Who you calling old?

Well said..
A couple more years for my S/S checks (SuperStock ?), in the meantime I'll continue to beat on my blown Anglia with the 'belly button' motor.

CC

 

I am 63, and will be 64 in November.....have been retired for 7 years and I highly recommended it......if only my younger daughter would quit college I'd be on easy street.......

I drive a Deuce 3w highboy Lakes style coupe.......flathead powered....doesn't everybody have a hot rod?


Brucie

 

I attained,"COOTHOOD" last January.My oldest kid is 39 and my oldest granddaughter is 19 in August.I have driven my 55 Safari every day for the last 150,000 miles and just succumbed to electric wipers last year.

I occasionally drive my 91 GMC Syclone or my 25th Anniversary TransAm(no insurance on them so I have to sneak them out) or my wife's,"old lady car"(1972 Thunderbird).My 57 Safari has been languishing in one garage or another since 1979 but it will get out one of these days;if not by me then someone else.

I get an average of about 4-5 hours of sleep per night ever since I can remember and if I stay in bed for 8 hours,I can't walk for a long time. The town cops still harass me occasionally for tearing around the neighborhood on my pocket bike that I've owned for the last 25 or so years.The only things I really miss doing are riding a full size motorcycle and street racing;both of which I gave up some time ago.

My latest toy is a creation called a,"Tri King Kobra" which I am trying in vain to learn to operate.It looks like a 3 wheeled skateboard with handlebars and an articulated frame.You have to be really co-ordinated to even stand up on one let alone propel it down the street.My neighbors have had a few good laughs watching me attempt to ride it.

Long live old people!

 

Thanks guys, you're making me feel young ! It kinda counteracts the kid making me feel old!

Flatman

 

I'm 60 (how'd that happen ) and I drive a '37 Chevy Sports Coupe with a 235; a '55 Buick with a 401, 2x4's & a Super T-10 4-speed. My project is a '46 Chevy 1/2T that will have a 327 Chevy, '57 Olds rear and a 3 speed w/ od tranny.

Age is a state of mind - think old and you'll be old.

 

What was it we were talking about?

 

I just turned 50 and drive my first car, my wife was calling me old cause I now qualify for the senior discount at motels, however all you old farts are making me feel like a youngster

 

I'm 62 and have a '30 model A tudor. Had it for 22 years and hope to keep working on it for another 22.

 

63 scoot around in a 23 Track Roadster Flatty powered

by the way retiring on June 30 this coming Friday

 

You know you're old when you go out to dinner at 4:30. We go at 4:15! One of my cars is a tube framed, 406 Chev powered fibreglass drag race Fiat bodied street & drag race rod. Gotta climb through the roof to get in it. I've driven it 300 miles to a car show and drag raced the next weekend with it. It is totally home-built. The car has NO creature comforts; it just goes fast and stops fast. I have to admit climbing through the roof at age 65 takes a little effort.

 

60 years on the planet. Sold my '56 Olds to finance my '49 Olds Holiday project. I'm still working (Off road dump truck) but will retire SOMEDAY.

Here's some info for the youngsters, the guys working on the 15oz Coupe Fuel Coupe range from the kid, 56 to 71. The car will run low 7s at over 200 mph and the guy who will drive it drove it on its last run in 1965. Gary Read is 69 years old and still keeps a comp license legal for modern Nitro funny cars.

 

I'm 70 and I drive my chopped, 340 powered 37 Terraplane as much as I can. Three out of the past 5 weekends I put 250 or better mile trips on it, last weekend cruze Fri, 2 shows Sat. and a cruze Sun., summer time and retirement are great.

 

I am 59 and driving my A sedan, building a 27 coupe and a 27 roadster P/U. Got a mildly customized GMC CC diesel P/U, soon to be chipped and smokin tires, like the rest of my vehicles. On the 12th of July I will become a resident of Tennessee and be 3 years from retiring

 

I learned how to drive a stick on my friends BRAND NEW 64 Impala convertible SS 409....
guess I'm old but look at the alternatives; (1)could be dead OR (2)could have learned to drive on a brand new CHEVETTE ! (better dead)

old is good, you remember your cars faster, your muscles bigger and the girls prettier....ok nap time now

 

when I was a youth, a bitchen car, that I would give my left nut to own, would drive by and I'd check out the driver and he would be an old fart. now I'm an old fart (65) and I drive the car. Plus I don't care who likes it or not.
Pogo

 

I'd rather be old cuz then you got a few bucks and maybe you can finally finish something!!

 

Hell, Im only 34 but I got pretty badly beaten up in the Army and feel at least 280. Never trust anyone when they say, these things CANT malfunction..........

 

I just turned 40 and some days I feel as if I am much older .I have three kids so workin on my cars is a luxury that I am not often afforded.It's my fault for choosin the life of work I chose but , I am glad to see that all the older fellas on here still kick it hard when they decide to go do their thing. I have an older (66) dodge and a 50 shoebox that I play with when I can and driving them erases time for me also. I still remeber every morning why I do what I do and every night what I do because I want to, even if it is for only a few minutes a day.This is what makes us different I suppose.Thanx for all of the posts fellas, It sure is inspirational. swaZZie

 

Well Im 60 and I still have my first car that Pop bought for my 13th birthday. We put a Hemi in it when I was 16 and it is still pretty much unchanged to this day.

 

My dad turns 70 this year. We been cutting, welding and building harder this
year than we have in a long time. He's got a 30 coupester, a 31 woodie, a 50
ford, a 52 caddy and a 63 impala. I keep wondering when he's going to be old. We tuned an A model pickup for a friend the other day and took a ride in it. He said, these things are fun at 35 mph but I like some thing I can fast in.
Rod

 

Been on Medicare for over 7 years (you do the math). Still putting mileage on the old Merc. and my '64 BMW 2 wheeler.

 

I'll be 57 this month. I haven't worked on my 56 Big Window Ford or either one of my Anglia projects lately. I've been too busy trying to finish up my chopped 51 Panhead.
Larry T

 

I don't know about the rest of you but this gives me hope I've got lots of good years ahead of me. Great replys.

 

im only 15 , thanks for makin me feel like i should go suck my moms tit and cry

- dylan

 

I'm 56 acording to the calander.

You are only as old as you feel.
Yesterday we went junkyarding and I was 19 again.
Today I'm 104.
My daily is an 85 Elky 350/700R4
My project is a 35 Chevy PU with a Caddy 346 Flathead.

Glenn

 

I'm 52 and am building and driving a 48 Chevy Coupe has a 350 SBC with a 700r4.

 

Killer - makes me feel like a youngster at 47. Currently workin' on a '33 Ford P/U - big block. Been ridin' Harleys for the past 26 years.
I love and welcome all the ole-timers, what a wealth of wisdom and info we can conjure outta ya, if the damn young-uns would quit posting stuff like, "what did you watch on TV last night".......
See y'all soon, and thanks for the plethora of help/advise/info.

 

HUH???? Wake me up when it's over....gotta take my Geritol. Might have left it in my '32 Ford sedan or maybe the "A" roadster I'm collecting parts for...anybody seen it. I'm 59 and can't remember. What was your name again????

 

Getting closer to 60 every day. Still have the '55 Ford and the Modified.

Not really in any hurry to sell either of them. Just wish this bloody cold spell would go away so I could use them.

 

My first Social Security check was deposited on the 21st of this month (62). I've been retired since 1992. I have a 11 second T and am building a 10 second coupe - both streetable.


Mutt