Old Farts Thread!

i'll be 55 on Sunday , seams like it was just yesterday that i was 16 with my first Model A sedan

 

59, and a half.

 

61 here, some days I feel it and some I don't.
I've been a car nut since I got my first pedal car and the toy tin gas station for Christmas.
First car was a 51 Merc that I had for 32 years until someone came along with more money then sense. He has done a great job on it though.
I've been a serious car nut since I discovered this magazine called "Hot Rod" on the Bookmobile when I was in the 5th grade.

 

Nice to know I'm in good company. 63 here and hope I have a few more left. Don't remember exactly when '32 Fords started dominating my hobby car tastes but it's been a love/hate thing ever since. Love, you only have to take a look. Hate, a one year model, everyone (almost) else loves them to, overpriced, short supply, I don't have enough of them. I've owned 8 gennies and have a Brookville fake among over 100 cars I've owned since I was 12 years old. The best line for us old guys, "old age and treachery will overcome youth and enthusiasm everytime"
Oh yea, have 2 '32 5w's, a '32 roadster (Brookville), '26 T roadster and a '48 Ford PU waiting in the wings. You can never have too many projects.

Frank

 

52 here. My Dad got me going when he bought a 29 tudor sedan from a retiring neighbor. That was 1967 and I was 12. First car I learned to drive. He used to take me to all the local Model A club meets, very cool time in my life. The cowl and frame from that first car, are part of my 29 roadster build.

 

I'll be 64 next month. Most favorite car was my '34 Ford which I built after I graduated from high school in'62. Sold it a year later and bought it back ten years later....... should have listened to my wife and not sold it again, but I did. Now having a ball building my 26 T coupe.

 

I'll be 63 in April, bought my first car, a 5W deuce at 16, still have it,( plus 5 other deuces, and a couple of others.) I was into go karts before the deuce. One of my favorites is the roadster that I drive cross country every summer, planning this summers trip now. I use my SS check to buy the gas for the trips!

Dale

 

I'm 64 and looking forward to building my next car. I have it all planned out but have one in process that need finished first. Looks like a lot of us are 63-65 yrs old . Didn't we have a great time in the early 60's ?

 

post war baby, '47 hit the big 60 last june, early retirement (55) best thing i ever did missed quite a few chances in the '60's for cars but I've always kept my eye out now I have an ol 'vert having a ball like someone on here said Behind the wheel I turn 17

 

what a bunch of old farts

I just turned 50 last fall
but you all make me feel like a kid again

 

I think we place waaaay too much emphasis on age....and not enough on the spirt that lives inside us, not matter what our age is. I am passed the age where I ought to know better... and I still like it. I've had a few projects in the past, been around cars all my life as my dad had a body and paint shop doing a few rods & customs...but the ones I have now are the ones that I will miss if they ever disappear for some reason while I'm alive.

 

Turned 52 the day after Christmas 2007. I remember handing dad tools at age 6; he had an old '51 Ford tudor that was more bailing wire than parts. My first car was a '50 studebaker Champion four door but my favorite was a '36 Dodge business coupe with a 354 hemi. I sold it for $500 to help pay hospital bills when my oldest boy was born. It was a good bargain 'cuz he is a keeper; he loves hotrods and flies an F-16 for a living.

I am definitely proud of my age, having done a tour in Iraq in 2005-2006. Not many 50+ year olds can say that. Besides getting older is better than dying any day!

 

57, thats 399 in dog years.

 

I was 72 in Dec., enjoy driving my Terraplane as much as I can. Starting on my 37 Dodge canopy express to keep me out of trouble.Started my first hot rod in 53, a chopped and channeled A on zeed 32 rails, miss that almost as my 34 2dr. I had in 60. Rock on old farts.

 

My project in 1958 when I was 16. With a 1/4" drill, a hacksaw and a stick welder. Fifty years later, still building hot rods, but I've got a few more tools now. Of the ones that got away, I'd like to have my Thames w/sbc, in the shape it was in before I stuffed it into the guardrail at Twin City Dragstrip.

 

68 and started at 9 doing a 62 kenworth in to a pickup now

 

70 years young. 32 sedan 283 present toy.Best car COBRA KIT CAR,traded
a pantera for it.First car was 36 5window with a flat head in 1954.then 40
Ford sedan with flat head.

 

I'll be 55 Feb.3rd.I was raised in a small rural village where I was a tween kid to young to hang with the older guy and to old to hang with the younger kids.So for quite a while i spent all my time home with books and a lot of those trickled down from uncles so car/hotrod magazines came my way real early.at 10 my step dad dragged home a farm built A truck built by shortening a sedan body on a shortened AA frame.I traded that "truck"for a running 60 falcon and it was down hill from there!Marriage put a halt to much beyond daily drivers for too many years and now I'm building a 27 T rpu that I always wanted. I did lots of work on other peoples cars/rods so I wasn't entirely out of hotrodding but with the kids grown and sort of out of the house it's time for MY projects !

