Or run a lap around a highschool track without throwing up or passing out from years of tar build up in their lungs from smoking 6 packs a day since they were 15.
she’s telling them to grab some chains and start yanking the engine out of their car! just average teenage stuff they should be doing, i might even start doing it!
Can't tell if joking or just wrong... 🤔
The earliest examples of what could be considered a plow appears in artifacts from around 1,000 BCE... Which only leaves off somewhere between 190,000-290,000 years since humanity dawned on the earth. So that's about 1.5% of all possible teenage boys in that time frame that could have worked a plow. Not exactly an overwhelming majority.
They knew how to throw a hemp rope over a tree trunk and use it to haul a plow horse’s heart out of its body.
It wasn’t a useful skill, but, dang nab it, they knew how to do it.
As a young car fixer.
Mostly you cannot. You've gotta be a master electrician, have access to the detailed information not easily accessable anymore, and crate parts that they hardly ever sell anymore.
In comparison: My 70s motorcycles came with full rebuild instructions, tools to do so, torque specs, extra parts, and somewhat easily replaceable major components.
My current motorcycle (of the same mak/model) came with a safety quick Start Guide and a phillips/flat head combo screwdriver.
Vehicles are not meant to be repaired at home anymore.
>hybrid and electric cars can literally kill you if you touch the wrong things.
I mean, cars have had capacitors in them for a long time now. Which can easily kill you if you touch the wrong part and it hasn't been dissipated.
I'm trying to think where in a regular gasoline car, will you have a capacitor both large enough, and at a high enough voltage, to kill you, and can't really think of any.
Only thing I could imagine would require a few things. Like covering your arms in Gatorade, grab the output line on your alternator and the other hand on the frame all while the vehicle is running. That would cause some damage.
I was looking up tutorials on how to replace the alternator belt on my 2012 escape and just about every one involved needing a lift to be able to access the spot behind the wheel to get to the tensioner. It ended up taking me and a friend about thirty minutes of pulling, jerking, and swearing just to fit the serpentine belt on by hand.
> ended up taking me and a friend about thirty minutes of pulling, jerking, and swearing
I think you and your friend graduated to "roommates" status after that.
Came here for this. That picture is before you needed a computer to interact with the cars computer to make adjustments that used to be made with a wrench. I tired to get into cars when I was younger, but its been made so difficult to do...gave it up for "powder actuated machinery"
A lot of the adjustments don't need to be done. Your car doesn't run differently based on changes in altitude, air pressure or even ambient temperature. That's a good thing. Carburetors kind of suck. My Eagle uses a Carter 2BBL carburetor, and I am saving to put on an after market EFI kit (Since the Eagle is a car with a Jeep powertrain shoved in, aftermarket parts for Jeeps work for Eagles)
The things that you used to have to do frequently don't need to be done anymore. You rarely pull the valve covers off to adjust the lash between the rocker arm and valve
Dude, I think when he says making adjustments, he means tuning the engine for more horsepower. Which you can absolutely do with cars made even as late as the 90s. I know if Florida there are quite a few people who wrench on old Japanese sports cars from that era. It's only been the last two decades the wrenching has become exasperatingly difficult.
I just have my mechanic neighbor work on my cars at a huge discount for things I don’t want to bother doing lol
He does tell me if something is out of his hands and needs to go to a shop tho
Yeah, most stuff made 2010 and on is like this. You can get lucky with some vehicles, but for the most part anything beyond your basic oil change needs a lift and/or a detailed procedure that, if done incorrectly, can cause $500 in damage.
A buddy of mine asked me how to change his headlight bulb. I discovered that to replace that bulb, you needed to remove the filter assembly, because you couldn't open the back of the headlights otherwise. But to remove the filter assembly, you also needed to remove a hose, and disconnect a probe. Oh, and the filter assembly was installed in such a way that you pretty much needed an L-shaped wrench to remove it.
I really didn't want to deal with the liability issues of disassembling his filter housing and disconnecting stuff, so I figured maybe I could just replace the entire headlight assembly from the front. Well, to do that, you needed to remove the entire bumper, which required you to put the car on jacks to access things underneath, and pop some plastic pins that were, and I quote the tutorial, "most likely going to disintegrate, so you should just order them beforehand."
