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You see a discarded upright freezer in a Wheat color that you mistake for a Norge or some worthwhile brand that ends up being a Woods--with a plastic interior, likely to be a Frost-Free model, with no inside-light to be seen, but the removed door was blocking the interior and I was on my work, so there was no time to get in depth or even take a picture with my investigation I felt weird doing--it was down the block in my neighborhood...

-- Dave
 
When on holidays as a kid

at a relatives house, you couldn't wait to see the washer, dryer, and sneak into their vacuum cleaner closet because it was embarrassing to ask what kind they had.
Then when going to Sears on thrifty Monday with the folks, rather than to the toy dept., you bolted for the major appliances. Especially in February wen the new models came out.
 
You can be trusted not to eat, drink, swallow (thought it was "Swailed" as in if the contents of a bleach bottle had dried up--give milk or cooking oil) or ingest poisonous, toxic chemicals that are not stored out of reach--same for flammables & aerosols...

You went from your stuffed animals being family members, as in wife & kids, to after being hooked on the EMERGENCY ONE-TV series becoming your fellow-paramedics and firefighters, as well as the staff at Rampart General Hospital, then miss everyone working on the midnight shift at Rampart and sleeping in their own bunkers--as I've never had any pretend fires or emergencies during the night at bedtime--to wanting everyone back in bed & becoming family again... --And the loudspeaker, a hunk of paper taped to my bedroom wall, my friend teased me about having there, and wanting me to have something to respond to, as did my sister (told her "mom & dad" were on staff at the Auxiliary Unit & that "they had us young" if they were active & weren't too old or retired), to taking it off the wall that night in that moment--sort'a like the Three Stooges doing that on an episode where they were Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard...

And similated "compartments" for "departments" as in "everyone" was brought back together after being spread out in different compartments (my parents' bedroom closet was the hospital) and got the warm-fuzzy feeling from seeing "departments" in the encyclopedia (under an index table for a certain South American country--forget which one--that would just be cities, etc.) but "compartments" was the right word...

-- Dave
 
Good imaginations Dave,

We used those gag stcikers that came with what I can't even remember, but they were
like Mad magazine ones. Poopsi cola, Ratz crackers, etc. when we'd play store. Maybe they came with bubble gum.
My oldest friend was born in Oak park. Near 9 mile and Coolidge. Five kids in a two bdrm. ranch with no basement.
Then they moved to Warren and a bigger house.
My folks used to sell at an antique mall in Flat Rock until about ten years ago.
When they had to stop, that's when my mom stopped. She never left the house for three years. She quit going to the doctors, church, everything.
She loved buying and selling. It was her life after we were all grown.
They used to go to Shipshewana a lot.
 
By what's in your Glovebox?

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">So, the other day I was giving a co-worker a ride to his car.  He knows of my interest in many things vintage but when this happened I thought of this post.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">I asked, "Will you reach in the glove box and grab my sunglasses"?  He said "Ok, boy you can always tell something about a person by what's in their glove box".  As he is rummaging through, look what he finds on top?  He said "Seriously??, in the car too"?</span>

 

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 12pt;">I just simply smiled.</span>

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... when you bolt awake in the middle of the night exclaiming "Good heavens, it's the clutch yoke spring that needs to be reseated. Why didn't I think of that before?"     AND when the dog and hubby are no longer alarmed by this sort of behaviour. 

 

 
 
I raided the next door neighbors' Lady Kenmore washer--

--Before Dawn! --With a screwdriver to steal the florescent light, and had no success... --Yeah, 'cause back then I was a real goofy kid!

And years ago, when I was still a kid, I helped the across-the street neighbor buy a whole set of new appliances at one of the last independent retailers, it was called Hot & Cold--in Avocado Green (well, the fridge, stove & dishwasher were; washer & dryer were white) and all!

And at the appliance store I was freaked out by a range on the sales floor with an over-the upper oven (maybe it was an over-cooktop--this could'a been a single-oven with a warming tray, and a built-in hood) that you couldn't get to turn off or close... (I was playing around with it, but at least I didn't have to pay anyone "for breaking it"...!)

It was a Tappan electric range (at the time, and at my young age hard for me to figure out how the oven cleaned--was there a tank of Oven Spray somewhere connected to the stove? No, the heat fro the oven baked off the schmutz...) Replacing a white Whirlpool top-freezer put in the basement to be used as second fridge...

A Hotpoint Side-by-Side refrigerator, but with no ice chute, nor even an ice maker inside--and the two light bulbs in the fridge compartment became only one, as the panel back there the bulbs were behind was hard to open to replace them, when one burned out... Ditto for the dark freezer... The white Whirlpool got moved to the basement to become a second fridge...
I got lots of compliments on the Kelvinator dishwasher--the neighbor said it cleaned so marvelously and she never had to pre-rinse anything she'd put in it... It was a fairly top-of-the-line, not to mention a portable she had connected to the plumbing behind the one before it--a white top loader that I think was a Kitchen Aid...

