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04-11-2023, 05:25 PM | #21 |
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Re: Early Retirement
If today’s youth don’t have the luxury of enjoying some of what we enjoyed given the right guidance and mentoring I think they have the same opportunity to pursue their passions (one of ours was cars, theirs may be PlayStation but potato, potahto). My experience is they are also willing to work hard toward those goals. My focus is helping my grandkids, church youth, whoever to be good citizens over their entire lifetime.
Nice Camaro Jeff, I drove a SS396/325 Chevelle….fun car…then my world turned upside down with a 68 Charger.
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BTW. The yellow Z in the first picture was owned by a kid named Lawson and shortly later had dual 4's and a tunnel ram sticking through that hood, but my big block ate him for lunch. .. Good times
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I believe there is and was merit in your statement. We bought our oldest daughter her first car for $2800, she wasn't making that much in her part-time job to pay for it. The car made it through two kids in college. Like yourself I bought my first car, '55 Chevy, off a used car lot for $495. Took it to college but needed a project car for my Industrial Ed classes. I had been working for NAPA for a couple years and eyed a '63 Split-window Corvette at a body shop that I mixed paint for. No engine or trans and no title, bought it for $900, applied for an abandon title, came back clear. Went looking for a little more reliable transportation and found on a campus bulletin board a 1969 Nova for $1600, turns out to be an SS L78 396, this is the car I wish I still had. The young lady that owned it said it didn't get very good gas mileage. Kids these days will never have the joy of educating themselves with the help of an ole car. Fond memories, if I had 10 bucks on Friday night, I could top off my car with Chevron Custom and buy a case of Coors long necks...life was good. |
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05-15-2023, 02:12 PM | #24 |
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So want to thank you guys for the advice, I completed my last job last monday. I am getting to old to climb 200 ft towers..LOL, Getting ready for what is next. The company I was working with said that they can use me for 4 weeks out of the year (limit to $21,000 annually). Will have social security done here shortly and they already have me a turnaround scheduled for July for about 4 weeks.
Got some projects lined up around the house that keep me busy for a while just sweat equity on getting things done. This year went to Canton Ohio damn near froze to death, do not know how you guys can survive in cold weather I was working nightshift 530 pm to 630 pm. Got off on a Thursday morning and the company wanted me in Corpus Christi Texas that saturday morning to go to work on days, told them absolutely not, I reported to job wednesday morning of next week working 530 am to 630 pm. Will not miss anymore home cooked meals, nor living out of a suitcase, staying in motel rooms that smell like ***! Except for 4 weeks out of the year! LOL |
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