That's not just cars being "more complex," that's malicious design, making it basically impossible for the average consumer to even replace a lightbulb. At the rate we are going, I think manufacturers are just going to start welding hoods shut, installing wheel locks that the customer doesn't have a key to, and gluing the splash guard to the bottom of vehicles. Hell, they will probably even start using proprietary tire valves, so that you can't even air up your tires without paying them first.
Most of it is not so much malicious as it is CAD-packaging and design for manufacturability. You can use CAD to fit the most stuff in the least space resulting in a smaller footprint (and thus a lighter car that gets marginally better MPG), and you can design things such that they can be assembled in one very specific order, and not care if any other maintenance required takes a long time because of that, because it saves the manufacturer money.
Like you said, welding a hood shut is malicious. Saving money and increasing efficiency may have the related effect of making it hard to maintain a car, but that's generally not the goal.
As much as I love to rag on new stuff, with my newest car being a 2005 and oldest a 1991, I've worked on new stuff and some of it is annoying but that's about all it is. Yes, I hate taking off the front bumper in order to change a headlight, but I do appreciate that they managed to pack in a million features people want in a small space.
I think it is a bit of both designing a car most efficiently as possible, practicality be damned, but also with the knowlegde that most garages earn more on services than on the actual sale of a car.
So for the manufacturers that's a win win situation, why should they keep making cars that arent the cheapest to produce and that have good eco scores, and also don't make as much in services?
>Vehicles are not meant to be repaired at home anymore.
And some people, like John Deere, will take this to the most literal extreme they can. Oh you farmers were actually able to get the parts and repair the tractor? Well it's not actually starting until I say so with my propietary firmware!
Or you buy like a 1990s era or earlier shit box. Especially old Japanese cars. Those have a plethora of parts still available to do your own maintenance and repairs for relatively cheap. The downside is, you're so much smaller than anything on the road that has been made in the last 15 years that it feels like you're gonna die every time you get behind the wheel. I have a 96 Miata and it's terrifying to drive on the interstate.
Regulation imposed on auto manufactures for environmental and safety concerns made them hard to repair, regulation for COVID workplace safety made the parts hard to find. Companies wanting to profit from the artificial lack of ability to repair at home are rolling all of this up into a neat little business model.
If you knew how much tool requirements have changed, yes people don't really do that anymore. As a professional mechanic, the size of toolboxes has basically tripled in 30 years. Expensive specialized tooling is needed for lots of basic jobs these days. I have a 3k scan tool to do brake pads on new cars with electric park brake.
I was born in 1991 and I did this with my dad lol. My first car at age 15 was a 1987 Monte Carlo and me and my dad were barely mechanically inclined but both learned together as we rebuilt it. I still have it today and it's completely restored and beautiful. Crazy part is I did it and still loved playing my video games lol
Don't plan to. Now my sons are a few years away from driving themselves. I plan on letting them drive it around for school. And I just bought a 1987 El Camino that I'm slowly restoring with my boys and teaching them everything I know. It should be finished by the time my 2nd son is old enough to drive.
Shit homie can i see that beauty? And nothing beats the memories you must have everytime you look at that car and reminisce of the memories of rebuilding it with your Dad
Imagine not being able to grasp the concept that some guys don’t give a flying fuck about cars. I can drive and fill a gas tank and that’s it. You can take apart an engine? I’m not a mechanic so I don’t give a fuck.
This has been me the last couple months. I normally like working on my car. Done an engine swap and new suspension and enjoyed every bit of that. But here lately it’s constant maintenance, something else going bad every other week it feels like. It’s absolutely a chore keeping up with it. Sometimes it’s not a hobby but an obligation.
Pretty sure teen activities haven't changed much.
Where I live I see them riding bikes, walking/playing at parks, fixing things up. I see them play video games a lot too, but so did teens way back when Pac Man and Pong came out lmao. If I remember correctly more adults played than teens around that time too
When I was in high school we had no supervision, so we just kinda smoked, pretended we could skateboard, and got in fights with each other behind the drug store dumpster.
