You know you are a lucky guy when....

[Darrell_Walker]

Enjoy those experiences and do them more often think you think you should.

My daughter is preparing to leave for college in August and I keep wandering around wondering where the time went. I know it sounds cliche, but they grow up way too fast.

Agreed, I still can't believe my son will be starting college this fall either (University of Washington)!

 

[DNK]

Darrell ,one of the few in state selected,eh?

 

[Darrell_Walker]

Darrell ,one of the few in state selected,eh?

Yes, apparently so!

 

[DNK]

Daughter has a 396 with honors and was wait listed there too.
Though ,that was her third choice.

Hey Randy, how you gonna pay the 50G's for that?

 

[Darrell_Walker]

Daughter has a 396 with honors and was wait listed there too.
Though ,that was her third choice.

Wow, my son wasn't too far above that.

UW was probably his fourth choice, but his top two were super-selective (6% range), and the one other really would have been a financial stretch.

-Darrell

 

[DNK]

My daughters first choice is a financial stretch, slightly below Cornell in cost

 

[GBRandy]

Don: She has decided on Cornell University. She going into the five year Masters in Biomedical Engineering program.

That's the degree that my son got from Johns Hopkins. He got a job right out of school and is still with the same company and loving it.
Congrats Randy!

My daughter is excited. We visited JHU this past summer. Pretty campus. A wait list letter slowed that one down.

I hope she enjoys her career as much as your son is enjoying his.

Hey Randy, how you gonna pay the 50G's for that?

I could insert a really good comment here and send this thread into political orbit. But I won't.

Instead I'll just say we did all the right fiscal conservative stuff for 18 years and we have the money saved. It was important to us that our kid not be limited in educational opportunities because of finances.

 

[GBRandy]

My daughters first choice is a financial stretch, slightly below Cornell in cost

What school????

 

[Member 10617]

My grandchildren believe that this is their car and that they are letting me use it until they are old enough to drive!

 

[Darrell_Walker]

My grandchildren believe that this is their car and that they are letting me use it until they are old enough to drive!

OK, if you are going to start with cute kid pictures, here is my son in the 4A (about 17 years ago):

 

[Member 10617]

We're doing some important work here... We're raising the next generation of sports car enthusiasts. If we don't, who will care for and drive these cars that we have carefully preserved? I venture to say that 99 out of 100 kids today not only have never ever seen a carburetor, but don't even know what a carburetor is.

 

[tdskip]

True Ed, but I think there is some reason to be cautiously optimistic. In SoCal anyway it is about equally common to see an over owner over 60 as it to see one under 45 (non-scientific sample).

But that said I completely agree that we need to be recruiting.

 

[DNK]

Randy, SCAD in Savannah GA

 

[Member 10617]

tdskip,

My guess is that it is more common to see young drivers of these cars in the west than in the east. (Perhaps the weather has something to do with it. I grew up in Tucson, AZ, so I know how inviting the weather is out there.) Also, here in the south, and increasingly in the north, NASCAR has an enormous influence, and kids would rather drive fast, loud, and powerful cars rather than the ones we drive. And in the cities, because of high gas prices, high insurance, lack of parking, etc., etc., an increasing number of kids are foregoing cars entirely.

I know a lot of people hereabouts who drive sports cars and they are all over 50. A lot of gray hair waving in the wind...

 

[GBRandy]

Randy, SCAD in Savannah GA

Congrats to her!!!! But that's a long way from home :frown:

 

[DNK]

Tell me about it.
I'm gonna miss her tremendously

 

[GBRandy]

We're doing some important work here... We're raising the next generation of sports car enthusiasts. If we don't, who will care for and drive these cars that we have carefully preserved? I venture to say that 99 out of 100 kids today not only have never ever seen a carburetor, but don't even know what a carburetor is.

I agree! While my daughter may not care about fixing them up, the 12 year old boy down the street lives for it. He comes over routinely to help me out. We sit in the garage with the baseball game on and fix stuff.

He helped me remove the rear bumper, exhaust & clutch on the 355 last weekend. I waited 4 days until he could come over...He was having a blast.

 

[DNK]

You listen to the Mariners?

 

[Member 10617]

Randy,

Keep up the "missionary work."

I have a friend nearby who has 15 spectacular antique sports and racing cars. He invites school classes to see them, sit in them, draw pictures of them, and ask questions about them. For most, it's the first time they've ever seen such cars. And it blows their minds.

 

[71MKIV]

99 out of 100 kids today not only have never ever seen a carburetor, but don't even know what a carburetor is.

:laugh: boy did that line bring a flood of memories. When my oldest son was two, the book he would bring me to "read" was the Vicky Brit catalog. The kid's sitting there in my lap, and we get to the page with the Weber kits on it, and I say "that's a carburetor, can you say carburetor?" And I'll be darned if that two year old didn't just pipe up and say "carburetor" as his first multisylable word!

I was supposed to have the Spit done for his 16th birthday. I missed by two years. He leaves for Grove City college this fall for electrical engineering. :frown: so we'll have to have some fun with it this summer.