Ridgid 1952

[Ryan]

I don't guess I'll ruin it with words....

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[billymade]

Drawn by the famous pin up artist George Petty: Petty is especially known for drawing “the Petty Girl”!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Petty

more examples of his work:

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...Q&biw=1280&bih=937&sei=N2z6TsHKJM_RiAL-hIiXBw

 

[The Slurpee King]

In the interests of full disclosure, posted to my Facebook page to see if I can rouse the rabble out of their post-Christmas torpor.

 

[Blacknwhitepit]

I thought it was a Vargas girl.. But it is in the same style. **** and classy... Lost and never to return in a PC world...

-BWP

 

[Amitygravel]

Yeah , style and class.
It is too bad that it doesn't seem like it will ever return.
Subtle can be so much more many times.

 

[Slowboat]

Makes me want to lay some pipe...

I mean plumb my garage for air lines in Black Iron.

 

[countryroad82]

I just love the old school pinups, such class and yet so ****

 

[Responder]

Nice!

 

[lastgoodusername]

very nice. this isn't the exact same thing but, well

 

[Tman]

Perky

 

[bobcatdan]

If somebody could get the rights to republish calanders like those for the current year, I bet those would sell like hotcakes, I would buy one every year.

 

[69satelite]

I wish that she was hanging off of my pipe machine at work.

 

[marty_p]

Less is ALWAYS so much more...

 

[TheMentat]

I like that poster... this one not so much... I think it's the crazy sister of the first one:

 

[M. Blue 240]

A quick Google search found a few more Rigid examples.

 

[Richard D]

I thought all the girls were covered in tattoos in the 50s.

 

[bm5bullit]

Snap-On Girls -

I still have quite a bit of the Snap-On pin ups memorabilia. Clock, calendars, coffee cups, etc. Reminds me of the days when I did a lot more wrenching.

 

[Brad54]

Wow, I didn't realize it was so cold in August of 1953.

-Brad

 

[Brad54]

If somebody could get the rights to republish calanders like those for the current year, I bet those would sell like hotcakes, I would buy one every year.

Every year for Christmas, my wife gets me a Gil Elvgren calendar--no tools, but the classic pin-up girls. No nudes or skin, but the suggestion is there.
Go to the calendar kiosk at your mall or a book store--they'll have one.

I get one of those from the wife every year, and Boy Wonder gets me a vintage tractor calendar. I have no reason for a calendar on the right and left wall above both sides of my corner desk, but the room would be bare without them!

-Brad

 

[craftsmanman]

Great thread, might just call up my good friend to tattoo one of these on me

 

[relic7680]

Tool ads just aren't what they used to be....and neither are the tools in many cases.

 

[Bad Jackson]

I think there should be a thread just for Pin-Ups!

 

[richkl]

A few years ago I thought I had hit the jackpot when I found I could order a Ridgid calandar. What a bummer! All ******* type pictures in the calandar. What happened to the calandars I grew up seeing.

My wife thought getting that calandar was quite silly. I told her when I was a kid there was one in every filling station garage and shop I ever went into.

Richard

 

[e3pres]

I think there should be a thread just for Pin-Ups!

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54468&highlight=Pinup

Bam! That just happened.

 

[Nozzlejocky]

Would be neat to have an original copy or two to hang in the garage. I love the old aviation art too.