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Where were you in 62?

I was in third grade and built two Mopar models that year, a ‘62 Dart, and a ‘62 Imperial. I owned the real thing 30 years later.

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2 years old and getting into everything in sight!
 
Walker Junior High in Milwaukee. 9th grade.

Dick Grimme lived across the alley from me. He had a six car garage and plenty of hoodlum friends that worked on their cars every weekend. 421 Poncho. '56 Chevy ragtop with a '56 Olds front bumper. '55 Ford 6 with dual carbs.

One day they stuffed me in the back seat with a 18 year old blonde who was trying to get my pants off!!! I told her I wasn't that kind of kid... but I am now!
 
Riding in my Dad's 1959 Chrysler wagon with rear air with a 383 RB that I had talked my Dad into welding on exhaust cut-outs, on the way from Ft Lauderdale to The 1962 World's Fair in Seatle before any real Interstates were built and certainly before GPS. I learned quickly how to read a map and how to advise the driver what turns/exit/directions were and how far they were ahead.

Picture is on Daytona Beach with the wagon, I'm on right, pictured taken by my Dad.

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My parents took us all to see the space needle too in 62, I was 6. It was much closer for us tho, 250 miles in a red 57 Plymouth.
 
Was 11....built several AMT models and had driven a 56 Plymouth Belvedere before turning 8 but didn't own any cars until 18 and that was a 66 Belvedere.
 
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