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Subject: Re: Model Garage

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Wes

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Date Posted: 23:17:09 08/21/12 Tue
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Model Garage" on 21:34:08 08/21/12 Tue

One of my editors took issue with the line about Gus disdaining modern test equipment, but that was how I remembered a particular story from years ago.

Just a little bit curious about it, and having nothing better to do at the time, I decided to google "Gus Wilson Model Garage." To my amazement, there is a website that has ALL of the Gus Wilson stories archived! All of them from the 1920s though the late 1960s!

And, from having a good idea of the date, it only took me about two minutes to find the exact story I was thinking of -- from 1959!

You can find the damndest things on the Internet . . .

-- Wes

>When you typed that in today's episode, it brought
>back so many memories of my childhood in the 60's. I
>could not wait for the next issue of Popular Science
>and I would always read the Model Garage.
>
>I remember one episode about self adjusting brakes and
>how they only adjusted when you went backwards. Saved
>my Dad a trip to the garage to look @ the brakes.

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