Subdeacon Joe Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Registration holder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 No longer required. Then the state decided we needed to wear our hunting and fishing licenses. Thank goodness that bit of nonsense finally ended too! Joe... you're starting to show our age~!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 8 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: No longer required. Then the state decided we needed to wear our hunting and fishing licenses. Thank goodness that bit of nonsense finally ended too! Joe... you're starting to show our age~!! I’m this weird state we have to renew our lifetime senior hunting license but we do not have to wear it. It is free to renew however. We have to wear our senior fishing license but don’t need to renew it. Both look exactly alike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 3 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: Useless today because most people under the age of 40 don't know how to parallel park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 1 minute ago, Sedalia Dave said: Useless today because most people under the age of 50 don't know how to parallel park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Just now, Tyrel Cody said: I have a camera for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 7 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said: Useless today because most people under the age of 40 don't know how to parallel park And some of today's cars actually do it for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 3 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: Now I'd forgotten about "curb whiskers". I wonder if they still make them. I'd buy a set for each of my vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 2 hours ago, Tyrel Cody said: I'd put them on my front bumper to protect my federally mandated so-called "bumper". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 4 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I'd put them on my front bumper to protect my federally mandated so-called "bumper". That federally mandated so-called "bumper" that is required to withstand a 5 mph impact... but 7 mph and it's a two thousand dollar fix? That one? Yup! Amazon has 'em!! Ranging all the way from the simple ones like those pictured above (about thirteen bucks a set) up to electronical ones at a hunnert fifty or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 9 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Now I'd forgotten about "curb whiskers". I wonder if they still make them. I'd buy a set for each of my vehicles. $17.25 on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 10 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Now I'd forgotten about "curb whiskers". I wonder if they still make them. I'd buy a set for each of my vehicles. https://www.walmart.com/ip/United-Pacific-Chrome-Curb-Feelers/52554028?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=13629&adid=22222222227040544681&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=99867298594&wl4=pla-236372924194&wl5=1014257&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=125197485&wl11=online&wl12=52554028&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-4nuBRCnARIsAHwyuPreEAVHNVtNMYwE78RQW0NTtWE-zzPg156KFRvv33c38L0Ri8_xiUoaAhGeEALw_wcB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 9 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: That federally mandated so-called "bumper" that is required to withstand a 5 mph impact... but 7 mph and it's a two thousand dollar fix? That one? Yup! Amazon has 'em!! Ranging all the way from the simple ones like those pictured above (about thirteen bucks a set) up to electronical ones at a hunnert fifty or so. Yeah, but it was $2,371.59. the man who did the work did a masterful job, can't even tell it was wrecked. Word of warning: watch out for flatbed trucks carrying old busted cinder blocks. Got me right in the center just below the license plate. The guy next to me got a lot more damage to his "indestructable" Hummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 About registration on the steering column, I think it was an episode of Dragnet, family with an expensive car would use the valet service at a restaurant. Valet would notify his confederates who would burglarize the home while the family was having dinner. That’s why it in no longer required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Angus McPherson Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 16 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said: Useless today because most people under the age of 40 don't know how to parallel park I don't think they're needed if you DO know how to parallel park. Angus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 17 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said: Holy Cow, I had forgot about those! My great aunt had them mounted on both sides of her car, pointed straight out to the side, front and rear. Her driveway was extremely narrow to get to her garage which was behind her house, especially since she liked really big wide cars. She had them feelers sticking straight out so she could tell if she was too close to the house or the fence! Miss her and my great uncle a bunch, she was from "backwoods barefoot Kentucky" and had stories to tell. She married up to my great uncle who was from the better side of town. Back in the '20's when he was a little kid, he got a job with the local gangsters. They would dress him nice and put him in the backseat of a real nice car that was full of moonshine and drive him around like he was a rich kid. Then they paid him a bunch. He couldn't take the money home so he and all his friends would spend the day at the movies eating as much candy and drinking as much cola as they could to use up the money. When he got old enough to hit the pedals in the cars, he started driving for the moonshiners. My first gen Colt was his, handed down thru my dad to me. Oops, got off the subject a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 When I was a kid we steered clear of any car with “curb feelers”. They indicated to us that the person couldn’t drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I want a set of front curb feelers for Wrongway's RAV4. The nose on the RAV makes it difficult to determine if you are fully into a parking slot. Somebody did (another) hit-and-run on her RAV in a parking lot. Jeep or van with an external spare tire. Stove in her lift gate.. looked minor... shop said entire gate was trashed... $2600 w/$500 deductible. GEICO gave her an Equinox as a rental... push button start... what-the-heck is that??? We were going to take my truck to the casino for lunch, but I figured the valet folks couldn't drive a stick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joke 'um Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 I remember these on about one in three cars on road trips when I was a kid. Haven't seen one in years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Barleycorn, SASS #76982 Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 You don’t see these anymore either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 I never understood how you were supposed to use a curb feeler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Curb feelers or curb finders are springs or wires installed on a vehicle which act as "whiskers" to alert drivers when they are at the right distance from the curb while parking. The devices are fitted low on the body, close to the wheels. As the vehicle approaches the curb, the protruding feelers scrape against the curb, making a noise and alerting the driver in time to avoid damaging the wheels or hubcaps. The feelers are manufactured to be flexible and do not break easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Church Key, SASS # 33713 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Suicide Knob -Amazon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Mosby Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 I remember the registration holders! And my Grandpa called the curb whiskers "curb feelers" And the last time I had to parallel park was in 2012 driving an 18 wheeler with a 53' trailer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 9 hours ago, Church Key, SASS # 33713 said: Suicide Knob -Amazon We called that a HONEY HUGGER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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