Who has children that help them in the garage?
 

How many of you guys have children that really get into helping you in the garage when you are working on your cars...or just getting them ready to take for a cruise?
Let's hear some stories about the "upcoming generation" and their involvement in classic cars...any of them build models like your car? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Had my 19 yo helping out today...masked and taped a dump body I had to paint..then he did some welding prep on a 70 COnvert we are working on..He's been doing alot of block sanding on the 69 Malibu project..making him clean parts and stuff...he splits wood..runs the tractor,,can drive with a trailer..and not hit anything..really come a long way this year..last year he could'nt do a damm thing!!!..nice to have him around.

ALbert

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My kids are 5 and 2, 5 year old loves the Nova and "respects it" the 2 year old wants to ram it with his tri-cycle, I have a few years to go before any help comes my way!!

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i was blessed with 6 kids https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif ages 6 to 27- 3 boys 3 girls only 2 are interesed in hot rods. my 6 year old daughter loves the camaro https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif and my 19 year old son works in a body shop restoring cars. hes always looking to help in the garage.he wants a second gen nova and is looking for a deal so there goes the 2nd bay in the garage https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gifthe rest of the kids just want to turn the key and step on the gas so my garage is a busy place.my 6 year old daughter and i started building muscle car and old nostalgic race car models last year. i thought after 1 or 2 she would drop it like a hot cake https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif but she is crazy for these cars. its really cool i have a great time with it https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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My daughter is 11 and is really into the cars. Her favorite is my/hers 63 Ford. She and I have gone to Goodguys shows and she loves that. My son who is 15 is not as enthusiastic as his sister, but prefers the done cars, not the resto work so much. Every summer he gets a job as SCW and he does great work, but not much of it. His favorite car in the shop ever was Shor's Ford GT and Dads 2007 Shelby GT. He likes the modern iron...BKH

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My two girls (10 and 8) always seem to enjoy taking a cruise in the cars.

The 8-year-old is usually more enthusiastic about helping around the garage, taking pictures of parts for me, cleaning up the cars, etc. She likes the Nova.

The 10-year-old like the Corvette better than the Nova

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My son is eight and goes to all the car show's with me. I put the car in his name so when I win a trophy he has to go up and get it! He loves it if you haven't done this for your kid's give it a try trust me it is worth it. He love's the corvette and he can pick one out a mile away. My 5 year old daughter just loves to go fast! Yep I am in trouble with her! This is a picture of my son after a long day at a show. And my daughter telling me to go faster!

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Nuff said...

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He actually had "help Dad in the garage" as one of his chores during the summer. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif The first time I took him to John P's garage (about 3 years old) he ID'd every car there. Obviously I was the proud Dad after that. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

His favorite car? He is an El Camino guy. Time to talk to Shor.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

When we're at cruise nights people also get a kick out of watching him fold his hand behind his back to look in an engine bay.. Wonder who he got that from.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif

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Hey, I know that TastyKake face! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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apparently i work in the garage - GavinX33 https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif

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well my first wife and I had 4 girls. So when they were in their teens I always wanted the 2 older ones to help with the car to get them involved. They thought it was not cool
to ride around on that antique 70 chevelle yuk!!
Well one day they came to me to get permission to go to their first school dance.I told them there was only one way
they could go.If I drive them to the dance in my 70 chevelle
4 speed m22.No way we are going to the dance with that thing.
Well the only way they could go was to get in the car. So
on friday night about 6 oclock they reluctantly got in the car and I drove to the school, all the while hiding so no one would see them in the car. The school dance was outside
and when I arrived I put the car in first gear and drove into the parking lot at about 15 miles per hour,the trany screaming like a 747 jet and stopped close to the dance crowd. Well before
they could get out of the car all the boys that were dancing
left their partners and came over to the monster car to admire
Asking my kids if that was your fathers car. Boy were they popular at the dance. Then every dance after that I had to drive them. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif
PJ

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That Gavin is such a cool kid! Can't wait to see the family again this year.

Holly doesn't really help out in the garage much...but she's riding shotgun 90% of the time we go to Pavillions...LOL

She also will still hold my hand when we walk around at car shows...or the mall. I am enjoying every minute of it...as I know there may come a day when she will be uncomfortable doing it https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Its the other way around with me. I'm 23, and I usually have to drag my dad to the garage. He likes cars alot, but not the work associated with them https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif. He's more of the I'll observe while you work type. Alot of times I'll be working on something and often times he asks, do you like doing this? I'm like more than you would ever know. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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James, my oldest @ 3 1/2, loves the '67. He was out in the garage "helping" me change the oil and putting rebuild kits in the brake calipers. He also likes our motorcycles and helps out with those, too. And for his age, I think he shows great focus on the small projects he's given to do. His favorite tool is the hammer and he uses it with gusto https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

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My youngest son helps sometimes. Occasionally we let him paint something and hope he doesn't run it to much. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

