Ahh, I got this mid sixties Ford pick-up truck in the shop. I went back in the shop about an hour later and I smelled that old familiar smell, the combined scent of used motor oil and gasoline. It just took me back to the seventies, back to my Dad's garage, helping him work on cars. It was really nice to just remember.
Posted by Ken Henry (Member # 598) on :
Ahhh, somewhere that truck just might have a gas line leak. Those fumes could possibly ignite ??
It would be a shame if that were to happen, and your shop goes up in flames. That scent should maybe trigger a cautionary warning. Nostalgia notwithstanding.
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Naw, it's more oil than gasoline. My Dad used to wash his garage floor with gasoline. So I know the difference between the two smells.
Posted by Bill Modzel (Member # 22) on :
Fiber glass resin does it for me. Building and repairing boats with my dad back in high school and than building aquariums. Good time of life and great father.
Posted by Dale Manor (Member # 4858) on :
Know what you mean Alicia. When I take my old Big Block Camaro out for a run and then pull back in the garage, it gives off the burnt gas and smoking 20-50w racing oil breather smell for a couple hours. Toss in a little hot anti-freeze and tranny fluid to top it off. And when it is running it sounds like it could inhale most current little put put engines and blow them out the stainless steel exhaust!
nothing like old american muscle...
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Gasoline and One-shot do it for me Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
Looking at this 58 panel on the wall.
Posted by Brian Stoddard (Member # 39) on :
drove tow trucks in Detroit in my past life so diesel and axle grease take me right back, oh and that distinct crack house smell...
Posted by Ron Costa (Member # 3366) on :
I grew up on a chicken farm with 3000 layers..... nevermind
Posted by Joe Cieslowski (Member # 2429) on :
I have some 35 year old size (w/lead).....on the special occasions when I use it, the aroma brings me back to my Boy Scout days as a handicraft director painting everything with 1 Shot, in the late 50's.
Joe,
Makin Chip$ and Havin Fun!
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
The smell of a freshly opened box of Fruit Loops!
Posted by Curt Stenz (Member # 82) on :
Alicia, when I was in high school I worked at the corner gas station. On sunday one duty was to scrub the floor with several gallons of gasoline and an old broom. Hose it down, take the floor squeege, and down the drain it went.
Posted by Curt Stenz (Member # 82) on :
Nowdays, people get torqued off if you spill an ounce of thinner on a gravel driveway.
Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :
Ron cant one work in layers in Photoshop? I never heard of 3000... must be confusing....... you sniffin gas?
Posted by Bob Peach (Member # 2620) on :
Made me think of the aroma of half digested Bubba Burgers wafting throught the Dixie Bus....thanks Ray!
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
There goes breakfast!
Posted by Donald Miner (Member # 6472) on :
Turps, one shot, and shellac, does it every time for me. Gone, but not forgotten.
Posted by Brent Logan (Member # 6587) on :
Donald, I visited Derek McDonald's shop in Berkeley last week and that smell hit me as soon as I walked in the door. Reminded me of my garage 25 years ago.
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Alicia, my first most favorite chemical smell was the orange industrial paint they used to paint dividers for the city. My mother took me to a garage for something when I was 3 years old and I identified that smell the rest of my life; maybe that's why I turned out to tolerate the smell of sign paint and thinners!
It was such a pretty color too! What we experience in our lives we relate our senses and memories to...kind of cool.
Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on :
Standing in the pit area of the drag strip when the fuelers come up! Nitro...What a smell.
Real Turpentine in my studio.
Apple or walnout wood burning in my fireplace.
The smell of pinion pine when first driving into Santa Fe.
Burning grass on the prairie in the spring.
Freshly mowed lawn in the spring.
That smell of fresh fruit and veggies at the grocery store.
Hyacinths.
Sea air.
Wood soap in a freshly cleaned home.
Nitrocellouse lacquer with banana oil.
Two eggs, hash browns and pork sausage.
KC BBQ.
Thank God for the nose!
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
sea air...mmmmmmm, fresh mowed grass....fireplaces, hmmmm...black lead one shot!
heavenly
and you can have that when lettering a boat in Florida with grass mowed next to you, someone with a campfire with apple wood. Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on :
systems 2 screening ink. I'ts a trip and you don't need no ticket!
Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Waked past a stack of new tires at Sears the other day. My 6 year daughter stopped, took two steps back and leaned in to get a big snoot full. She said "Dad, I love the smell of new tires".
A small tear formed in the corner of my eye.
Posted by John Kurtzman (Member # 1736) on :
Hot summer night late 1940's at the Danbury Ct. Racearena before the main event. Lights are all out except two giant searchlights focused on the American flag with the national anthem playing. The scilloute of drivers standing next to their cars (midgets)on the lineup with either their hand over their heart or saluting the flag with their right hand. The dew was reflecting off the grass from the full moon and the air was filled with the scent of their fuel mix of castor oil and alcohol. Love it.........
John Kurtzman
Posted by Tim Barrow (Member # 576) on :
Nuthin' like the sunshine on your back on an early spring day kneeling down on pit road and painting a wall thats the memories that I get from those smells,..burning oil and rubber,high octane gas etc,..I catch myself looking over my shoulder to make sure some roll cage jockey isn't getting ready to run over me,..
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