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I was going to be twelve years old and had just acquired my paper route. Was looking forward to being a teenage in just one more year. Spent my time not mowing yards or running my paper route at John Herman Biggs’ garage in my hometown trying to learn everything I could about engines ( which became a lifelong passion).
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I might add that I also still have the GTO that I owned when we dated in it 50 years ago. |
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Working in friend's garage and cruising at nights in a '65 Fastback Mustang with a worked 289, 4 speed top loader and 4.11 posi. Lot of stop light drags and good times!
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Didnt know what a Pontiac was 50 years ago.
Had it been 48, was on my way to Alaska. Switchin up riding in dads 67 Belair or following in his girlfriends gold 69 GTO 4spd. I started to look at cars different after that trip. |
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Didnt know what a Pontiac was 50 years ago.
Had it been 48, was on my way to Alaska. Switchin up riding in dads 67 Belair or following in his girlfriends gold 69 GTO 4spd. I started to look at cars different after that trip. |
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Lol our fam car was a 68 camaro and I was five....poop & pee haha
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NOT EVEN A THOUGHT YET
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Funny, that is what I am doing now!
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I still remember being in 1st grade and seeing the 4th graders in the hallway and thinking, these guys are huge!! 😂
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6 years old and just finishing kindergarten. Riding shotgun in Mom's 66 GTO. I was already bitten by the Pontiac bug. I was already of the opinion that if a car didn't have dual exhaust, it was too slow.
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16 years old, passed the driving test on my 16th birthday. Had a 64 Malibu SS with a 283 SB and a brand new 74 Yamaha 350 RD that I bought from money saved washing dishes and mopping floors and picking tobacco. My old man called me "Mr. Ferris, Last of the big wheels"...Worst part was having to drive my 12 year old sister and her friends to school because they cried to the old man about being late....Took a lot of crap for being spotted at the Junior High and me telling them to stay low. That 64 was a test mule in auto shop and the teacher sure showed me a lot about car maintenance
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8 yrs old, had a Huffy Cheater Slick 'chopper' bike, rode around the neighborhood / chased the DDT truck, made Creepy Crawler bugs with the girl next door.
My grandfather was on his 6th big Pontiac by then, dad had a '70 Cat- I do remember looking at the Indian Head high beam indicator from the back seat. |
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Fishing , hunting and riding dirt bikes every day, all day.
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I was just 3 years old then so not to many memories at that age probably a punching bag for my older brother
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going bandit-Reynolds style |
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50 years ago I was working for Holley Carburetor in Warren, Michigan at their World Engineering HQ and working with people like Hugh Macinnis and Gale Banks.
The following year I quit Holley and went to work for the Ford Motor Company in Engineering in their Dearborn Michigan Emissions Lab. Over twice the pay vs at Holley carb. Tom V. ps My first Engineering job there was the design/certification of the 1979 2.3L Turbocharged Mustang.
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Had been married a couple years and hadn't driven a GTO for a couple years. (heard that story before). Had been working for GM for 6 yrs. and put in 34 more till there was no Buick Motor Division. Driving a GTO now and a couple more Pontiac's.
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Working at Kennametal as a tool and die designer,draftsman. Good training,good guys lots of fun. Little did I know in November I would be ordering a 1974 SD455 TA.
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I was 15 years old. I would turn 16 in the fall of '74, and was looking for a car to buy with the paper route money I had saved. A GTO, 2+2 or Grand Prix would have been my top picks, but I ended up with a '61 Ford Sunliner convertible that was offered to me at a great price by a friend of the family. Once I had the Ford, I actually liked it a lot.
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Traded in my 68 GTO for a new Le Mans GT. Future wife and I had fun times in it.
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