bonding time

mongostomp · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: bonding time

anyone else build cars with there father either now or when they were younger?

i just started with my elk and its brought my father and i closer than when i was younger. i think that now that im older and that ive shown an interest in something he lives for that we've become even closer.

anyone else have any cool stories?
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Elky 83 · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

Did you take that pic when you bought it, or build it and now selling it.
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1BadElky · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

my dad hates my car. my grandma thinks I'm an idiot for restoring it. my stepmom just plain doesn't get it (Camaro parts, GN parts, S10 parts, monte carlo parts....). my mom secretly hates it but she likes mustangs and gremlins (don't ask me how she makes that connection) Rolling Eyes

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no bonding here. oh yeah, and the only people who believe it will run again are my racing buddies.
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mongostomp · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject:

its from when i first got it haha sorry man
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dougs85 · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

I got my first car at age 15, a model A coupe. My Dad was a auto body repairman. He supervised while I did the restoration work and then after I prepped the body he painted it. He did this for two cars. After that I did not need supervision. He passed on at age 73. I believe the cause was painting cars without using respirators.

I have carried on the tradition with my son and to a lessor degree with my two daughters.

Doug
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MEvang · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:40 am Post subject:

My Dad didn't want me to get into fixing cars, he wanted me into electronics (he was a TV repairman). But he did predict in the '70's that the two would merge and encourage me to learn as much about electric as I could. Boy has this knowledge come in handy!
We had no place to restore cars, as the TV shop was in our two car garage. So I worked behind the garage on a make shift concrete pad and out of a shed. He did encourage me and give advise when possible.
My Dad died when I was 20. He was only 52 and succumbed to lung cancer. So I believe I lost some of my best day with him. Do what you can with your Dads when you can.
I do plan on bringing my Grandson into the hobbies as soon as he is old enough.
Mike
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Tuggy24g · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:21 am Post subject:

mongostomp Nice car and if your close maybe we can go cruising.
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Jade · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

My old man just handed me the keys to the El Camino. His father had it before him, he bought it new in 1970. My father repainted it and put a cam in and Quadrajet on it. He cruised it for a few years then it sat for the next 10-12 years. I think that after he has seen that I enjoy vehicles, it was going to be safe with me. I'm not a auto body guy, nor am I familiar with carburetors, but I'm here to learn.
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67elkybryan · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

Helped my dad rebuild a couple cars. It was the only time he and I ever really saw eye to eye on much. The funny thing is the older I got the smarter and wiser he seemed to become.
We didn't really get have much in common except for the little time we sent on the cars.
My first car I bought with money I earned one summer helping out on my grandfathers farm. I was 14 and it was a 1972 Dodge Polara for $500. You may laugh but I bought it from the highway patrol man that was a friend of the family. It was is former pusuit car....built to run down the muscle cars of the time...and it would. That 440 police intercepter would suck gas at a suprising rate but it was still the fastest car at school. On the way to my after school job one day I saw a 1971 Challenger sitting on the local used car lot in our little town. I called home when I got to work and asked if someone could call and see what they were asking. I only had about $800 saved, but still wanted to see and hoped I could maybe borrow the money from mt grand parents to buy it. Long story short when I got home that night there it was in the drive way. He had went down and bought it for my 15th birthday....which was goming up in less than a week. So on the day I turned 15 I got my license (which you could still do in North Dakota in the late 70's) and my dream car.....all thanks to my dad. He worked a lot of overtime to give me that car.

For those of you who still have your fathers, please treasure the time we get to sprnd with them. I didn't like I should.....I now I just wish I had just one more day to spend wrenching in the garage with him.