And not wanting to trust ANYTHING in their LAUNDRY ROOM except WHIRLPOOL:

The washer was a white Whirlpool with three temperatures for was all with cold rinse and a single-speed, with two water levels, replacing a similar one that you gave you three--that I got the panel of--"And you may be an AutoWasher.org just for that!"...

While the dryer was a swinging door Whirlpool in white, as well--timed dry with maybe an Auto-Dry permanent press, and two temperatures: Too High and Too Low!

The discarded washer got put in the garage, while the dryer was the only original appliance from that menagerie to get moved to their new house (and where I found out it was a gas dryer) where they'd lived out the rest of their lives, until they died...

-- Dave
 
You know you are an AW member when

> You buy machines based on their cycle timing/tech sheet/water usage.

> You purchase every laundry and dish-washing detergent in the aisle just to see
how each one cleans.

> You visit thrift shops several times a week in hopes of vintage machines

> Every appliance dealer in the area knows you by your first name lol.

> Your home is a revolving door appliance testing laboratory.
 
OK 866052/144: "I HATE YOU!" Why?", we asked

You, your sister, and your two friends, who are also brother and sister, gather around to watch the furnace at your house being fixed--and guess who stays there after first the girls leave, and then your friend says "he wants to go back and watch "Woody", as in the WOODY WOODPECKER cartoon that was on, then runs back upstairs, leaving you down there????

--No, no! GUESS WHO STAYS IN THE BASEMENT WATCHING THE FURNACE BEING REPAIRED, UNTIL MOM MAKES HIM GO BACK UPSTAIRS????!!!!

Yes, it was me...

Your grandma stays at the house to watch you while your parents and sister are away, just for you to not want to answer questions about stuff in the house except how to turn the washer timer, to start the machine, and you won't do stuff like helping put the clothes away...

You probably got your mouth washed out with soap for staying bad stuff or imitating stuff from the movies ("SHUT THE G-D D--MN DOOR!") or TV...

Grandma threatened to, to me, but she never did... But she told on me to mommy for saying "doody" and "pee-pee", then it was the wooden spoon from mom...

-- Dave
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Maybe we should have an Appliance Stalking Thread:  I saw something even more interesting, and that was a built-in Caloric gas wall-oven, in white, and I could not make out the cooktop on the counter on the left, next to it...  It was a far distance away in a kitchen in the back of a house seen through the open front door--and right across the street from my daughter's elementary school....!

 

A rare ocasión that my wife and I had to go there and park in the school's parking lot around the back of it to see her in a play, and this was in the daytime an hour in the morning after school had started...  We were walking around the school to get to the front entrance we could still enter through, to go to the media center/library where the play was held... Too bad the owner wasn't around for me to complement the sight of that oven & comment on it, nor gain any additional info on the cooktop beside it, or whatever additional similarly-vintage appliances that house may have had...

 

Do the appliances seen in my high school's big home economics class, I had never had taken, but seen through the big open window in the hallway count?

 

 

 

-- Dave

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DaveAMKrayoGuy's WONDER YEARS: 1972-1973 --

My cousin backed me away from a gas range in her house I was touching the knobs to--literally thinking I was going to turn the stove on (we were very young--and this was what must have been the short time that she, my aunt & uncle lived in Michigan--Ypsilanti, to be exact, before moving to Maine), and well,--Hot Damn!--maybe I was...

 

You push your toy lawnmower (while dad is pushing his real lawnmower--which was actually a REEL lawnmower--no electrically-powered motor, or gas engine) over a hole in the ground just for a swarm of bees to fly out & stick right on you (Dad, as well) then have to go to the hospital and have a few nightmares of them flying out of a dryer vent sticking out of the side of a house frequently walked by...

 

Days before that incident, that dryer vent was more pleasant to look at, hear the dryer running & blowing its hot exhaust through it and somehow hearing America's "A Horse With No Name" play...  (And a year later, walking by the gas station on these cement banks on the way back from 7-11 with my Slurpee, long after the bee-attack, and afterwhich it had been forgotten, it was Steely Dan playing "Reeling In The Years"...)

 

 

 

-- Dave
 
Some turn signals

still click. It depends where the flasher is mounted. They used to be in the fuse block below the dash.
Ford used only one flasher for turn signal and hazard flashers, while GM used two.
Todays Impala for example, has it mounted middle behind the dash, quietly insulated. It can barley be heard. I think that's why the hazard flasher switch is either left of the radio, or on top of the steering column.
As for the position of the signal lever, that is variable to the country you are driving in.
Homologated right hand drive vehicles have the lever facing the door, so the down position is for a right turn.
 
Well, this was when I was riding my sister's big wheel, and the person with me (a neighbor-gal who acted as one of our babysitters) told me "middle cuts it off" but in my youthful mind, insisted Middle was Left, Up was Right, and Down would be Off...

