A Dream
It’s long been a dream of mine to own and restore a small shop from the turn of the century. One of our members lived that dream and the results are simply fantastic. Check it out.
Proof of Payment – 1955
So I was flipping through a 1955 issue of Car Craft Magazine and the slip above fell out. Apparently, a man named Ernie Perez had charged up a $1,100 bill to Snap-On in 1955 and was paying it off $2 a week. At that rate, Ernie’s bill would be all paid up around 1966 or so.
Production Before Computers
This isn’t terribly on-topic, but I just couldn’t resist… And what garage guy doesn’t enjoy watching real tools in action? The Charles and Ray Eames Shell chair was first designed in 1948, but didn’t see real mass production until the 1960’s. Of course, designers didn’t have computers to toy with back then – All they had was their talent and their tools. There is something incredibly inspirational about the video below.
