Note: in the old days, speedometers had this needle that pointed to a number (and behind clear plastic, not glass as I said). We also had to "roll up" our windows by turning a crank. And if you wanted to listen to a CD, you'd turn something called an "AM Radio" on and tracks were called "stations", but you had no choice of album.

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And you had to push the clutch in while you shifted gears.

Eh?

You know, the different gear ratios as you increase speed.

Hmmm...

It was kinda like a ten-speed. OK, yeah, fifteen speed bike.

No, the seat belts didn't get in the way...

Doh!

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and at one time it took a strong man to turn the steering wheel. But that was before my time.

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Even the fuel supplements Doc made appeared to be rockets!

Anyone beside me notice that when they made it back to the future, got out of the car, and it was hit by a train, nobody cared? In real life the engineer would have been dynamiting the brakes, radioing dispatch, calling the cops on the cell phone, and so on. Nope, just goes straight on.

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Or woman. In my youth, my mother had a job driving a full-sized school bus that did not have power steering (I don't know about the brakes). When she first got the job, I recall her complaining about her aching arms.

At the time, I didn't appreciate the sacrifice she was making so her work hours would align with her kids' school hours.

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my mom complained when she got a new car and it had power steering--she said it was hard to control because it turned too easily. Of course, she got used to it and would never go back!

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my friend has a 4 wheel drive 1976 Jeep Cherokee, that darn thing required nothing to steer. Pinky finger is over kill. It's so bad that it actually could be dangerous to someone not ready for that.

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In 1985 I travelled on an American roadway close to twice that fast. Motorcycle. Stupidity. Sublime.

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just a thought. of course cars and motorcycles could beat that speed, but it was something most people could do at home and wasn't much more dangerous than normal driving. Now if the car had to go to 125 mph how many idiots do you think would have died trying to go as fast as the Back to the Future Car?

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Well, I don't know about you, but I was more inspired to get my car up to as fast as it could go by the Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, American Graffitti, and the Vanishing Point than I was Back to the Future.

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Which is why with manual steering one eventually learned to put the car in motion just a bit where possible and then turned. The effect of motion on reducing the load on the steering mechanism was remarkable.

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I do remember that. And reverse made it so much easier after motion started.

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...or woman! We (my parents) owned a 1960 Mercury station (4400lb) without power steering. My mother (5 ft 2in) drove it!

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During my early teens we owned a greyhound type bus converted into an RV., and it had manual steering. By the looks of things, turning was a real pain in the buttocks.

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I once drove an antique tractor. No manual steering, but it did have a turn knob, and it took nearly five turns to get the wheels hard over. It was easier just to you differential braking and let the nose slide sideways through the dirt (throttle was hand-set, the peddles were the brakes, the right one for the right main tire... aw, you get the idea).

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"Freedom begins when you tell Ms. Grundy to go fly a kite." - Heinlein