An *ahem* ENLIGHTENING video for those of you who are adept at customizing your classic muscle car.
(Ducks rotten fruit being thrown at head.)
I always wanted to own a muscle car. I thought they were so cool. My practical father (R.I.P.) would have none of it, though. I had a nice, non-descript second-hand Audi, which Dad got for $500 from a handyman friend of his. I have to admit, that car was well built. I kept it for another 8 years after graduating high school, at which point it got traded in for a mini van, as by then I had three kids.
I still think back on those daydreams of youth. I wanted to take auto shop so I could work on my dream muscle car, but in those days, girls didn't take auto shop. (I graduated high school in 1982.) My father actually taught me a few basic things, like changing the oil, checking the fluid levels, filling the tires, and changing a tire. But auto shop was not a "thing" for girls.
Maybe once my brother and I are retired, we'll buy ourselves a couple of muscle cars and let the younger generation laugh at us and accuse us of having a mid-life crisis as we have fun working on them.
~DJ Aurora~
