Enjoyable ad before it expires (DAY2)
 

I had a flash back to when I was a kid in chicago when I saw this ad. So many cars around my neighborhood looked this way, more than people today likely would believe.

https://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/cto/6054802400.html

I totally forgot about those high rollers, brings back great memories thank for posting

take the snow plow off the truck and put it on the roadrunner.

What part of the south side did you grow up on? :)

grew up near midway airport (southwest side), in our neighborhood had 2 GTOs jacked up like that (one blue lace and the other was yellow), a 64 nova (white) and a 57 chevy (candy apple red), still vividly etched in my memory. Most raced on archer avenue. The 57 chevy I knew expoded into a million pieces on a bad race. Back then it was safe for kids to be out at night watching the hot rod races a couple of blocks from home, on a warm summer night.

When I turned 15 or 16 I was able to pump gas after school at a key gas station on Archer so I saw even more of these cars come in the station from different areas if the city, many with their front ends way up in the air. We used to hang the gas pumps to make extra money from people not paying attention on a fill up, but never did it to guys that drove street racers (or likely face a beating).

What does 'hang the gas pump' mean??

If someone bought just a few dollars of gas, you wouldn't shut the pump off, and when the next guy got a fill, you would just continue pumping, but the next guy paid a few dollars more. Pump jockey would pocket the difference. I worked at a station at Broadway and Victoria in Vancouver, and a couple of the guys got fired for it.

The 'hanging part' is that you hung the pump head on just the bottom hook, with it close to falling off, but the switch was still left on blocking the top slot which helped secure the whole thing. People driving up would not notice. You saved those pumps with a few bucks on them for the big cars or big company trucks (definitely not the next car, or yes you would get fired).

Heres a example...I was a Sohio pump jockey, never even occured to me at the time. Way too busy of a station to pull crap like that. Ol' Mel would have shot me!

BTW, If I remember correctly, there is a pictorial of cars jacked up like this RR in the Hot Rod Annual 1969.


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Yep...1969 HR Annual Yearbook.

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