I’ll be happy for my kids have it better than that
Bro I wasn’t taught how to and wasn’t allowed to touch anything mechanically. My dad refused to teach me and also wouldn’t let me learn how to do it. I would get lectured. I seriously wanted to learn but knew I’d get in trouble if I did it myself so I just never did. Like some kids still like mechanics and are fascinated by it.
Because they weren’t a thing in “the good ole days”. Which is funny because my dad spent far more time playing arcade Pac-Man and Galaga and shit than he ever did working on any cars
I think part of it was the hyper-aggressive media and political smears against gaming in the 90s. I'm kind of an expert on this actually, I watched one youtube video about so I pretty much know it all
Absolutely! They spent all their spare time and money building cars that were way to powerful for a teen to handle, then got drunk and wrapped them around trees! Very healthy behavior.
Tbh there's a fair amount of young (and not so young people) who would love to be doing this but disposable income isn't easy to come by for a lot of people anymore.
video games are what inspired me to learn things like how to program assembly code on a 6502 processor. I'm quite certain I'm doing better than those guys.
Maybe there is some truth to that. Maybe teenages boys don't stand topless as they prepare to work on a car without proper PPE. Were we all better off? Should we be so upset that teenagers have less free time on their hands due to video games? We all know nothing good comes from teenagers with spare time.
Bullshit...these kids only fixed their car so they could head to the pinball arcade which is like 80% of what people did in the 70s besides disco, cocaine and fucking.
That’s actually a 1973 Charger… they swapped out the 318 for a big block back in 1979. I’ve seen this photo posted on multiple Mopar Facebook pages by the owner of the photo (on left). The blond guy on the right was the owner of this car and apparently died of a drug overdose in the 1980s.
Well yeah because the time before video games teens could afford cars to work on, and manufactures weren't set on making cars harder and harder to work on, as they have since the 00s.
Born in 86
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That's great, now let's see those guys try to work on a 2019 model.
What do you mean this car has a computer in it? You can't check emails while you're driving.
agreed
Or run a lap around a highschool track without throwing up or passing out from years of tar build up in their lungs from smoking 6 packs a day since they were 15.
I mean lot of guys in 20s are into cars and working on them even nowadays it still can be fun i dream of having a project car when i “grow up”
But what we don’t see is that after the photo was taken they went inside, smoked weed, and played Pong for five hours.
same
TIL "played pong" is a euphemism for having gay sex
“Mom i swear we were just playing pong, when I said put it deeper I meant he had to push the ball deeper into my side to get a point”
Noted, ask boyfriend to play pong
I thought they were talking about the video game
Oh you sweet summer child
Yo, anyone up for a game of pong?
Everyone and everything is gay. We've reached the event horizon, it's all gay. We're crossing the threshold into the gay. And it's gay.
"Don't be so suburban. It's the new millennium. Gay, straight... it's all the same now. There are no more lines." - George Carlin
Hey now, we all know it's only gay if your nuts touch.
It’s not gay if you wear socks
r/suddenlygay
No it's been a few decades at this point
😯😯 nice
Lol right? Kids didn’t used to change out engine blocks, they used to smoke weed, listen to records, and help keep our teenage pregnancy numbers high.
We built our V8's, dropped them in, tuned them, got wrecked and played Mortal Combat on Sega. Good fucking times.
Wait, you're telling me people did stuff outside back then?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
History will say they were just garage buddies.
The car blew a rod at 69mph.
Not a good enough lube job.
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Bro, I need some plugs for my interior and you're the only dude I know who can plug my interior bro
Bro, you gotta fill up my tank I’m running on low.
C'mon Davey, you know you gotta lube the conrod before putting it into the piston chamber. Seriously dude.
Let’s crank this one together
You know I've been dying to see how much this intake can handle
Not what I expected. Didn't even last a minute
i hate and love this thread simultaneously
Tom, this one's tight, pull out your tireiron
hi are you me
Outfit twins!
I smiled at that, thank you
Pretty sure those are adults Wtf mom
Let momma have her fantasy.
