... I remember watching all my mates dads get ready to go away on holidays each year. They used to fit the wide mirrors on the bonnets of holdens & fords, attach water bags to the little bracket on the front chrome bumper bar, attach that bloody awful looking roofrack with the sun bleached
grey perished rubber suckers, and lastly..... fit the folding down windscreen stone guard.
Now, the stone guard, why did it fall out of favour?
I remember watching all these vehicles coming up from
Port Augusta, on the way to
Alice Springs, and
Darwin, and the roads were all dirt. Most of these vehicles had the windscreen stone guards fitted.
Now, I realise that we have come a long way in bleep terproof glass, but on a long trip, is it with the inconvenience of having to peer through a crack running the whole height of your windscreen, until you can get it replaced?
Oh, and while we're at it............ the practice we used to adopt when oncoming traffic passed us on dirt roads........... you know, the put your hand, or a few fingers against the window........... is it crap, or not, 'cause like the glass is already cushioned in rubber.
And, for the younger brigade that frequent the
forum, how's this.......... one of my old mans cars had this bloody big electric heating element running along the bottom of the drivers side of the windscreen, attached by 2 big weapon rubber suckers. Had these HUGE wires going down to the battery.
That boys & girls, was a demister!!
Okay, nuff of the time travelin'........
Wolfie