Playin with your kids
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Anonymous
My son is interested, but cant afford nor insure a Yank muscle car...which is the problem he is playing with Hondas..he has been up the strip more times than me this year already.
Need to get him into a better paid job...as he is just loafing from job to job unsure of what he want to pursue, careerwise
He's hooked on the Drags though
Need to get him into a better paid job...as he is just loafing from job to job unsure of what he want to pursue, careerwise
He's hooked on the Drags though
ALL KILLER NO FILLER
Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
Carbon footprint of a Saturn V
Nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
Carbon footprint of a Saturn V
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Dave-R
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My Dad made me help him in the garage to work on his rotton old cars in the freezing cold garage when all I wanted to do was watch the TV.
I hated it!
But I used to laugh when he did things like drop a car door on his foot or pull the gears off the shaft in the gearbox and springs and ball bearings shot out all over the place.
I guess I must have had some interest though. I think getting into model american cars and drag racing while still at Junior school made me realise I needed to learn this stuff. So i kept at it and always helped him if he asked.
I hated it!
But I used to laugh when he did things like drop a car door on his foot or pull the gears off the shaft in the gearbox and springs and ball bearings shot out all over the place.
I guess I must have had some interest though. I think getting into model american cars and drag racing while still at Junior school made me realise I needed to learn this stuff. So i kept at it and always helped him if he asked.
My dad liked a bit of speed ( not the tablets ) and would put his foot down when he could he did not have any fast motors but my brothers mates used to turn up in the following cars Aston Martin DB4 GT, Gordon Keeble, ( number 4 ) Gilbern Invader, Marcos, and some others that I can't remember we lived in the New Forest and they used to come and stay for the weekend my dad always used to get invited to " try them out " and he enjoyed that !!!!! he one day told me that in 1936 he bought a Morris 8 drop head and too it to MG's to have all the go faster bits put on and then drove round Brooklands !!!!!!!! evedently you could then Donner at Brooky has said she will try and look in the records and find him but it might take a while as I sat on the banking with my car ( yes guys I know it is a heap ) I was thinking about my old man and his Morris 8 he passed away in 1985 and I still miss the chats we used to have he was in the Royal Marines for years before the war and did two round the world trips !!!!!!
he was a quite practical man and would look after his own car until we were old enough to help him
he was a quite practical man and would look after his own car until we were old enough to help him
John Rutledge
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NaughtyAlan
My 7 year old Teddie is obsessed with muscle cars of course as his mum wasn't and now not together, not all to do with the cars but sure didn't help.
Cars run in my family, witch is why I'm a mechanic now, no regrets there as i still have a passion for the job, even though it is getting harder being a small garage. I want Teddie to do something other than, but would love to one day hand my car down to him hopefully if i can afford to keep it.
To think will these cars still be usable in 20 years or so Maybe not on fuel?
Cars run in my family, witch is why I'm a mechanic now, no regrets there as i still have a passion for the job, even though it is getting harder being a small garage. I want Teddie to do something other than, but would love to one day hand my car down to him hopefully if i can afford to keep it.
To think will these cars still be usable in 20 years or so
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Anonymous
It is nice to have a wife who is as interested (if not more so) in cars as I am.
My father liked his cars, but didn't work on them.
He was keen. I had left university, and gone to work in Wales. First week there, Custom Car comes out with an advert for an XB GT for sale in Edinburgh. I mention it to him and see if he and his friend would go and have a look at it for me. In the evening, I am in the pub with my new landlord. He is summoned to the bar, then beckons me over, and the bar maid hands me the bar phone. It's my dad. "Better get to the bank, son. I have put a £50 deposit down on it for you and it's the fastest thing I have ever been in."
And the bank gave me the money too. That was 1982 and it's been downhill ever since.
From 1986 I have then had American cars, all of varying 'fastness', but my dad died in 1990 (of a heart attack at my wedding reception), and I do regret not having shared much of the downhill fun they have all been with him.
ATB
My father liked his cars, but didn't work on them.
He was keen. I had left university, and gone to work in Wales. First week there, Custom Car comes out with an advert for an XB GT for sale in Edinburgh. I mention it to him and see if he and his friend would go and have a look at it for me. In the evening, I am in the pub with my new landlord. He is summoned to the bar, then beckons me over, and the bar maid hands me the bar phone. It's my dad. "Better get to the bank, son. I have put a £50 deposit down on it for you and it's the fastest thing I have ever been in."
And the bank gave me the money too. That was 1982 and it's been downhill ever since.
From 1986 I have then had American cars, all of varying 'fastness', but my dad died in 1990 (of a heart attack at my wedding reception), and I do regret not having shared much of the downhill fun they have all been with him.
ATB
my dad saw his car as an A->B device used to put on 65,000 miles in approx 2-3 years with his job.
he loved his scooter though
he could'nt understand where i got my "take it to bits and put it back together" inclination from as he was not mechanically minded at all and neither was my mum.
my grandpa was definitely the hands on type of guy he had loads of tools and we spent many happy days dismantling TV sets and twin tub washing machines record players looking for big magnets motors mercury filled switches and things that went bang when i was little.
mum and dad were into badminton golf table tennis and my dad watched sport all the time....this is possibly why i took little or no interest. not out of malice mind you. the physcial side i enjoyed but once you got any good it all becomes strategy and planning ahead....game of chess type thing and i'm rubbish at thinking about anything passed the end of what i'm doing now.
personality tests at work indicate " good in a crisis fire fights if there are no fires to fight he'll start one , unlikely to cross the ts and dot the is"
my aim was always to have my scooters built so i could lend me dad one and we could go for a spin.....
sadly he passed away whitsun bank holiday 3 years ago a month before my first child Emma was born and 2 months before he retired (he'd chosen to work on til 67)
needless to say the scooter projects aint moved much since
Numb i think we all felt it was so wrong.
for the kids and me mum
lucky i came back from Oz eh....
family and friends is what counts
I never realised how well liked he was until we found it was standing room only at the church.
right enough.. am geeting miserbale
fag and coffee
Dave
he loved his scooter though
he could'nt understand where i got my "take it to bits and put it back together" inclination from as he was not mechanically minded at all and neither was my mum.
my grandpa was definitely the hands on type of guy he had loads of tools and we spent many happy days dismantling TV sets and twin tub washing machines record players looking for big magnets motors mercury filled switches and things that went bang when i was little.
mum and dad were into badminton golf table tennis and my dad watched sport all the time....this is possibly why i took little or no interest. not out of malice mind you. the physcial side i enjoyed but once you got any good it all becomes strategy and planning ahead....game of chess type thing and i'm rubbish at thinking about anything passed the end of what i'm doing now.
personality tests at work indicate " good in a crisis fire fights if there are no fires to fight he'll start one , unlikely to cross the ts and dot the is"
my aim was always to have my scooters built so i could lend me dad one and we could go for a spin.....
sadly he passed away whitsun bank holiday 3 years ago a month before my first child Emma was born and 2 months before he retired (he'd chosen to work on til 67)
needless to say the scooter projects aint moved much since
Numb i think we all felt it was so wrong.
for the kids and me mum
lucky i came back from Oz eh....
family and friends is what counts
I never realised how well liked he was until we found it was standing room only at the church.
right enough.. am geeting miserbale
fag and coffee
Dave
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MilesnMiles
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