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My husband has a CB, truck drivers still use 'em. Surprisingly, the modern version doesn't really look much different.
That middle thing. Leg to a pedal sewing machine?
That middle thing. Leg to a pedal sewing machine?
Sue, I think you are very close. It did have little wheels on the end you cannot see. This thing is cast iron. Did they go to that much trouble for a sewing machine?
I see a truck horn in the last picture and I just gave away two of them to a neighbor that wants to put them on his PU truck.
There's one on EBay, current bid $3.75 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350301423605
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350301423605
After leaving the Coast Guard, my dad drove truck the better part of his life till retiring. The C/B was a part of my life and all the coolness that came with it.
There was an etiquette, a protocol if you will, but a free willed manner of speak just the same.
A young boy I, had so many memories riding shotgun in the Cab of the truck and hearing the talk and sharing conversations. It didn't end there. We had C/B in the pick up, on the Boat, Hell in the house. It was cool. Today, don't even waste your breath. It would be an insult to most to have to deal with such medieval gadgetry.
Before my father sold his last truck, he had me take the C/B out of it. It is still somewhere in his house. Maybe I should blow the dust of it one day and see if it'll still fire up.
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There was an etiquette, a protocol if you will, but a free willed manner of speak just the same.
A young boy I, had so many memories riding shotgun in the Cab of the truck and hearing the talk and sharing conversations. It didn't end there. We had C/B in the pick up, on the Boat, Hell in the house. It was cool. Today, don't even waste your breath. It would be an insult to most to have to deal with such medieval gadgetry.
Before my father sold his last truck, he had me take the C/B out of it. It is still somewhere in his house. Maybe I should blow the dust of it one day and see if it'll still fire up.
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What's your handle George? Fire that baby up! I had one in my 75 CJ5. My handle was Cripple Creek. I was into the craze for awhile. People would help each other. Some old ladies were on 24/7. They could always be relied upon to relay things to someone else or to just talk about the weather.
I don't know.... when the system melts down and we are all cowering in our bunkers we'll probably wish that we still had one.
Still have a Cobra Mod. 29 CB with built in NOAA alert in my red truck.
It's helpful and amusing on a long trip along major highways. Locally, there is nothing much on the air.
Here it is and still readily available:
http://cobra.com/products/mobile-cb-radios/29-ltd-classic
It's helpful and amusing on a long trip along major highways. Locally, there is nothing much on the air.
Here it is and still readily available:
http://cobra.com/products/mobile-cb-radios/29-ltd-classic
The Legendary Shack Shakers
Anyone remember this one? Convoy
Still have my Cobra, I never throw anything out :rofl:
Anyone remember this one? Convoy
Still have my Cobra, I never throw anything out :rofl:
I still have a few mobiles, a Realistic 40 channel w/ weather band; a Midland 23 channel w/ USB/LSB and a Browning 23 channel. Oh Yeah, a Cobra 40 channel that was in the Jimmy when Dad passed.
I wish I still had his Pierce-Simpson w/ the power mike...he had it 'tuned + turned up' & sold it a long time ago
None are currently installed but I know 2 or 3 of them still work.
I wish I still had his Pierce-Simpson w/ the power mike...he had it 'tuned + turned up' & sold it a long time ago
None are currently installed but I know 2 or 3 of them still work.
Okay, here is my story.
I started working at the Sunoco at 73 & Baker in Marlton in 1973, and one of the employees there who was quite high most of the time said I looked like a weasel. So he taped a piece of paper on my back with weasel written on it and I walked around for quite a while wondering why everyone called me that. The name stuck and even today my brother rarely uses my real name. I am weasel to him. I only mentioned this because I had to explain the below photo. Anyway, for those of you who were not around when the CB craze was going, it was impossible to get anywhere near the counter at a store that sold them. I stood three people back and yelled to the man who sold me my first one. It was a 23 channel Realistic and in no time I had a five element "beam" on the roof of my parents house and even my mom and dad purchased one. Then when the 40 channel units came out I purchased a "President Grant" SSB (Single Side Band) and played around with the PLL (phase-locked loop) and was able to have mine work between the 25 and 28MH band. A man I worked with charged my $20 and took my CB to a man in Levitown and he "peaked" it and disabled the lock that kept a power mic from working properly. I then had another man I worked with make the below card and I would spend hours at home spinning that beam around talking around the world when the "skip" was active. I sent a few cards out and received a few, but in the end I lost interest in that quick.
I mounted it in the console of my Land Cruiser.
I would camp on the Forked River Mountains and in the morning talk to my parents in Marlton on channel 80. I wired it into one of the switches and could flip back and forth from 40 channel to all the others.
Guy
I started working at the Sunoco at 73 & Baker in Marlton in 1973, and one of the employees there who was quite high most of the time said I looked like a weasel. So he taped a piece of paper on my back with weasel written on it and I walked around for quite a while wondering why everyone called me that. The name stuck and even today my brother rarely uses my real name. I am weasel to him. I only mentioned this because I had to explain the below photo. Anyway, for those of you who were not around when the CB craze was going, it was impossible to get anywhere near the counter at a store that sold them. I stood three people back and yelled to the man who sold me my first one. It was a 23 channel Realistic and in no time I had a five element "beam" on the roof of my parents house and even my mom and dad purchased one. Then when the 40 channel units came out I purchased a "President Grant" SSB (Single Side Band) and played around with the PLL (phase-locked loop) and was able to have mine work between the 25 and 28MH band. A man I worked with charged my $20 and took my CB to a man in Levitown and he "peaked" it and disabled the lock that kept a power mic from working properly. I then had another man I worked with make the below card and I would spend hours at home spinning that beam around talking around the world when the "skip" was active. I sent a few cards out and received a few, but in the end I lost interest in that quick.
I mounted it in the console of my Land Cruiser.
I would camp on the Forked River Mountains and in the morning talk to my parents in Marlton on channel 80. I wired it into one of the switches and could flip back and forth from 40 channel to all the others.
Guy
If you ever get them back in use, take the 40 channel unit and using a wire start touching between the terminals on the flat black "processor chip" looking item with multiple terminals coming out of it. If you are on a noisy channel the volume and signal strength will drop dramatically and you will have found which connectors allow you to go beyond the normal 40 channels. Some sets go below channel 1 and some go above 40. My Midland went way below and my Grant worked best way above 40. Run the wires to a switch drilled through the housing or use one of the switches or buttons that are on the unit.
Channel 1 is 26.965MHZ and my Midland would go into the low 25MHZ but would start loosing power. Channel 40 is 27.405MHZ and my Grant would go into the low 28MHZ.
Guy
Channel 1 is 26.965MHZ and my Midland would go into the low 25MHZ but would start loosing power. Channel 40 is 27.405MHZ and my Grant would go into the low 28MHZ.
Guy
I had two of them, a 1973 that I purchased in 3/75, and a 1978 that I purchased new from Cherry Hill Toyota for $8200. No, I don't own them now. I traded the 73 in, and I sold the 78 in the early 90s to a girl in Turnersville near where the WalMart is now.
Guy