"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

First vehicle driven- 1980 Ford F Series 4x4. Best story there was when we were stuck in the middle of a mud hole and my Dad informed me that he forgot to "lock the hubs" for 4-wheel drive and I had to climb in the mud hole to do that :confused:

First vehicle that was mine (given to me by my parents), 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88.
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First vehicle I ever bought on my own, 1992 Pontiac Grand Am
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The first car I owned and drove was a 1963 Ford Fairlane I bought for $400 yep in the early 70's you could buy a pretty good car for $500 or less over $500 got you something really nice. Of course $400 was hard to come by back then. When I bought the car it was smoking a bit so my buddy and I set in to rebuild the engine and that's when I found out that Ford made a 221 V8 engine. I knew it wasn't a 289 V8 so I bought a kit for a 260 V8 nothing fit so I called a friends dad who was a mechanic for Matthews Ford (now they're sold out and are no more). Anyway he told me it was a 221 V8 so I got the right parts and we got her rebuilt. Of course it had to have new tires and wheels the most important thing on a car for a 16 year old kid. :D:D


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Randy, my first car was a 1965 Pontiac LeMans. Not my photo, but it looked just like this one except not a ragtop. My dad paid $400 for it so I could drive to work the summer after I graduated high school, but he wouldn't let me take it to college in the fall, and sold it for the same price. I had it up to 112 mph on the interstate, so . . . . maybe my dad was right in not letting me keep it!

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Will Power said:
Jolipapa Jolipapa Fantastic pix JP! It's very strange but your father (if that is he in the pic?) looks a lot like mine and I look like he did;)
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Ma used to say he was looking like Prince Faruk of Egypt, if only he had had half his income... ;)

Will Power said:
Jolipapa Jolipapa That R4 is a wreck:D:cool: but I really liked those ones with the engine in the rear, pretty car and more interesting than the VW Beetle. Also liked the Dauphine, man near me has a Red Gordini version that comes out in summer, god knows how come it didn't rust to death by 1965:D
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It is a 4cv Affaires, code name R1062, 750cc, the R4 came much later, very different, this would not have happened as the roadholding was fantastic. The picture shows the wreck just after the crash, we managed to find parts, except for the front light, and mend it so she took us back to paris, just avoiding to cross the police's way. Nearly each time when someone used her, he was asked to show his papers. This never ever happened since, until today!

Will Power said:
Jolipapa Jolipapa The Peugeot 404 I've driven, leather seats and column change, grand confort:thumbsup: Lot of sturdy pick-ups and estate cars came from that and the 403, real voiture d'afrique too so sturdy. They were popular here due to toughness and reliability, plus comfort, likewise the later 504.
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Sturdy you say? :D Hmm co-pilot's name is , say... a weird pseudo, mostly if a girl.

When living in Cameroon, we had a 504SW for work, much preferable to Toyota's Land Crabs on laterite roads, you just needed the right way of driving her, ie like in the safari o_O.


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Sorry guys I know we are talking about our first driving experiences and such but I'm going to stick a bit of knife stuff in right fast. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
Anyway I was sneaking around vintage knives on Fleabay and came across grab bags of ten traditional knives and thought maybe fun so on an impulse I sent the guy a low ball offer and he took it. :eek::eek: So now I had pictured 10 rusted knives with broken blades, out gassing celluloid and fully expected that to be what would arrive in the mailbox. So hoping at least one or two would at least make a decent beater knife.
The knives arrived yesterday and not only were they much nicer than expected there were 14 of them and all of them need some attention but all have a lot of life left in them.
Top row left to right tang stamps: Imperial, USA, Hibbard Spencer Bartlett, Schrade USA 8OT, Camillus, Boker USA the shield fell out when I was washing it I need to get some glue. Robeson.
The 2nd thru 4th rows are Made in China the 2nd row left iis branded Winchester 2nd row right branded Colt third row right is branded Colt the rest are just stamped China but all are of equal quality of Rough Rider. Except the large yellow fish knife it is made in Japan and is acctually a good quality knife would be perfect for a tackle box.
I've only worked on one of these knives so far the USA Boker here's the before and after. Took a razor sharp edge.


