The King of all garage pinup calendars was and is the Rigid Tool
Calendar. Here's somebody's collection from the 70son Flickr <http://
www.flickr.com/photos/umpqua/sets/917376/>

Warning: Be prepared to see WOMEN holding TOOLS.

They are still being produced. Get yours here <http://www.ridgid.com/
Tools/Calendar/index.htm>

Jim

On Feb 17, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Philip Zimmerman wrote:

> From:    Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
>
> Is this delightfully tacky eye candy no longer
> socially acceptable?
>
> From:    Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
> Subject: Re: Friday/NVC: Tool calendars?
>
> http://www.pirellical.com/thecal/home.html
> -----------
>
> Great fryeday question Mike, as the list looks
> real quiet today. R&Ring ball joints will get
> a guy thinking about such things. (RVC)
>
> Pirelli still seems to think they are acceptable.
> Although, the French are way ahead of most neanderthal
> countries around issues of human body. Or perhaps
> the French choose to ignore the nay-sayers and print
> what they enjoy... I dunno....
>
> Thanks Robert for the link and trip down memory
> lane. Wow, I miss my miss-spent youth.
>
> The old-school Mechanic I rent shop-space from
> still receives the occasional calendar from his
> suppliers. The content is more bent on promoting
> some product like Optima batteries with a tease of
> cheese-cake to help the male ego remember the product.
>
> Ben, the mechanic, still has a calendar from 1979
> hanging on the back of his office-door. The pig I
> am, I still enjoy a gaze at that calendar.....
> Almost every time I close the door behind me.
>
> Phil Z.
> dazed & depraved in
> Campbell River, BC
>