Hey everyone. I would like to hear from anyone and everyone, how long have you been a car freak? Got photos? How about sharing. I maybe a fng here, but out in the world I have been a freak for as long as can remember.
Daaamn you're old. Almost as long as Rocky. But unless this is an interview it really doesn't matter. In the whole scheme of things its not as much where you have been but where you are going.
lets see, i'm 38 and i used to drive my dad crazy by taking apart everything in the house to see how it worked..........so most of my life. he always had something rusty or broke around, we were the "wierd" family with all the junk cars in the yard, so I'll have to blame this on him.
ever since i can remember .. im 57 now .. so minus the drug years that i can't remember .. guess that makes it around 50+..( i still remember most of my drug years )....ha ha ... hee heee,,,, im having a flash back now ...
Lets see, I'm 49 and i used to drive my dad crazy by taking apart everything in the house to see how it worked..........so most of my life. He always had something rusty or broke around, we were the "weird" family with all the junk cars in the yard, so I'll have to blame this on him. is there an echo in here?
Bought my 1st car - '37 Chevy 2 dr humpback sedan in 1958 when I had just turned 15. It had a rod knock but everything else was okay - paid $25 for it. So I have been hooked for 52+ years. Sure wish I had that old '37 now...
Squirrel^^^hahha sounds so familiar..guess Ive been at this since childhood too..over 40+...haha + years
I'm 63 and I'd truthfully have to say ever since I could climb into Dad's car and go for a ride with him. I used to spend hours drooling over my uncle's 49/51 Mercury coupe that sat in our yard while He was in Korea in the 50's and got to ride to town with him the day he got home. I got bit hard when I spotted one of the "older guys" a 6th grader with a Hot Rod Magazine on the bookmobile when I was in the 5th grade on Bainbridge Island Wa. and that officially started my continual downhill slide. I would probably have been a scientist or something if I hadn't found that magazine.
Longer than I'd like to admit I think........one of my "Christmas" requests as a kid, was for a socket set........I was probably 8 or so at the time....still have them too. It's definitely an addiction.
Around 1964/65, swapped a better 371 Olds engine into my 57 Olds at 13 yrs old...and it ran ! 16 or 17 yrs old, did a chop top on a 30 Es*** coupe body shell. I am mentally burnt out at almost 59...too much labor my whole life.
As long as I can remember,grew up in a Standard gas station owned by parents so always around cars in Dads shop, back when you could buy Preimum fuel that was a purple color. Always enjoyed the friday nights when all the kids in there cool cars would come in for the $2.00 worth of gas @ .19-9 a gallon for cruising, and engines sounded tough !!! Ah Those were the Days!!
got a model car around 5 yrs old it ruined me worked in a hot rod shop at 12 im 43 now i have been building for 31 years
I think sitting on my father's lap at the age of five and steering his Winonah Maroon 1938 Pontiac tudor sedan's yellowed-ivory colored "banjo" wheel started it all in about 1950.
Well, in the 60's I remember taking apart our rotary phone. Musta been around 10. I panicked that I couldn't get it back together before my Dad got home from work, fearing getting a whipping. So, I did the obvious....I took the television partially apart, thinking it would aid in reconstructing the phone. I couldn't sit for days. BUT, I actually begged my Mom for my first slot car set at age 8 as best I can recall. It was a 1/32 scale tri oval that came in such a weird shaped box, I was certain it wasn't under the Christmas tree when viewing all the wrapped boxes in the days before Christmas. That 1st set lit the fuse on an obsession that's never let off
1964..I was 16 the very day This photo was taken...pulled out the cracked 239 and replace it with a 53 Merc motor my dad and I rebuilt with tube headers and a rochester carb on an offy 4 barrel manifold...
My parents were in a car club called the "LANCERS" out of long beach when I was born, they named me Lance so I was expected to be a car guy. I screwed up and gave the disease to my children as well although I didnt name them after my car club. This is a pic of me and my sister at a young age.
Geez you guys are old! LOL. Me too. Idolized the neighbor's boys...they were "greasers". 1960/'61, I was born in '57...so since I was 3-4 years old. I can't remember when I didn't think old cars/hot rods were cool. Used to sit on the porch steps just to catch one goin' by...even way back then. I distinctly remember a rough-looking late '30s Chevy coupe in gray primer that would rumble by sometimes. Back then, there were lots of old cars sittin' behind garages and such, and I was always looking for them. Bought my first car when I was 16...a '38 Chevy 4-door sedan. And...personally, things haven't changed much...LOL. I'm glad to have had one constant in my life, in an "ever-changing world". It's mostly been a great source of frustration...I mean pleasure, and continues to be. And since finding the HAMB, it's even more frustrating...I mean fun. I enjoy hangin' out with you like-minded a-holes...I mean gear-heads! <!-- / message --><!-- sig -->
Helped the teenaged neighbor work on his 41 Ford coupe when I was 12, got my daytime farm license when I was 14 and bought my first car the following March (1958) - I have pretty much not been without a hot rod since that time. dj
I can remember when i was in the 5th grade all the girls would come to school with their barbie doll cases and i would walk in with my matchbox one's. I'm 46 now so that was awhile ago. Never did get rid of the bug. G***er Girl
Since I was 5-6 years old. I'm now 40. I remember my older brother bring home a 1957 Chevy Bel Air and that was it I was hooked!
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