Posted: 9/6/2014 6:36:24 AM EDT
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Ten minutes ago I was standing in the driveway in the dark having my morning coffee. A car drove by and the driver spotted me in the light and stopped. The window rolled down and a familiar voice shouted "Hey, Mr. Pic! How ya doin'?"
It was one of the kids that was in the baseball game 15 years ago when I hit the winning run and broke the old grouch's window. He was one of the kids that never ratted me out. He's in his late 20s now. He's almost 30. They grow up fast. |
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Yeah, but he hasn't grown up. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quoted:
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True...you're how old? Yeah, but he hasn't grown up. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile It is on my list of things to do. 
ETA I'm 62. Incidentally, that baseball game was over 15 years ago. Time flies. |
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True...you're how old? Pic's first deployment in the military was to Heraclea. This is why he has a fear of elephants. Liar! http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g120/m108shooter/meandColRoosevelt.jpg he seems...familiar. 
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My cousin went to the local dragstrip last night and there wasn't a dozen cars.. I told him 15 years ago we'd have over a 125 cars show up for street night.. Then it hit me 15 years ago I was just one of the kids with a classic car hanging out at the dragstrip.. Now you can't touch a car worth playing with without 10 grand in your pocket.
time flys by... |
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My cousin went to the local dragstrip last night and there wasn't a dozen cars.. I told him 15 years ago we'd have over a 125 cars show up for street night.. Then it hit me 15 years ago I was just one of the kids with a classic car hanging out at the dragstrip.. Now you can't touch a car worth playing with without 10 grand in your pocket. time flys by... A couple of us were yakking about this a while ago. Gearhead Central in the late 60s was a Gulf station where the gearheads worked on their cars. Back in the day you could build a pretty good rat rod of some sort for short money. Any a youse guys old enough to remember a flathead mill? |
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A couple of us were yakking about this a while ago. Gearhead Central in the late 60s was a Gulf station where the gearheads worked on their cars. Back in the day you could build a pretty good rat rod of some sort for short money. Any a youse guys old enough to remember a flathead mill? Quoted:
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My cousin went to the local dragstrip last night and there wasn't a dozen cars.. I told him 15 years ago we'd have over a 125 cars show up for street night.. Then it hit me 15 years ago I was just one of the kids with a classic car hanging out at the dragstrip.. Now you can't touch a car worth playing with without 10 grand in your pocket. time flys by... A couple of us were yakking about this a while ago. Gearhead Central in the late 60s was a Gulf station where the gearheads worked on their cars. Back in the day you could build a pretty good rat rod of some sort for short money. Any a youse guys old enough to remember a flathead mill? I remember getting gas for my mini-bike for 29 cents a gallon at the citgo station 
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Any a youse guys old enough to remember a flathead mill? First car had a flathead. Unfortunately, it was a flathead six, three speed over-drive manual trans. '55 Plymouth Belvedere. Had a can of beer in the trunk to stop and celebrate when it hit 100k. About a week after that, on a cold fall morning it wouldn't start. Towed it in to the garage where I worked and did a compression check- highest was 20lbs, with two or three cylinders measuring zero. After it had sat in the heated bay for a couple hours, gave it a try and it fired right up- sold it that afternoon for $50. Had more fun with that car than any I've ever owned. Lost my virginity in that '55 Plymouth Belvedere....... 
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