Growing Up With Antique Cars

When I was four years old my father and my uncle was restoring a 1929 Model A. I used to sit in the garage and watch them work on the car. First they took it all apart piece by piece. They had pieces all over the garage wheels, fenders, body, chase, rumbull seats, etc. I watch them strip the old paint off the parts. They made new fenders out of steel. My uncle did something called pick and file work something that is not used to much anymore. they primed the pieces and sanded them a lot of times. They even had to weld pieces together. Before they could put the finish coat of paint on it. Then they still had to do a lot of sanding between all coats of paint. After fifteen coats of Laquior paint they could put the car back together. It took they approximately three years to finish the car and drive it down the road.
My father loves to drive that car around, going to car show, and parades. He has come home with first place trophy's second place and some third place trophy's. My father had even made a commercal with the Model A. The paint on the car lasted 35 years. They had other projects while they worked on the Model A, like making fenders for another mans Audurn. My father also restored a 1968 mustang convertible. I watched him work on that and this time I was old enough to help with it. It has a 302 high performance engine in it. Four on the floor, We ended up going through a couple of carborators trying to get the engine right without eaten up to much gas. My father had called me a few times because he ran out of gas. We first had Eddle-broch, Harley carbs and they ate up to much gas.
Now we will be working on 1931 ford Model A pick up and I will be able to enjoy working together with my father,and having my children with us helping also. it would be so nice to be able to keep the generation going.