Old Farts Thread!

Over 60,Over qualifed,was readin' Hot Rod since I was in elementary school.Dad was a Rod & custom guy.Some times I think its in the blood.Sold many a favorite cars,still have what I consider my favorite "Traditional" 40 Ford and my not so favorite 27,Gonna take Em with me

 

Turning 65 in Feb. is that old??

 

ThE only ones who worry if you are over 50 are the young girls you ask out on dates......... and their mums

besides you know when you are old when you realise sex is just another chore to do after the dinner dishes are washed up.

 

I might add, I've got a pretty new Silver color 3 wheel GetAround scooter with new batteries, if anyone wants to race.

HellRaiser

 

Hey I'm 60, Never think too much of it until I get that "old man" pat on the shoulder from a young good looking waitress, or look in the mirror and see an old fat guy wearing my clothes!. Besides 60 is the new 40.

 

Turning 62 this year and looking forward to social security for car parts funding. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional and so I remain as Casseltons oldest living teenager

 

I'll be 61 in April. My favorite car is my current one, a 33 highboy coupe. The vanity plate on the coupe says"OL PHART". Gettin' old sucks, but it does beat the alternative.

 

I guess I really belong here, I forgot the car part. Been building for 40 plus years. The one I still wish I had was a 52 ford crestline victoria, nosed and decked, lakes pipes, flathead etc.

 

I'm 57, been in the same area all my life just east of Los Angeles about 15 miles. In the 60's took my cameras to the local drag strips such as LIONS, San Gabriel, Irwindale and Fontana, then took my love of photography and made a good living at it until I retired at 52 in 2003. While my friends were wasting their money on extravagant vacations, partying and new cars every two years, I was buying SoCal real estate.
First car was a 1951 Anglia that I saw in a lady's garage while doing my daily paper route. Got it for $15. Then got ahold of a '30 Model A panel delivery with a SBC/Muncie in high school. Then a '63 'Vette, a '67 427/435 'Vette, four banger dragster, Harley, Pantera and a 1922 REO Speedwagon Fire Engine that I sold in '95. Now I have a chopped '34 Sedan with a SBF. I always wanted a '34 way back when I used to run around with the Early Times Car Club in the 60's.
So, been around hot rods and race cars all my life. Got to meet a lot of legends along the way.
Very proud of my age, healthier than I've ever been, glad I was smarter than my friends, happily married, live in a great small town by Pasadena where I was fortunate enough to serve as Mayor for years.
I never felt better, and no way would I trade places with anyone half my age.
I got to grow up in the 50's and 60's when dragsters had their engines where they belonged (IN FRONT), before political correctness ruined just about everything, when arguments were settled without guns, homes could be bought by most anyone who was willing to work, and life was lived without so many electronic gizmos to keep you "connected".
I'm retired and playing with hot rods...I don't want to be "connected"!

 

I'm 54. I got a '30 Ford closed cab pickup at 19, sold it to pay for my wife's engagement ring. Wish I kept it. Still have the wife for almost 31 years.

Got a '51 Henry J WIP but the wife says it should be RIP

Goin 33-1/3 rpm in an Ipod world

 

Only if you allow it to be!

 

i just turned 70. ihave a deuce highboy roadster with a big block chev, and a 29 chrysler with a f.i 392 hemi. still going strong.

 

I'll be 60 in March........I never think about it much actually. It's just harder to get off the shop floor these days......looking forward to retirement in a couple years when I can chuck this 6am-5pm daily grind. I've had so many projects, clunkers, semi-street bracket racers, off-road racers, roundy round cars and even a couple "collector" cars. I guess my favorite is still my current '35 sedan but I really like cruising in the wife's roadster-truck. I must be middle aged (?) crazy now, anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new commuter car, a 5 speed turbocharged Chevy HHR "SS". In about 25 years I'll yank the engine and put it in a roadster!!

