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Texas Jim -> RE: CORVETTE TRIVIA (9/28/2008 8:00:03 AM)
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When I was 16 I worked as a grease monkey at a local gas station, I was supposed to stay on my side and just change the oil and filters and grease the cars and fill up the customers at the pump and the mechanic (the owner) did the tune ups and was on the other side.
I snuck over there and learned how to gap to points and set the timing.
It was a good learning experence, I checked the oil on every car that came in, and cleaned the front window. And your right the batterys were filled with distilled water.
We came a long way since then. My battery in my 74 T-Top was replaced in Feb 2001 and came with a 72 month warranty, NAPA # 7578 has done well for me and next month I''''ll get another one from them. It hasn''''t failed yet but I''''m not going to wait to get stranded. PG.
Yes! Always take care of the regular customers as a fifty cent tip was great, as ie; a quart of Budweiser was fifty cents at the time. LOL I worked at night and on Saturday, and at night on the week days, f/ tire changes, I''d get to keep the money (labor). Remember the metal lid-hard cardboard side oil cans? And you''d stick that sharp metal spout in the top. Always w/ a fill-up, while the gas was going in w/ the little spring-loaded handle piece set, you''d do the windshield and check the oil. "It''s down a half a quart, you''re OK." LOL Very few credit cards then, the machine was at the pump and had that U-shaped handle that pulled across with the carbon copy three paper receipt with the card on the top. LOL When I worked at IBM-America''s Far-East Corp., in the reproductions dept. when I was in High School, the manager of our dept. went to 3M''s introduction of the paper that writing went through w/o carbon paper, a big break-through at the time. And a heck of a job for being in HS. When they asked me to stay at the end of HS that summer, I told them that i wanted to take the summer job that I had for the past two years at a park on the Hudson River as I liked being outside in the air when the weather was nice. What an ass I was, could have been retired and well-off now. I was only being truthful and doing what I wanted, not thinking of the future, the story of my younger days-Live for the day I was in, fast and furious! Boy did your mentioning of that old battery bring back good memories, after-all, it was only thirty five years ago.
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