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BOKER AS RECEIVED
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CLEANED OILED AND SHARPENED
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Jackpot! I'd be mighty pleased with that haul:thumbsup:
 
Great stuff again JP The Swedish video made me laugh as they copped out with English subtitles and using the s***** word instead of the Swedish version Fnask:D they could've been more gallant and used biche, too nice though;)

Now I start dreaming in Citroen ;) Traction Avant, DS, CX, GS, Ami and 2CV VAN:cool: And the most exotique, beautiful and flawed of all the SM which probably broke the marque
 
Will Power said:
Great stuff again JP The Swedish video made me laugh as they copped out with English subtitles and using the s***** word instead of the Swedish version Fnask:D they could've been more gallant and used biche, too nice though;)

Now I start dreaming in Citroen ;) Traction Avant, DS, CX, GS, Ami and 2CV VAN:cool: And the most exotique, beautiful and flawed of all the SM which probably broke the marque
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I can imagine, as s....e is certainly not a name to have... I think these guys are jolly provo fellows!
Personally, the Unobtainium remains the 24BT Tigre
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A guy in my dorm had a 1969 Saab Sonett V4. I had never seen one before, had a four speed on the column. It was ugly....very ugly. I think he totaled it sometime during the fall quarter, he did enjoy a cold beer or three. Maybe you members from the continent remember them, there weren't a lot of them in the US at that time. Previously it had a two stroke three cylinder engine I think. The thing stuck in my mind all these years...
 
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JB in SC said:
A guy in my dorm had a 1969 Saab Sonett V4. I had never seen one before, had a four speed on the column. It was ugly....very ugly. I think he totaled it sometime during the fall quarter, he did enjoy a cold beer or three. Maybe you members from the continent remember them, there weren't a lot of them in the U at that time. Previously it had a two stroke three cylinder engine I think. The thing stuck in my mind all these years...
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A good friend of mine had one, Jerry. I spent many hours riding shot gun in that strange little car.
It had some innovations that weren't seen on American cars.
The following is from Wikipedia;
In addition to its unusual fiberglass body, the Sonett V4 featured advanced safety features for its day, including a roll bar, three-point seat belts, and high-back bucket seats to protect against whiplash injury. Sonett V4s also sported a few oddities compared to standard American sports cars like e.g. Corvette, such as front wheel drive; a freewheeling clutch that disengaged automatically whenever the accelerator pedal was no longer pressed, and a column-mounted shifter, rather than a typical floor-mounted shifter.
If I remember correctly my buddies parents got him a safer vehicle after he'd totaled his Camaro convertible. Luckily I wasn't with him that night.
 
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Gary I remember it having a roll bar and vaguely recall the safety harness. A bunch of us were looking the car over in the dorm parking lot fall of '69. I don't know what made me think of it almost fifty years later.
 
All this talk of Peugeot has stirred up some memories for me. My first encounter was a high-school buddy’s 404. I had some affluent schoolmates, and got to drive a lot of pretty nice cars, way above my pay grade. I spent a lot of time behind the wheel of tha 404, likely because I was the only one who could still drive at all after a night on the town. It was hard to remember that the stalk on the left was for the headlights, not the turn signals.

A couple years later, I was in the Bay Area, spending a couple of weeks with my father’s old J-school buddy, who gave me free reign of his 403 to explore the back roads of the East Bay and the Delta levees. Felt just like Columbo, I did.

In the eighties, I became enchanted with the cushy seats and plush long-travel suspension of a 504 sedan, which held the road far better than the Volvos I had been driving. After the sedan, I went through a couple of wagons before the supply of Peugeots in Minnesota eventually petered out. There were never that many to begin with, and the thin body work did not fare well on the salty winter roads.
 
JB in SC JB in SC SAAB?? Svenska Aeroplan Aktie Bolaget former maker of cars and fighter planes. Sometimes jokingly referred to in Swedish as Sämst Av Alla Bilar (Worst Of All Cars:D) Bit like FORD Fixed Or Repaired Daily thing. The 93 was indeed 2 stroke:eek: 95/96 got a proper engine later;) Tough little car and winner of rallies but I have to say THE WORST car I 've ever driven! The auto clutch had a mind of its own let's say and sitting in it was like sitting in a bucket looking up:D They made them here in Finland in Uusikaupunki (New Town:)) for a while and they were popular as tough and like Soviet made Ladas ferociously warm in the winter, a plus point here!

SAAB is no longer a car maker, being bought by GM is always a death sentence...

Here's a video of a 96 which was the mechanical basis of the Sonnet I think

This might lead to The Worst Car I've Ever Owned thread... My vote? No question VW Passat or Paskat as Finns say, you can look that one up;)

 
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