Didn't know Kmart sold Tachometers

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  1. bignastyGS

    bignastyGS Maggot pilot

  2. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

  3. scubasteve455

    scubasteve455 Well-Known Member

    Does anyone remember Grants (Department) store. Man i’m getting old.
     
  4. Quick Buick

    Quick Buick Arlington Wa

  5. TexasT

    TexasT Texas, where are you from

    I thought id put these in for when the eBay listings go away.
    They look like the same box but the tach is different and so is the asking price.
     
  6. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    I remember Kmart parts. They also sold Kraco car stereo. There was a parts store in the same plaza that advertised any GM starter or Alt for just 19.95. That was a long time ago!
     
  7. Bill Nuttle

    Bill Nuttle Well-Known Member

    I remember those Kraco stereos and the $19.95 starters
     
  8. DasRottweiler

    DasRottweiler -BuickAddict-

    Grants
    Richs
    Mitchells
    Caldors
    Zayres
    ............Jim
     
  9. Jerseysky66

    Jerseysky66 Silver Level contributor

    Here is a few more closed department stores that were in New Jersey.
    Two Guys
    E J Korvette
    Jamesway
    Ames
    Bradleys
     
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  10. DasRottweiler

    DasRottweiler -BuickAddict-

    I had forgotten Ames and Bradleys.
    Another sign of age....
    Not a Department Store, but...
    Fayva (spelling?) shoe stores
    ......Jim
     
  11. bignastyGS

    bignastyGS Maggot pilot

    We had an Ames and when I lived in Lake Station Ind.,I remember Zayres..I remember my dad almost every weekend going to the Coast to Coast store and can't remember if the other was Western Auto or like that. Montgomery Wards was another..
     
  12. bignastyGS

    bignastyGS Maggot pilot

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  13. bballsam

    bballsam SoCal Gran Sports

    yeah I do. an I'm older.....
     
  14. wkillgs

    wkillgs Gold Level Contributor

    I bought my first car at Grants!
    In second grade we had a class trip to the local Grants. We each had one dollar to spend. I bought a gold Mustang fastback Hot Wheel for $1.00. I had to use my 6 cents of milk money for the 6% tax.

    Those K mart tachs actually look nice. Good thing they didn't put their logo on the face.
    I Googled the service center address on the instructions, It's a Sears/K-mart facility, currently for sale.
     
  15. Mike B in SC

    Mike B in SC Well-Known Member

    Back in the 60's & 70's in South Carolina we had K- Mart, J.M. Fields, SkyCity, Roses, Woolworths, Woolco, Big K, Kress, Grants, JC Penneys, Sears and a few others that I am forgetting right now. And best of all, NO WALMART!
     
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  16. 69a-body

    69a-body Well-Known Member

    As late as the 90's Montgomery wards still had automotive department. They had a set of micky thompson cheater slicks marked down. Guess someone special ordered them and didn't buy them ?

    My dad's cruise control came from Sears. Actually made by Dana. Also voltage regulator marked Sears right on top too. Lol
     
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  17. pbr400

    pbr400 68GS400

    In North Georgia we had Gibson’s and Roses. My little town was too small for a Kmart, we had to go 60 miles to Atlanta for one. We got both a Kmart and a WalMart in the late ‘80s.
    Patrick
     
  18. Briz

    Briz Founders Club Member

    VR in the top R of the picture is marked SEARS. Was on the Riv when I got her.

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  19. gs66

    gs66 Silver Level contributor

    I remember buying a Dixco tach at the Holiday station where I worked in the mid 70’s, I think I still have it.
     
  20. scubasteve455

    scubasteve455 Well-Known Member

    Hah! I got you guys having flash backs. Grants use to have a restaurant in the back of all their stores. I remember them cooking hot dogs on the flat cooker. And putting butter on the buns and browning them. I had to have been 7 yrs. old . 1972. Shortly after they folded.
     

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