things have changed

Back in the 60's ..if you bought a new pickup you didn't get a rear bumper , the "dealer" installed it and it was a thick ,steel ,silver ,(looked homemade) bumper with the name of the dealership stamped in it and then the letters where painted red.
What else can you remember that just went away or changed?

 

you hardly ever get a human to answer the other end of a phone call anymore

 

I remember they used to give you a nice key chain with the dealer name on it,
now you get two keys that are zip tied together.

 

And it used to be a five digit number, although some of you may remember when it was three! (Not me, RichardD, honest! ! ! ! ! ! !)

 

my grandmother lived in Alamo Tennessee and they just dialed three numbers.

 

How about vent windows?

How about dealer promotional give aways?
Me and my brother went with my Grandfather when he ordered and purchased his 64 T-Bird, and when he went back for service. Everytime they gave each of us something. Car Promos, we each got one of those large orange Mustangs, Jackets, etc!

 

ya gotta push 1 for ENGLISH!

 

The dealers are reluctant to give a brochure to you unless you're buying the car.

 

you could actually get factory options and not dealer forced cookie cutter cars.
stock meant..motor,tires, heater...period.

 

Bazooka bubble gum at the Skelly station. Sometimes free glassware too.
At the dealers, points, condenser, generators...

 

This is a shot in the dark I was born in 68 ,How about an honest mechanic,

 

Gas stations checking your oil and cleaning your windsheild

 

you dont' have to be that old to remember things that changed.

I grew up in a little town in iowa.... population about 400

the little gas station up town had free air, and a coke machine with little glass bottles that you would buy, then you would buy peanuts out of the machine next to it,, put the peanuts in the coke.....

could have been pepsi,, but I think it was coke.

also, how about people actually stopping to see if your ok when your car breaks down???

of course now everyone has a cell phone so you don't need to....

 

Hell, up here you just picked up the phone , the operator answered you and she connected you to who you were calling. Damn I must be getting old

 

and...... hand written receipts.....not computer generated.... and they were detailed.

 

Nothing changed for me regarding buying a new truck, never did that. I'm a tight-ass, the money lost (between the day of purchase value) and the (actual value the next day) would buy my beer for a couple of years.

Women have changed; One pushing 45 looks better than the younger ones. Smarter too. Less likely to have plastic tits.

That too, budd.

 

That at the Grocery store ,,they had to know math to give you change,,Now they have a machine that tells them what change to give and they still screw it up !

and the guys at the Auto parts store,,would look up a part,,and if they couldn't get it or didn't have it,,they would say "thats ok you can use this one,its teh same thing"

Now I'm asked 3 times if my car has AC,,and Im just trying to get correct wiper blades or tail light bulbs

 

My hair went away.

 

Hardley any import vechicles. The "Big Three" combined had fewer models that any one mfg. has today. Lots of good stuff made in the USA. No pcs, no computers in every damn little thing. No internet-although it has it's benifits such as this site, I think we were better off without it.

 

Good American cars sold for about $1 a pound.....

And there was no way to get $100 worth of groceries into the glove compartment...

 

Freedom

 

I can remember when you could buy a new pickup for less than $2000.00,and thats with that dealer installed bumper.

Jack

 

Parts stores not knowing how to look up parts in a book.....The help not knowing a thing about cars or parts just what the computer tells them...

 

New cars that you could work on and enjoy doing the work.

Mom and Pop restaurants.

Stores that had knowledgeable and polite employees.

Tools and appliances that worked as they should , and lasted.

and most missed Junked yards in every little town that had neat cars in them. Not Auto recyclers.

 

I used to be a big deal when the new model year cars came out. The dealers would serve doughnuts and pop. Dad and I would go look at all the shiny new cars at each of the local dealers. The new cars would actually look different from last year's models. Now I don't the dealerships treat it as such a big deal, the cars all seem to look the same from year to year and I don't really care for most new cars anyway.

I remember when our phone number was one long and two shorts on the old wall phone with the crank on the side. It was a party line and that was our ring, I suppose all the phones on the line rang at the same time. You could call the neighbors on the party line by cranking there special ring. All calls outside the party line had to be done through the operator.

 

How about driving into a gas station and hearing the bell go " ding ding " as your tires passed over the air line... or a air hose at the pump that was free.. how about a .10
phone booth.. " it's your dime"..

 

Hell I remember when you didn't dial in a number. If the line wasn't busy (party line) the operator came on and said "Number Please" ... I'd say "692M please" .. was my Dads store .. yep things have changed.

 

Respect and courtesy.

 

when a mans word was good and you sealed the deal with a hand shake

 

Now you don't even get bumpers.