Raised up in North Carolina and Tennessee in the 1940's and 1950's, then USAF and forward to retirement. Helped build and drive bootleg cars and hot rods in Knoxville, TN. Long story.
Welcome.. The best I know the U S Air Force frowned on that type of non A F part time job. I hope you did the trip boy stuff before Enlisting..
Hey, I still love Shine. All I wanted to be is a rocket ship mechanic so they made me get educated and love to travel. Just glad those Fed guys never caught up with me. Yeah, my draft notice arrived the last week if boot camp and the TI laughed and tore it up. He laughed and aids, "we got ya now boy!"
BTW, we have a Caladium fest here in Lake Placid and about 300 neat hot rods are on display in pour town circle, so will be inserting some photos of them if that is okay, as time flies by?
Yeah, we're the home of the tiny gators. Opposite ends of the spectrum as applied to position on this planet.
Thanks, just got it out after a couple years and having a time of it getting back in gear. My son told me about a good player from his era, Joe Walsh, so I am getting down on his tunes. Quite good he is; not sure why I never heard of him! Oh well, getting old does that.
Walking home from school with friends we would pass a hobby shop that we would find neat airplane and car models. Out back was a 1932 Ford 3-Window Couple with the first overhead valve engine (51 Olds) we had seen. It was cut down without fenders and running boards and was jet black. The shop owner took it to Bonneville Salt Flats for time trials. The owner of this hot rod and the Coble Sporting Goods Hobby Shop in Greensboro, North Carolina was Harold Bunting and since he only lived a few doors down from us I became friends with him and would help work on the car. So after leaving Greensboro he sent me a newspaper article about his car and the Bonneville Salt Flats time trials in 1956.
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