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Title: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 20, 2025, 07:04 PM
Seemed that everyone liked it. So I'm bringing it back Vintage photo of the day.

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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: jabberwoki on Jan 20, 2025, 07:14 PM
Fells like home again Mudds.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: skfarmer on Jan 20, 2025, 08:00 PM
well done!
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Jan 21, 2025, 08:29 AM
Great to have you back Muddy. Also great to have this topic back online -- it was always a popular segment.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 21, 2025, 04:17 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Jan 21, 2025, 04:52 PM
Quote from: Muddy on Jan 21, 2025, 04:17 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/HLZKkYxr/gettyimages-3348155-612x612.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

A simple man doing doing an honest job --- Life was good then.

FIL and grandpa were guys just like that man.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: jabberwoki on Jan 21, 2025, 08:20 PM
Wow just wow.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: fatfillup on Jan 22, 2025, 07:18 AM
Keep it up Tim
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Jan 22, 2025, 09:29 AM
Quote from: jabberwoki on Jan 21, 2025, 08:20 PMWow just wow.

Imagine doing that job 9-5 everyday, and managing to stay alive until retirement. What are the odds?
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 22, 2025, 06:43 PM
Quote from: goodfellow on Jan 22, 2025, 09:29 AM
Quote from: jabberwoki on Jan 21, 2025, 08:20 PMWow just wow.

Imagine doing that job 9-5 everyday, and managing to stay alive until retirement. What are the odds?

And retiring with all your fingers!
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 22, 2025, 06:44 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Rural53 on Jan 23, 2025, 12:32 AM
Opps.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 23, 2025, 06:08 PM
Pacific Coast Highway near Topanga Canyon. 1920's

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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Jan 23, 2025, 07:45 PM
Must have been exciting living in California at that time. Things were moving fast and California was growing by leaps and bounds. Lots of fortunes were made at that time in California.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 25, 2025, 08:00 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Rural53 on Jan 25, 2025, 08:40 PM
Foden Steam Wagon
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 27, 2025, 06:51 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: coolford on Jan 28, 2025, 06:03 AM
Muddy---I have always liked your photo posts---Thanks.  Your latest one of the ice delivery truck brings back memories of the 1940's.  I grew up in a town across the bay from New York near the shore in  New Jersey.  In the summer especially we kids would follow the ice man hoping he would chip off a piece for us. In those days we had an ice box, not a refrigerator, and ice delivery was about every three days. Coolford
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: jabberwoki on Jan 28, 2025, 12:02 PM
I like the electrical tape warming up on the drop light.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jan 28, 2025, 07:52 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Rural53 on Jan 31, 2025, 01:19 PM
Hay

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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 03, 2025, 06:14 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Feb 04, 2025, 04:08 PM
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Interesting Photo! Not the car, (which BTW looks like a 1952 Ford Taunus 12M), but the license plate. After WWII when Germany was divided into four military administrative sectors (France, Britain, USA, and the Soviet Union), German automobile license plates were issued according to what sector you lived in. This one starts with A/B  -- American Sector/Bavaria.

This system was in place until the mid-1950's
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 06, 2025, 04:57 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: AbiggerGarage on Feb 06, 2025, 06:06 PM
Quote from: Muddy on Jan 21, 2025, 04:17 PM(https://i.postimg.cc/HLZKkYxr/gettyimages-3348155-612x612.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Didn't realize James May was that old. ;D
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 07, 2025, 06:31 PM
November 1942. "Lititz, Pennsylvania. Showroom of the Pierson Motor Company owned by Al Pierson, who is showing his one second-hand car to a local farmer. Before the war there always were three brand new cars in his showroom. Now the chief business of garages is repairing."

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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: jabberwoki on Feb 07, 2025, 07:55 PM
training for locating mines?
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 08, 2025, 05:31 PM
Quote from: jabberwoki on Feb 07, 2025, 07:55 PMtraining for locating mines?

Yep

"Their arms jutting through Moascar Stocks, a training device, British Fifth Army soldiers learning to handle mines and booby traps work on different types without seeing them. Instructors at left watch the soldiers handiwork, Jan. 20, 1944. (AP Photo)"
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 08, 2025, 05:48 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Feb 09, 2025, 05:46 AM
Scotty's Garage advertises "Quick Charge". That was actually a popular and profitable service back in the day. Automotive lead acid battery charging systems that relied on DC generators were the norm until 1960 when the alternator  was introduced by Chrysler. Those generators were very inefficient in charging batteries and garages/service stations made a good profit on recharging your battery with a high amperage charger.

