I must be old, because I got it. 
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Me too…[ten characters]
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While Marlon Perkins makes comments from the safety and comfort of the air conditioned studio! 
I’m old, too!
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Oy. My father does the same. Along with routinely noting the price at every single gas station in a 10 mile radius, so he can go and “save” $0.01/gallon by driving to some more distant station.
The first HS Principal for whom I worked was a late middle-aged woman who still lived with her parents. Every Saturday, her mother would command her to drive–in her gas-hog Buick–to Stop & Shop for one item, then to A&P for one or two items, and subsequently to a couple of other supermarkets for just one or two items–in order to “save money” 
, in a half-day long odyssey that lasted far too long because her mother wouldn’t allow her to drive more than 25 mph.
The authoritarian Principal had no hesitation about making extreme demands on her staff that they could only refuse upon pain of retribution, but she herself was unable to refuse her Mommy’s bizarre and unreasonable demands.
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Remember the days people would drive all over town to get to the stores that gave the best prices plus trading stamps?
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Heh heh. A co-worker finally told me that the boss took a vow of poverty, obedience, and chastity. Then it all made sense and I just tried to avoid her as much as possible.
I had the same issue with my previous 2006 Toyota Matrix and have with my 2017 Tucson.
I also get it if I open both rear windows without opening a front window.
If I open either front window an inch or so it stops
I remember something about trading stamps. Some store that took them in Tupelo (the big city to us at the time). Green Stamps they were called maybe? S & S green stamps or something like that? Man, that’s going way back and is hazy like a dream. I’d forgotten about that until you said “trading stamps”. I remember looking at stuff in the store. I don’t remember actually getting squat and I never knew exactly how that stuff worked.
It’s pretty rough. Thank God for air conditioning lol.
We had both green stamps and gold bond stamps. My Mom would save them and we’d spend an afternoon licking them and pasting them in the books for redemption (of the stamps that is). She worked at one of the two store during the busy season and I would covet the Tonka trucks that they had there. We never seemed to have enough stamps for that though or it wasn’t a priority to spend the stamps on. Then the Holiday gas station had their own stamps that you could use to buy plates and cups and stuff. The center island had a glass display case with all the stuff in it. Dang now I remember where that station was. Gas station, meat store, law office.
Yes the green stamps was the big one there was one other but I don’t remember what it was the way they worked { I can’t remember any numbers } was every purchase you made they would give you so many stamps the amount depended on how much you spent at the time they also gave you a book to keep them in also a catalog listing the merchandise you could redeem them for I don’t remember what all was in the catalog but I do remember my mother and grandmother ordering things that way. Besides stores giving them out a lot of gas stations also gave them out.
S&H Green stamps, one stamp for each ten cent purchase.
The grocery store we we to had a machine that dispensed the stamps. At the Mobil Station I worked at, we had books of the stamps to hand out. I think there were ten stamps on each page. S2.00 gas got you two pages=20 stamps. I have no idea how many stamps to fill the savings book, but remember licking and sticking.
My mother saved Green , my Aunt saved Gold Bond, so they swapped stamps.
S&H had walk in redemption centers. We had one still operating near where I live up until 1990.
We rarely went to Holiday Stations, so never bothered with their stamps.
Back to oil consumption, both my parents and I had some Flathead sixes, no oil filters, that went through at least a quart every 500 miles. Mine was a 1949, so it was from the days of non-detergent, single weight oil usage.
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Yup!
Sperry & Hutchinson was their full name.
Once every 2 or 3 years, we would “cash in” our stamps and get something like a mixing bowl in exchange. In order to get anything really valuable, you would have had to save those stamps for an entire lifetime.
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Not sure about all this oil consumption on new cars. All of my Mazdas and Fords (all recent vintage) don’t burn any oil. Two are turbos, one with high miles, and the rest are NA. None have ever lost more than a half a quart of oil between oil changes of 5,000 to 7,500 miles. That’s what I would expect from a modern car, even with low tension rings on the pistons for fuel economy.
As for buffeting, if you have a sunroof just pop it up at the back. With one rear window open about two inches you will stop the buffeting and get a beautiful circular breeze around the cabin. Note, this will not work if any other windows are open. You can only have the sunroof popped up and one rear window cracked open. Opening the other rear window or any front window will stop the air circulation (although the buffeting will not return either).
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That has been my experience, also. The last “oil burner” that I owned was my POS '74 Volvo, and that was obviously a very long time ago. I thought that I had seen the last of well-maintained cars burning excessive oil until my friend’s Rav-4 began doing it at ~80k miles.
Well, I never met my Principal’s Mommie Dearest, but you are probably on the mark with that video.
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Wow, so many memories here, but:
Oil change intervals were 1500 miles then.
IIRC when gas was $.35/gal, premium oil at a gas station was around $.65/qt.
Disagree strongly. Wind wings deflected enough air to keep it off your left ear and forced the air to circulate better inside the car.
And a rotor, don’t forget the rotor. Also it was called a “Tune Up Kit”.
Sort of true. Back in the 50’s and 60"s, vehicles that had AC did not have the flow through vents. Those that did not come with AC had huge vents under the dash or in the kick panels that provided a lot of air. I once had a 66 Ford Galaxi that had flow through ventilation n place of AC. On road trips, we would close all the windows, open the vents and spray ourselves with a little water periodically. It kept us very cool while driving through the hot southwest at the time. Not so good in the hot and humid southeast.
Yes, S&H Green Stamps. Took a LOT of groceries to get anything though. My grandfather smoked Raleigh cigarettes all his life and colleted the Raleigh coupons that came with each pack. A lifetime of smoking and collecting the coupons netted him a plastic box camera, a small ice chest and an early death from lung cancer.
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My father had a '66 Galaxie 500–a very nice car–that came from the factory sans A/C, and–yes–it had large under-dash vents that provided a decent air flow at highway speed. However, even in the Northeast, the humidity was just something that none of us wanted to tolerate any longer, so he had an aftermarket A/C (Eaton, Yale, & Towne was the brand) installed by a local A/C specialist.
So, we essentially had the best of both worlds. On days when it was just somewhat hot but not humid, we used the under-dash vents. When the temp and humidity rose, we closed those vents and used the A/C.