 

I am 52 and can't wite for the next 10 years to fly by. Then i can move my home will be paid off and i can stop plumbing and strat guiding on some rivers in Uath fly fishing. TIC TIC TIC
My 1st car was a 67 Mustang 390 fac 2 X 4 no power anything only made 600 of them. Man was that a fun car and all that for only $600 paper route money at 15 years old

 

54 and been playin with them since I could walk.Made my livin as an autoworker for Ford Motor.33highboy

 

I'll be 55 in April, been playing with MC's and cars since I was 14. The one I regret selling was a 1947 Studebaker 1/2 ton short box. Rebuilt everything on it. Then I sold it to a step-brother that totally screwed it up.

 

More like 6.6

 

MAZOOMA1 (QUOTE) "no way would I trade places with anyone half my age." (QUOTE)

I also am happy with who I am, and happy to see life and people differently than in the past. I wouldn't care to go back to being who I was then.

There can be a real advantage to seeing things through "older eyes". I wish I could remake some of the decisions that I thought were good ones, but then I would not have learned from them, so.....

 

One of my bestest friends ever, Indian Jim, just turned 60, he's a total badass juvenile delinquent, I luvs that guy.

 

I'll be 71 in May, just got started on a 41 Dodge 1/2 ton, on a Dakota 4X4 running gear. Gonna have the only 41 Dodge excab on the block( if the beer holds out).
Patrick

 

What posesses me to respond? I can't remember.Do remember I've had a few cars and trucks,loved most, even the Jag...that I sat in under and around more than ever drove. Sitting here in Phoenix hoping for a load to S. Cal, and maybe catch the GNRS!!!!!!!Thank You for the HAMB

 

67 in a couple of weeks. Currently have a 66 Olds Tornado, 46 Pontiac woodie, 29 CCPU with a cab extension and a banger powered Zipper Lakester. Been involved in the hot rod business for well over 50 years. My only gripe is the 20 somethings that post here that don't have a clue how it was "back in the day"

Heading for the GNRS in the AM with six other guys that were charter members of a high school car club formed in '57

 

I'm over 50 and Chili Phil used to hit me.. But I dont hold that agenst him..

 

Eh? Speak up there son! 55 yrs and still glad to be here. The Avatar is the first '31 and sold it after 18 years and 100K+ miles. Plans afoot now for a second '31 w/a ragtop. HAMB inspired, I suspect at least.

 

Man you guys are old...

 

Double nickels for me next year. Grew up in the country with my first sighting of a "hot rod" around 1964. It sat in a vacant lot next to school. It was a red primer hoodless model A sedan. My first car was a 56 olds when I was about 14. I learned how to take a car all apart with that one. Did you know a double bladed axe removes sheetmetal? Got my license in 1970 and bought my first car to legally drive, 66 ford m...... fastback titled in me and pa's name. I still have the car. I have owned 1 of just about everything over the last 40 years. Many were junkers and some were great.

I have owned so many diffeent cars that I don't lust for anything anymore. It took me 40 years and maybe 200 cars to figure out I like the deuce fords the best. I have a 3W, a roadster, a tudor and a pickup plus my first car. .I have good health and a wonderful family. What more could a hot rodder ask for. Steve

 

Yea,
Im an old fart,what about it? if you dont like it, tough, this shit happen's .
You'll be old yourself one day if you live long enough.

Three rules for old guys,If you dont get these, youre reading the wrong thread.

1. Piss whenever you can.
2. Dont try to sneek a fart..You'll crap your pants
3. Never, Ever Ever waste a hardon. Do something with it..

 

Age is a relative thing. I have shop rags older than some members.

 

I just turned 59 -- and am damn proud to still be here
My favorite is my 56 Belair -- I have built and sold many -- but I built this one in honor of both my Dad AND his brother. The very first "new car" for both of then was a 56 Belair 2 door post car -- same color as the way I painted mine.
I only wish my Dad would have been here long enough for see "his car"....
Guess I will always keep this one -- but will continue to build -- and buy -- other cars -- but will probably end up selling them as well.

 

I am 63 and sold a fortune (in todays money) worth of great cars in my time. I still have my 39 ford that I got in 1966 for $50.00 sold the tires for $60.00 and the 48 flathead for $25.00. I have spent a LOT more on it since then, however.