You know they love you when during spring cleaning they save the vintage Popular Mechanics magazines and ship them to you. They must really love me because I got twenty-one pounds from the 1960’s in the mail! I can’t wait to read them all, but so far I’ve only made it half-way through July 1962, which contains “Your Complete Concrete Guide” and “The Desperate Flight of Airtransit 13” among other treasures.
Wow, nice job landing that! Wish I could get 21 pounds of pop mechanics :(
I probably have that of current popular science though, so we’re even, almost ;)
I’ve got a bunch of these from the 30s, 40s and 50s. I’ve been meaning to put them up on ebay but I haven’t gotten around to going through them yet. :(
Scans!
You’d probably be interested in this blog (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/), with their daily scan of an interesting vintage Pop Mech article.
"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" I take my older issues of "Popular Mechanics Magazine" and I scan them page-by-page and send scans FREE to others on a daily basis so they might enjoy seeing them as well, especially those of 1914-1918 as well as 1939-1945, the war years seem to be the most asked for? After I scan a magazine, I donate them FREE to whomever emails me to ask for me to set thyem aside, of course I also insist on paying the postage as well as they’re gifts and presents should cost nothing, right? By my contributing them and the scans, I am not competing with dealers/sellers and not a threat to their livilihood. I make CD disks of same and donate these to dealers/sellers so they can duplicate, sell them, and keep 100% of the profits, that is the "American Way!" With the rarer ones I donate them to dealers/sellers as well as they obviously need the money or they would not go on-line to sell things. I like to help others! :) Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California (hhbooker2@yahoo.com) It’s okay to make my email address public! :)
I would love you to email me some artwork from Popular Mechanics. I especially like "futuristic" vehicle artwork from pre-WW2
Thanks
M.
ma@michaeladdis.com
Good day:
I was wondering if you have come across any power boat plans in those issues. My dad build a boat from the magazine around the mid 60, He recently passed away but the boat is still up and running. My brother uses it weekly. I thought I would try building one myself but can not find the plans anywhere. I was hoping you could forward me the names of the boats that are in the mid 60’s magazines and I could than try and find that magazine for myself. The boat is 18′ and has a very upward pointing bow. Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. C