Awesome pics! I know Dad hasn't grown up at all! (He turned 61 in Dec.) We spent all day Saturday playing with the cars in the driveway. He's currently working on the 57 Belair that's been sitting in the garage since the mid 80s. He has it almost ready for paint and man does it sound awesome! I can't wait to "borrow" her.
My Dad got me hooked on cars as a kid, but he's kinda out of the hobby now. He likes looking at them when he happens upon a show or a cruise night, but he doesn't go out of his way to see them any more. I think that he always regretted selling the red 53 Chevy Belair convertible that he had when he first got married. When they started having kids, he sold it and bought a pea green 55 Plymouth 4 door. Funny thing was that he LOVED his Belair and babied it continually and it always left him stranded or was always needing something fixed or adjusted. He HATED that 55 Plymouth and wanted to prove what junk that Mopars were, so he beat the snot out of it continuously. Fortunately, or unfortunately for him, it always ran like a Timex and was as dependable as a Zippo lighter for years! He has been a Mopar man ever since! I regret not buying a shirt that said "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever!"
My old man is the same way. He's a mechanical engineer with a penchant for jumbo toys. His latest project is a GIANT, 20ft long, 2-person rocking "horse", one person on each side kinda like a teeter-totter. His past projects include a big human hamster wheel and a big, horizontal rope ladder with pivots on the end like a rotisserie. He was always coming up with new and interesting ways for us kids to break our bones. He also builds sail-powered iceboats to blast across frozen lakes on at 60-70 mph.
My Dad is 89, he's never been a "car guy", but when he was almost 80 he learned to play the guitar. Then, at 80, he joined a band, now he plays and sings "gigs" 3-4 times a week. When he plays at the nursing home, he says he's going to play for the "old folks", and he's usually the oldest one there!
neat dad, my dad when he retired from farming/ home building he decided to build his own alcohol fuel plant. He went to seminars and visited newly designed plants around the midwest, and built his own fuel plant. The first try it was not fuel grade, but he had the wisdom to make the distillation tower bolt together. He add a few feet to the tower making it about 30' tall and the second batch was fuel grade. he designed a vacuum pump system to transfer the material and all of the electronics. He converted his riding lawn mower to run on it and that was a far as it got. By the way he was 70 plus and had only a 6th grade education. If any one is interested in buying this marvel let me know, eventually It will need to be remover from the home farm. Oh by the way you can not drink the alcohol mad in a steel system it is highly poisonous.
Hey, Id like to meet your dad., I m looked on as an odd ball here in the stuff shirt capital of the world , were you become invisable when you reach 60. Im now 70 & ride a lowrider cruzer, a 49 Triumph Trophy & im building my 5th all American Hot Rod....For ever young Bri...
Indeed your dad and my dad should have play time! it makes going up with them great cause when you were doing somthing stupid they woulod show you how to do it the right way so you looked really stupid .... keep on liveing it
EDWARD...I love you man! i'am 68 and my son look's at me like i'am a lepper. and that's O.K. i look at him like an imature imbasil...POP.
I'm 79 and still racing as long as I can p*** the physical. I think I might want to be a race driver when I grow up.
Your Dad is havin a ball! See you're in Walterboro. I used to live in Beaufort and I am a BBQ lover. Dukes is one of the best!
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