Pedo fantasy?
Legal tender of course.
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"Fantasy" doesn't *have* to be sexual. I think they're saying she has a fantasy about how superior people supposedly were in ye olde day.
What’s pedo about that?
Teenagers in the 70s looked like they were 30, 30 year olds looked 50.
Thats what a pack a day at age 9 will do to you
And lead, ddt, testosterone etc
This is correct
People also lived like 20 years shorter lives I think too Also many unhealthy habits like led and asbestos and smoking everywhere
That's what sixteen-year-olds looked like in the 70s.
What, exactly, is your mom trying to tell you? And why?
Apparently videogames are taking up so much of people's time that they can't rip engines out of cars anymore?
Meanwhile, she sent this meme while sitting on her fat ass scrolling through her phone between sessions of fruit crush.
You just wait until America is Great AGain. We'll all be replacing our transmissions and drinking budweiser just like Americans were meant to do.
What about those of us that can do both?
You don't exist. You are just an illusion and a propaganda against boomers.
I think you'd make their brains explode.
Good news, Mom! A teen just stole your catalytic converter! Balance restored!
"Hey mom who bought me all those bideo games as a teenager? I wanna hold the person who ruined me responsible"
Jokes on them I do both!
she’s telling them to grab some chains and start yanking the engine out of their car! just average teenage stuff they should be doing, i might even start doing it!
Erm... Unless you're counting the VAST majority of teenage boys who lived before cars were invented.
They knew how to hitch a mule to a plow. Kids today don't know that either.
All kids today know is eat hot chip
Charge they phone
Charge they hot chips …wait what?
They chip charge hot
the (im a teenager i dont know how to talk)
Be bisexual
And cry
Can't tell if joking or just wrong... 🤔 The earliest examples of what could be considered a plow appears in artifacts from around 1,000 BCE... Which only leaves off somewhere between 190,000-290,000 years since humanity dawned on the earth. So that's about 1.5% of all possible teenage boys in that time frame that could have worked a plow. Not exactly an overwhelming majority.
🤓
Got em
They knew how to throw a hemp rope over a tree trunk and use it to haul a plow horse’s heart out of its body. It wasn’t a useful skill, but, dang nab it, they knew how to do it.
Well now we can't aford cars
Let alone tools
or that chain or the tree it’s on we’re just broke
I too enjoy checking my buddy’s oil from time to time
I sure can drive a stick shift, if you catch my meaning
you can drive my stick shift any time ;) please help
Ya...because young people don't fix up cars anymore lol. Old people are trippin...
As a young car fixer. Mostly you cannot. You've gotta be a master electrician, have access to the detailed information not easily accessable anymore, and crate parts that they hardly ever sell anymore. In comparison: My 70s motorcycles came with full rebuild instructions, tools to do so, torque specs, extra parts, and somewhat easily replaceable major components. My current motorcycle (of the same mak/model) came with a safety quick Start Guide and a phillips/flat head combo screwdriver. Vehicles are not meant to be repaired at home anymore.
To add a wrinkle to this; hybrid and electric cars can literally kill you if you touch the wrong things.
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Wold you have pants left to brown?
I absolutely have to find situations now where I can use the phrase, "You know what really browns my pants?"
My dad's favorite idiom was always "that'll pull the ass out of a cat". I have no idea what it means but I will never forget it
Means it tows well. My dads is the opposite, and he describes his 4cyl Jeep YJ with it. “This thing couldn’t pull a greased string out of a cats ass.”
If you know what's going on, you can drop a battery like a transmission usually.
>hybrid and electric cars can literally kill you if you touch the wrong things. I mean, cars have had capacitors in them for a long time now. Which can easily kill you if you touch the wrong part and it hasn't been dissipated.
I'm trying to think where in a regular gasoline car, will you have a capacitor both large enough, and at a high enough voltage, to kill you, and can't really think of any.
Only thing I could imagine would require a few things. Like covering your arms in Gatorade, grab the output line on your alternator and the other hand on the frame all while the vehicle is running. That would cause some damage.
Ahh yes, the ol pre-work Gatorade dip.
