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November 24, 2012 4:32 PM

Gus Wilson, master mechanic, pipe smoker, cap wearer, crime fighter, sage, is a part owner of the Model Garage. These are his stories.

For those who aren't familiar with the Model Garage stories a good place to start would be selected stories that were gathered into two books: Gus Wilson's Model Garage and Tales of a Master Mechanic

An Alphabetical listing of all the stories that appeared in Popular Science.

Who is Gus Wilson?

posted by Mitheral (7 comments total)

These are pretty much written in the style and tone of almost everything I read as a kid in the 50's, a bit of a wash of nostalgia.....Thanks!

I'm wondering how I missed Gus.
posted by HuronBob at 4:41 PM on November 24, 2012

I clicked on 1949 at random. The first three news stories really depressed me.
posted by boo_radley at 4:52 PM on November 24, 2012

This is the next best thing to finding a tall stack of the original issues themselves. What a great post. There goes the rest of my weekend.
posted by Pudhoho at 4:55 PM on November 24, 2012

Just up my alley. Great post.
posted by DU at 6:06 PM on November 24, 2012

Nice. 1930s? Seems Gus was still kicking decades later as a persona I remember from my childhood.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:11 PM on November 24, 2012

These are brilliant, part detective story and part Car Talk without the bad jokes.
posted by arcticseal at 9:45 PM on November 24, 2012

Thanks for posting.

One of the highlights from my youth was visiting my grandparents - and my grandfather had subscriptions to all the good magazines, including Popular Science, Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics, etc. A good portion of my summers and Christmas holidays were spent reading back issues of these magazines.

Awesome post.
posted by insulglass at 9:33 PM on November 25, 2012