Re: The original Authenticity Manual for the Mark II

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Re: The original Authenticity Manual for the Mark II

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That is fascinating reading. Thanks for sharing. Imagine the modern factory translating specs from a typewritten page to production. We have come a long way. Thanks for sharing Barry. Hope you are doing well
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More engineering porn.

These prints were loaned to me by the family of Elmer Rohn, the HVAC engineer.

They seem to fit the time frame of the build book.

The detail and notations are incredible.

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In high school we had to take either "Industrial Arts" or Home Economics as one of our electives. Back then there was no boy who would have been caught dead in Home Economics sewing dresses and baking cakes and learning how to have the house in order and herself looking good when her hard working man came home from work. In Industrial Arts, the first semester was mechanical drawing. We spent hours perfecting our drafting skills and ability to "see" the 3 dimensions of an object from a 2 dimensional drawing and to do the actual drawing and labeling. I remember George S. out teacher. He was TOUGH about the printing we had to do in pencil on our drawings. Second semester was the shop component. I did woodworking and we each built a piece of furniture from designs we have drawn. I still use the record cabinet I built for my LP albums.

When I look at these, drawings, I have to really admire the men who had the education and aptitude to do them. And they did well with their printing too! To this day its not all that easy for me to envision something and lay it out flat on a piece of paper. Just imagine the detail and coordination involved to build a car.

Things have changed a lot. Today it's ok for boys to wear pink shirts and take Home Ec and there are plenty of girls in shop class. And I don't think they teach about how to welcome your man home from a long day's work, freshly dressed in a nice dress, hair done, make up fresh, house clean, dinner in the oven and a martini in her hand as she escorts him to his favorite chair and takes his shoes off. (BTW that is all from an actual book used in public schools in the 60s). I know for sure my wife missed out on those classes. I guess I'm glad she did
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I took every wood shop and drafting course available in HS. There was metal shop available, but that class was overrun with "greasers", basically the school thugs. I pitied the girls that has to walk past the crowd that gathered during class changes.

While I avoided the people in the class I wish now that I had developed welding skills earlier in life. I also wish I had taken home economics, but as you said, there were no boys taking home Ed and there were no girls taking shop. Pretty stupid and narrow-minded when you think about it. When I think that I married a woman that hasn't made 46 meals in the 46 years we've been together I probably could have used those skills, too.
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Chad Gasket wrote: Things have changed a lot. Today it's ok for boys to wear pink shirts and take Home Ec and there are plenty of girls in shop class. And I don't think they teach about how to welcome your man home from a long day's work, freshly dressed in a nice dress, hair done, make up fresh, house clean, dinner in the oven and a martini in her hand as she escorts him to his favorite chair and takes his shoes off. (BTW that is all from an actual book used in public schools in the 60s). I know for sure my wife missed out on those classes. I guess I'm glad she did
Well, that comment started out good and then ended kind of sexist.
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