When I worked as an apprentice mechanic in the 1970s, a Sun charger was always setup for "Quick Charge" with the timer set at 30 minutes. IIRC the price was a couple of dollars.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: j.a.f.e. on Feb 09, 2025, 08:42 AM
Scottys was in PA and operating an inspection station in addition to the regular mechanic stuff. Not sure about current practices but until the early 80's cars had to be inspected twice a year then annually and got a sticker in the lower left of the windshield different colors for different periods. The police were always vigilant about pulling cars over if they didn't have a current sticker. At least in Pittsburgh where I lived most of misspent youth.

One of my great joys was moving to California where there were no inspections.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Heiny57 on Feb 11, 2025, 10:11 AM
Quote from: jabberwoki on Jan 21, 2025, 08:20 PMWow just wow.
Holy sh#!
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Elroy on Feb 11, 2025, 03:57 PM
Might not be truly vintage but these pics of Elroy in the old garage with the Boss 302 over 40 years ago. Seems like yesterday. wish I still had the car.

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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Uncle Buck on Feb 11, 2025, 04:21 PM
I bet you do wish you still had it! Just the way I like to see a car too, with rubber that fills the fender wells! The rear tires were a real set of meats too. I bet that sucker hooked up well too!
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Feb 11, 2025, 05:26 PM
Great pics Elroy. We all wish we had some of those 1960s, 70s, and 80s cars back. But life, jobs, and often family needs inevitably get in the way. Such is life --

The car I miss the most wasn't an exotic, nor was it a Jaguar. I owned a 1973 Lincoln Mercury Capri with the 2.6 V6 Cologne engine. It was a great little show stopper and J.C. Whitney had very high quality German and English performance parts for it. I built that thing into a wonderful sports car-like daily driver.

Still own the red pit-crew jacket with a white vertical stripe on the left side and the Capri logo on it -- also a Whitney purchase.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 13, 2025, 05:55 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 14, 2025, 08:09 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: SteelWheels on Feb 15, 2025, 06:35 AM
Very well liked & glad to see it return.
Pep
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 21, 2025, 04:16 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: skfarmer on Feb 21, 2025, 05:11 PM
nice jimmy.

look at that power steering!  8)
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Feb 24, 2025, 07:13 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 05, 2025, 04:50 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 05, 2025, 07:47 PM
M1 Garand rifle stocks are made at the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Factory in New Haven, Connecticut during WW2

Winchester was contracted to produce the M1 Garand in 1940 with the first completed rifle rolling off the production line on January 10, 1941.

By the time Winchester ceased M1 production in 1945, they had produced a total of 513,880 M1 Garand Rifles.

Winchester Repeating Arms Company Archives
Buffalo Bill Center of the West - P.20.3024.1


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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 06, 2025, 06:48 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 07, 2025, 08:23 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 11, 2025, 05:55 PM
Thirsty pup



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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 14, 2025, 08:34 PM
Some reason my brain always associates big multi pump gas stations with modern times.

Goes to show they had them back then.


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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 16, 2025, 06:06 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Mar 17, 2025, 08:18 AM
New WAWA is opening right down the road from us. WAWA and Sheetz are expanding like crazy in central Virginia.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: AbiggerGarage on Mar 18, 2025, 06:53 AM
Now I will have George Harrison in my head all day, LOL.  Wawa......
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 22, 2025, 08:25 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Mar 23, 2025, 05:16 PM
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Cale and the Wood brothers were legends back in the late 1960s.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 27, 2025, 06:35 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 29, 2025, 05:51 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Mar 31, 2025, 07:59 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 09, 2025, 06:15 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Apr 10, 2025, 06:37 PM
Must have been a heck of a party!!
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: j.a.f.e. on Apr 10, 2025, 07:38 PM
Quote from: goodfellow on Apr 10, 2025, 06:37 PMMust have been a heck of a party!!
As a guess I don't think it ended well for the rider.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 15, 2025, 06:28 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 18, 2025, 07:53 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 19, 2025, 08:23 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: AbiggerGarage on Apr 19, 2025, 11:24 PM
Did they ever actually make a non motorized bicycle?

I always have kept my eye out for some beater of an old bike to put one of those chinese motor kits on and try to make it look like an old Hardly Davidson, for the around the neighborhood ride to work.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 21, 2025, 05:54 PM
Yes from 1917-1922

https://www.insurance.harley-davidson.com/resources/harley-davidson-bicycles
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 21, 2025, 06:12 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Apr 25, 2025, 06:57 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on May 01, 2025, 06:40 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on May 02, 2025, 06:44 PM
Wouldn't you just like to walk around in there and experience that workshop?
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Uncle Buck on May 02, 2025, 08:14 PM
Quote from: goodfellow on May 02, 2025, 06:44 PMWouldn't you just like to walk around in there and experience that workshop?