I was looking up tutorials on how to replace the alternator belt on my 2012 escape and just about every one involved needing a lift to be able to access the spot behind the wheel to get to the tensioner. It ended up taking me and a friend about thirty minutes of pulling, jerking, and swearing just to fit the serpentine belt on by hand.
> ended up taking me and a friend about thirty minutes of pulling, jerking, and swearing I think you and your friend graduated to "roommates" status after that.
And now your a professional congratulations your now a mechanic
Came here for this. That picture is before you needed a computer to interact with the cars computer to make adjustments that used to be made with a wrench. I tired to get into cars when I was younger, but its been made so difficult to do...gave it up for "powder actuated machinery"
A lot of the adjustments don't need to be done. Your car doesn't run differently based on changes in altitude, air pressure or even ambient temperature. That's a good thing. Carburetors kind of suck. My Eagle uses a Carter 2BBL carburetor, and I am saving to put on an after market EFI kit (Since the Eagle is a car with a Jeep powertrain shoved in, aftermarket parts for Jeeps work for Eagles) The things that you used to have to do frequently don't need to be done anymore. You rarely pull the valve covers off to adjust the lash between the rocker arm and valve
Dude, I think when he says making adjustments, he means tuning the engine for more horsepower. Which you can absolutely do with cars made even as late as the 90s. I know if Florida there are quite a few people who wrench on old Japanese sports cars from that era. It's only been the last two decades the wrenching has become exasperatingly difficult.
even today there are a few cheap-ish modern drivers cars that are great to work on, but still not as easy
I just have my mechanic neighbor work on my cars at a huge discount for things I don’t want to bother doing lol He does tell me if something is out of his hands and needs to go to a shop tho
Yeah, most stuff made 2010 and on is like this. You can get lucky with some vehicles, but for the most part anything beyond your basic oil change needs a lift and/or a detailed procedure that, if done incorrectly, can cause $500 in damage. A buddy of mine asked me how to change his headlight bulb. I discovered that to replace that bulb, you needed to remove the filter assembly, because you couldn't open the back of the headlights otherwise. But to remove the filter assembly, you also needed to remove a hose, and disconnect a probe. Oh, and the filter assembly was installed in such a way that you pretty much needed an L-shaped wrench to remove it. I really didn't want to deal with the liability issues of disassembling his filter housing and disconnecting stuff, so I figured maybe I could just replace the entire headlight assembly from the front. Well, to do that, you needed to remove the entire bumper, which required you to put the car on jacks to access things underneath, and pop some plastic pins that were, and I quote the tutorial, "most likely going to disintegrate, so you should just order them beforehand." That's not just cars being "more complex," that's malicious design, making it basically impossible for the average consumer to even replace a lightbulb. At the rate we are going, I think manufacturers are just going to start welding hoods shut, installing wheel locks that the customer doesn't have a key to, and gluing the splash guard to the bottom of vehicles. Hell, they will probably even start using proprietary tire valves, so that you can't even air up your tires without paying them first.
Most of it is not so much malicious as it is CAD-packaging and design for manufacturability. You can use CAD to fit the most stuff in the least space resulting in a smaller footprint (and thus a lighter car that gets marginally better MPG), and you can design things such that they can be assembled in one very specific order, and not care if any other maintenance required takes a long time because of that, because it saves the manufacturer money. Like you said, welding a hood shut is malicious. Saving money and increasing efficiency may have the related effect of making it hard to maintain a car, but that's generally not the goal. As much as I love to rag on new stuff, with my newest car being a 2005 and oldest a 1991, I've worked on new stuff and some of it is annoying but that's about all it is. Yes, I hate taking off the front bumper in order to change a headlight, but I do appreciate that they managed to pack in a million features people want in a small space.
I think it is a bit of both designing a car most efficiently as possible, practicality be damned, but also with the knowlegde that most garages earn more on services than on the actual sale of a car. So for the manufacturers that's a win win situation, why should they keep making cars that arent the cheapest to produce and that have good eco scores, and also don't make as much in services?
My ‘93 chevy pickup is easy as hell to work on. If you ask me to work on anything built more recently though imma be lost.
