My first car was a 1946 Ford 2 door sedan with a 1937 Ford V8. It was very slow but it got me there and back. My uncle had a auto repair/speed shop. I started working for him the summer of 1958 and he helped me get and repair the car. It had slid backwards into a telephone pole and needed a rear bumper, deck lid, and truck floor. He made me do all the cutting out of parts and welding in of new. He said I would thank him later in life, which I did many times for the experiences he let me have. A doctor ran a stop sign and I T-boned him. It tore the hell out of the Lincoln but didn't hurt the '46 much. I drove it to my uncles and we straighened it up and I went home. My dad decided that I needed a newer car and we found a 1951 Ford 2 door sedan that he helped me buy. Well, my uncle was a flathead master mechanic and at the end of the summer of '59 I was driving a very hot 3/4 race flathead. 0 to 30= 3.2 seconds. 0 to 60= 6.7 seconds. 0 to 100= 13.7 seconds. I sure had a lot of fun with the '51.

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