Another car questions + opinions

[Telecolor 3007]

Do you have any image with steering column mounted turn signal units?

[jr_tech]

Like this?

https://www.google.com/search?q=vint...Yc7vSKgxgRqmrM

jr

[Telecolor 3007]

Cars still use a verion of that.

On the other hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rib0jbmeaX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClaNhx71XB8

Something intresting: http://automobilia-romania.blogspot....tru-exact.html
https://www.okazii.ro/ceas-taxi-vechi-halda-a127129425
https://www.okazii.ro/poltax-aparat-...chi-a113924901
What does it means "on radio call?": http://www.taximetre.ro/wp-content/u...hecker-cab.jpg

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

What does it means "on radio call?": http://www.taximetre.ro/wp-content/u...hecker-cab.jpg

Before the days of cell phones - cab companies used special licensed radio frequencies to communicate between the dispatcher and the taxis. If you were in a cab and the radio was on, you would hear the dispatcher reading a list of customer addresses. The driver would then reply if he was close and wanted to take the fare.

Edit: I believe that when the driver accepted a radio-dispatched fare, he would turn on the lighted "on radio call" sign so that people on the street would know he was not available, rather than rudely igoring them. Maybe someone remembers this for sure? I seem to recall that the sign was simpler in some places - "TAXI" light on if available, off if not available.

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Maybe someone remembers this for sure? I seem to recall that the sign was simpler in some places - "TAXI" light on if available, off if not available.

Pretty much. There were a couple different versions, for sure.

[Telecolor 3007]

In Romania (at least in Bucharest) we don't have a sytsem like that. The taxi haves just 2 lights except for the one that iluminates the Taxi sign: green and red. Red is when the "clock" is starting to register, otherwise even the taxi is picking up a command (dispacer calling or mobile phone app) there is no way to indiciate that he is picking up a command and that's annoing. But you know, Romania...

Did somebody watched this show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23oaLAEUpo
It was brodacasted in Romania around 1996, but I don't think I ever watched an episode (or more then an episode).
Those "Checkers" taxies... I thought they where from the '60's and still in use in the '90's-'000's. In fact they where newer, but had that retro look.
In U.S.A. can you use as a taxi old cars?

Here are some old taxi "clocks": http://www.fama.hu/index.php?mn=28&o...=en&gkr=Museum
The ones with Ft where used in Hungary. Ft is coming from the Hungrian Forint (national currency of Hungary).

The good thing about changing oil at lower intervals at old cars is that you are sure that you don't get to many residues in it. Or if it is of bad qualty, it won't damage the engine. I don't trust what producers are saying.
It U.S.A. did you ever manufactured automobiles that could use all the fuel from the tank, including wat was on the bottom. Excluding the cars that had fule supply with the help of gravity ("Ford" Model T, "Ford" A... in Europe 'Traban't used this sytem even in 1990 and starting a 'Model A' haves some resemblance with the 'Trabant').

[Electronic M]

ISTR that the checked cabs were made more or less unchanged from the late 50's to the 70's.

Rules on car age probably vary between cities, but in general it is not common to see cars over 25 years old in cab service. At some point a fleet becomes too old, beat up and or rusty to ecconomically maintain. That said limo/livery services (think taxis for rich executives/special events) often have 1 or more very old/classic cars in their fleet for certain events and tastes.

[Telecolor 3007]

Have another question: at an old car that had throttle lever control, when you changed down gears you could use throttle control in stead of acceleration pedal in order to use the throttle lever and not the acceleration pedal when chaning down.

[Electronic M]

Perhaps you mean a choke control? Pretty sure the accelerator pedal was always connected to throttle so there never was a second throttle (ie lever) if there was an accelerator pedal.

[init4fun]

Although I can't recall any cars having a hand operated throttle control in tandem with the floor mounted pedal , I have seen trucks with a throttle knob on the dashboard that when pulled out can be used to set the engine to a desired speed . The trucks I saw this on had PTO abilities and being able to set the throttle at some speed above idle was needed for the PTO device being driven .

[old_tv_nut]

The only car with lever throttle I know about is the Ford Model T. I don't know what other cars did. The Model T transmission used planetary gears, so I don't know if modulating the throttle was required.

https://www.caranddriver.com/feature...-ford-model-t/

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...e_Ford_Model_T

[Sandy G]

IIRC, the last series of Checkers were made from like 1958-59 thru the '80s when the company finally went out of business. I THINK they subcontracted from GM making tailgates for the 1973-88 series of big Blazers & Suburbans.

[bgadow]

I'd read that Checker made sheet metal parts for at least one of the big-3; good to know just what they were making. The head of Checker in that era had formerly been an executive with GM. Just recently I spotted a photo of some electric car prototype that they helped build in the mid-70's.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by init4fun

Although I can't recall any cars having a hand operated throttle control in tandem with the floor mounted pedal , I have seen trucks with a throttle knob on the dashboard that when pulled out can be used to set the engine to a desired speed . The trucks I saw this on had PTO abilities and being able to set the throttle at some speed above idle was needed for the PTO device being driven .

You just jogged my memory...around 1940 Ford cars had a dash mount throttle knob in addition to the gas pedal...The knobs only purpose was to serve as a form of primitive cruise control.

[MadMan]

Steering wheel mounted throttle control was a thing for a while in the early days of cars. When the gas pedal showed up, there were still several car makers who included the old fashioned lever in addition to the pedal, presumably for people who were still used to that system, and hey, it could be used as cruise control too.

Apparently Model A's were among those cars.