Cheeze-- Our family got Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Science and Popular Electronics etc. in the 50's and 60's. I remember Uncle Tom, Smokey Yunicks ? and Gene Shepard in Car and Driver. My three brothers and my late father use to work on all of our old chevys ourselves under the "shade tree" and those columns covered some great topics. That's where I learned to do a lot of my own maintenance on cars, lawnmowers and around the home. I'm amazed at some of the questions posted here and from people I meet about simple mechanical problems until I remember that not everyone had a father that and brothers that did what we did.