
Forty Rod SASS 3935
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A few questions about modernish automobiles
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Alpo's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
My Impala has headlights that I have set to come on when the engine starts or when I unlock the doors with the remote. When I shut the engine off the headlights stay on for four to ten minutes, my choice. I can open the trunk with the switch on the key chain or a lever on the left side of the dash, or with a conventional key -
Standing Behind Their Products
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
While I was working in a sporting goods store in Pekin, IL an old man came in to buy a replacement stock for a Nylon 66. His grandson was helping him clean the garage and backed over the gun breaking the stock at the wrist. We called the distributer who had a factory rep drive down from Chicago. We called the old man and had him bring the rifle back. The rep gave him a new rifle and expedited the paper work (this was in 1972...I doubt he could get that done today). The old man was so happy he went to a pizza place three doors down in the mall and brought back five pizzas because the rep told him "That stock is supposed to be indestructible even if your grandson did back over it in the driveway". I don't find that kind of thing much any more. -
A frighteningly large percentage of people behind the wheel don't think about driving. I was taught that when you were driving the most important thing in your life is DRIVING THE VEHICLE!
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Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Buckshot Bear's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Hell, we had it won until the "Peaceniks" got to congress and took over the news media. Is everyone aware that the United States has never fought a war, much less won one, since 1945? We bailed out in Korea, turned our tails and ran in Vietnam, and have been fiddly-farting around all over the middle east ever since. We fight everyone else's wars and finance their do-nothing militaries all while we have the power to put an end to it all. -
Why Do I See Anime Characters?
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
When they actually go into space or show me something worthy of recognition THEN I might take then seriously. Until then I consider them to be a really tasteless bad joke. And every branch of our services exceprtthe Marines badly need some new "songs" for their hymns. And I'm still angry with whoever came up with the Army's cute little Kindergarten star on a black background with a little yellow trim. I spent from 1957 to 1972 under the Army's colors, but NOT ONE PARTICLE OF A SECOND WAS I UNDER THAT EMBARRASSINGLY STUPID DRAWING WITH NO MEANING WHATSOEVER. -
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Buckshot Bear's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
A lot of the "front line journalists" sent their stories for places like the Metropole Hotel in Saigon. My wife was living in Layton,Utah while I was there . Her apartment was one of about three doze in a complex pretty much filled with wives and families of guys in 'Nam, mostly USAF type because Hill AFB was right there. The ladies would get together for company support, and socializing. She told me that they were watching the news when one woman saw her husband killed on TV. She never watched TV news again as long a she lived. -
Does anyone remember....
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Forty Rod SASS 3935's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I question the date on that. It looks way more sophisticated than I remember. This one has side rails or nets, appears to be a lot larger, and different ramps. I don't think it had any life boats when I was last on it in 1952 or 1953 and it appears to have a radar mount on the top. Somehow it looks a whole lot larger, too. Of course I was only a wee laddie then and my much more aged mind may be messing with memories, It has happened, you know....A LOT!!! -
Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Forty Rod SASS 3935's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Feed 'em right and you can have a methane powered rocket. Have you ever been around hogs? They can generate a LOT of methane. -
Google tealyra. They got it.
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83 Year Old Loves His Birthday Present
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Sedalia Dave's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
After WWII a lot of public schools got surplus rations for the school cafeterias. Now after all these years I still can't stomach SPAM, stewed tomatoes, potato soup, cooked cabbage, strawberry jam, lima beans, navy beans, and a number of other delicacies. I picked up the "S.P.A,M." from a kid from Arkansas who was my bunk mate the second time I went to 'Nam. -
America’s Stonehenge
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Probably. Somewhere up around Yakima, Washington where the apples are the best on the planet, would be my guess. -
....the Patterson Ferries that ran between Prosser, WA and Irrigon, OR? Even better, can anyone produce pictures of them? There were two tiny tugboats, each pushing a steel barge with maybe a ten car capacity. I remember them being white with red trim, no railings of any kind, and being so afraid we'd wash away because the tugs would turn upstream and make a huge curve back to exactly the right spot once the current took over. It felt like we we were out of control. They built a bridge downstream a few years later, but I'll remember that ferry forever.
