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Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:16 pm
by MadMacX
I was surfing some boating sites today and I came across this item. I thought that it was pretty funny so I wanted to pass it along.
http://www.vintageprojects.com/misc/trailer-backing.pdf
It's a pdf from a very very old Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Pat
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:54 pm
by PollyAnna
Pat,
Thanks for sharing. I was thinkng while looking at the last pic of the "gator" being launched/recovered from the banks, that if we don't get some rain soon here in north Texas, I will be attempting the samething with my
.....since the water levels will be below the ramps...
I love the bumper mounted hitches, sure don't have those type of bumbers today...my Aztek is all plastic!
Gregg
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:11 pm
by Love MACs
Yeah, but u gotta love those old wooden boats (last pic). And someone's grandma looks pretty hot in that bikini
Allan
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:21 pm
by hart
or maybe great grandma in that bikini, lol.
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:07 am
by Jim Bunnell
Good looking grandma - but that's not a bikini.
This is a bikini of the era (1955 article)
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:16 pm
by Love MACs
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:51 pm
by David Mellon
Classic photo there, that is the first bikini, being modelled by a french stripper.
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:34 pm
by dvideohd
When little, I somehow got the Bikini (ala clothing - or lack...) somewhat confused with Bikini nuclear testing... When you are very small, such things can be real confusing... I still admit confusion about some bikinis.....
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:48 am
by Kelly Hanson East
Too many mushrooms in the 60's maybe ....
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:55 pm
by Night Sailor
Boy does that article and photos bring back memories. My '42 Ford Coupe V8 with clamp on bumper hitch exactly like the one pictured towed a lot of trailers all over Florida back in the late '50s.
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:27 pm
by pokerrick1
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:47 pm
by The Mutt
Maybe you should use big letters on your posts so us old codgers don't have to squint. 
Glenn
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:45 pm
by Hamin' X
The Mutt wrote:Maybe you should use big letters on your posts so us old codgers don't have to squint.
Glenn
Eh? What's that you say sonny? Speak up sonny, I'm a bit deaf! 
~Rich
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:17 pm
by The Mutt
Write a bit louder Hamin' X, I didn't hear that!
We should make some T shirts up
"I survived the 60's ... what happened" 
Glenn
Re: Tow, Tow, Tow your boat.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:22 pm
by Love MACs
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