For those "youngsters" out there from us over 40

My car and i are the same age, both born in '62. I started learning to drive in a car with no engine being pulled with a chain! My first car I bought for $10 and the engine was in pieces in the trunk!:wack: My mom thought that would be safe. Ha ha! by the time I had it running I had $65 in it total. The engine had sat open with water in the cylinders, some of the pistons were 1/4" shorter than others because corrosion had eaten the top that bad! Some cylinders were pitted 1/8" deep. Not sure how it ran, thinking back, but it did. Didn't have money to do things "right" so we did what we could, usually the hard way, and made do.

When I was getting close to old enough to drive my dad told me "if you want to drive you have to pay all the costs to do so. That included insurance, gas, increased maintainance, tires, and if I damaged the car guess who fixed it, me or I had to arrange to have it fixed and pay for it. I was almost always careful with my parrents car but I beat my first car mercilessly, and that was about the end of it. I grew up with "if you want something, you EARN it"!