BOB POLLI'S RIDE: October 2013

Monday, October 7, 2013

G G ??

GOT GUN ??

A beautiful handgun..Smith and Wesson 340 PD Airlite. Weighs almost nothing and carrys a .357 magnum punch...Make my day !!

Friday, October 4, 2013

The black Buick in the photo of my Dad's gas station is our family car. It had a red leather interior and I used to wash and wax it every Saturday when I would go to work with my Dad. I loved that car...

CHAPPY'S

My Dad, whose nickname was "Chappy", owned a gas station when I was growing up. On Saturdays he would wake me up at 6am so I could spend the day at the gas station with him. At first, when I was younger, going to the gas station was fun. Later on, in my teens, I hated getting up early and going to "work" with my dad. He tried to teach me how to take care of and fix cars. I also worked the "front" and was considered a gas station "attendant". I put gas in your car, checked oil and water, tire pressure, and washed your windshield. Gas back then was about 20 cents a gallon. I got lunch and all the cokes i could drink out of that old coke machine by the front door in the photo...and sometimes a couple of dollars for the day... I also put a quart of oil in your engine if it was low. I screwed up a lot..spilled an amazing amount of oil all over the place...forgot to put gas caps back on...and generally was a screw up...I did get to see, and sometimes drive, all kinds of cars...that part I loved..