Wondering if your landlady ever found out about the missing couch? My ex-wife and I rented a place that was eventually condemned; we couldn't get our bed around the corner into the bedroom, so I removed the paneling, cut a hole in the wall, and removed a couple of studs so we could get it in there, then nailed the paneling back into place. When we moved, we just removed the paneling to get it out. The landlady never found out, but I sure hope nobody ever leaned on that wall!
When our daughter was a youngster she'd come out to the shop, take a deep whiff of combined leftover smells of welding smoke, machining oil, and whatever else was in the air. She'd ask "can we make my room smell this way?" I always said we could but mom wouldn't like it.
[QUOTE SO, I skipped over this thread thinking we were going to talk gasoline. Wrong... -I first got into gas in fifth grade, 1959. We had pump nozzles that were straight feed. A squeeze of the handle squirted gas until you release it. No auto shut off. The trick then was to keep your ear close to the fill pipe. When ya hear the gurgle note change,, time to release and stop. If not letting go,, gas keeps coming and spills out on the car and the ground. I was good at the task because most cars then, filled on the high side of the fender and my ear. However my nose was there also. I liked pumping gas, and the'buzz' it gave me. Twenty seven years later I learned that I had an addiction to petroleum distilates.[/QUOTE] Yeah! Premium red gas (91 octane) , and if you were racing and had access to aviation green gas (100/130 octane) , you'd definitely get a buzz.
Its been quite a few years ago now when two of my nephews would come over once or twice a week to help me work on my 62 Ford Unibody. I have a small shop, and with the truck and the old parts and pieces from other projects, there is a smell. I would also pull out some of my old car magazines from the 50's and 60's with them to maybe get some ideas for the truck and to see if it maybe turned their cranks a little. I even took them to Speed Week at Bonneville one year. Time moves on, one of them did a stint in the Air Force and the other one with the Navy. Now one works for Amazon in one of those giant data centers, and the other works for Space X. Neither of them got the old car/truck bug. But they still come over once in awhile when they are in town. And when we go out to the shop to show em what Im putzing around with these days the first thing they always say is how much they love the smell.
I agree. shoe boxes are flat with square corners. 49-51 Fords are very rounded, nothing flat, no square corners. shoebox is a stupid name, probably originated by a bored magazine writer hoping to be cool.
I always thought the 53-56 looked more like a shoe box Maybe they misspelled it, should have been a “Shewbox”
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