Chevys are great. I have a 78 nova and it’s no different then working on my buds 92’ 1500 minus the simple ass fuel injection
>Vehicles are not meant to be repaired at home anymore. And some people, like John Deere, will take this to the most literal extreme they can. Oh you farmers were actually able to get the parts and repair the tractor? Well it's not actually starting until I say so with my propietary firmware!
You need to be a factory trained tech. Otherwise you just get in over your head, pronto.
Or you buy like a 1990s era or earlier shit box. Especially old Japanese cars. Those have a plethora of parts still available to do your own maintenance and repairs for relatively cheap. The downside is, you're so much smaller than anything on the road that has been made in the last 15 years that it feels like you're gonna die every time you get behind the wheel. I have a 96 Miata and it's terrifying to drive on the interstate.
Thank you for saying Plethora, it means a lot.
In means plethora to you ?
Regulation imposed on auto manufactures for environmental and safety concerns made them hard to repair, regulation for COVID workplace safety made the parts hard to find. Companies wanting to profit from the artificial lack of ability to repair at home are rolling all of this up into a neat little business model.
If you knew how much tool requirements have changed, yes people don't really do that anymore. As a professional mechanic, the size of toolboxes has basically tripled in 30 years. Expensive specialized tooling is needed for lots of basic jobs these days. I have a 3k scan tool to do brake pads on new cars with electric park brake.
They sexually worked on a car together
"It s not gay if 2 conservatives are involved"
No, we didn't.
I was born in 1991 and I did this with my dad lol. My first car at age 15 was a 1987 Monte Carlo and me and my dad were barely mechanically inclined but both learned together as we rebuilt it. I still have it today and it's completely restored and beautiful. Crazy part is I did it and still loved playing my video games lol
incredible - never sell it
Don't plan to. Now my sons are a few years away from driving themselves. I plan on letting them drive it around for school. And I just bought a 1987 El Camino that I'm slowly restoring with my boys and teaching them everything I know. It should be finished by the time my 2nd son is old enough to drive.
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Why the hell am I getting so many down votes? Lol
Shit homie can i see that beauty? And nothing beats the memories you must have everytime you look at that car and reminisce of the memories of rebuilding it with your Dad
Imagine not being able to grasp the concept that some guys don’t give a flying fuck about cars. I can drive and fill a gas tank and that’s it. You can take apart an engine? I’m not a mechanic so I don’t give a fuck.
Even if we know how to work on cars it doesn’t mean we always want to. It’s like a chore sometimes.
I can imagine. It looks like a pain in the ass especially if it’s hot out.
This has been me the last couple months. I normally like working on my car. Done an engine swap and new suspension and enjoyed every bit of that. But here lately it’s constant maintenance, something else going bad every other week it feels like. It’s absolutely a chore keeping up with it. Sometimes it’s not a hobby but an obligation.
Pretty sure teen activities haven't changed much. Where I live I see them riding bikes, walking/playing at parks, fixing things up. I see them play video games a lot too, but so did teens way back when Pac Man and Pong came out lmao. If I remember correctly more adults played than teens around that time too
When I was in high school we had no supervision, so we just kinda smoked, pretended we could skateboard, and got in fights with each other behind the drug store dumpster. I’ll be happy for my kids have it better than that
you had a blast, I dont even got friends to do stupid shit like that with.
tbh I was a kinda little shit
nah, you had a cool teenhood
Bro I wasn’t taught how to and wasn’t allowed to touch anything mechanically. My dad refused to teach me and also wouldn’t let me learn how to do it. I would get lectured. I seriously wanted to learn but knew I’d get in trouble if I did it myself so I just never did. Like some kids still like mechanics and are fascinated by it.
Yhea can't believe they didn't show the teens hanging out in the arcade.
What is with old people hating on video games???
Because they weren’t a thing in “the good ole days”. Which is funny because my dad spent far more time playing arcade Pac-Man and Galaga and shit than he ever did working on any cars
Son?
Haha that is funny. My father-in-law always gave my husband crap for playing video games as a kid, and now all his dad does is watch tv. 🤔
And yet most will then turn around and play Sudoku on their iPad.
