Here's one for us Old Farts.....

[Jess from VA]

It must've made a deep impression upon me because even today some almost fifty years later I still find myself unreasonably fascinated by tiny bumps on the fronts of tee shirts.    

Big bumps are pretty swell too.    

[Valkorado]

It must've made a deep impression upon me because even today some almost fifty years later I still find myself unreasonably fascinated by tiny bumps on the fronts of tee shirts.    

Big bumps are pretty swell too.    

Aah, mammories!  I mean memories.

[Wizzard]

If God had given man a set of those he could keep himself occupied for hours
 

[old2soon]

I owned an airplane for a number of years. I live near a very small airport but was always told due to proximity to Chicago it was a popular spot to fill up with gas for smaller planes.
Turns out the guy that managed the airports well endowed daughter worked there all summer and wore tank tops all the time and she would wash planes windows. I think fuel sales doubled in the summer. And nobody got out of the plane,

      Palwaukee perchance? Caseys honey farm store was near that airport. RIDE SAFE.

[Willow]

It must've made a deep impression upon me because even today some almost fifty years later I still find myself unreasonably fascinated by tiny bumps on the fronts of tee shirts.    

Big bumps are pretty swell too.    

Aah, mammories!  I mean memories.

I must not have expressed myself well.  That's not exactly what I was describing.   

[3fan4life]

It must've made a deep impression upon me because even today some almost fifty years later I still find myself unreasonably fascinated by tiny bumps on the fronts of tee shirts.    

Big bumps are pretty swell too.    

Aah, mammories!  I mean memories.

I must not have expressed myself well.  That's not exactly what I was describing.   

This reminded me of the time that I took my truck to a topless car wash in Greensboro, NC.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/automobiles/is-this-wash-brushless-yes-and-topless-too.html

(I promise that the link is safe)


The image of the girls washing the windows, without using their hands will always be burned into my memory.

[John Schmidt]

The topless carwash reminded me of a Mobil station back in Winter Park, FL near where I used to live. It's a bikini carwash(by day) and does a land office business. It used to be an automatic drive through wash at the station but it broke down one day and the owner never bothered to get it repaired. Then the light bulb went on and he started looking around for some gals willing to do the work. Within a few days he was in business and it never slowed down. I've seen guys in there with their bikes getting the "personal" touch and enjoying themselves(I assume). It's right on a six-lane hiway and on a stoplight controlled intersection so they get maximum exposure. As I pulled in for gas one day with Rita in the car, I saw this bit of feminine pulchritude laying on top of a guy's bike and from my vantage point all I could see were large globs of soap suds strategically placed and the owner standing there with camera in hand. Rita just laughed and casually commented that she'd best hope the wind doesn't come up....whereupon "whoosh"...causing a bit of a scramble. It's also known as a place where you can buy just about any type of drug. I decided I'll wash my own car/bike and have no need of any sort of "personality enhancers."

[3fan4life]

I saw this bit of feminine pulchritude laying on top of a guy's bike

I like to think of myself as having a fairly substantial vocabulary.

But, not only is this a word that I've never heard before, the actual definition is no where close to what I thought.

pulchritude[ puhl-kri-tood, -tyood ]
noun
physical beauty; comeliness.

Words are funny sometimes.

My wife certainly didn't feel complimented when I told her that I admired her pulchritude.    

[3fan4life]

I decided I'll wash my own car/bike

I can see this happening at a bikini bike wash:

[MarkT]

I stopped on the way home at a service station that used young ladies in shorts as gas jockeys.  I honestly don't remember whether the same employee fueled and cleaned or if they were separate assignments.  I sat in the driver's seat while a young lady cleaned the windshield of the Chrysler.  It was a summer day and she was wearing a tee shirt.  It was a time before the use of squeegees.  She did everything she could to reach over halfway across the windshield and ended up fully stretched across the driver's side with the entire weight of her upper body pressed against the glass.  I had the impression that she would've used the same technique with a narrower vehicle but I don't know for sure.

It must've made a deep impression upon me because even today some almost fifty years later I still find myself unreasonably fascinated by tiny bumps on the fronts of tee shirts.    

"Whatever I've done Lord, don't strike me blind NOW."  -  Dragline, Cool Hand Luke

[h13man]

carolinarider09 I really liked the story about Leroy Brown. It seems a few here had MG's. I had a 59' 1500 MGA with KO wheels. Top speed, 55 mph.  Should have bought a Chevy. 

[bassman]

No VA


"Gas station stories:

I was the youngest guy working there.  The next older guy (18) was called Muskie (for muskrat, he had a big nose; this was long before political correctness). 

The drinking age was 21 in MI, but you could run down I-75 to Toledo (50 minutes) and drink 3.2 beer at 18 (and there were a couple giant bars down there, with good bands, that catered to this crowd).  This had been such a big deal, for so long, that guys who had run down there under 21, just kept going anyway.

There were also a couple houses of ill repute down there.

So a couple of the older guys (20 something) were going down Friday night and they agreed to take Muskie.  And they decided to take him to a house of ill repute first.... for his first, you-know. "


Does the Peppermint Lounge or Clock Motel ring any bells??

[carolinarider09]

Sometime in 1967, I don't remember when for sure, I was driving my MGA up from my parents home in Richmond Hill, GA to visit a girl friend somewhere in NC. 

As I was driving along, something happened to the engine and it stopped running (or maybe it was a loud noise).  Anyway I pull over to the side of the road and stop.  I popped the hood and saw that the generator pulley was broken off. 

Aw shucks I thought and I got back in the car to contemplate my choices in life.

A farmer, driving a pickup truck, pulled in behind me and asked if I had a problem.  I told him the problem and he offered to tow me to his place for the night.  I said sure and he got out some coat hangers (it has been while, maybe something else) and pulled me a few miles to his place. 

He offered me to bunk down in his barn.  There was a mattress there (makes one wonder right???) and I asked if I could use the phone.  I called my girl friend told her what happened and she had a friend drive her down so we could see each other for a few minutes.

Next morning, the Farmer offered to take me to a local auto mechanics place to see if he could fix the pulley.  Well as you can imagine, he did not have a part for the MGA but he did have a pulley of the same general size and offered to weld the pulley onto the pulley mount for $25.  I said ok and headed back home.

Some time that same year, the engine failed and I had it replaced for $600 from the MG place in Columbia, SC.  I bring this up because I don't think the new engine got a new generator.  So, until sometime in the early 70's that weld held and that system worked.

Just another sea story that happens to be true. 

I still wonder about that mattress in the barn though. 

[old2soon]

I decided I'll wash my own car/bike

I can see this happening at a bikini bike wash:

                  Just guessing here but I believe That left a Mark! Ouch! BUT I could be not correct.  RIDE SAFE.

[Jess from VA]

Does the Peppermint Lounge or Clock Motel ring any bells??

No sir. I never did go down to Toledo to drink 3.2 beer (or anything else).

[bassman]

Does the Peppermint Lounge or Clock Motel ring any bells??

No sir. I never did go down to Toledo to drink 3.2 beer (or anything else).

Glad to hear that !  Me either but I remember reading about it.......