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My daughter is now 27 and my son 25 were into the car thing at an early age. My daughter loves telling people how she went to wrecking yards on Saturday mornings when she was 3 years old. When she was 14 she was at my shop one day when I was rebuilding a drive shaft. I told he when she started dating if any guy started putting the macho car image on she should say "when I was 14 I helped my dad install U joints in a 71 Olds 442 W30, using a 5 ton arbor press". When she got her own car at the age of 20 she wanted the best stuff for it and was always keen to do her own maintenance and we would spend a Saturday at my shop.She has been to many car shows and even came to Spring Carlisle one year.
My son and I have worked together on cars since he was 10.When I bought my welder about 6 years ago he wanted to do all the welding. He became so good at it I now wait until he is in town (airline Pilot) so he can do the welding. When I am rebuilding an engine I wont do the fireup and breakin unless he is there. We have a routine.
He is now building his own car,scratch from his own computer design. Its a race car that will be street legal based on the Lotus Seven concept. I had to move my cars from our house garage this past December so he could have the room.
Live has been good with their involvement. My niece wants to visit my shop next time she is in town.

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I have three teenage daughters and they all love to drive the cars but won't lift a finger to help out in the garage. Their boyfriends on the other hand keep the shop spotless and the cars clean enough to eat off of. The wife trained them girls right https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif She grew up on a farm and when it was hay baleing time all her dad had to do was get her and her sister to drive the tractor wearing daisy dukes and he never had trouble getting volunteers to throw and stack bales LOL.

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My little buddy Benjamin (6 years old) loves to work on his '69 rally green SS Nova!

Amanda is only 2, and would rather play with her princess dolls. Daniel is only 4 months, but perks up when the dragsters are running on TV!

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My son is 6 and will join me in the shop anytime. I willed him my old toolchest and at every swap meet he gets a new tool or something that he will have forever.

He definitely has his favorite car (my 67 Malibu), but I encouraged him to wait until he's ridden in the L78 car. If he gets tired of helping he usually asks to sit in his go kart and practice the gas and brake pedals. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif We even went so far as to paint two walls of his room orange and put a white Yenko Duece stripe on it.

My daughter is 4 and she's not the gearhead my son is. She loves going to the go kart races and is certain that as soon as she's old enough she will drive it.

I have one more coming in May, so I've warned my wife that we'll have to get at least one more car, just to keep the kids even https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

It's a great way to spend some good time with your kids and have them learn something they can use forever, including a work ethic.

Blair

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here is my 5 year old. always with me where ever I go with the cars, or even not with the cars for that matter.
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I remember when I was 6yrs old, I was snooping around my parents bedroom one night, and found a flamed out 55 Chevy model. My dad told me a story of how he had a 55 Chevy and it was stolen one night. That's all it took! I would build models every weekend and do chores around the house just to pay for them. I had to beg my parents to take me to car shows at Maple Grove. I subscribed to Super Chevy Magazine when I was 11 and read everything I could. Bought my first car at 15 (71 Nova) and the next thing I know, I own 8 cars and my dad has built a 30x40 garage to house all of his fishing toys and my projects. I think the best memory I have was when he enrolled me in an autobody shop course at night when I was 17 and he helped me get my Nova ready for prom! My dad wasn't much into doing the car stuff, but he likes to bring all of his friends down to show them what I am doing. Most of them are taken back by the fact that there is a 70 Nova body turned sideways on a scratch built rotisserie in the garage! So watch out if one of your children ask you to pick up some 2"x2" 10' long square tubing in your truck one day!

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My son was quite sick when he was young so instead of going to school he hung out with me as I was putting together 2-68 Z28s and a 69 z, As he got older he was operated on for 12 hours to fix him up. Today he is 23 owns a 2000 Camaro SS plus a 2005 Z-71 pickup and plays in the garage at home every night with his buddies just like I did when I was his age. He also just passed his Industrial Millwright provincial test. He makes more money than I do as a 21 year Captain on the local fire department. Boy I am proud of him,keep them in a shop playing with cars and sleds and out of the local malls and hangouts.

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On New Year's Day my 7-year-old son and I removed the front bumper from my '55. He was thrilled to help dad. I showed him how to lie on the floor, skootch under the car on his back, look everything over and devise a plan before putting a wrench on anything. Big one: how to hold the light so it shines right on the task and not in dad's face. He got an A+ on light holding. Then I showed him the places where we needed to remove nuts/bolts and explained that you want to loosen them but not remove them so the bumper does not suddenly fall on your head. Keep your face out from under where you're working so all the dirt/grit doesn't fall into your face/eyes. How to hold the ratchet firmly by its head so the force applied goes directly to the fastener. How to loosen tight fasteners carefully, feeling how tight it actually is, so it doesn't suddenly loosen and you punch the frame with your wrench hand and bleed all over the place. Remove all but two bolts and then see how loose the bumper is. Get out from underneath--big one: don't hit your head on the car!--and then loosen the remaining two bolts and pull the bumper off the car. He stood on the driver's side and held the bumper and I was on the pass side and we wiggled the bumper off the car. He was thrilled. The serious look on his face and his 100% attention throughout the job was the best part. I could see the "wow" look on his face when the bumper came off and there we were holding the bumper and I said, "See, no problem." He looked like he had just soloed an airplane for the first time. Then showed him how to attach the un-needed brackets back onto the bumper so you'll have them someday when you either put the bumper back on or sell the car.

