ever seen a ramp that has been neglected this long?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2077166682900158&set=g.319578812553295

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estate sales are the gold mine of cool stuff that's been hidden for decades... this original fiberglass ESSO Tiger was for sale at a July estate sale in West Hills, California

Esso was not the only company to use the tigers, they were sold to car dealerships, amusement parks, zoos and high schools as well.

made by International Fiberglass in 1966

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1509712554526411&set=pcb.1509716914525975

Valve cover and intake display.

which would typically look like : 

what it would look like when displaying valve covers, and intake, in a speed shop. Damn, now I want one, so I can take the 6 pack off my R/T, run a big 4 barrel, and never worry about someone popping my hood and stealing my carbs. 

Damn things are 3 to 4k a set, for ones that don't even work, and I wanted a mopar 6 pack for a decade before buying my R/T... 24 years ago, and it happened to have already been upgraded from the factory stock 4 barrel intake and carb to the A12 optional 6 pack. 

But superchargers don't have 6 pack set ups, so far as I know, and I'd love to someday get a Novi supercharger 4 barrel combo. Pretty dang sure that would make more horse power.... you know, dream a little dream, right?  

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Greg found a cool innovation of re-using stuff in his grand fathers garage

He graduated high school in 1957, 

 bought his own farm the same year, 

proceeded to erect a barn behind house there. 

 In 1959 he built a work shop. 

In 1960 he bought a sears air compressor it has date on it, and is still in use.

And he made this hose reel!

It has a pipe union in it with a leather washer with grease on it to seal air. 

Greg says in his post that he was born in 1971, and has no idea how many times his grandfather, Greg himself, and his 2 sons, and countless neighbors pulled this hose out 

His grandfather passed away in 1999 but this thing lives on. 

The hub that the hose is rolled up on is a 4 legged John Deere logo, 5 gallon oil can.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1294444273957513/permalink/27026081263700461

Cool Mopar garage art wall hangers

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1046365337723831&set=pcb.28002393829379420

Walter showed up to get his Riley heads from the machine shop, with an original Riley head shipping crate (found in Speed Secrets magazine, thank you Larry!)

sweet piece for garage wall art, a cam timing wheel

 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4366545880287556&set=gm.4683612208582687&idorvanity=2695731877370740

vintage cool

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26822737740754052&set=gm.4671059419837966&idorvanity=2695731877370740

Hurst Cufflinks! Huh! Cool if you ever dress up that much, better to show a little personality than something boring

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10239552109372262&set=pcb.4675220526088522

hell of a cool lighter from Dunlop!

https://cdn.drouot.com/d/catalogue?path=1/178371/411-260602-cat-mascottes-Web-V3.pdf

assembly instructions on a hippy hair puller, Brad has his grandfathers preassembled kit on display... very cool

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2695731877370740/permalink/4522423361368240

hell of a stack of oil bottles!

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Perhaps the most obscure rivaly trophy in college sports, is The Old Oil Can

the best telling of the story is that during a game in 1930, some co-eds stole the oil can from the Fresno Bulldogs college football team bus... and that prevented the Bulldogs from making a trip home on time, because of the extensive oil use of a 1923 engine (total loss design). 

The oil can was hidden at the SDSU stadium, and never found until the stadium was demo'd and the new stadium built... and since then, the Old Oil Can IS the trophy, of the nearly 100 yr old rivalry game

There's a lot of "tall tale" involved in that story, but, it's very entertaining... and the trophy really is an old oil can. 

The "Battle for the Oil Can" was coined as the result of a contest that was run jointly by the Fresno State and San Diego State Alumni Associations this fall.

About the contest

Entrants were asked to suggest a name for the rivalry game and as well as a trophy to commemorate it. Of the 65 entries received, one stretched back into history telling about the discovery of an oil can from Fresno (circa 1935) that was supposedly recovered during a San Diego State campus building project, discovered in the foundation.

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The Oil Can trophy comes from a 1930s-era oil can hailing from Fresno that was found at a construction site at San Diego State. 

"The oil can likely came from a time when Aztec and Bulldog fans traveled to football games between the two schools via the old, twisting, precipitous Grapevine section of Highway 99 over Tejon Pass," said Jacquelyn K. Glasener, executive director of the Fresno State Alumni Association. 

"Cars in those days carried extra oil and water to be sure they could make it through difficult trips," added Jim Herrick, executive director of the San Diego State Alumni Association.

The two alumni associations made the oil can into a trophy and the teams started competing for it during the 2011 season.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQMueH5D8w8/

https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/bulldog-sports/dogs-slip-up-in-old-oil-can-game-shutout-23-0-by-sdsu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno_State%E2%80%93San_Diego_State_football_rivalry

https://goaztecs.com/news/2023/11/26/aztecs-claim-old-oil-can-in-hokes-farewell

https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2011/11/sdsu-fresno-state-battle-for-oil-can

https://www.mwcconnection.com/mountain-west-football/2016/10/13/13270170/the-prestige-of-an-old-oil-can

https://gobulldogs.com/news/2023/11/21/football-dogs-close-out-regular-season-in-san-diego

Being a Mayor of Ventura and Santa Barbara, used to be fun

Don MacGillivray (left), the Mayor of Santa Barbara, after a Soap Box Derby against Charles Wesley Petit (centre), the Mayor of Ventura, in California, 3rd July 1965.

https://www.fineartstorehouse.com/michael-ochs-archives/fastest-mayor-west-41353319.html

32 years after purchase, a 1920s Cities Service gas station's restoration is complete

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10238828151633276&set=pcb.10238828181274017

it's surprising how many things were bought, or gifted, and never opened, and now are for sale on Ebay... like this Mickey Thompson Team jacket from 1969 or 70

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325851634699

The spotter’s stand was once inside the Union 76 advertising ball at the Daytona 500

One of the Unocal 76 Spotter stands from Daytona has been restored and permanently on display at the Brumos Collection in Jacksonville.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/comments/17svmny/one_of_the_unocal_76_spotter_stands_from_daytona/

this is a fun accessory to discover, I've never seen or heard of before... a 1933 window defroster, that used a cigarette lighter heating element mounted in an adjustable armature to warm the glass

The Schwarze Electric Company Safe Ray 12v DC car heater of 1933

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230098879602624&set=pcb.1864983014082612