Not sure if this is kosher but I am posting for two young guns in my family..Sarah, now 16 but when we bought the car, was 15 and Calum, now 14 but was 13 when purchased.
I am partially disabled so I tend to get religated to the keyboard
We are just ending up 5 years of Motocross due to many reasons but my health is one of them. When you have worked closely with your kids for 5 years, you just don't want to give it up...especially, if it is a good relationship. Both kids are October babies so they started school a year later so Sarah is only in grade 10. Both are 90+ students and are involved in other sports such as V-ball and snowboarding.
My background, as you can tell by my sig is British cars..I owned my MG b GT for 29 years..we started to talk about cars because where we live, you need one. I assumed that they would want a rice burner but was told point blankly that they wanted a muscle car. My only caveat was that I did't want to deal with rust. I started looking at series 2 bowties/pontiacs, and the older fastback mustangs..actually, I was liking a series two camero SS when they told me to stop looking at that..they wanted a Duster. I have no idea where that came from except that they said the *really* liked it's looks.
After a lot of looking, we snaggled on to an abandoned '75 project Duster that was owned by a Chrysler employee. the car had 33K miles on it..garaged and rust checked. Basically, mint and matching numbers with the build sheet in plastic. Plus it came with a lot of mechanical goodies. We bought it and decided just to run it thias summer ..that is, when we were not doing "bike" things..and decide what they want to do to it.
They have basically divided up the responibilities and areas and gone to work. I don't do a lot of the physical work but more like explain and point. From what I understand, we are going to have a very busy summer next year and I think the year after that and it isn't going to look much like it does now.
We took it to it's first car show (and met other FABO members) and Sarah came home with a pup tent..boy, was it cold that day.
We have had no family support from either side of the family..their thinking that we have allowed them to buy an old death trap and they should be piloting a honda..however, none of this phases them...and they have friends that enevy them for our close working relationship..
pics of Dusty (my name for it, not theirs)
http://yamigrl.smugmug.com/Cars/Duster-June-23rd/8666269_BbTyh/1/572286509_cCXe8
and some of the first car show
http://yamigrl.smugmug.com/Cars/Dartmouth-Mopar-Show/9732078_4PSdQ/1/658744392_Ca9xy
Ian.
Dad of Sarah and Calum MacKinnon
