Well gee, Kevin...they told us they were "professionals." Tattoos were not all that popular back then but we could see they had several of them. Maybe they had graduated past the old coffee can days...RHIP as we used to say. The baskets were nice looking and probably newish. Small screen, maybe stainless...looked like the tops could be closed and added to the dunk tank. And it could be the old coffee cans they'd been using burned up in the two fires. Pretty much everything else did. As I recall one was a 4 alarm fire that even ruined the steel roof beams. Those tanks of whatever they soaked the carburetors in burned really hot and there were 55 gallon drums stored right next to them to enhance the safety program they didn't have.

There was a sign on a post out by the street that said "Now Hiring." It was in an outcropping of rangy weeds and looked like it had been there since the 1950s and possibly had never been taken down. A sign that might have appeared in a gloomy backwoods episode of The Twilight Zone. The inspector had a little Minox camera in his shirt pocket and was taking lots of pictures for the report he was writing. He said he'd mail me copies of them but he never did. A great inside look at professional carburetor rebuilding.

~ Jon
1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end