Absolutely! I have been in several such shops in my life. Very memorable and their equal I will likely never see again. One of those I visited was an overhead flat belt shop! That was in the early 1980's. Fascinating,  but junked up, filthy, and quite neglected. Nevertheless what I wouldn't give to see that again. Aside from museums, or vintage displays few people of my age have ever seen the real deal from the day.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on May 02, 2025, 08:54 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on May 08, 2025, 07:35 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on May 09, 2025, 06:53 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on May 12, 2025, 07:05 PM
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15 internet points if you can tell me the engine.....
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Rural53 on Jun 05, 2025, 06:18 PM
When you try and sneak down the road without a permit.

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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: AbiggerGarage on Jun 09, 2025, 06:28 PM
Man, that's a drag. ;D
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jun 11, 2025, 06:19 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: SteelWheels on Jun 11, 2025, 07:20 PM
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I remember that gas price, & cigarettes .25
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jun 17, 2025, 06:18 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Elroy on Jun 17, 2025, 11:48 PM
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15 internet points if you can tell me the engine.....

Elroy whispered in my ear.............Ford Y-Block
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jul 20, 2025, 07:34 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Jul 22, 2025, 06:37 PM
We used to put so much craftsmanship and beauty into things even "just" a bar


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Post by: Muddy on Aug 13, 2025, 05:10 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Aug 25, 2025, 05:18 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Aug 30, 2025, 07:02 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Sep 05, 2025, 06:37 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Sep 13, 2025, 07:22 PM
Oliver 88 being looked over by plant engineers. April 1947

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Post by: Muddy on Sep 20, 2025, 07:10 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Sep 27, 2025, 08:53 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Uncle Buck on Sep 29, 2025, 05:03 PM
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That is the tractor I have always wanted right there!
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Oct 10, 2025, 06:54 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Oct 12, 2025, 06:59 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Oct 17, 2025, 07:27 PM
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Post by: goodfellow on Oct 17, 2025, 07:59 PM
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My first full time job as a mechanic back in the 1970s was in an old independent garage that had been built post-WWII. All the lifts were in-ground hydraulic units with the oil tank placed above ground next to air valve system. The seals leaked and the thing was sketchy as heck, but we made do.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Uncle Buck on Oct 17, 2025, 10:42 PM
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My first full time job as a mechanic back in the 1970s was in an old independent garage that had been built post-WWII. All the lifts were in-ground hydraulic units with the oil tank placed above ground next to air valve system. The seals leaked and the thing was sketchy as heck, but we made do.

So many shops had those kind of lifts in the day. I think they were the lions share, but i could be wrong.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Uncle Buck on Oct 17, 2025, 10:44 PM
Quite impressive for those ever blessed to see one of these dinosaurs under power.
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Post by: goodfellow on Oct 18, 2025, 06:22 PM
Quote from: Uncle Buck on Oct 17, 2025, 10:44 PMQuite impressive for those ever blessed to see one of these dinosaurs under power.

They were great lifts, but the lifting platforms were an "X" design, so getting full access to the undercarriage for exhaust and drive train work was sometimes quite difficult.

Also, when the seals on the rams leaked above ground, it was very dangerous to work underneath those things. It was very slippery and you had to watch yourself. In addition the leaking hydraulic oil would eat up a pair of workboot soles and uppers in short order. Other than that they were perfect  --- LOL

Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: j.a.f.e. on Oct 18, 2025, 08:09 PM
I recall those lifts well. As a kid worked for a guy that had a couple. One had drive on ramps and one was an H shape not the X. It also had a latch on the side bar that would not allow the lift to lower unless moved. Another place had one that slowly leaked and one time someone left a stand under the car before leaving. Quite a surprise in the morning and it took about a day to get the car free. 
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Oct 22, 2025, 05:19 PM
My neighbor growing up had an auto repair shop we would ride our bikes around and he had the H style in ground lifts
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Post by: Muddy on Oct 22, 2025, 05:20 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Oct 30, 2025, 06:34 PM
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Post by: Muddy on Nov 01, 2025, 07:48 PM
My dad collects Coleman lanterns. But I gotta find him one of those. Anyone know what kind?



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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Uncle Buck on Nov 01, 2025, 08:13 PM
That is a new one on me! I don't make a point of collecting them, but between falling heir to a few and saving several that neighbors put out as trash I have 8-10 or so of them.

I bet your dad has some interesting ones though.
Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: goodfellow on Nov 06, 2025, 09:43 AM
That was my family - picicing and camping out of a '64 Galaxie Country Squire. Sitting in the back on long trips was torture,

Mom always packed the Coleman equipment right on top of the pile to get the food and the evening lights going ASAP.

Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Nov 12, 2025, 06:53 PM
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Title: Re: Vintage Photo of the day
Post by: Muddy on Nov 28, 2025, 06:39 PM
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