 

Bought my first car for $35.00 at age 14...36 Ford 4 door, and turned 63 last fall. Thought I was old till I met an 89 year old last year at a run in his 32 highboy with a 4.6 Ford and 5 speed. Gives us old farts something to look forward to.

 

I'm 58 turning, 59 in March .... pisses me off, but not turning 59 would piss me off more !!

 

Maybe not the same,but remember old K/W pic up from SF/Oakland bay area,

 

59 next June. Retired at 48 from the gas company. Played cars since I was 13. Must have owned a couple hundred by now. Some favorites are my 27 tub that I recently gave to my daughter, a black 50 Ford ragtop, 3 = 55-56 Nomads, my black chevy 55 2-door, 47 ford coupe, 23 bucket, 47 ford tudor. Ah hell, I miss them all. Car crazy after all these years. Pat.

 

Old - old fart!!
I grew up as a young lad in Ontario Canada watching A/GAS and B/GAS which were the top guys of the drag strip in the day.
I remember when they started 'Altered wheel base' in Superstock which later became Funny Cars cause they did look 'funny' at the time, with their straight axle front ends just behind the front bumper bar and the rear wheels under the back seat. ( Pro stock as we know it today, had yet to been invented ). It was the war of non-factory backed 'privateer' racers pre 1963. In late 1961 a guy from Bowmanville Ont. CA ( name with-held) bought a brand new 62 Chev 409, went out of the dealers showroom 'slideways' and won SuperStock eliminator at the Canadian Nats with it in the summer of 62. In 63 the car got a swap out 283 and became the tow car for the teams flip front B/Gas 409 55 chev 210 ,(no prizes for guessing where they got the engine ), which won Canadian Nats in 63.
Several times I can recall leaving for the drag strip a 5AM just to get there before the gates opened at sun up so as to get a front row parking spot near the start line.
Always ... always!, we met up at the turnpike service center/coffee shop a few miles before the strip as a staging spot and watched the guys unhook the FLAT TOWED drag cars... (B/G 55 Chev mentioned above included) and help prepare their set up for the strip.... ( we must have been drag groupies!) ...take off the free wheeling rear hubs with skinny tires ,Fit the slicks , add the av gas in the tank, etc. The looks on Joe Public and the kids when a full-on B/Gas started up with the sun just rising and heading out on the 401 highway in full song to the strip was priceless!!
Oh, by the way ... the tow car 283 was always given a 30 second head start ( it never won!)
It was the era of lo-buck, run what ya brung, free admission to the pits, drag-racing.

WE SHALL NEVER SEE THE LIKE OF IT AGAIN.

PS.. apart from working on the 64 streeter Im going to pit crew for my sons WRX Subaru Rally Australia car.

 

61 and made it through the 60's. You know what they say about the 60's if you can remember it you weren't there....First car at 15, 48 ford coupe with a 53 merc. engine and three 2's, haven't stopped yet 38 chevy pickup full fendered..Take a look around there are more silver foxes now then ever before. We Rule........

 

I will just say 70 is not far away! Only two real favorites after owning many over the
years. 40' Fords and 29' Hiboy Roadsters. Only one left is Roadster I have owned
since 1968. No more new builds for me, however have two sons that may allow me
to get involved in another. Not sure how deep I can have the hole dug, might take
the 29' with me?

 

Been there, done that, still doin' it....

 

Be 53 in may, I think, Wife says I have a 40 minute memory. I think she is giving me the benifit of the doubt. I have and have had way too many cars over the years. But as long as I am able, I will have and build many more!

 

toast that sounds like me. 68, and a year older than what my dad was when he passed. Its great having a 40yr old mind and an oldersters bod. I still get to do things. my fed will hit the trail this yr.I tell youngsters if they will do right they may live this long.

 

Aging is manditory - Getting old is optional !!

 

I'm 21 for the 38th time.
Grew up on a farm and started driving the farm roads in a 50 Stude bullit nose at the age of 11, Rebuilt my first motor at the age of 9, and been playing with cars ever since.
The car I miss the most ?? my 1959 544sport Volvo, Drove that when I belonged to Corvettes of Minnesota in the late 60's.
Looking back in my life I would not change much, I have been involved in the music business, Retail grocries, Retail lumber, Large building construction, Self employed Homebuilder for 20 years, and a self employed Furniture maker for the past 10 years.
I have run: compitive national Rally car, Regional SCCA ITB, club Ford, and GT3 Pinto, Midwestern Council GT3 Pinto. Been an race official, and crewed NASCAR, SCCA, IMSA, and Midwestern council.
The only regret is I did not get into hotrods sooner, The last 4 years have been a blast, and hopfully the 54F100 will make it to Rust Revival this year.

Jim H