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My Porsche 928 has that design: aluminum bores with iron-plated pistons :) The Cadillac HT4.1 had iron liners (and like the Vega iron heads)...

I was just given several BPC era CRT TVS,one a 19" magnavox from 2003. I will keep ones that are 100% and junk the others. :)

worse reliability LCD TVs i noticed were the Funai brands: Emerson,Sansui,etc.-saw a couple of those go bad while on display at Wal Mart: glitching display, dead lines, green stripe. Staff had so little pride in what they were selling, these bad TVs would remain in place and on for days...before...

Welcome Kyle-I was 27 once myself,driving old cars :)

I have a couple early 1980s SQ Marathons: an '82 with porcelain tub and an '84 with stainless tub-noisy and a little crude,but effective :) nowhere near the fit and finish quality of an older DC Maytag,but those are a high standard in that regard.

I think plasma TVs were sold from about 2002-15,for a while they were the only flat screen with a fast response.I remember reading about experimental plasma TVs in Popular Science about 1986. I recently added a 55" Sanyo plasma from ~2011 to the TV fleet-have not tested it out yet.

I have never seen one in person,but there were some big early '80s boom boxes that could play a 12" record vertically.

that is a large,complex boom box-8" woofers? D-cell batts? 1983? :) I have around 6 boomboxes: 2 good size ones, A Sharp from around 1980 and a Magnavox from '85. a small one worth noting is a Russian one made in 1995-all Russian parts. My biggest music machine is an AMI jukebox from 1976,loaded...

Seek and scan radio was a cool feature in the '79 Park Avenue For cars affected by this features subcription phenomenon, think of buying a smartphone and then buying apps to set up the device to your liking...features are built into the car-just extra cost subscription to unlock them...

... seems with certain new cars you can pay to unlock features built into the car you bought-extra horsepower, special interior lighting, and other doo-dads... several decades past are the days of checking off options such as radial tires,fm radio,v8 engine,automatic transmission,etc. :)

just got this: 27" stack set-have tried yet, seller stated dryer works good, washer does not work. Washer does turn nice and looks to be classic "small door" design. Clean,low miles :) GLEH1642DSI . any comments before I dig into this for a fix ? 12/05 build,so almost imperial :)

I used to find these jap twin tubs at the dump in 1982-83 and they were a prize find for a kid. Rubber hoses under the skirt cracking was a major problem-somehow hoses would react to plastic fittings they were clamped to and get brittle there. Machines by Matsushita,Sanyo,Hitachi,Brother were...

i used to think Frigidaire was the worse-cheap little brushed dc motor and about 100% fail rate door switch,but i do not know if they wash ok.In all the bad FD dishwashers i have junked,the PMDC motor was in decent working order though. PM "wet rotor"dishwasher pump motors seen to only last...

my mom still uses a Marvin twin window fan i bought her in 2001-it was the only US made fan besides Vornado I could find at the time.The Marvin has two~8" stamped metal fan blades and the whole fan is turned in the window for intake or exhaust.

The saggy jeans thing finally faded away in my area a couple years ago after having started about 1992...