Suggestions: How to find a wrench wife?

[pflaming]

There are some young members who will someday be looking for a wrench-mate. How about some suggestions for finding such.

 

For example, take an assortment of rusty car parts to a large flee market and note any females who show up. Especially if she shows "up"!

[Dodgeb4ya]

Their out there for sure.....

Probably using craigslist would be a good start to find some great wencher women mates.

[Jeff Balazs]

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect........why would you want to disturb one of the last domains we have?

We've been happily married 38 years and I love my wife. One of her attractive features is that she is smart enough to allow me some space of my own.

Would have never worked peacefully this long the other way.......Just sayin'

 

Jeff

[Todd B]

I agree with Jeff but also want to add your mate has to show interest and enjoy going for rides and car shows with you.  Then when your wife shows interest in another Dodge you can buy it and just say " But, I bought for your Dear"

[Ulu]

My wife is an Avon lady. You won't catch her greasing a car.  

 

If she keeps doing the dishes, I won't mind that.

[1940plymouth]

I have been blessed for close to 40 years, with the last 28 years of also having the Plymouth.  The poor woman is now on oxygen 24-7 so there is no more old cafr activities for her and I basically do all the dishes and housework now, but I have no complaints as far as the house work is concerned, she would always drop what she was doing to come help me

[LAKOTA169]

Bob, Patty is the best, and we all wish her well. As for the OT, check out Throttle Gals magazine for women who like to work on cars, bikes, etc. A friend of my son is a editor of it. Her name is Doni Langdon. She is the daughter in law of Tom Langdon.

[Plymouthy Adams]

suggest taking a trip to Wrance

[Jeff Balazs]

I agree with Jeff but also want to add your mate has to show interest and enjoy going for rides and car shows with you.  Then when your wife shows interest in another Dodge you can buy it and just say " But, I bought for your Dear"

 

Just so it is clear....I honestly don't have any problem with women pursuing their interests....whatever that may be. In fact I encourage it. I have daughters and they are both heavily involved in the science's.

But in this day of extended equality one thing still needs to be considered. Men and Women are very different animals. No matter what laws we have in place ...or how much we love each other....we will always look at things like working on a car a little differently. And that is OK with me......as long as I have my shop to retreat to.

 

Jeff

[Plymouthy Adams]

actually I have no idea what the original poster is trying to say..I took a stab at the fact it could have been a misspelling of French..but looking again it could be he just added the 'r' in wench...so I defaulted to the lesser of the two evils with a suggestion to travel ie, my spelling play on FRANCE

 

kinda blurry like many pictures of the past..

[Ulu]

My daughter grew up around me always working on cars and bikes and washing machines...whatever was broken.

 

Her husband is the son of a banker & he works for the IRS.  His dad has a Corvette that barely runs, and evidently neither one of them can change a sparkplug.

 

So whenever anything is broken, she's the one who drags out the tools.

Edited April 19, 2016 by Ulu

[Merle Coggins]

I guess I hit the jackpot... Michelle is a maintenance mechanic on paper converting machines. And although she doesn't know a lot about cars she can be helpful and knows how to use tools when needed.

 

Merle

[CoronetGuy]

There's a local car club by me that is all women. The Gasoline Dames

[Plymouthy Adams]

There's a local car club by me that is all women. The Gasoline Dames

and they all go by the name Ethyl

[DonaldSmith]

"Ethyl"? The youngsters wouldn't get it.  But they can Google "Ethyl gasoline".  GM and Standard Oil of New Jersey formed the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation to market tetraethyllead (it reads easier as tetra ethyl lead,or TEL), which they had DuPont manufacture.  

 

I remember, "Fill it up with Ethyl."  Then, with the advent of catalytic converters, the newer cars came with a narrower gas filler opening, so that leaded gasoline could not be used, which would destroy the effectiveness of the catalytic converter.  But there was a market for small funnels, for pouring the cheaper leaded gas into the newer cars.  

 

Later, the hit fit the shan, as the gummint got wise to the lead pollution and completely banned leaded gasoline. 

[pflaming]

" . . . the hit fit the shan."

It's been told that the Shan of Iran had problems with seizures. At every public performance people were placed by the light switches to kill the lights if the Shan had a problem. On one occasion one of the watchers had to pee and left his post during which time the Shan had a seizure.  Those lights did not go off. The person in charge raced to the culprit and yelled at him, " Where were you when the fit hit the Shan?

 

Possibly an old tale yet a good one.

[RobertKB]

It was the Shah or Iran, not Shan. Doesn't work as well with the spoonerism but much more accurate.

[pflaming]

I figured "Shan" was politically correct. Got to abide by the rules!