how did you learn to work on cars?

Yup had a paper route and got tired of riding the bike delivering 300+ papers every day. Soooo.. I swiped dad's 39 Chevy and drove it around delivering papers. darn car broke down all the time so I learned real quick how to get her running again before Dad got up @ 5:30 in the morning. I'd get the papers in a bag and start the car rolling down the street and I'd run to the houses delivering the papers and then at the end of the street jump in the rolling car and load up again, cut my delivery time in half. Thinking back on it I was just plain crazy for doing that but it worked for 2 years until I turned 16 and then had saved up enough money to buy my first car.

(I really thought I was getting over on Dad) but it seems like he knew all along and never said anything until I was 30 or so and let it slip that that darn Chevy never ran good until I started delivering papers, of course when I got my car he traded it in on a new 66 caddy convertible and I never found those key's EVER!


HAHAHA i like this story bcoz thats what i do now ...i have two jobs and one is a paper route ....the other is i work as a maid ....but these are just college jobs ...not sure how long i will do these jobs after graduation with my Master's degree next summer.

the papers sure are fun .....its a really easy job for the money...out here i dont have to run to the houses ....we have the paper boxes next to the mail boxes.... i dont use my Dart for papers except for back-up ...i have a econo-box for papers which i have to maintance which included changing out an engine last summer due to a skipped timing belt. LOL i guess its stuff going wrong that keeps us busy and out of trouble :bom: