Thursday, November 6, 2008

Here we go!



Yes, that's right, there is nothing in there or is there? For as long as I can remember I had this thing for cars, trucks, motorcycles, pretty much anything with an engine was cool to me.
When I was five years old I used to ride around with my grandfather after dark ( don't get any sick thoughts, it was after he got out of work ) and tell him what make car was following just by the headlights.
My dad used to buy me Tonka trucks and Hot Wheels every other day. I painted my first car when I was 14 years old. I used to collect car magazines like CarCraft, Hot Rod, Hot Rodding, heck I would even save old Auto Traders just so that i can keep tabs on the prices of certain models ( sick, I know).
My first car was a 1970 Pontiac LeMans Sport with a 350c.u. engine, 3/4 cam (old schoolers remember this term) ported heads, reworked Quadrajet connected to a TH350 with a B&M shift kit. I remember driving this car to school on racing slicks (kids, please don't try this) at 15 years old.
Now that I am a father of four, three boys "the guys" (ages 14, 13 and 4) and one girl "the princess" (age 6) I want to try to pass some of my knowledge and experiences to them. It won be easy as I have to battle it out against Playstations, Nintendos, television and the internet.

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