Last weekend I backed out my car for a quick wash before the local Friday night cruise. When I fired it up, my 22 month old son ran to the door and started jumping up and down saying, "Dady's car, Daddy's car!" I promplty installed his car seat and took him to the cruise - he was all smiles. The car in question is not HAMB material ('67 Barracuda fastback) - but it is a V8 with dual exhaust as the only sound system. My point is more about his reaction to a fun old car than the year and style. If you didn't guess by my screen name, I am working on a chopped '50 Chevy - that's the car I really want my boys to remember riding in (my other son is 6 weeks old). Now, Ben's best attempt at saying Barracuda comes out "Cudda." So, all he talks about lately is, "Daddy's Cudda car, I love Daddy's Cudda car."
Keep at 'em, it is GREAT! !!! Especially when they WANT to go to car shows with you!!! With my current 12 years together wife, my girls love my old cars and my daughter "adopted" my '49 as hers!! My ex has done NOTHING but barage my son with "your dad is NOTHING but a dirty -grease monkey-" FUNY though as he now lives with me, and she and her husband sell "amway" for a living!! Sorry if any Amway dealers here but .....oh well, Ken
That's too cool! Mom says when I was young I was at the grocery store with her and saw a can of V-8 juice, and said "V-8"... But one of my very first early words (according to her) was "Volkswagen"...so, we're all glad for the way I turned out... Teach them young. I wish I had a Dad like you when I was 22 months old...****s having to figure all this stuff out on your own.
My girlfriends son who is 4 is into cars now as well. I told him we'd build him a pedal car / go-cart thing. Now he's picked out the colors, wheels, and won't stop asking to go work on it. We looked at a lot of pictures and he's decided he wants one that looks like a early '60s sprint car... now to see if I have the skills to pull this off. And her daughter keeps reminding me how much she misses my GTO that I sold.
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