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DrEntropy

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Here's my thought: How many cumulative years of experience with LBC's does this forum represent? IOW: How much expertise is represented by BCF? I think a real tally is in order!


I been bangin' on me own since '69 (with a youth exposed to and working on me Old Fella's buddies' LBC's), Wrenched professionally off-n-on from '75 (31 years).
 
I'm 60 - been playing with cars since I was 14 or so....had already built my 1st car before I got my license (15 back then).
 
I am 42 and have been with them since 6 yrs old. Actually memories from 3, but started doing some routine stuff at 6. I bought my first at 13. Wow it is in my blood.
 
Well, since I bought my first car, when I was sixteen. So just about half my life, I guess. Wouldn't call it "experience" as such, as I'm only reasonably handy with a set of spanners. Certainly not in the full rebuild category.

-Wm.
 
aieeee!!!! It looks like 32 years for me, 28 of them professionally. Still going strong, but some days are tougher than others...
 
Started out at an import parts store in Metairie in '70 (or maybe '71 - things were a bit "hazy" back then /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif).

Mickey
 
For me first LBC experience was working with my father repairing a TD that'd been totaled. That was 48 years ago. It's been pretty much LBC's since then except for a few "Italian", "German", "Corvette", and "Corvair(!)" years.
 
30 years.....mostly just 'clean and flips'.....I restored my MGA with my dad when I was 14.....now I am finally in the middle of my own complete resto on the TC.
 
was a gopher fer me dad when i was about 8. So, I helped him change a head gasket on his Mazda B2000 back then and also helped on the family MGB. I was the designated car starter person during the winters. I'd start the cars so all would be nice and toasty inside when we all piled into the car to leave in the mornings. Started my own wrenching in my teens, but true LBC experience, didn't start until "recently" compared to you folks.

In short, I'd have to say my LBC experience has to be about 2.75 years now.
 
Started with autobody class in highschool, then on to trade school with a degree in automotive technics and management, and now have, between school and work, 14 years.
LBCs only came in in the last 5 years professionally,with a job at a vintage car shop. But I bought my first LBC (a 62 AH Sprite) 10 years ago.
 
16 years of LBC experience for me. Began with the TR6 (that I still have) when I was 19.
 
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Do the years when I didn't know what I was doing count? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

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In that case...my accumlative experience is 3 days.
 
I am still on the negative side, compared to you folks.


mark
 
Have taken stuff apart for as long as my memory works. (Been getting them back together mostly doing what they're supposed to-- only the last few years). Mostly a parts changer/amateur body repairman for about 40 years but overhauled small motorcycle at age 15; Bought, fixed and sold old Johnson and Evinrude motors from age 30-50; and bought my first of 8 LBC's 44 years ago (a '59 TR3A). Not a mechanic by any stretch, hope to have more time with partial retirement coming soon to be more aggressive with auto projects.
 
54 years turning wrenchs on cars. 44 years on Bugeyes.
 
I'm at just over a year now -- got my first LBC in August of 2005. Just added a third. A babe in the woods.
 
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