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Old 06-08-2022, 09:42 PM
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Apart from a certain orange car... this was a fixture on my Dad's workbench or in the drawer... and it's with me now. The Boy plays with it sometimes too; he's the only 8 year old around here that knows what it is and knows what roll up windows are for that matter.

Mum (jokingly) never let me forget she had to quit her front office desk job at Labatt's downtown to check in to the hospital to have me. Apparently I came just a few months too early for her to benefit from the Unemployment Insurance Act of 1971 that codified paid maternity benefits back home...

Like all of these items above (and posts to come) it's a pleasant memory of Dad...

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Nice cold Labatt's 50 on a hot day at the cottage!Ahhh!
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Old 06-08-2022, 10:14 PM
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^ YUP. Our cottage was a rental that we’d book the whole summer a couple miles from Douglas Point where he worked. I spent a lot of time in Lake Huron. And 50 was his preference too!
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^ YUP. Our cottage was a rental that we’d book the whole summer a couple miles from Douglas Point where he worked. I spent a lot of time in Lake Huron. And 50 was his preference too!
Mine also.Your dad had good taste Anthony.
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He did. Thank you!
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This is a cool thread from an emotional standpoint so thanks for posting Julio. My Dad went to tech school in KC right after he graduated HS in 1962 and the majority of the tools in my garage were purchased by him in the mid 60's through the early 80's and are still being used by the boy and I to this day. In the photo below is the creeper and acetylene torch he bought before I was born in 1972. As a kid I swore he could fix anything with that torch and a coat hanger! Over the years I've probably spent twice as much time on that old creeper than he ever did but he got twice as much work done on it than I ever have since he had the skill to fix anything by just looking at it long enough. The hydraulic jack and tool box were bought after we built the garage when I was a kid and several of the tools in the box have his name or initials engraved on them which is pretty cool. Dad died in a car wreck in 1992 at 47 when I was 20 and I've held onto as many things of his as possible over the years to pass on to my kids since they never had the opportunity to know him.
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This is a cool thread from an emotional standpoint so thanks for posting Julio. My Dad went to tech school in KC right after he graduated HS in 1962 and the majority of the tools in my garage were purchased by him in the mid 60's through the early 80's and are still being used by the boy and I to this day. In the photo below is the creeper and acetylene torch he bought before I was born in 1972. As a kid I swore he could fix anything with that torch and a coat hanger! Over the years I've probably spent twice as much time on that old creeper than he ever did but he got twice as much work done on it than I ever have since he had the skill to fix anything by just looking at it long enough. The hydraulic jack and tool box were bought after we built the garage when I was a kid and several of the tools in the box have his name or initials engraved on them which is pretty cool. Dad died in a car wreck in 1992 at 47 when I was 20 and I've held onto as many things of his as possible over the years to pass on to my kids since they never had the opportunity to know him.
Thanks for posting, they don’t make jacks like that anymore! Regarding your dads mechanical skill, I feel the same as my dad was also really good at diagnosing and quickly repairing to a high standard. He was really lucky as a kid to attend Aero-Mechanics school which was based at Detroit City Airport and was part of the Detroit Public Schools. He learned much of his mechanical skills there along with welding and also earned his pilot license at age 18. One of his teachers gave kids flying lessons after class in one of the planes owned by the school.

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This is my Dad’s “Head Aches” Car Club plaque that he made in the late 50’s.
I have it proudly displayed in my garage “Dave Cave” LOL
My Dad still keeps his “Head Aches” Car Club jacket in the 409.
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“dave cave”
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I thought y’all would enjoy some pics of my Dad’s old school tool box. This is the tool box that he would use at the drag strip racing the 409.
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^ very cool!
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