There is nothing in the world like seeing your son's (or daughter's) face when you show them how to do something that seems so easy to us but seems impossible to them.

I then showed him how to spray satin black on the exposed areas to make it look good. Later on before dinner I got out some of my old books and magazines and showed him '55 gassers without their front bumpers and explained why racers would remove the bumpers, etc. What a great day.

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Oh, and when I lifted the bumper up into the garage attic and put it in the rafters he was fascinated. "Why are you putting it up there?" "Because I don't need it anymore but someday someone will buy the car from me and I'll have the bumper to go with the car." "Are you going to sell the car?" "Not anytime soon but someday it will get sold." "Oh." Then into the house to tell his mother all about it.

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Love the new look of your '55
Your son will always remember helping you give your car that Gasser look, and hopefully keep the tradition going with his rides!

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None of my kids got the bug. The only chance I had was with my 9 year old daughter but she prefers her friends now. I knew her interest was going away when I installed a 540 in a 69 Camaro and I wanted to go around the block for the first time. I left the hood off and she was really bothered by that but she still went along . As I was driving I kept hearing a tinny noise as I accelerated. Around the corner before we entered the neighborhood I went to mid throttle and the tinny noise went away because the fan wadded up and made full contact with the radiator then shot coolant across the windshield. The temp gauge shot to the end of the gauge so I shut the motor off and coasted back to house dripping coolant along the way. When I pulled into the drive way and stopped, my Daughter jumps out of the car and runs inside. She finds her Mom and tells her about the horrible things I had just done. She ends the conversation with "what if my friends had seen me".
Mark Sheppard

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my 19 year old nephew just put a new master cylinder and front pads on his mom's new yorker,while i kept an eye out,and helped bleed the brakes.

hnow if he can just find a job,that would be nice.

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Got my son this Ertl 1/18 you-build-it kit for Xmas. He and I put it together and I suggested we leave the front bumper off! Looks cool! I then dug through my 40-plus years of model car decals (big shoe box) and came up with the "Fagan's Speed Shop" and the "B/G" (didn't have any other Gas-class decals that would work) and then the speed parts decals for the windows. I even had a 1962-correct NHRA decal for the back window. The "Fagan's" decals are at least 40-45 years old and they almost didn't work but we got them to lay down and then brushed some clear over them. The satan heads on the fenders came from a 1960 Jo-Han decal sheet! Never throw anything away!

I later realized that B/GS means supercharged so I carefully carved the S off and now it just says B/G.

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They both help out when they can. The girl helps with rebuilding engines and painting assembly line markings and the boy helps me with the small car stuff and anything involving hammers. In exchange I help him build ringers for Pinewood Derby. That's him yelling "First Again!" Check out how the car pulls at the top end. (It's the yellow convertible and it was underweight, too, at 4.8 ounces.) He is dangerous with a can of spray paint, though.

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Steve that is pretty cool, I had to watch it three or four times !! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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My boy just likes to play and GO FAST !! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif

He loves burnouts and going sideways !!

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Man, I was embarrassed with the derby car I built this year. I might have to farm out my next car to you.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif

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Almost three years ago I managed to have my son's 7th grade science teacher aprove an engine swap as an acredited "internal combustion engine" project. we photographed the entire procedure and attached the pictures to poster board to display at the school with all the other projects. The teacher was skeptical to say the least that we actually did any of this work (in just three weeks) from just the photos.
So I gave my son the nasty old intake manifold to bring in and abandon it in school. The teacher wanted to see the car so I drove it to school without hood and exhaust for show and tell. He got an "A" on the project.

He has little interest in this car and would like an El Camino. Sadly he would rather play video games than get dirty working on equipment. His older sisters were good for a car wash now and then.

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My wife and I have two girls 10 and 5. They both love playing in the garage and going on cruises. Sydnie my oldest
enjoys going to the track and taking pictures of all of the different cars. Camille tries to help out where she can but really enjoys going on long drives through the foothills with the windows down and wind blowing in her hair...
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Staging lanes at Kingdon Raceway
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Cruising through the hills
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cleaning some dirt off the frame...

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My youngest son helps sometimes. Occasionally we let him paint something and hope he doesn't run it to much. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

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I was waiting for some wise ass comment. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif
Joe

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My 8 year old granddaughter Savannah asked Grandma Nancy "Do you think when Grandpa dies he will leave me his racecar?". https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

She thinks my '02 ZL1 is a racecar.

Grandma told her that she would have to talk to her Uncle Dusty as it goes to him after Grandpa dies.

I am not planning on leaving it to anyone soon. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif