[limejudge69]

I was 4 years old. My Dad drove a 1968 Camaro RS/SS 350. My mother drove a 1967 VW Beetle convertible. I mostly watched cartoons, played outside, and tried to make it through the day without pooping my pants

[Lemans64]

Was 12 and fixing bicycles and mini bikes. Early start to fixing cars. Had 2 older brothers that liked to wreck stuff, LOL.

[MarkS57]

I was 16 and putting the finishing touches on my 1st engine rebuild- 62 Bonneville 389. Bored out the 389 to 400 (+.060), only regret was not putting in a somewhat hotter cam like an 067 or maybe even an 068. The 4spd Super Hydramatic was a trip to drive.

[AGTO8U]

Was at University of Wisconsin-Stout working toward an undergraduate degree. My 67 GTO hardtop had a 400 4bbl/ 068 cam/ headers /Turbo 400 with Hurst dual gate shifter, and 3.55 gears. Special feature was a homemade 40watt (RMS) amp complete with tuner(4 knobs partially visible under the dash in the pic)/ headphone jacks/ 8 speakers, and a strobe light on the rear shelf. The amp and strobe light was powered by an inverter in the trunk. Sounded great and you could actually feel the music. Nobody had anything like that at the time. Anyone remember The Edgar Winter Group "Frankenstein"? My riders would totally freak out man when I flipped on the strobe light at the ending! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwwjCqWMqmw

[72projectbird]

Originally Posted by locomotivebreath

Not born yet

Same here.

[nas t eh]

13yrs old, Grade 8, playing with AFX slot cars, Fire crackers, building and flying line controlled 0.49 engine model airplanes and starting to build my first RC plane, graduated from a Mustang/ banana seat bicycle, to a 10 speed.
Starting to really notice Girls…..particularly the ones hitting puberty.

[b-man]

I was riding around on this Schwinn sidehack I had built out of several old Schwinn bike frames. I did all the cutting and fitting, a couple of the neighborhood dads that were into dune buggies and motocross bikes did the majority of the oxy-acetylene gas welding on it. 50 years ago it had shiny red paint and two nice banana seats I had recovered in black Naugahyde.

By this time I had moved on from being heavily into building 1/24 & 1/25 scale model cars and playing with HO scale slot cars and redline Hot Wheels to building motocross bicycles. This was right at the dawn of commercially available motocross bicycles when we were all building our own.

Was looking forward to building my first engine, a VW 1500 about a year later at 15 years old.

[jerry455]

I was 12-year-old, fixing bikes and starting my working career, Detroit News paper route. That taught me a lot about commitment, every day every kind of weather. I was already planning my automotive future as my dad had just sold his 1966 GTO that he bought new for only $500 to my neighbors' cousin. He later totaled it.

[stevep]

Finishing my Jr year of high school

[BTCS]

I was 18 working full time at the folks' butcher shop in Whitehall on the east side of Columbus. A year later off to USN boot camp.

BTCS

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Finishing up 3rd grade.
Had a Schwinn Grey Ghost and a MiniTrail 50.
If I wasn't in school or in bed I was riding one of those

[jhein]

I was 8 years old and conducting all sorts of military operations with my GI Joe's and all their gear. I think Kung Fu grip was out by then. Also tearing up the neighborhood on my bike. Good times.

[OG68]

Originally Posted by BTCS

I was 18 working full time at the folks' butcher shop in Whitehall on the east side of Columbus. A year later off to USN boot camp.

BTCS

1975. The beginning of the end for Boiler Techs eh Senior Chief? Gas Turbines would be entering the fleet about that time.

[4dblnkldude]

Three and a half years prior to even being a twinkle in my fathers eyes.

[etennett]

I was 10. School, fishing, watching cartoons on Saturday morning, reading comic books and getting slapped around by my 3 older brothers.

[433lemans]

1974. USN Aviation Structural Mechanic. VC 6 Det Dam Neck, Va. Beach Virginia
Permanent detachment out of NAS Norfolk, Va. with Fleet Combat Directions Systems Training Center. Cruised Virginia Beach streets in my 62 TriPower 4 speed Catalina.

[MUSLCAH]

Graduating from High School.....with a 66 Pontiac lemans Conv...200.00 Drivah...

[tooski]

At university partying instead of going to class.

[gtokid1968]

I was 8 years old, mostly taking stuff apart and trying to put it back together, bikes , trikes , plastic toy cars.

[carcrazy]

Recently discharged from the US Army (Stratcom). Back home in Youngstown, Ohio the first order of business was to purchase a car and I found a low mileage, red, 67, ram air GTO. Wife was good with it and it was our daily driver for a few years (got to love those 4.33 gears....lol). By this time I'd pretty much given up the hope of being a professional musician so it was back to school (Youngstown State) for electrical engineering. Few years later visited my parents in Raleigh, NC and immediately decided that Youngstown needed to be in my rear view mirror!