Any old guys(65 +) still build not buy their hot rods??

I'm not old yet but I have built 7 cars since I turned 65.

 

im 66 years young and still building cars. im looking for another canidate right now.

 

Im not at that age yet, nowhere near it actually, I will always build mine!

 

I'll be 66 in a few months and I do pretty much every thing on my 3 projects. Keeping the daily driver going in good shape is probably the most difficult.

 

I am 76 and im good health, I am completely rebuilding my 62 Catalina 2 dr hardtop. I do almost everything myself. Currently building a 455 roller engine for it and rebuilding a posi rear for it. SO-Bob

 

I'm 70 and still do as much as I can. When I am stumped I call in friends. You can see what we do by clicking the link in my signature.

 

HELL YES I'M OUT THERE SOMEWHERE

 

67 in 1 month. Building my 30A cabriolet, some model i/c engines, a steam loco and a steam traction engine. Oh yes, not retired yet, so I still have a 7-3.30 job.

 

My dad is 73 and still does all the hard dirty stuff just like when I was a kid, He's better now than he ever was.

 

68 and building the 55 in my avatar, this will be my last. Just like I said last time.

 

69 and hope to finish my 56 Ford this year. Ive built everything for it so far but I will probably farm out the paint job




Probably my last build that is depressing!

 

I will be 67 next week,still building and Drag Racing.The only things I can not do are engine machine work,upholstery and custom glass[windows]!!! ROY.

 

I am 66 and this will be done as soon as the weather warms.

 

Count me as one been building nice ones since 69 so decided it was "RAT TIME" so building a 34 Ford 2-Door sedan hiboy style all rust but chassis components powder coated bright red & also building it safe

 

I will be 69 in a few days . I have a 37 ford pick up I have been building on and off for 25+ years and I worked on it today. I hope to finish it in about a year . I enjoy working on it but can't handle deadlines.

 

72 in a couple of months and these are two of the three I have built from frame off.





Fourdy

 

I'm just about sixty, I always have built my own, and always will. I got hooked on the adrenaline rush the first ride in the heap you built yourself gives you.

 

That's about the only thing that feels the same as it did when I was 16.

 

67 slow goin

 

I don't know any old guys; I do know some that are younger than others.

Still building at 64 and still loving it. So are a number of less young guys in our club.

 

I didn't even start till I turned 65 when I finally built my first ground up Hot Rod the 35 pickup in my avatar. I like to do everything myself including paint, engine and bodywork. I even bought a sewing machine and stitched my own R&P interior.
I find it very rewarding and satisfying do everything yourself even if it isn't perfect. Now 68 I am collecting parts and starting to work on a basket case 36 Ford 5-window.

 

Well at the young age of 74 I am still at it. Built my first hot rod back in 1956 & 57. On the down hill slide on building my 54 Chev pick-up for it's 3rd time around and started a build on another deuce. Just have all the frame parts at this time, but hope to find a 3 window body to drop on it.
Still love the build, it just takes longer now, plus it keeps me out of the bar....

 

Darn! With all of the old guys posting, I need to advertise prune juice in the classifieds! (I'm 66)

 

Only 63 but still building a full custom 55 Merc Montclair, I hope I don't die before it's finished lol

 

I'm 65 and building a 56 f-100 and it won't be my last.

 

Ill be 62 in march doing a frame off on a 56 ford victoria.check my profile for pics.

 

Was just listening to my dad preach about hot rod books today, "back in the day the articles said if you were doing power windows you needed the parts from a 60 Olds and you needed to weld up these holes and put a couple screws here and there, not buy this company's set-up and pay for this and that!". I am 46 and he is 74, I'm taking in as much as I can! Not a lot of you guys left and most of you guys have forgotten more than the next generation of builder will ever learn!
Cheers

 

Pete, thats just great what you are still doing and I wish you many more years of "Hot Rodding". I love to here replys as yours. I just turned 59 and hope to keep up this hobbie as long as I can... Thanks for sharing.

 

I turned 70 the 13th of this month i have three cars tore apart in my garage now (one since 1978 )and DAM i'm going to get them done or die trying

 

I am 75 and have built, modified, restored or customized over a dozen cars, trucks, vettes over the years. Couldn't find anything to work on during the Michigan winters, so am finishing a 62 Nova convertible for a widow lady whose husband died at 50 yrs old she is buying the parts and I am donating the labor just to stay "young"