Auto Troubleshooting Magazine Column "Back in the day"

[leg17]

Help
I have been trying to get this old brain to remember a magazine column in Popular Mechanics or Mechanics Illustrated or some other similar magazine back around 1960.
Someone would present a curious set of circumstances with his car and the wise old mechanic would analyze the situation that usually involved a couple of unrelated but coincidental events.
Does this ring any bells?
Thanks,   Tom

[international3414]

was it goofis and gallant,,,,ha...i know it wasnt

[amecks]

Tom McCahill used to write for Mechanix Illustrated but I'm not sure he wrote a "fix-it" column.  I think he was more of a road test writer.

[Northwoods]

Click and Clack?  http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/Smileys/popos/smiley.gif

[J.A.F.E.]

I think you are referring to Smokey Yunick "Say Smokey" in Popular Mechanics in the 60's maybe the into the 70's.

[leg17]

So far not what I am trying to find.
I still have most of my brain cells, but they seem to be losing touch with each other.
Thanx for the hints so far.

[leg17]

I FOUND IT

Gus Wilson's Model Garage.

Popular Science magazine
ran from 1925 to 1970.

Thanks for all the help.

Anybody remember this?

http://www.gus-stories.org/

[john k]

How could you ever forget Gus Wilson, owner of the Model garage?   I was gifted a box of Pop. Science in the early 60s and absorbed every one of the Gus stories.  Now they are online.   Looking back one thing besides his auto repairs stands out,  Gus was a bachelor, lived in a boarding house,  drove an old coupe he rebuilt, and went fishing whenever he could.  No big 4x4  pickup, jet ski, Harley, or other toys like the mechanics I worked with. 

[Yadda]

Another link with great content.