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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.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3816 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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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.
-------------------- Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com
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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.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3816 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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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.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1357 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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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!
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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!
-------------------- Joe Cieslowski Connecticut Woodcarvers Gallery P.O.Box 368 East Canaan CT 06024 jcieslowski@snet.net 860-824-0883 Posts: 2345 | From: East Canaan CT 06024 | Registered: Nov 2001
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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.
-------------------- Curt Stenz Graphics 700 Squirrel Lane Marathon, WI 54448 Posts: 590 | From: Marathon, WI 54448 | Registered: Dec 1998
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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.
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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.
-------------------- Deb Fowler
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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!
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
-------------------- Mike Duncan Lettercraft Signs Posts: 1328 | From: Centreville, VA | Registered: Oct 2000
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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
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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,..
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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