Gentlemen, ladies, anybody who is reading.. my name is Andrew from Upper Township New Jersey. I own a 1952 Chevy Styleline Special that I bought my junior year of high school. I graduated Ocean City High School in June of 2017, so I've had the car for a little over a year now. I'm 19 years old, but it seems like Ive been into rods for the last century. No, my dad was not a gear head or a speed demon. I didn't grow up around racing or building hot rods. I went to my first car show when I was 6 years old and since then I've been hooked. Since middle school I've busted my***** always working after school jobs and on the weekends so I could have a hot rod before I graduated high school... long story short, in the spring of my junior year I finally pinched up enough pennies to get myself some wheels.. a pair of 1952 Chevy Styleline wheels that is. So yes, I just turned 19 the first week of November and my first car is a 52 chevy, pretty rad, huh? What makes it even cooler is how I ended up where I'm at today. Last december I was working in my uncle's motorcycle shop where I had worked for 3-4 years throughout middle and high school. I drove my car to school and work everyday until december 2016 when the heater core took a*****. I love that car.. after bypassing the heat I used to have to pull over on asbury ave with a towel and wipe down the windshield in december because there was no heat or AC or wipers so it would constantly fog up. I knew one day I would build a motor for it.. but I didn't know that day would come so soon. As I said, i had been working in my uncles shop for a few years now, but when the heater core went, i struggled to find a replacement that fit nicely in the original box. After weeks of frustration, I decided it was senseless to fab a new air box since the motor I planned on building one day would interfere with it anyway. So that was it. That was the start of my build. My heat went, so i pulled the whole drivetrain. Every last bit came out down to the frame. I went around town looking for bare blocks, and to my surprise, I had lived 2 minutes from a state of the art hole in the wall machine shop. I went in on a thursday, and I thought about it all night long. I liked wrenching on bikes with my uncle, but i wanted to be with cars. I went back the next friday with coffee and donuts and i wrote my name and number on the box. I told the old man i was going to bring him coffee and donuts every week until he hired me. So for weeks I brought him goodies with my name and number on the box. I was going to get in that shop. 4 weeks later he called me up... he asked if i was ready to work and I said he*l yeah! So there I am 18 years old just landed a job at a machine shop. On the first day i helped make shelves out of old angle iron, and on the second day i was building an LS for a '13 camaro. Long story short.. in the 11 months that I've worked there i now operate the machines and have a fully built small block 350, 4 speed saginaw and a job that I love. I don't want to over do it on my introduction, but I'm way passed overdoing it. Anyway, my name's drew, I'm looking for all the extra help I can get as i continue on this build. Thank you if you've read this far. Please introduce yourself so we can continue to share the love of rodding.
I think I've got you beat I'm 17 , still it's cool to see people my age with similar interests Sent from my iPad using H.A.M.B.
........................Welcome to both of you youngsters. Thanks for keeping the faith and the love of hot-rods alive. Enjoy your HAMBtime...........Don.
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