You might like www.brakecylinder.com They have the Gus Wilson and the
Model Garage stores from Popular Science 1925 - 1969. Before my time :-)
Don Malling
Randall Young wrote:
>>Many years ago I had a coworker who drove a VW. He also smoked a
>>pipe. He
>>told me one day he was driving along and started to clean his
>>pipe with his
>>pipe cleaning tool that was on his key ring when his car died. He soon
>>realized that his fiddling with the key ring caused his key to move to the
>>off position.
>
>
> Does anyone remember Smokey's Garage, the series that ran in Popular
> Mechanics (I think) ? I remember one episode where the nice lady wanted to
> have the springs reinforced on one side, because her husband was overweight.
> When she rode with him, the car ran fine. When she didn't, it wouldn't run.
>
> Much head scratching and testing ensued until they finally figured out that
> his key ring had a lot of keys, while hers didn't. The extra weight of the
> keys was causing the ignition switch to open up ...
>
> Randall
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