Toe dip; the water is hot! So my parent are gone but in my teens they gave me the gas-ard to fill up awhile. Otherwide i worked and worked for paychecks since 14.
Fact; we all live in a money-based IOU system, so the kids need a bit of financialsupport to enable jumping-in and making ends meet.
Wife and i bought homes for 3-of-4 kids and Lease-Purchased the homes to them. Boom, that worked. each home was $14k, $19k, and 20k and each were "move-in condition". Well those recent days are nearly gone in Johnstown PA.
We JUST bought a home in AL and that is our Southern "empty nest" Estate. The PA "Northern Estate will be assumed Lease-Purchase by the sturdiest of the kids. Oh, but that means we have "down-sized" our stuff ( refer to GeorgeCarlin on stuff ), and myPontiac hobby is getting cropped further. My hobby stuff may go curbside or dumpster, otherwise I will u-haul the crap South for dust/rust to overcome the value.
PM if you want harnesses, TH400 parts, HEIs, Ported Torkers or dual quad, maybe my shortblock 462 and 48 heads. Think the 68 GTO goes South. I aint dead, and still enthuze with the hobby. But we are down-sizing to a SingleWide on 5-Acres. Back to farming indeed.
HIS
PS a lot of buugs in the south. No such thing as clean and neat like the North; either bugs, dust or water ruins the plans that are easily attained in the North!