The Official 356Talk Forum

Re:3/59; Hoping to graduate from HS in June and drag-racing at Westhampton on weekends in my nosed and decked, raked and pinstriped 2-door, flat head '50 Mercury which had the biggest back seat you can imagine. Well used at the Sunrise drive-in and allowed me to figure out why/how girls were different. First saw a Porsche ~4 years earlier and knew I'd have one some day.

PaulAhnell wrote:Re:3/59; Hoping to graduate from HS in June and drag-racing at Westhampton on weekends in my nosed and decked, raked and pinstriped 2-door, flat head '50 Mercury which had the biggest back seat you can imagine. Well used at the Sunrise drive-in and allowed me to figure out why/how girls were different. First saw a Porsche ~4 years earlier and knew I'd have one some day.

Well written!

Hoping to graduate, I can relate!

Girls are even better than Porsches, especially the one I have been married to for 40 years.

Graham Kerr wrote:Lionel Trains, wow! When I was a kid somehow I got hold of a Lionel catalogue. The only trainset I had was a Hornby Dublo with one engine and two coaches, but Lionel were BIG and you could get a Caboose and an engine with a Cow Catcher. This was wild stuff to a spotty kid. I devoured that catalogue, then I grew up and found Porsches, oh well, can't have it all.

I was always denied, so much later bought all of the "stuff" I dreamed about in the catalogs

George Hussey wrote:I was seven years old wishing for this Lionel train set for Christmas. Still have it!

12 years old, and i still have my Lionel set. Setting it up under the tree for my grandkids this week.
I need a nap!

Just out of pilot training in the Air Force going to F-100 Training. The start of a great adventure.

US Naval Station, Adak Island, Alaska.


Gary

February of '59, walking out of a record store after just hearing that Buddy Holly had died.
July '59, moving from my small West Texas town to Lubbock, Tx., home of Buddy Holly.
October '59, driving a '31 Chevy with a sign on the rear advertising a soon to be open walmart type store. I didn't yet have a license, but the man who hired me never asked. Girls...the Chevy had curtains on the rear windows...liked that car.

Don't recall seeing a 356 until 1975 when I bought a '56 coupe with all the parts in boxes. Didn't drive one( the '56) until over a year later.

Hey Alex, i'm on tomorrows flight to Boston, set a place for me and tell the kids they better good.

Driving a '51 Chevy Bel Air 2 door hardtop to CA fully equipped with 2 canvas water bags hanging from front bumper guards, dual "smitty mufflers, spinner hubcaps, and a bug deflector mounted on the hood ornament. Before Interstate 80. Lost a timing gear in Lovelock, Nevada. Two days late for promised apprentice cabinet making job in Santa Clara, CA. Beat the heck out of laying railroad tracks for Union Pacific.

19 and proud of my first Car project an A7 Special managed on an apprentice wage of $6 a week

Riding in my high-school violin-teacher's Speedster--changed my life!

I was 10, living in Great Shelford, England, just outside of Cambridge.
Trying to get rides in one of my Dads friends cars.
One was a 54 Aston Martin DB4 that, I think, actually raced at Le Mans, the other was a 56 Carrera Speedster.
Stinky, Smokey, Greasy, and LOUD !! I loved it

CJ, should I chime in, or just be silent. …..Jim.

Jim Liberty wrote:CJ, should I chime in, or just be silent. …..Jim.

Please continue!

in '59 I was on my second new (European) car after my 4CV. A Saab 93B, one of the best cars I've owned. I was 19, had two kids, and worked a second job at night, just to make my $39 car payment. At near 80, I'm just as crazy. ……………….Jim.