bmw5541
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For me it was the Trans Am in Smokey and the Bandit. I thought that car was soooooooo cool. I eventually got my hands on a Firebird Formula and had it painted metalic red, and I was hooked.:clap:
What got you into cars?
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imported_RaskyR1
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Matchbox and Hot Wheels probably had a lot to do with it too
....and who can forget this awesome toy!
....and who can forget this awesome toy!
Mine is an easy answer...Born and raised in So California. This was in the 50's and early 60's.
Three of us had an A/G street legal Pontiac that we ran at San Fernando/Long Beach and Bakersfield. Naw, don't remember any times, but the stuff that comes out of the dealers nowadays could blow our socks off!
I got completely out of the racing aspect as I went into the Service in '64, but have ALWAYS done ALL of my own work in each and every vehicle that I've owned, and still do to this day. Just can't keep an old dog from doing what he's always done.
As for 'detailing', up till recently it was all by hand (can't count a wax spreader) and with d@#% good results. Then my life turned around (can I get an amen?) and got a PC D/A! The 'detailing' has now become a 'look forward to' event.
Best to all,
Bill
Just realized, my age doesn't show...I'm a young 67. :wink:
Three of us had an A/G street legal Pontiac that we ran at San Fernando/Long Beach and Bakersfield. Naw, don't remember any times, but the stuff that comes out of the dealers nowadays could blow our socks off!
I got completely out of the racing aspect as I went into the Service in '64, but have ALWAYS done ALL of my own work in each and every vehicle that I've owned, and still do to this day. Just can't keep an old dog from doing what he's always done.
As for 'detailing', up till recently it was all by hand (can't count a wax spreader) and with d@#% good results. Then my life turned around (can I get an amen?) and got a PC D/A! The 'detailing' has now become a 'look forward to' event.
Best to all,
Bill
Just realized, my age doesn't show...I'm a young 67. :wink:
Todd@RUPES
Just a regular guy
Matchbox and Hot Wheels probably had a lot to do with it too
....and who can forget this awesome toy!
so jealous... I wanted THIS as well as the Powerwheels Police Motorcycle... and every year Santa let me down :Christmas Hat: :notworthy:
imported_wendell jarvis
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Hot Wheels..........the toy cars
imported_tim
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Several things converged on me to get me into cars.
When I was a freshman in high school, my brother ( who was a senior ) bought a brand new '69 Plymouth Roadrunner. Yowsa!! I learned to drive stick in that car.@-)
That was the year I had a job at the local Shell station, pumping gas. I loved that job. The boss had us doing oil changes, lube jobs and light maintenance
on customers cars. Then one day he decided we were going into the "Simoniz"
business. He bought a Cyclo and several bottles of Turtle Wax and off we went at $19.95 for the basic wax the exterior of your car. My Dad saw the work we were doing withthe Cyclo and decided he had to have one of his own so he sent off for one.
Sweet !! I was in heaven.
Matter of fact, many years later when Dad died, the Cyclo was the first thing
I snuck out of Dad's house before my brothers could get it. I still use the thing on a regular basis. "Course, now it's got all that fancy Velcro and foam pads on it:hurray:
When I was a freshman in high school, my brother ( who was a senior ) bought a brand new '69 Plymouth Roadrunner. Yowsa!! I learned to drive stick in that car.@-)
That was the year I had a job at the local Shell station, pumping gas. I loved that job. The boss had us doing oil changes, lube jobs and light maintenance
on customers cars. Then one day he decided we were going into the "Simoniz"
business. He bought a Cyclo and several bottles of Turtle Wax and off we went at $19.95 for the basic wax the exterior of your car. My Dad saw the work we were doing withthe Cyclo and decided he had to have one of his own so he sent off for one.
Sweet !! I was in heaven.
Matter of fact, many years later when Dad died, the Cyclo was the first thing
I snuck out of Dad's house before my brothers could get it. I still use the thing on a regular basis. "Course, now it's got all that fancy Velcro and foam pads on it:hurray: