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polara71
Old Man with a Hat
Well everybody does look happy enough... so yep, pretty darn gay I'd say.
F'ing word bugs me... what's wrong with light in his loafers?
I use it all the time but not as much as fag or ****
The quality of "Home Cooked" has taken a serious dive since the microwave oven made it into everyone's kitchen. I discovered last week that none of my children knows how to make scrambled eggs with a fry pan and a fork. Even worse, my grand kids will only eat the microwaved version, the "hand" scrambled are too soft and fluffy.
What a screwed up world we've built for ourselves.
What a screwed up world we've built for ourselves.
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
kmart blue light special
car seat
67newport
Old Man with a Hat
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Kids knocking on your door asking to mow your lawn or to shovel out your driveway.
Simpler yet, kids working. Period.
Simpler yet, kids working. Period.
Actually this still happens in my neighborhood, but the kid wants $100 to shovel the lane and in summer $150 to cut the grass. These are jobs that I remember doing as a kid, $3 for shoveling and $5 for grass cutting and I did a much better job! Kids, nowadays, want everything "now" and fully expect to receive a man's wage for a boy's work. Not from this cowboy, I bought the tools, snow blower, lawn mower, leaf blower etc and do the yard work ourselves.
bulldogchesty
Senior Member
I miss the Saturday morning cartoons.
MoPar Maniac
Well-Known Member
Mad Man Muntz!
As for the single post lifts, didnt they have a latch that kept them from rotating?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
The one I used to work under would let it swing about 45°.
MoPar Maniac
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IIRC there was a latch you could kick into place that would prevent the lift from falling in cace of hydraulic failure and it also served to keep it from rotating.
A mechanic my older brother took his car to learned about this. He failed to lock the lift and left for the night. He came back to work the next morning to find my brother's car (Plymouth Turismo) on its roof. The lift came down and the mechanic's tool chest was under the lift. You can figure the rest.
A mechanic my older brother took his car to learned about this. He failed to lock the lift and left for the night. He came back to work the next morning to find my brother's car (Plymouth Turismo) on its roof. The lift came down and the mechanic's tool chest was under the lift. You can figure the rest.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
OK. You triggered some fried memory cells. Yes, I remember the lock lever to keep it from dropping overnight. Don't recall it preventing it from swinging.
AND YES, I did forget the lock closing up very late one night. All the gas island displays taken in for the night and stored under the car got crushed. Why my boss never killed me for alk my screwups, I'll never understand. R.I.P. Mike Karafotias. I miss ya, badly.
I've posted this pic before. My son was working at the Ford store and was walking across the service department and this truck fell right behind him.
I am familiar with that design, but I don't recall it being on that first lift... original to the shop, 50's or 60's on a wild guess... could be older. IIRC that lift would try to screw itself up and down and required the operator to hold the car straight when moving.
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800 to 1k each? This guy thinks these are worth more than scrap value?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I'm surprised. You don't remember that metal plate you drove the left front tire onto? And holding the rear bumper while dropping the car to guide that tire back down into that plate?
Gawd!!! The memories that are gushing out of my brain since we started talking about the old gas stations!!!
Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
As a kid I happened to be looking through the store window, out into the K-mart auto service bay, when a red '73 Fury wagon came down and smooshed a couple trash cans. What an exciting trip to the store, lol!
Later on, I ended up working there
by then, we were electrified.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Back to subject...
When was the last time you had your shoes resoled at the Coblers?
Not just the heels. Heels and soles?
When was the last time you had your shoes resoled at the Coblers?
Not just the heels. Heels and soles?
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Late 80s/early 90s. Had my boot soles done 3 times before the uppers gave out. More than that for the heels.
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