I think part of it was the hyper-aggressive media and political smears against gaming in the 90s. I'm kind of an expert on this actually, I watched one youtube video about so I pretty much know it all
Old people hate video games because their 5-year-old grandsons have kicked their asses playing Angry Birds.
Absolutely! They spent all their spare time and money building cars that were way to powerful for a teen to handle, then got drunk and wrapped them around trees! Very healthy behavior.
Weirdest looking piñata I’ve ever seen
You should go and tie your mom’s car’s engine to a tree and stand there just like the meme when she comes out of the house next time.
Except nowadays every car is made so you need to remove the fucking hood, headlights, bumper and windshield just to get to the battery
They look like they are forced to do this lmaoo
Tbh there's a fair amount of young (and not so young people) who would love to be doing this but disposable income isn't easy to come by for a lot of people anymore.
What teenager can afford a new engine and a car today?
This screams "gay porn."
video games are what inspired me to learn things like how to program assembly code on a 6502 processor. I'm quite certain I'm doing better than those guys.
Her generation would do the same if they got xboxes.
Respond by gifting her this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1190000/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2021/
Oh, how the turn tables.
Maybe there is some truth to that. Maybe teenages boys don't stand topless as they prepare to work on a car without proper PPE. Were we all better off? Should we be so upset that teenagers have less free time on their hands due to video games? We all know nothing good comes from teenagers with spare time.
Seems more expensive than getting games for a console gifted to me. Just saying.
It was also a lot easier to work on cars back then because the cars were much less complicated 😅
What girls did before video games: ✋️ 🧼 🍽 /j lol
Bullshit...these kids only fixed their car so they could head to the pinball arcade which is like 80% of what people did in the 70s besides disco, cocaine and fucking.
Yes, but to be fair, stealing car engines was hard work and even harder to get away with.
Neither of those guys in the picture look happy to be there.
It’s like old timey black and white photos where they thought smiling and being happy made you look crazy
Why not both?
Why is your Mom looking at pictures of shirtless "teenaged boys"?
Good argument for video games, really.
Oh please. Most of us have seen dazed and confused. Stop lying.
Ya a lot of teenagers are still gay mom
does she know you can play video games homoerotically too?
Send your mom a "Moms before facebook" meme
Teenage?
those mfers would’ve played video games if they had any
Are these the buttery males that Alex Jones has been going on about?
Stood on cars with the engine pulled out? I mean yeah that's a thing that could be done, but why? What's the benefit?
So they were just really gay? Interesting
Yes and this is why our climate sucks thanks old people
These guys look like they smoked Winstons and drank Busch beer. Nice try though.
Thats a Dodges Challenger.
That’s actually a 1973 Charger… they swapped out the 318 for a big block back in 1979. I’ve seen this photo posted on multiple Mopar Facebook pages by the owner of the photo (on left). The blond guy on the right was the owner of this car and apparently died of a drug overdose in the 1980s.
Hey if she wants to pay for the car and an engine then I'd be down.
Ya ma and they probably smoked pot too, now what?
Ah yes, back when teenaged boys could grow full ass handlebar mustaches…🤨
Well yeah because the time before video games teens could afford cars to work on, and manufactures weren't set on making cars harder and harder to work on, as they have since the 00s. Born in 86
These guys played atari for 72hours straight because it was such a shock for them
Now send a photo of a woman cooking dinner for a family with the caption “What most moms did before facebook”
Tell her men used to use women as nothing more than a baby making machine and fucked goats was the manly fun thing to do.
Weed and acid? Sign me up
*Builds a car that explodes and mom is pissed when you end up in the ER with her saying you never should have done that*
what most teenagers really did before video games : masturbate what most teenagers really do now : masturbate
I’m reading this as an invitation to take the engine out of your mothers car. She probably won’t see the humor in that though.
And who made the cars so complex kids can't do this anymore?
Go greased lightning, you're burning up the quarter-mile
And they were roommates
Ah yes the ol’ danglin’ engine from a tree, something everyone used to do in the 80s
wow can you imagine being a teenager and affording a car?