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RE: Recaps

To: <b-evans@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Recaps
From: "David Ramsey" <dwramsey@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:06:19 -0700
I remember those days.  Short sticking, fan belt nicking, oil can in the
back pocket (to show the owner leaking axles, trannys or whatever).  You
never got out of our Shell station without the "full service".  I learned it
all OJT at 15.
                Crash 


* There are, of course, no more service stations.  For those of you too 
young to have known them, that was where you could pull in, tell the 
attendant in the snappy uniform and cap how much gas you wanted, either 
"fill 'er up (or two dollars) with ethyl".  Ethyl.  That was an additive 
to engines that reduced the ping and valve damage.  For that few bucks, 
the attendant would put in the gas, check your oil, water, battery 
water, and fan belts before he cleaned your windshield, mirrors, and 
back window spotlessly clean.                      




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