Graduated High School in '62. Seeing AG was watching a rerun of my senior year. I had a av8 '29 coupe but it would have fit perfectly in most of the scenes of Milner's '32 only with a flathead in place of the sbc. Met my wife of 48 years and knew she was the one when she was the only girl that could drive my coupe. Good times................great memories. Since joining here I always though PorknBeaner was a wise old sage............now I find out he's just a punk kid...................with a couple million posts Frank
Finishing 2nd grade in Youngstown Ohio and on to 3rd grade that fall. Just starting to get the itch for cars - my first plastic model was a 39 Deluxe / 40 Std Ford.
I was 15 years old and had just purchased two cars for $50.00 each. One was a 1949 Chevrolet Coupe with a good motor and the other was a 1951 Chevrolet Coupe with a great body but no motor. I along with a few friends changed the motor with borrowed tools since none of us had any. Sundays I would find a ride to the local drag strip which was about 52 miles away and watch the action. Jimbo
Freshman in college and driving a 37 fastback Ford sedan with a 303 Olds and wondering why I had decided to build it this way! Wondering why I thought mechanical brakes and the original tranny/rear would ever hold up!
First ran the Ardun car in my avatar, around $800 in the whole deal...tried to persuade my draft board (remember those??) that drag racing was vital to the national security of the United States, failed, and wound up in the Navy .. same year.
I have a uncanny memory for things as a kid. In 62 I was 4. That summer the house we were living at we moved out of that fall so I know I have my year right on this. I would play in our backyard and this cool as hell 56 Dodge ( I think 56 ) a guy had up the street from us he would leave in the afternoon. Cool as hell duels on this thing that would rack like hell when he started it up. Being in my 50.s now and my parents in their 80's , i mentioned how neat I thought that car was and how cool it sounded. My parents laughed and said they didnt think I was old enough to remember that car. Then my mom says " well he would leave for work in the afternoon and his wife would signal her boyfriends it was safe to stop in by pulling the bathroom shade halfway down " So somebody was having some fun in 62. lol.
6 years old and in Ms Argo's first grade class. Took the fenders and luggage rack off my Murray 24 inch bike so I could "go faster". 48 Poncho
Making $95 a month pay plus a few $ for overseas payServing in the United States Air Force. Stationed in Libya for 18 month tour! Russ
Trying to get into Mary Ann Greenert's pants. "She was only sixteen, only sixteen. But I loved her so" Senior in high school, reading those little pages and dreaming of the hotrods that I wanted to build. Years later I managed to get both done...........
I was 12 years old and had just bought a new 22 rifle.A model 61 Winchester Pump that I still own. I earned money mowing lawns and working in my Dads meat market. My Dad would take me shooting and the other weekends we were at the drags at Fremont or Half Moon Bay. That also was the fist year I drove my Dads 60 Chevy Impala on a dirt road by the local dairy. Those were the days
I was 10 years old. I could stare at the Wren mini bike adds for hours. I think this will be the year I buy one (in kit form). As I remember the price listed for them was about a million dollars.
I was in second grade in Spearfish, South Dakota. There were a few hotrods in town and I loved the sound of the engines.
I was 20, cruisin' the burger drive ins around the Buffalo 'burbs,..... "Pat's" on Sheridan drive and Johnnie's on Harlem rd in the Cleveland Hill area....In my lightly warmed over 47 3dr sedan. Great times, those,........ 4TTRUK
Desperately avoiding death by sock. I lost millions of friends to sock racing and many more to outlaw throat sprints, so I hung in there until Fallopian Raceway opened in March '66. Come December, I emerged from victory lane and proudly flashed the "V". Dad was Irish, so he named me Vern. He was also a master mechanic. Thanks for everything you taught me and thanks for not shooting me in a sock! ..
Cedar Rapids, Iowa! 2nd grade! If I remember right the name of the school was Indian Creek Elementary, we were practicing the under the desk and in the hallway kneel in case the Russki's sent the big ones our way.
At 16 yrs. old I bought my first car , a 40 coupe that cost me $125.00. The egine in my coupe had a cracked block from sitting out in Vermont winter-weather. My buddy and I found a 48 flathead for $75.00 and did the swap. I wish I had the smarts to have saved it, I swapped the car for a 57 chevy tudor 2 years later! " Youth is wasted on the young!"
Was a freshman in high school on the yellow bus sitting at the stoplight at Sunshine and Jefferson in Springfield, Missouri. At the other corner was a new 62 Bel Air hardtop in red....my first 62 Chevy sighting.....OOPS that was Sept 61....sorry but still a good memory 51 years later.
Runnin' a '54 Vicky, 272" Y block at the local 1/8 mile strip. Putting a 264" Nailhead in a '53 Merc. Offy bellhousing and Hurst dropped tie rod! In retrospect, these were definitely "The Good Old Days" for me. Thanks, Gary in N.Y. P.S. That Merc ran pretty decent even with that small "Nail"!!
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