Another boring old story from the old days

Everything we did when I was a teenager we did on the ground. Didn't know what concrete was. That includes a complete slant six to 383 swap in my brother's Duster. K member, 8 3/4, leaf springs to frame rails, everything. Put the jack stands on concrete blocks. Now that I think about it we use some big old fence posts at one point.
We did whatever the direct connection book said back in those days. Late 70's. Lived on my grandfather's farm. We thought we were the Duke boys.
My brother was surprised when my great aunt let me use her one car carport to put on my headers and dual exhaust on my Charger I scavenged from a wrecked GTX. Tons of B bodies in the junkyards round here then. That was the first thing I ever did on a concrete floor.
First Navy base Auto Hobby Shop I ever saw, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.