What a rush experience (Part 2)

[RCE1962]

HEY!

I thought I saw a current link to an earlier (2005) thread entitled (Sharing a What a rush experience). I looked again...and I can't find it anymore. If that thread is still up and running ..just disregard this thread and I will delete it.

Anyways...I regard the earlier thread to be an open invitation to "all" members to share their fondest memories of how you/we got hooked on the "automobile" or whatever "turns your automotive crank" . There is always a "defining moment" to that..so..lets hear it.

Yep..I do have another one to share.

http://www.348-409.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4174&highlight=rce1962

RCE1962

 

[walkerheaders]

no, it was'nt your imagination. i posted to it several days ago, but it looked like nobody cares. so i put it back in the vault. one of my personal favorite threads. and i hope the newer members will share.

 

[Brian Thompson]

I would have to say that cars are in my blood. When I was born, my father was an avid drag racer in southeast Virginia. My mother was telling me stories over the holidays about how every weekend they would go out to Creeds Raceway and run the car. My dad started out with a 62 Biscayne with a 409/4Speed and in 1966 had my mother go order a new 1966 GTO, tri-power, 4-speed posi car for him. Dad was changing out the cam one day in the driveway and Arnie Beswick (My mother believes thats who it was) who lived just 4 houses down, walks up to him and asked if he could help. By the end of the day, Arnie had given my father a set of "Grand National Heads". The next wekend, my dad pulled the heads off because he lost 4 mph in the 1/4. Evidently my father didn't understand "quench" at the time. I still remember him launching the car in front of the house to show how much he could get the front tires off the ground!

Dad got out of drag racing by the early 70's and 2 years ago wanted to restore a 62 Biscayne the way his was back in 62. He bought a car and started rebuilding it until his health kept him from working on it so I stepped in to help. I would fly in once a month for a long weekend and spend it building the car. A few months before he passed away last june I brought the car to Texas to finish it. After getting it here, we decided to build up a 62 Impala SS and is the one I am still working on today. Hopefully I will have it done by this June.

I've spent a few years in the automotive business as a technician at a small repair garage and then as a Corvette specialist at a Chevrolet dealership. Got into Wholesaling Used cars and started going to Bordentown, NJ and Manheim Auto Auction in Pa for the final 8 years in the business. In 1999, I put myself through some Microsoft courses and am now a Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales Network Engineer), but nothing satisfies like turning a wrench!!!