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Cars in Remembrance
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<blockquote data-quote="Bucketoy" data-source="post: 188406" data-attributes="member: 5633"><p>1930 Model A Sport Coupe, certainly not my first daily driver. Not even sure if it qualifies as my first car? My dad bought this for me as a father and son restoration project. He was an avid antique car restoration nut. It took us about 4 years to get it from a swamp to pristine condition. With his knowledge and my elbow grease, it went on to win a national 1st place award at a Concours Judging Event. A special thank you here to Mr. Fowler, my high school auto teacher who allowed me to spend countless hours working on many different systems from that car. Adding 4 credits of auto to my timetable in grade 12, allowed me to spend the whole afternoon in the auto shop almost every school day. </p><p>Looking for speed on the cheap, I turned to motorcycles for a few years. I had mostly used Kawasaki 2 strokes 400, 500, 750 and a new KX1000LTD.</p><p>After graduation, and needing a loan from dad for my first daily driver, I couldn’t talk him into the badly rusted Triumph TR6 or the mint 1978 Silver Anniversary Vette I fell in love with. He finally approved a loan for my first car, a 1967 Firebird, that I spent countless hours restoring, and driving. I think it was the rare 3.8L OHC 4bbl in line six that intrigued him.</p><p>After that, between my wife and I, it was a new 1979 Sunbird 3.8L V6 - used 1980 2dr. Cutlass Supreme 5L V8, - new 1988 Celebrity Eurosport Wagon - (child rearing years) - new 1994 Astro Van - new 2003 Impala - then, with 3 kids finally done College and University, a new 2010 Camaro RS - new 2018 Equinox - and now, I’m finally getting my 2020 Vette, I hope? A super special high light was being able to follow the 2003 Impala and 2010 Camaro through the entire assembly process.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34920[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34921[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34922[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34923[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34924[/ATTACH]Retired now from GM Oshawa since Christmas, I feel very fortunate that I’ve been able to spend the last 38 years around some of the things I love most in life, namely, automobiles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bucketoy, post: 188406, member: 5633"] 1930 Model A Sport Coupe, certainly not my first daily driver. Not even sure if it qualifies as my first car? My dad bought this for me as a father and son restoration project. He was an avid antique car restoration nut. It took us about 4 years to get it from a swamp to pristine condition. With his knowledge and my elbow grease, it went on to win a national 1st place award at a Concours Judging Event. A special thank you here to Mr. Fowler, my high school auto teacher who allowed me to spend countless hours working on many different systems from that car. Adding 4 credits of auto to my timetable in grade 12, allowed me to spend the whole afternoon in the auto shop almost every school day. Looking for speed on the cheap, I turned to motorcycles for a few years. I had mostly used Kawasaki 2 strokes 400, 500, 750 and a new KX1000LTD. After graduation, and needing a loan from dad for my first daily driver, I couldn’t talk him into the badly rusted Triumph TR6 or the mint 1978 Silver Anniversary Vette I fell in love with. He finally approved a loan for my first car, a 1967 Firebird, that I spent countless hours restoring, and driving. I think it was the rare 3.8L OHC 4bbl in line six that intrigued him. After that, between my wife and I, it was a new 1979 Sunbird 3.8L V6 - used 1980 2dr. Cutlass Supreme 5L V8, - new 1988 Celebrity Eurosport Wagon - (child rearing years) - new 1994 Astro Van - new 2003 Impala - then, with 3 kids finally done College and University, a new 2010 Camaro RS - new 2018 Equinox - and now, I’m finally getting my 2020 Vette, I hope? A super special high light was being able to follow the 2003 Impala and 2010 Camaro through the entire assembly process. [ATTACH type="full"]34920[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]34921[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]34922[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]34923[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]34924[/ATTACH]Retired now from GM Oshawa since Christmas, I feel very fortunate that I’ve been able to spend the last 38 years around some of the things I love most in life, namely, automobiles. [/QUOTE]
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