My Mom started me in the right direction back then!!----Thanks MOM!!! 1929 & 1970, still in the drivers seat!!!!
My Mother always tells me that the only reason she had kids was so she could take a break from turning wrenches with Dad in the garage.... Now she just drives whatever we build.
My Mom (who will be 80 this September) is the only one in our family who has flipped a car end over end. The most the rest of us (Dad and 3 boys) could do is roll one. She reached Super-Mom status in my eyes in 1969 when she bought me a T10 4-speed for my first car over the objections of my Dad.
My Mom still has the ticket that she got for running wide open on Whittier Blvd at Johnnies Broiler. And the family wonder why I have a file of tickets that look like a phone book !
My mom was behind me in every way when I first got into cars. She is one great lady. Unfortunately now she is in a home with extreme Alzheimers and has no idea I even exist. She will always be in our hearts even if her mind is gone. I don't wish that disease on my worst enemy
Mom always told me she walked the straight and narrow and I was the only Hell she ever raised? Somehow that doesn't sound right? There's the memory of us "racing" the old silver Goodyear blimp with Mom driving her 56' Chevy. I stood on the front seat and looked out the top of the windshield at that dirigible heading south on rte 96. It seemed like we were doing 100,but probably only 60.If that? One of the only hot rod moments I have of Mom.
My mom is 86 years young and wasn't a hot rodder........but she turned one out! Happy Mother's Day to my Mom, and all the mom's out there.
My mother (p***ed away in 03) bought a silver 65 Corvair Monza 140 four speed new in 65. The neighbors called her Gladys the gray streak. Mowed her own lawn on a Cub Cadet until age 84.
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