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These newfangled Halongen bulbs being used in modern cars are dangerous.

When you're walking or driving around at night and there's on-coming traffic, you get blinded when these things hit your eyes.

Those new headlights which are very small with a very intense blue-ish beam are awful. I remember first seeing them on German cars in France some years ago, now they're becoming more common here as well. They might be great for seeing with, but as you say, they blind everybody else.

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My dad has informed me that windshield wipers used to be powered by manifold vacuum, and that when you accelerated to pass, your wipers would stop!

Vacuum-operated wipers were still being used on some British cars into the early 1960s, several years after the switch to 12-volt systems.

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Some of us never stopped playing with valves.
You bet! [Linked Image] And that reminds me of a joke:

Famous last words #23408:

"Of course the top cap is the grid!"

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