Maybe if we still could by our kids and grandchildren gifts like this, we could start a whole new batch of Hot Rodders and car nutz just like most of us on this forum.
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You is right dub..just try and find some decent quality toys now adays..lots of mind wasters ipads.iphones..but no cool auto stuff like in times gone past..must be progress
i dunno. no one influenced me as i was growing up (no brothers, father had zero interest in anything mechanical) yet i had an interest from the age of four or five. kinda thinkin its either in you or it isnt.
parents made me take piano lessons when i was a kid ..... wasnt interested then and not interested now.