Monday Time Killer: Bitchin' Old Magazine Stories

[McGuire]

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Anyone remember Gus Wilson's Model Garage in Popular Science? Now there is a unique genre in literature: short story fiction about auto repair. And surprisingly well done, too. The characters were all straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

http://www.gus-stories.org/index.htm

I've got the Pocket book of them! It was my dad's as a kid.

That is so cool. This is where we all come from. It's gearhead imprinting.

[McGuire]

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Yikes, I could lose my week there :D

I'm a sucker for old magazines and books (especially when technical or automotive oriented). I spend a lot of time in secondhand bookstores and the library.

Me too. For around seven years I was working on the road covering NASCAR, Indy Car events, etc, which allowed me to visit book shops all over. Searching used book stores became my road hobby (you have to have a road hobby or you will go nuts). I would only buy if it was really special or I could get it for pennies on the dollar. Finally I had to stop. I would get all excited over finding a rare book only to take it home and discover I already had a copy sitting on the shelf. And one day I realized that if I stopped collecting books and retired today, I couldn't live long enough to study them all. So it stops here... except once in a while I just have to have something, you know how it is.

Libraries too. Several years ago I was working on a story at the local library, researching issues of The Horseless Age, an early automotive trade journal, where I found some slips of paper stuck here and there in the bound volumes. The handwriting on them looked oddly familiar but sort of juvenile... then I realized these were my own page notes from 20-odd years ago.

My own collection is a total mish-mash... for example, I have a ton of mags, every car title under the sun, but I still don't have a complete collection of HOT ROD. I need to get on it and sort it out. Or I would trade the whole pile for a nice shack on the beach if I could find the right sucker... I mean, devoted enthusiast. There is a lot of wisdom in the old saying, "Never own more stuff than you can dust."

[Freiburger]

Re: Monday Time Killer: Bitchin' Old Magazine Stories

Anyone remember Gus Wilson's Model Garage in Popular Science? Now there is a unique genre in literature: short story fiction about auto repair. And surprisingly well done, too. The characters were all straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

http://www.gus-stories.org/index.htm

I've got the Pocket book of them! It was my dad's as a kid.

[Darren N.]

Re: Monday Time Killer: Bitchin' Old Magazine Stories

Yikes, I could lose my week there :D

I'm a sucker for old magazines and books (especially when technical or automotive oriented). I spend a lot of time in secondhand bookstores and the library.

Thanks for sharing.

[antmnte]

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I wonder what Tom McCahill would say about the cars we have today?

[antmnte]

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Ive got a bunch of old popular science mags I like to look at now and then. Gus was good
they should have a section like that today.

[McGuire]

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Old workbench magazines are the greatest.

Anyone remember Gus Wilson's Model Garage in Popular Science? Now there is a unique genre in literature: short story fiction about auto repair. And surprisingly well done, too. The characters were all straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.

http://www.gus-stories.org/index.htm

[FuryUs]

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Helicopters for everyone!

[Freiburger]

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Gas in the carpet...sparks in the old electric vacuum cleaner...

[malc]

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This is too funny..............and smelly............... ???

[JRoberts]

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Okay guys you've found another way for me to waste time (well, maybe not really waste) time at the computer screen. This is really cool. Yep, I found the Studillac article. ;D

[dthemi]

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That skimmer story reminds me of buying the plans for one when I was around 12 years old. Plans 5 bucks,,,,cost to build 1500,,,asking Dad for the money,,useless.

The Jap train thing makes me hear Archie Bunker sing "those were the days"

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