Offspring starting into performance stuff!

[NorCam]

My oldest son (12) has always had an interest in performance cars and builds but has never expressed much of an interest in engine building, until today that is? I have a spare 11:1 motor that I said we should start building for his mom's 55 Chevy truck and he jumped right in to start tearing this one down and get it ready for a trip to the machine shop.

I had him take off the tin work, remove the windage tray and help remove the pistons and camshaft. He was pretty excited to get in there and get his hands dirty and that had me smiling with a proud papa like grin. He wants to go out after dinner and remove the crank to see what we need for the rebuild and get the bearings and parts ordered up. It was a great day spending a couple hours doing a tear down with him. Now to get it machined and build one up with him.

He said he wants to build a 70 Nova SS

Exciting day...you betcha!