I bought a used 1965 Ford Econoline van in 1969. It had only 38K on it. It had to be one of the poorest handling vehicles on the road. That thing was all over the road. I always considered it to be a death trap.

Back than I was driving a 68 Dodge Sportsman window van. By today's standards all the early vans were death traps. I am now driving a 2006 Ford E150, and it is by far the best driving most comfortable full sized van I have ever owned. I am not fond of the E350's because of the tough suspension, but the 150's ride and drive like a luxury car.

Agreed, I don't mind riding in your van at all. Even if 50% of the time thus far was spent curled up on the floor! lol

Ah don't know 'bout the rest of ya alls, but ah ain't got 'th foggiest idear hwut it is this here fellers tryin' 't say. Ah ain't here to bash this feller, but fer cripes sakes thats some tuff readin' if ya know what ah mean... ah muss say, this here "Sanjar" feller ought to try som'in new 't translate dat there ara-bay-ic or hwutever he's a sayin' in 't sum'in more readable fer the ing-a-lish 'a readin' folk. Not tryin' to be cruel to ya my friend, but lemme tell ya, its 'sawful hard to understand ya. I'm jusa sayin'.... (grin)

Hmmph..... Well lemme tell you som'in "Einar". I for one ain't mockin' nobody. I thinks you jus'n don't understand my southern good 'ol boy way a writin'. I thinks you oughta lit'n up there 'ol buddy cause I'm 'bout the nicest guy 'round. I'm just sayin' 'ol "Sanjar" over theres a kinda hard to figgur out... but he ain't got nutin' to worry 'bout, cause he ain't gunna understand a cotton pickin' word I'm writn' anyway....Lemme tell you whut, hows 'bout you figgur out whut he's a sayin' in a plain ing-a-lish and I'll go get you one of those there nifty all fangled cee tee one hunerts yous guys are always talkin' 'bout...(grin)

10-4 good bud...

Engineer? You mustn't have had the pleasure to see him drill through the top of the Admiral into the CRT to install "digital switches."

Some engineers do stuff that only a tech can undo :banana: and then they are thankful. And then they "brick" a perfectly good system again. It never ends.

And speaking of remembering wristwatches, in the picture that started this thread, I'll bet that only the repairman on the left worked on auto radios, as he is the only one wearing a leather watch band!

Many of the behind-the-dash terminals on those 40's and 50's cars were not insulated. All it took was that brass watchband touching a hot terminal and the ground at the same time and that 6 or 12 volts could leave you with a burn tattoo for life!

It was the Amps, and not the Volts that did the frying.

I knew two servicemen who sported these burn scars.

All it took was forgetting to remove your metal banded watch once!


Actually, I still wear a wrist watch, as I find analog time is just more visual and easier to see when you are late . . . . .



Jas.

burned my wrist back about 1970 on an ammeter under a dash never stuck my hands
in anything electrical again with a watch on since !

no wonder most electricians do not wear their wedding bands

An important tip about a wristwatch, glad it was mentioned! I knew about wedding bands (tales in an automotive trade magazine about a band glowing red hot were enough to scare me!) but hadn't thought about the watch. I do find myself fishing around under the dash of old cars from time to time. The leather band would help, of course, but I think next time I'll take the Timex off.

That's great, never heard it before. I promise to give you credit when I use it!
Cliff

Ihad a boss who had a non-conducting wedding ring. Made of Ivory, or plastic...

That is a very nice view of the inside of a TV shop. I remember going to the store with my mum to look at colour TV in the 60's. :music:

Does anyone here remember Friendly Frost? Or Newmark and Lewis?

Went the way of Topps Appliance some years earlier...

Pete
Proud supoporter of CT-100's the world over!

My parents would go food shopping on Friday night, and when they wanted to leave, they knew they could find me at the appliance store in the plaza watching Flintstones, or some other show on all the color sets lined up like good soldiers. RCA, Zenith, Admiral, GE, Westinghouse, Philco. It seemed that the store sold many, many different brands. NTSC always meant, as it still does, "never twice the same color" :yes: !

Does anyone have any pictures of the large consoles of the 60's in their store displays?

I remember a couple very nice pics like that being on here before; they may be buried deep in some old threads. Was it Veg-O-Matic that posted a store in a shopping mall circa late 60s? There is another one with a room that had consoles lined up on big shelves.

I thought I'd post a few pictures I took from the last TV shop I helped clean out. This was near the end; the building (and most of the contents) are gone now; that color tv test jig is still sitting here at my place awaiting a new home, among other things!

I had a bunch of those RCA books from 1972-80. Dumped them all about 15 years ago because I thought nobody cared anymore. After fixing a few late-70's Colortraks consoles for family members.

Any of the 50-60's GE RCA and Zenith factory information I inherited from two local small-town Appliance-TV dealers I saved. (grin)

Most of those binders are still stacked up in my TV room, looking for a good home. I think I sold one or two; they cover pretty much any chassis you want from the 70s/early 80s.

And there was Crazy Eddie, mainly an electronics chain around the New York City area during the 70s and 80s.

I stole it somewhere, so no credit needed

Old TV Shop
 

What were those console sets in your pics? BPC's in particle board? NOS?