[njsteve]

My first car was a 69 Z11 pace car. I am one of 5 kids. I saved every penny I had since I was born. While all my friends blew their cash on minibikes, motorcycles, drugs, beer, women (not necessarily in that order) I ended up saving $2700 by my 14th birthday. My dad and I drove by a crummy little ripoff car lot and saw the car. We ended up buying it for $2700. When we got home (of course I couldn't drive as I was only 14) my mom says to dad: "You know Bernie, his brother just turned 16 not him" I guess he lost track of which kid was which at the time! I learned just about everything about cars from that car. Including: don't think it has a 350 in it just because the fender emblem says "350". It ended up having a 1964 327 under the hood. Never ran right. Had a carburetor fire one day. While I was on my third fire extinguisher trying to put out the flames, my mom walks out with a bowl of tuna salad and asks: Are you coming in for lunch soon? I grabbed the bowl and tossed the tuna salad on the fire. To my amazement it put the fire out! I never insulted my mother's cooking after that. Here's a photo of me in 1976 (age 14) Gotta love that hairdo!