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I was born in 1935 in Locust Grove Oklahoma--83 years old--height of the depression and the dust bowl--look at pics taken
of the farms and shacks and fields buried in dust--read Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" (or the movie)--In the late '30's--There were so many "Okies"
coming to California in their "Model T's", that the Highway patrol set up road blocks on "Route 66" and tuned them around--
Read your history, folks!
My parent's first house was a
converted chicken coop--Years ago I drove through Locust Grove, and found the scattered wooden remains behind what was
grandma's house-- "British car" forum stuff to come! (have to lead up to it).
Too young for WW2 but had a couple of uncles killed in the pacific--high school 49-53--had schoolmates killed in Korea--
I was a Navy Pilot in Vietnam--friends killed there also--Then went to Pan American as a pilot--retired in 1989. age 54--things
to do--
Before I retired, on 4 different occasions, i brought back from England, a 1951 MGTD, a 1952 MGYB, a 1953 Morris Minor, and
a 1967 Austin A35--Too big for carry-on, so I stuck them in the belly as "personal" baggage on a pallet--The British ground crews at Heathrow airport, were
very obliging, and happy to see them go to a better place, in stead of crushed in a junkyard--After restoring and passing on the
MG's, Morris, Austin--(Here in California)--I bought, restored, and passed on a '73 Midget, '67 Morris Minor and 2 Nash Metropolitans--they are
British, after all--Typical British engineering design--just wonder around the BMC factory and pick enough stuff off the shelf to make
up a "new" car. I have 2 Metropolitans that I am restoring now and hope to finish them before my wife has to include them
in an "estate sale"---So "accumulated" knowledge?---I have learned so much over the past 35 or 40 years on the care and feeding
of British cars--solving small (not so small) problems--pull up a chair--pour a cup of coffee (a beer would probably work also), and stare
at the engine, transmission, brakes system, etc until something comes to me--if that doesn't work, try something else.
More money (last option), more time, more internet and car forum searches--A little help from my wife--(hold the end of this
bolt, while I crawl underneath and try to get a nut on it!)--She loves my "old car" hobby--keeps me out of the bars!
so, what happens to all the stuff I've learned? I can pass on my tools but not the knowledge--
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of the farms and shacks and fields buried in dust--read Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" (or the movie)--In the late '30's--There were so many "Okies"
coming to California in their "Model T's", that the Highway patrol set up road blocks on "Route 66" and tuned them around--
Read your history, folks!
My parent's first house was a
converted chicken coop--Years ago I drove through Locust Grove, and found the scattered wooden remains behind what was
grandma's house-- "British car" forum stuff to come! (have to lead up to it).
Too young for WW2 but had a couple of uncles killed in the pacific--high school 49-53--had schoolmates killed in Korea--
I was a Navy Pilot in Vietnam--friends killed there also--Then went to Pan American as a pilot--retired in 1989. age 54--things
to do--
Before I retired, on 4 different occasions, i brought back from England, a 1951 MGTD, a 1952 MGYB, a 1953 Morris Minor, and
a 1967 Austin A35--Too big for carry-on, so I stuck them in the belly as "personal" baggage on a pallet--The British ground crews at Heathrow airport, were
very obliging, and happy to see them go to a better place, in stead of crushed in a junkyard--After restoring and passing on the
MG's, Morris, Austin--(Here in California)--I bought, restored, and passed on a '73 Midget, '67 Morris Minor and 2 Nash Metropolitans--they are
British, after all--Typical British engineering design--just wonder around the BMC factory and pick enough stuff off the shelf to make
up a "new" car. I have 2 Metropolitans that I am restoring now and hope to finish them before my wife has to include them
in an "estate sale"---So "accumulated" knowledge?---I have learned so much over the past 35 or 40 years on the care and feeding
of British cars--solving small (not so small) problems--pull up a chair--pour a cup of coffee (a beer would probably work also), and stare
at the engine, transmission, brakes system, etc until something comes to me--if that doesn't work, try something else.
More money (last option), more time, more internet and car forum searches--A little help from my wife--(hold the end of this
bolt, while I crawl underneath and try to get a nut on it!)--She loves my "old car" hobby--keeps me out of the bars!
so, what happens to all the stuff I've learned? I can pass on my tools but not the knowledge--
A
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