Isn't this how it all started?

[Ray-CA]

I know that I probably started out like this and it's just stayed with me.

Ray

 

[levimorris85]

Awesome!! I was always told that I was born with a wrench in one hand and a steering wheel in the other.

 

[Cryptic1911]

Awesome!! I was always told that I was born with a wrench in one hand and a steering wheel in the other.

Man.. your poor mother must have been walking bow legged for a month after that one!

 

[Ben Buck]

YUP, there you go!! Much like me, and I'm still not done!!

 

[ed_v]

I was born in 1968. My dad was in the military and not around the first couple of years of my life. I had an uncle who was a tractor mechanic at an International Harvester dealership and was a big time hot rodder. For my third birthday he got me a Craftsman wrench set. It was all over at that point. No turning back. I've taken everything I can get my hands on apart since then.

Ed

 

[NUTTSGT]

Haha lol,need to have that framed and hanging in the garage.

 

[larry_g]

My oldest son had a fascination with hammers at toddling age. He now owns a construction company. So yes the seeds are planted at a very young age.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[CNGsaves]

Cool pic . . . . . . . except . . .

. . . . . sure hope that kid can't wiggle over to cutters . . .

. . . . .AND . . . . grinder is NOT plugged in!!

P.S. Don't let SRS / child services see this pic!

 

[toolewab]

I was always told that I was born with a wrench in one hand and a steering wheel in the other.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

How fitting that a gearhead learns how to change the oil long before he does his first diaper!

 

[nine4gmc]

Cool pic . . . . . . . except . . .

. . . . . sure hope that kid can't wiggle over to cutters . . .

. . . . .AND . . . . grinder is NOT plugged in!!

P.S. Don't let SRS / child services see this pic!

always one in the crowd

 

[Steevo]

I like it. Get them started early.

I remember when I was about 5 years old and got a bike for Christmas.
My dad probably stayed up all night putting it together, and he wasn't happy when he found me in the garage just before dinner, with most of it disassembled.

 

[NHBandit]

I was born in 56 and mom & dad both raced sportscars. I have old pictures from Daytona 1959 as well as the Mount Washington (NH) hillclimb from 1959 when Caroll Shelby won driving a Ferarri. I was there although I don't remember any of it... Parents used to drive the 56 Jag XK140 from NH to Sebring Fla every year, race it and then drive it home. With me along for the ride. Here's a pic from the 1959 Daytona sports car race when dad went with the guys from the "Jomar" team. He's on the far right in the pic. It's also my avitar on the HAMB. Been involved with racing of some kind or another ever since.

 

[dirttracker18]

As a young boy, for some reason i thought my bike would stay in better shape if I dissasembled it for the winter. The good thing about this was everything got new grease in the spring.

That first spring was interesting trying to put it back together but I got it. I'm not sure when I stopped doing that?

 

[ford33]

Great picture. I loved it. Thanks for posting.

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

My first car was a 74 Vega. Parents bought a non-running car, a manual, and an engine rebuild kit. "Go have fun." Probably some of the best advice ever given to me.

 

[G_P]

When I was born my father was running his own small pump supply company out of the basement. I grew up tinkering with old and or broken pumps and electrical controls. He also did a whole lot of woodworking and taught me a ton about that. As I got older I would go on jobs with him and most of the guys were real nice and would give me their old broken equipment to learn on and some shops would let me dig through their scrap piles.

I brought home a ton of junk and built even more junk out of it but it was a good learning experience!