On 2016-11-14, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 14 Nov 2016 03:11:36 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

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Yep -- 80=90 VAC 20 Hz (or 20 CPS in the old days. :-)

Yeah, I grew up with Cycles Per Second, too.

Or -- for short, '~' on some date plates. :-)

As for the drive-in speakers -- I wonder how many were uprooted
by driving off with them still in the window over the life of the
theater? :-)

Probably more than the number of gasoline pump hoses ripped out of
their pumps. g

Some likely stats: 1/2 had their speaker cable ripped out, 1/4 of the
speakers broke the window out, and 1/4 of the posts were uprooted.

Sounds good.


Fond old
memories of drive-ins, I remember borrowing Mom's '62 Lincoln
Continental, complete with suicide doors, to go to the drive-in after
I got my license. The front electric seat would to back, down, and
tilt back so we could put our feet on the dashboard to watch. Then,
when the movie got boring and my girlfriend got friendly, the cushy
seats proved long and wide. sweet sigh

I didn't have wheels back then -- or a MGA, which really did not
have the creature comforts for properly enjoying a drive-in. :-)

A friend drove us to work in a floor-holey MGTD one winter. Granted,
SoCal ain't frozen tundra, but it was a mite chilly. I wouldn't have
considered it a model car for the drive-in, either, despite the vast
advances and upgrades from your MGA.

Huh? The TC and TD (as wellas the TF) all preceded the MGA.
Only the MGB and MGC (MGB with a 6 cylinder engine instead of the
traditional 4 cylinder one.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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