 

I made an Oyster & Milkshake stand in the sandbox, just for her to tell me "Milkshakes are Fattening & I hate Oysters!", and for me to tell her that my food was Kosher just to tell me that Oysters cannot be, unless they're imitation, so I made them imitation (with Salmon, then, inside fake plastic shells; wouldn't matter, everything was mud and sand...)

 

She told me of her first job at the local Burger Chef, where the floor where the fryer was, was slippery from the grease and the walk-in refrigerator/freezer floor was slippery from its operating conditions (and I asked about the lights in the kitchen & in the walk-in appliance: Florescent and Standard (not Soft White) Incandescent...)--Oooh, boy, was I a piece o' work! --Where WAS Automaticwasher.org BACK THEN????!!!!

 

 

 

-- Dave
 
Louis, yes

that was when the left hand drive steering column was just switched to the right side of the car. That is not homologation.
It means that all instruments, lighting, registration plate mounting, etc. is designed into the vehicle for both export applications to be prototypically opposite.
Ford Galaxies sold in Australia or NZ that were from Canada even had the master brake cylinder still on the left side of the car. A steel bar was added from the brake pedal to the vacuum booster under the hood in front of the fire wall. Those may have even been CKD (complete knockdown) vehicles and assembled by Ford Australia in Cambelfield Victoria.
Canadian full size Pontiacs shipped to Australia and New Zealand only had the Chevrolet dash and instrument panel.
I live in the former motor city and I know cars. Even the former DAF variomatic.
 
All US assembled and Canadian

vehicles for export are for sure. That was part of the world class quality ISO 9000
plan from the early 90's.
I read the article you posted, so I'd have to check say a Jeep Grand Cherokee right hand drive to see where the turn signal stalk is.
 
things have not changed that much

It appears the turn signal stalk is indeed on the inside facing side of the vehicles, so they are still only switching them to the right hand side.
However, this means the ignition lock is on the outside facing the door for right hand drive. Grand Cherokees now have push button start, but are still built on the same platform as back in the 90's.
The sheet metal and interiors have undergone several changes over the years, but it is essentially the same vehicle it was when Chrysler acquired Jeep from AMC.
Only the Hurricane inline 6 cylinder is gone.
The Fiat designed new junior Cherokee replaced the Liberty, which was marketed as a junior Cherokee in Europe.
No doubt we will see more changes, like with GM, and it's smaller platform Acadia, now sharing it's platform with the Equinox and Terrain suv's, saving raw material and weight from the heavier Traverse, and Enclave. It loses it's third row of seating for seven.
 
I remember this like it was YESTERDAY!

Mom was spending eternity at the clothing store, Li'l Sis was sleeping' in the stroller, so what was my young self, walking on my tired feet, supposed to do?

Hide under the clothing racks! (The ROUND ones were the best!) 

 

And THIS (Yes, it had just come out!) was playing:

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2n167F0eBc
 
More radio days:

Doing my homework to what was once a favorite radio station's "underground program" before it joined the modern-day trend of making a format of playing the same stuff over and over again...

 

I recognized the group's name from the one hit they'd had a few years before this one, "Hold Your Head Up", which I sung out (yelled out!) to the radio...

 

Oh, yes, SEVEN-WHOLE-MINUTES of this was draggy, but I needed something to help me get through my studies, besides, that summer after High School, I was collecting their records, one-by-one, save for the Rod & Russ solos (well, Russ, I'd in later years, picked up on, but only the first three--or maybe dismissed the last two... --A photo shows him in the third record scratching his head wondering if that sort of thing recorded in Los Angeles with that area's musicians and producer Keith Olsen would really work, just for its follow-up BARNET DOGS (should have kept it longer) to show him back in England with a look of rebound in his more comfortable retreat...  INTO THE FIRE (did I even buy this one?) I guess, was where he had better come up with something interesting soon--I could easily put a few of my Party Bulbs in the basement light sockets (though I only have a couple side by side--this one gal I'd hung out with, a few years ago, had a whole ceiling with about twenty of 'em in hers) & my wife to shoot some shots of me, posing like Mr. Ballard, if I had my old Fender axe & some good threads that look cool, getting raggedy & not how raggedy my stale duds, I wear nowadays, are looking...

(Yeh, another thing that'd make me a member...)
 

 

<p>-- Dave[this post was last edited: 7/11/2016-13:26]

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=CafnLd8ZL_s
 
Forgive me if this has been said...

 

<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">..too many replies to read through.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">You know you're a member of AW.ORG when you are reaching into the cupboard to grab a dish and the criteria you use to choose one depends more on what fits best in the current load of dishes in your vintage dishwasher and less about the food you will be eating.</span>
 
You know what? That happens to me all the time, and tell my wife and kid to even look in the dishwasher to see what will fit, as it gravitates towards getting too full to put 'just anything' in, and I don't want stuff laying all over the counter--especially in an area where it can mixed up, and or contaminate or be contaminated with/by what's coming out when it's done...

-- Dave
 
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