LOL Kevin, those caddys represent some of my best childhood memories. I remember as a kid how, at the "Service Station" my Mom would sometimes ask the attendant to check the oil. On those cars, with the hood up you could see a lot of the engine compartment, so I used to watch the guy like a hawk (typically it was a bored teenager) while he would check the oil and about half the time they would kind of just "go through the motions", ie, they would just pull the dipstick and look at it. One time when I was like 6, I got out of the car and climbed up the front bumper and showed the guy how to do it the right way as I'd been taught watching my Dad (pull the dipstick, wipe, re-insert, pull, read.) Since my parents knew the owners of the service station, it became a running joke...
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