Mechanix Illustrated February 1946

New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc.. Very Good. 1946. Magazine. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a larger than trade sized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The top front corner has a small chip. The corners of the dust jacket have some light creasing and the spine shows some fading. The text pages are clean and bright. Articles include: New Records Ahead, Peace - or Else, Mi Tests the New Cars, Made in Germany, City within a City, Undersea Spies, and more. . "From its debut in 1928, it went through a number of permutations over the years, being called at various points in its life, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, Modern Mechanix and Inventions, Modern Mechanix, Mechanix Illustrated, Home Mechanix, and, in its final incarnation, Today's Homeowner. Although it featured many how-to articles, the most eagerly awaited and read features were Tom McCahill's monthly automobile tests which ran from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. McCahill's feisty opinions were delivered in a prose laced with similes that are still quoted today among car enthusiasts: "As anyone brighter than a rusty spike must know..." ; flooring the accelerator pedal on a certain car is "...like stepping on a wet sponge"; the clock/tachometer combination on another car is "...about as useful as feathers on a moose." McCahill died in 1974, and three years later CBS bought Fawcett Publications, the company which published MI, and continued publishing the magazine, renaming it Home Mechanix starting in January 1985." (from Wikipedia) .