Great stories on here! I'm 48 years old, but have enough fond memories of growing up under the shadow of the greatest generation.
Few things for me:
1) Grandpa was hardcore car guy. He used to modify the cars to run bootleg liquor between NY and NJ during Prohibition (but never drove the cars because THAT would be illegal). Man crawled under cars until he was 90 years old. I got a lot of his old tools and even more of his habits.
2) The times these gas pumps and memorabilia came from where a "better time" then we live in now. America was something to behold, and the "greatest generation" instilled their pride and ingenuity in everything we see from that era.
3) design-wise, these are works of art. From the early 1900s to the art deco phase and post-war period, it's all just so much better than the cookie-cutter, unoriginal things we see today. To this day, I still shave with a 1940s era safety razor....just because
Most of the cars I build or modify are from this period, most recently a 1950 Ford F1 (all original out of Wyoming with 47k miles on it's Flathead 6). Is it "better than what's avaialble today? No. Does it have infinitely more character? Heck yeah
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