Popular Mechanics Sept 1966 vintage how to magazine.



POPULAR

MECHANICS

DAN GURNEY

Answers Your

Questions on

RACING AND

DRIVING

SEPT. 1966

"Confessions'

of a Car

Salesman

AMAŽING NEW

'SIDLER

PARKS YOUR

CAR SIDEWAYS

SPECIAL

THIS ISSUE

299

page 62

BIG 42-PAGE HOME REMODELING SECTION

Before-and-After Bathroom...Swing-Down Kitchen Cupboards

The Fanciest Bar You Can Build...Wife-Saving Sewing and

Laundry Centers...11 Weekend Projects

PLUS: TEAR-OUT-AND-SAVE CARD OF

MOST-NEEDED REMODELING MEASUREMENTS

EXCLUSIVE FOR PM READERS! PREVIEW OF GREAT IDEAS

AND GADGETS FROM THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INVENTORS SHOW

What Those 600-Passenger Airliners Will Be Like • Also PM Auto Clinic and Saturday Mechanic

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GARIBBEAN, FR

AUTOMOBILES AND DRIVING

28 Detroit Listening Post

36 Auto Clinic

59 Confessions' of a Car Salesman

62 Just Point 'er In and Push the Button!

86 Drivin' with Dan

108 Saturday Mechanic: That Pesky PCV

198 The Frantic Fitch Phantom

SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS

13 New Inventions

14 Science Worldwide

70 7000 Better Mousetraps

80 Computerburgers Hit Assembly Line

100 The Music Goes Round and Round

SHOP AND CRAFTS

43A Exciting New Products

147 9 Novel Hinges-Can You Guess

What They're For?

154 6 Helpful Hints to Make Shop Work

Easier

160 AMT's New Price Buushin Radial-

Arm Saw

162 Ohm's Law Chart

163 Make This Unique Work-Holding

Vacuum Plate

HOME AND YARD

17 Homeowners' Clinic

112 Home is What You Make It!

112 11 Weekend Projects

(Flagged for filing)

119 Adding a Window to a Panel Door

120 Give Your Wife a Break

121 Kitchen Laundry Wall

(Flagged for filing)

124 Dormer Sewing Center

126 Swing-Down Cupboards

128 New Products for Home Remodeling

Cover painting by

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RENCH, DUTCH, PORTUGUESE, DANISH, SWEDISH

132 Deluxe Bathroom for a Modest Home

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139 Build this "Wonderbar"

(Flagged for filing)

144 Once a Grill Now a Fireplace

145 Home Hints for PM Readers

146 Fence "Turns on" to Light Front

Walkway

146 How to Light a Skylight-

Without the Sun

151 Add-On Bay Takes Load Off Garage

152 Solving Home Problems

AEROSPACE, AVIATION, MILITARY

57 Aviation Jetstream

68 500 Eggs in one Basket

ELECTRONICS, RADIO AND TV

96 Correspondence School by Radio

166 Build this CB Intercom and

Keep Track of Your Kids

169 Build a 1-Transistor Autogen Radio

BOATING, OUTDOOR RECREATION

21A What's New Outdoors

102 He's Always Ready to Go Fishing

156 What's the Truth About Fuel Mixes?

159 Outboard Clinic

JOBS AND CAREERS

24 Career Barometer

REGULAR FEATURES

6 Letters to the Editor

PHOTOGRAPHY

92 Adventures of an Underwater

Cameraman

155 New for Camera Buffs

Ted Lodigensky