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America’s Stonehenge
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
My family went back and forth from Utah to Washington several times. We always stopped at the Maryhill Museum but I don't remember seeing that monument. I guess at ten / twelve years old I was interested in other things. -
1920 Walker Electric Ice Cream Delivery Truck
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
My Grandfather, a man who died long before I was born, left a 1923 Studebaker electric car that several of us cousins found and finally got running. It ran on 14 or 16 glass lead and acid cells and was very nearly silent. The tires mad some sound and once in awhile you would hear an electric crackle. It didn't have a steering wheel but used a tiller and ratchet system. It could be moved to either side so both front seats could be the on "the drivers side" There was a rheostat in place of an accelerator and it could be reached fro either side, too. There were no brakes. When you wanted to stop or slow down you'd use the rheostat to reverse the current. It looked like a phone booth on wheels: the roof was high enough to clear a top hat, there were windows all around, and the front and rear were very small curves so it was easy to see both ends. There were roll up windows in the doors and all the other windows (except the front and back windshields where the bottom 10 inches opened from the bottom on hinges) were fitted with hinges. There was a single wiper on the front and back windows, each powered by a separate dry cell battery. The interior was nicely upholstered and had wall papered walls and a padded ceiling. It was grass green with yellow wheel and trim and a lot of black gutta percha for handles and knobs. There had been an electric heater but we never found all the parts for it. The rear end had a luggage rack that was detachable. We drove in a parade one, but I never saw it more than a block or two from Grandma's home any other time. I have no idea what became of it -
Leyat Hellca, a wonderfully bad idea.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
The Peterson Automotive Museum in LA had something similar. They had a LOT of unusual stuff there. A great place to visit......again and again and again. -
Rhubarb Came To The US From Eastern Europe
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
My Mom used to make rhubarb just to eat as a side dish. IIRC she used abou a 1:1 ratio boiled until it was a mush. I liked it over ice cream, on oatmeal and other cereals, on toast. -
83 Year Old Loves His Birthday Present
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Sedalia Dave's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Druther starve than try them. Sh't Posing As Meat My late wife loved Spam. I never could stand it. -
Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Forty Rod SASS 3935's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
stinks like last Friday's fish Faerless Farris Stinker Stations....usually in Idaho smok and mirrors snake oil salesman laudanum Musterol crazy as a sunburned scorpion useless as: tits on a boar hog tits on a chicken a screen door on a submarine P-38 can opener (aka a John Wayne) looks like a seabag full of doorknobs leisure suits -
Are you supposed to shoot your deer on the run?
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Alpo's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
On the run? No! Not ever! I always stop and get a stable position before I shoot. -
America’s Stonehenge
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Nothing in this world is really "new". Someone was here before and left traces. Someday someone will find Adam's leaf. -
Not a problem. I haven't had a Pepsi in my house in almost 60 years. Coke, sarsaparilla, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, and sweet tea. Also my morning OJ / AJ cocktail and a cup of coffee now and again and gallons of water because my doctor said I need to hydrate...and I'm not going to dispute her orders.. She's saved my life twice in the last 2 1/2 years.....and she scares the hell out of me.
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Cayenne Kay and Sixgun Seamus out from Ohio came by yesterday for a lunch and "brief visit". I'd never met them before but the "brief visit" turned into about six hours. Delightful people, both of them, cowboy shooters, and like most of the breed, just fun to have around. They'll be back next weekend after the shooting is over and before they go home.
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Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Forty Rod SASS 3935's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
on the up and up by and by LS/MFT (an ad slogan for Lucky Strike cigarettes) soft as a kitten's bottom soft as a baby duck's bottom reflexes like an alley cat so busy being a good (insert a religion) that he / she doesn't have time to be a good person vest buttons (referring to a dogs tits) tiddly winks sacred cow cut him wide, deep, and frequentyl happy go lucky a red letter day -
"They Done The Old Woman In."
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I've never seen that movie....but I will shorty. I ordered it from my public library. Thanks for the "hint". -
I've only seen one of then and was able to fire it a few times.. It belonged to a Presbyterian minister who live behind us in Logan, Utah. My parents were friends with him and his wife. They had two kids about the same age as my sister and me. The son and I would go down the junk yard on the south-west side of town and shoot rats, he with the Winchester and me with a single shot .22 that Dad had "won" on a ten cent punch board at a local gas station. I was about nine years old at the time and we had only lived in Utah about a year. I don't remember the make of my rifle. It was cheap and flimsy, but it was pretty accurate. So was that little Winchester.