the dealership as their wives tell them to do.

...you have to drop the gas tank to get to the fuel pump. So your suggesting I jack up the car, crawl underneath it, and do all of that in one hour? Or maybe you think I should invest in a $5,000 lift, so at least the car will be up in the air over my head and easier to access, while dropping the gas tank to get to the fuel pump?

 

[franklin]

...you have to drop the gas tank to get to the fuel pump. So your suggesting I jack up the car, crawl underneath it, and do all of that in one hour? Or maybe you think I should invest in a $5,000 lift, so at least the car will be up in the air over my head and easier to access, while dropping the gas tank to get to the fuel pump?

What, I have to play daddy now and teach you everything? Fine. I think you should hoist it up using a tree branch and another vehicle, then secure it by wedging a long 4 by 4 from the ground to under the bumper.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

What I hate is that you can't go into a car repair shop without all the "engineers" being covered in jailhouse tats. First they take away my wholesome NBA players, now my mechanic? What's next? The greeters at Wal-Mart?

 

[carolinajazz]

What I hate is that you can't go into a car repair shop without all the "engineers" being covered in jailhouse tats. First they take away my wholesome NBA players, now my mechanic? What's next? The greeters at Wal-Mart?

...I once went to a mechanic who was going to replace something on my engine and to make a long story short, I noticed when I left the place a young kid loaded with jailhouse tats was given the assignment of working on my car. Needless to say the job was done improperly and he reattached a cable that caused my carburetor to run about 1,000 rpm's and almost blew the engine! I knew I was in trouble when I saw those jailhouse tats!!! Of course, trying to find an auto mechanic without the tats.....IS NOT POSSIBLE anymore!!!

 

[franklin]

....They'd also wash your windshield, check your oil, and make sure you had the right amount of air in your tires.....

Are people from that era really that lazy? Can't fix their own vehicles let alone pump their own gas.
This nation would fall tomorrow if we still had that European work ethic.