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Ever wonder if these ideas are really new?

 

Broad view, inside rear view mirror

Low fuel alarm

Life-time battery

Body Wraps

License plate protectors

Club plaques

Turbo or Hurricane mufflers

Child safety restraints

Reserve gas tanks

Push-button electric doors

Silicone Spray

Car Wash Mitt

Bobble head cat for the back window of your car

 

I love the old ads. Some of my favorites:

Cable controlled Exhaust cut-outs for $4.95 each

Pin striping your car for $1.95 

Spanish Mexican cat graphics on an oil can

A hot rod-ing book titled "Souping"

 

https://imgur.com/a/FHYLZ

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Ever wonder if these ideas are really new?

 

Broad view, inside rear view mirror

Low fuel alarm

Life-time battery

Body Wraps

License plate protectors

Club plaques

Turbo or Hurricane mufflers

Parent safety restraints

Reserve gas tanks

Push-button electric doors

Silicone Spray

Car Wash Mitt

Bobble head cat for the back window of your car

 

I love the old ads. Some of my favorites:

Cable controlled Exhaust cut-outs for $4.95 each

Pin striping your car for $1.95

Spanish Mexican cat graphics on an oil can

A hot rod-ing book titled "Souping"

 

https://imgur.com/a/FHYLZ

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It’s not my place being new to this site but I was wondering if we should have a new member category for guys like Doctor510 and I who spent our adult careers devoted to Datsuns and he never gives a wrong answer. My résumé goes like this
1. In high school I worked 3 years, 60 hours a week at my dad’s brand new Union 76 station, I rebuilt my first engine and automatic at 15
2. I put myself through 2 years of community collage working at various gas stations
3. I started working for Datsun in 1969 and attended 6 factory training schools and worked 9 years at all the Datsun dealers in the Valley of the Sun, I worked my 10th year for Nissan
4. I rented one bay and started Japanese Auto Works with $250 in 1979
5. I bought my 9 bay building in 1992 and our average sales where $75,000 a month and our car count was 12 cars a day. I owned $350,000 worth of equipment including 4 exhaust analyzers, a chassis dyno and 6 racks
6. I kept a 5% training budget and we attended classes every year all over the country like SEMA, CARS, ASA Conventions and many others.
7. The industry warranty standard was 1.5%, I kept mime at .003% so I made a few good decisions along the way
8. I sold my business, building and equipment with everything paid for in 2006 for 1.3 million and retired
9. My auto repair career lasted from 1965-2006  41 years but it feels like more
With my experience I promise to give the rite answer at least 5% of the time. Maybe we could be called Hard Members or since we are old Soft Members. Let’s exclude Suck My Member but maybe Gold Member

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I guess what I am saying is I did a lot of research in my automotive career and I usually sought the consul of the most learned person I could find on the subject. I have seen many of the answers to peoples questions sending people down the wrong path on this site. I guess I’m saying sometimes I would rather seek an answer to a medical question from a doctor rather than from a patient but we have no way to tell the difference

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^maybe tone down the self promotion a tad and people will listen to you more. We have many members that either own or worked for industry renowned shops, they’re well known and trusted. There’s also guys that never turned a wrench for money but know more than a lot of people that have. For every know-it-all on here, there’s been at least once that a shade tree guy has proved them wrong. That’s precisely why the community aspect works so well, people from all walks of life offering up real world experience to help each other.

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It’s not my place being new to this site but I was wondering if we should have a new member category for guys like Doctor510 and I who spent our adult careers devoted to Datsuns and he never gives a wrong answer. My résumé goes like this

1. In high school I worked 3 years, 60 hours a week at my dad’s brand new Union 76 station, I rebuilt my first engine and automatic at 15

2. I put myself through 2 years of community collage working at various gas stations

3. I started working for Datsun in 1969 and attended 6 factory training schools and worked 9 years at all the Datsun dealers in the Valley of the Sun, I worked my 10th year for Nissan

4. I rented one bay and started Japanese Auto Works with $250 in 1979

5. I bought my 9 bay building in 1992 and our average sales where $75,000 a month and our car count was 12 cars a day. I owned $350,000 worth of equipment including 4 exhaust analyzers, a chassis dyno and 6 racks

6. I kept a 5% training budget and we attended classes every year all over the country like SEMA, CARS, ASA Conventions and many others.

