Art & Inspiration Gus model garage

I thought you all might enjoy these old stories http://www.gus-stories.org/Alpha_List.htm

 

I loved Gus's garage as a youngster. Did not know he started so long back.

 

Never seen that before! Read the first story, funny stuff. Ill have to go back and read more of those, thanks for posting that!

 

I think there may have been a slight overlap of Gus and "Say Smokey" Yunick for a while in Popular Science back in the 60s.
http://www.gus-stories.org/PDF/1964/July64.pdf

 

Yea I read the say smokey articles also. I also remember wordless workshop

 

You can also go to Google Books and read the entire Popular Science magazines: https://books.google.com/books/about/Popular_Science.html?id=MC0DAAAAMBAJ

They also have all the old Popular Mechanics magazines: https://books.google.com/books/about/Popular_Mechanics.html?id=RdMDAAAAMBAJ

 

And this is how and why Gus disappeared.
http://www.gus-stories.org/the_last_martin_bunn.htm

 

I had not thought about poplar mechanix in decades until today. did a internet search for Gus garage and there it was! I had a uncle who was a brainiack. He read the entire excyclopedia when he was a teen. And He subscribed to all kinds of magazines. And we got them when he finished reading them. He only read something one time. and remembered everything he read. Nobody would play cards with him. he knew every card in everyones hand. Knew the odds on gambling and would go to vegas and clean up.

 

You can count me as one of the many Gus's Garage fans.......loved the stories and the lessons they taught.

Ray

 

My dad subscribed to Popular Science when I was a kid, and every month the first thing I'd read was The Model Garage. I also was fascinated by the illustrations in the Hints From the Model Garage.

 

Always loved The Model Garage! My favorite moment in every story: When Gus pauses, tamps tobacco into his pipe and calmly reflects on the facts. The pause is Gus mentally shifting into overdrive.

My favorite recurring character: Silas Barnstable. What a walking load of ...

 

I'm another one who read every one of those I got my hands on and learned a lot from those stories.

 

It was either on here or Ford Barn,I'm thinking Ryan had a link to the Model garage stories, I read a couple a night for weeks till I had read all that was posted,this was a year or so ago.what a blast.