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  1. oldiron 440
    Joined: Dec 12, 2018
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    oldiron 440
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    Younger me told me NOT to get remarried but I didn't listen...
     
  2. At 20 and now I'm saying it's stillrunning about my Studie - which was asked a lot over the years.....
     
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  3. trollst
    Joined: Jan 27, 2012
    Posts: 2,108

    trollst
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    See? You are as smart as you think you are, the girls DO love you, quit being shy.
     
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  4. Mimilan
    Joined: Jun 13, 2019
    Posts: 1,230

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    Wrong...........
    Acquire all the VW Kombi's [VW buses] you can get........usually for free!

    Nobody ever predicted that Hippie's would get nostalgic
     
  5. lostone
    Joined: Oct 13, 2013
    Posts: 2,820

    lostone
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    from kansas

    And have a bunch of money to buy back those memories !!
     
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  6. gene-koning
    Joined: Oct 28, 2016
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    At 19, I was married (to the same gal yet, 45 years), bought my first house, was working a full time job (50 hours a week) and working for myself at night.. I had goals and was working hard towards a future plan. That plan was adapted and changed slightly over the years, but it was pretty much the same process.

    If that 20 year old me was looking at me now, he would have said "Damn, that was a pretty good plan." He would have been pretty impressed how well the old me handled the twists and turns that came along through the process. Gene
     
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  7. nochop
    Joined: Nov 13, 2005
    Posts: 3,818

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    from norcal

    Buy those chrome 5 window garnish moldings from Halibrand Hal for $200 bucks.
     
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  8. Some of you must have been idiots in your youth. I am going to be 52 next month. Digging through old pics tonight and see a shot of me from 97, I thought deep and I was smarter then than I am now. Or not.
     
  9. Younger me would think it took too long to finish the Chevy.
     
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  10. bowie
    Joined: Jul 27, 2011
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    20’s me would be saying, “I bet your glad , you listened to all those old farts; who said…that’s one I should have hung on to”. He would also say “ I wish we hadn’t blown up the 301” in the ‘32, back in ‘76… or we’d still be banging the gears 1000 rpm’s higher in her…. BF33AE88-7A9F-4FF1-AB8A-ADF7B1224FB4.jpeg
     
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  11. orange52
    Joined: Feb 21, 2003
    Posts: 462

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    My younger self would say "You've had that truck since 1986 and it still isn't running? What the hell man?"
     
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  12. topher5150
    Joined: Feb 10, 2017
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    My dad had a 1940 Ford Tudor sedan that he bought in the mid-90s a complete pretty solid running car. He got it stripped down IFS, 302/C4, 8" rear complete original interior etc...Fast forward to the early 00s I'm between high school and college and this car has been sitting idle in the barn for five-plus years. The old man finally got sick of it and decided to sell it. I tried but I wish that I tried a little harder to let him sell it to me, but he thought saving for college was more important. So in other words quit being such a push over and take charge of your life.
     
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  13. "36 fuckin' years and it still aint done? WTF!!!"
     
  14. Ned Ludd
    Joined: May 15, 2009
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    You mean you still haven't started?!!
     
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  15. Tow Truck Tom
    Joined: Jul 3, 2018
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    from Clayton DE

    Keep the seven you have. Find land in the sticks. Get paint on the Nomad. Buy all the "A" junk you can. Learn welding. Stop rescuing everyone. And oh yeah, any convert is a collector...
     
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  16. Lone Star Mopar
    Joined: Nov 2, 2005
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    20 year old me would say to fourty something me "good job"! Still happily married after 20 years, healthy enough to be alive, you have a couple hot rods and a house ! .... "Damn dude, good job!"
     
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  17. ramblin dan
    Joined: Apr 16, 2018
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    ramblin dan

    I shouldn't have snatched the pebble from the blind man's hand and why does he keep calling me Grasshopper?
     
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  18. My younger self would tell my older version, "Why have you not gotten that '29AA on the road after working on it 47 years? Do you think you'll live forever so there's no hurry?"
    My older self would tell the younger version, "Don't sell your '29 coupe so that you can buy the '64 Jag drophead. Don't sell the '64 barracuda - same argument. Buy your neighbor's '57 DeSoto, put the 341 hemi in the coupe and have something fast and cool for the rest of your life."
    Ordinarily I wouldn't take that kinda lip from a young punk, but he's right. And my younger version would, of course, ignore the wisdom of a wise old man, but he'd still be right.
     
  19. Young me would call old me a dumb ass for not acquiring more skills.
     
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  20. hotrodjack33
    Joined: Aug 19, 2019
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    Young me would say "that's what I have to look forward to?...you look like shit":eek:.
     
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  21. solidaxle
    Joined: Jan 6, 2011
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    from Upstate,NY

    The younger me would have said. Wow!This car is a real chick magnet. In reality, the older me now accepts it's an old guy magnet.
     
  22. Rickybop
    Joined: May 23, 2008
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    Can't think of a thing my younger self could say to my older self that would be worth listening to.
    But my older self would have plenty to say to my younger self.
     
  23. 1971BB427
    Joined: Mar 6, 2010
    Posts: 8,717

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    from Oregon

    My younger self would be jealous of my older self's cars. Nowadays I build the type of cars I only wished I could afford to build when I was in high school. So I'm just living the dreams I had back then.
     
  24. seb fontana
    Joined: Sep 1, 2005
    Posts: 8,442

    seb fontana
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    from ct

    Young me would say, "never thought I'd have a pony tail!" About my shoebox, I all ways told everyone that is a long term project, I was pretty right!
     
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  25. RacerJames
    Joined: Dec 7, 2016
    Posts: 40

    RacerJames

    You still have hair, own a home, a Falcon AND a Mustang? Niiiice! Your wife's cute too.
    Wait, you replaced the 429 with a 351W in the '64 truck? What for?
     
  26. tubman
    Joined: May 16, 2007
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    "Nice car; want a beer?"
     
  27. lostone
    Joined: Oct 13, 2013
    Posts: 2,820

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    from kansas

    One thing I would tell myself too is, keep the firebirds and the GTO !!

    Oh and that factory 4 series posi camaro 12 bolt 67-69 rear end really is going to be worth some money someday along with all 3 pontiac 3 deuce set ups too! By the way don't sell the garage full oc 67-69 firebird parts and lastly Buy that damn 69 trans am that guy offered you !!!
     
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  28. hotrodjack33
    Joined: Aug 19, 2019
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    The younger me would say "I can't believe I STILL have a ponytail";):D
     
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  29. Roothawg
    Joined: Mar 14, 2001
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    I had a molestache in 97, but so did everyone else.
     
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  30. Ned Ludd
    Joined: May 15, 2009
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    My ponytail has a name. Its name is "I'm a stubborn bastard," because there are like fourteen individual hairs in it.
     

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