7. The industry warranty standard was 1.5%, I kept mime at .003% so I made a few good decisions along the way

8. I sold my business, building and equipment with everything paid for in 2006 for 1.3 million and retired

9. My auto repair career lasted from 1965-2006 41 years but it feels like more

With my experience I promise to give the rite answer at least 5% of the time. Maybe we could be called Hard Members or since we are old Soft Members. Let’s exclude Suck My Member but maybe Gold Member

...too many "I" on your statements.
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I used to ride my bicycle to Loper’s and dream of installing all those hotrod parts on my car one day. Roots blower, tunnel ram, dual predators and double pumping holleys, I wish I had rolled by your shop when i was a kid. Kudos sir on your commitment to the imports.

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^maybe tone down the self promotion a tad and people will listen to you more. We have many members that either own or worked for industry renowned shops, they’re well known and trusted. There’s also guys that never turned a wrench for money but know more than a lot of people that have. For every know-it-all on here, there’s been at least once that a shade tree guy has proved them wrong. That’s precisely why the community aspect works so well, people from all walks of life offering up real world experience to help each other.

I was going to say this, but no I don't have to.

 

Also, use your signature to let people know you know your shit. It's under every comment you make. I do value those on here who know more, and that knowledge comes rather quick. Your suggestion would help people unfamiliar with the community and I'll not knock it. But there really is an astonishing amount of insight coming in from people who do not have the same refined pedigree.

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There is no way I am as smart as Mike, he knows 2/3rds of everything Datsun, I know 1/3rd and some of what we know overlaps, for instance they teased us by sprinkling out the good stuff over the years and is was up to us to know this and combine it in a better way, it’s just that we learned it in different ways. I worked on 3 cars a day 200 days a year for 41 years which equals many cars. I also worked 10 years at the Datsun Dealers with 15 mechanics that saw 45 cars a day which equals even more and learned a thing or two. I realize now color coding our member into good better best is an unreasonable request. I came from an environment where we charged $3 a minute for our time and was considered incompetent to charge to go down the wrong path. Now I realize our time has no value and it is OK to send someone 20 hours down the wrong path. I now realize all opinions can be of value, it’s like the 18 wheeler that got stuck under the underpass and after working several hours one of the tow truck drivers brought his 11 year old son with him to work that day suggested they let the air out of the tires. Or the first time a 75Z was towed into ABC Datsun not running, they already sent our best tech to EFI school, we where all dreading that day, well he brought a brand new Z from the lot and started swapping parts. Three days later the parts runner walked by and said “Maybe it’s your distributor rotor” it was. The 1st manuals we used where not translated into English only the illustration had English subtitles and used odd words like anti-clockwise and bonnet and the specifications where not translated yet so I couldn’t read up allot. I tended to remember the odd things like 240Z wheel bearings torque to 80lbs but 280Z’s do not or use regular 98.5 octane or higher. I remember the 80/20 rule that states 80% of the problems are mechanical not electronic. I remember an O2 sensor produces 1-19 volts because 0 & 20 would be stupid because there is only 19% O2 on this planet. I remember a turbo needs 10lbs more fuel pressure. I don’t know my Datsun numbers like Mike, we just used the head number to determine how much has been milled of the head with the amount of material under the number, being in the head gasket capital of the world so we wouldn’t waste your money pulling the head off when it was already milled over the limit. Sorry for the self promotion I was only trying to list my credentials; I was only thinking how can we better help each other, color me bad.

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I've been told by a very good old skool mechanuc, retired, almost 70 years old, that I know some and he even was humble enough to say he knows a lot but there are still some things about cars that he does not know about. Like the nuances. This Japanese guy had his own shop for 10 years or so, worked on all Japanese cars and American cars. I like the fact that he is human and can admit and humble. Therefore, I respected his thoughts and ideas about cars.

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