Popular mechanics still had those cheesy/scammy mail in ads when I read it in the 90s.
I always wanted to build the hovercraft you could supposedly build with old vacuum cleaners, but in my heart I knew it either wouldn't work or would be super expensive for a kid.
I wonder if some YouTuber has tried building from those scammy old plans...
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Only person getting rich is the man who posted the ad!
I N S P I T E O F Y O U R S E L F
https://archive.org/details/getrichinspiteof00graf/mode/2up
Would you have believed that it was written by an ad man?
Great find!
Hey hey hey, it never promised quick.
Seems everything you'd buy through the mail in those days, both sham and legit products alike,
was soldcould be bought C.O.D.Popular mechanics still had those cheesy/scammy mail in ads when I read it in the 90s.
I always wanted to build the hovercraft you could supposedly build with old vacuum cleaners, but in my heart I knew it either wouldn't work or would be super expensive for a kid.
I wonder if some YouTuber has tried building from those scammy old plans...
Reminds me of the pack pages of Boys Life or Hustler magazine.