Thread: How young did you start, and did it result in obsession?

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Hey Don ... you guys must have been well off ... was that in 1933???

Just bust'n them.

I got started when I aske my Dad if I could get a car in high school. We were a bit lower middle class .... he said SURE ... buy what you can afford.

So ... my first car, before I got my license @ 16, was a 1969 Torino 428 SCJ with a blown engine. I managed to change it out in the dead of winter, in the street, in the Boston area. That was a cold winter gents. I moved onto a 1946 Ford p/u & then assisted my Dad on a resto of a '34 ford pick up.

I got worse from that & I've never recovered.

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[QUOTE=REGs;402436]Hey Don ... you guys must have been well off ... was that in 1933???

Nah, tbat was when all these old cars were $ 25.00 each. I'd be sitting in class and a buddy would come up and tell me that someone he knew had such and such a car for sale, usually $ 25.00 was the going rate, so I'd hit my Mom up for a few bucks and would get a new toy. I would also call junkyards because people would scrap great cars just because they were tired of them. They usually charged $ 25.00 for a car, and if you wanted the battery it was $ 6.00 more..........I have no idea why that was.

I knew a guy who would get a car from a junkyard and drive it as his car until it finally died. Then he would call them up and ride with the tow truck driver to the yard, pick out a new car, and drive that one until it also died.

Don