Getting Kids Involved...Show Everyone Your Success Story!

[1930-Pickup]

Without the next generation, this 'hobby' (I prefer 'Lifestyle') will fade away.
Show everyone how you're involved with your kids, or grand kids, or neighborhood kids. or any kids!

Four of my six kids...

[henry's 31]

I agree with you 100%. If we do not get the next generation involved our beloved hobby will die. We must get them involved and they will get to enjoy it as much as we do! Thanks for sharing!

[Simonpie]

I had my speedster on the street when a neighbor and his small son wandered by. After a bit of talking, we hoisted the kid into the driver's seat. I turned on the power and showed him how the horn button worked. After 5 minutes of Ahoogah!, the dad pulled the kid out because he wasn't going to stop. It may take a while, but I think he's hooked.

[J.niven]

I let my ten year old do whatever work he can safely do on my car!

[KGBnut]

Here is my daughter pulling the carb for cleaning. We were at a car show and it sputtered pretty bad on the drive up. She pulled the carb, pulled it apart, and blew it out before reinstalling it. She was 15 at the the time. By the time she finished a crowd had gathered to watch her.

She works on her own car now. She has a '74 Beetle.

Ken

[Bleedblue4life]

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Originally Posted by KGBnut

Here is my daughter pulling the carb for cleaning. We were at a car show and it sputtered pretty bad on the drive up. She pulled the carb, pulled it apart, and blew it out before reinstalling it. She was 15 at the the time. By the time she finished a crowd had gathered to watch her.

She works on her own car now. She has a '74 Beetle.

Ken

Does she have YouTube videos of her working on her beetle? Came across some videos of a teen girl restoring a beetle on youtube and thought how cool that was for any teen now a days to get into that kind of work.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

A Lady with 2 young Daughters were talking & admiring Minerva.---"DON'T touch the Mans' car"!---"It's OK to touch it"!
Shortly, the youngest was standing @ the L/F wheel, laid over the fender, with outstretched arms, looked up at the Mother & said, "Mother, I just LOVE this car.
Some time later, the Lady & her Blind Brother came out of Bad Buds' Mini-Mart/Gas station, as I slammed Minervas' door, "I heard a Model A door slam"!!--We had a nice chat & I allowed him to feel the WHOLE car.
YES, Minerva was SPIFFY BLACK, but she wiped off EASILY!
At a car show, I put a sign in the 1/4 window, "YES, YOU CAN TOUCH MY CAR & IF YOU EVER MADE OUT IN ONE, SIT IN IT & SEE IF YOU CAN RECOMEMBER HER NAME"???
BOTH times, I DIDN'T have my danged CAMERA!
Bill Funguy

[1928Mik]

My Dad had put away the A that I have and would not let anyone near it. My kids grew up with no access to the car, but my son has the same mechanical aptitude as I do. Now that I have the A, I have been schooling him so he has that knowledge to continue, and he's interested because he loves mechanics and engineering.. I feel it's necessary to educate kids on these vehicles so they can carry on, so anytime I have a young person remotely interested I show them the car and talk it up.

[rosenkranswa]

My son and daughter, grew up around our old cars helping to do what they could. My daughter in particular loves everything about them, the cars, the fashions, the era and is an excellent ambassador for the hobby. My son likes the cars and appreciates them, but its not his thing per se.

Each year I pull all the cars into the front yard on the date of our neighborhood picnic in the park next door. There are usually at least a couple of the kids that wonder over and want to know more. As a result, this year we were invited to bring the cars over to the elementary school in the early fall when the kids were doing a section on the age of innovation to talk about the rise of the auto industry, Henry Ford, and what it was like for their great-grandparents. We've been invited back in the spring when they're doing WWII to bring our Jeep and '42 Sedan.

[Clem Clement]

On one tour, a little old purple haired lady and her man came by to admire Smokey. I could see her eyes getting misty. I asked "have you ever fooled around in a rumble seat?" She got more misty and replied "YES, but no with him!!!!!!"

[KGBnut]

Originally Posted by Bleedblue4life

Does she have YouTube videos of her working on her beetle? Came across some videos of a teen girl restoring a beetle on youtube and thought how cool that was for any teen now a days to get into that kind of work.

No, that's not my daughter. However I have seen those videos that you are talking about and that kid is awesome. She is about 14 years old and is cutting and welding. I think that kid even built her own welding cart.

My daughter is not quite that skilled...neither am I.

Ken

[TAG29A]

My 14 year old son has the lifestyle. He bought a 94 Ranger last year with own money he has been saving. He and I have been working on it. He has been spraying the base coat and I do the clear coat. He had dual exhaust put on it and the other morning when it was cool and damp out when I started the truck he walked past the truck to see the exhaust coming out the dual pipes. Made me smile. I let him get the feel of a clutch last week pulling my 29 Tudor out of the garage. He thought that was the coolest thing especially since that was my dad's first car. I am thankful he had taken n interest in this lifestyle. I think he could hop in the 29 and start it himself with no coaching from me. I know my dad's first car will be in good hands when he gets it someday!!

[Ted Duke]

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

A Lady with 2 young Daughters were talking & admiring Minerva.---"DON'T touch the Mans' car"!---"It's OK to touch it"!
Shortly, the youngest was standing @ the L/F wheel, laid over the fender, with outstretched arms, looked up at the Mother & said, "Mother, I just LOVE this car.
Some time later, the Lady & her Blind Brother came out of Bad Buds' Mini-Mart/Gas station, as I slammed Minervas' door, "I heard a Model A door slam"!!--We had a nice chat & I allowed him to feel the WHOLE car.
YES, Minerva was SPIFFY BLACK, but she wiped off EASILY!
At a car show, I put a sign in the 1/4 window, "YES, YOU CAN TOUCH MY CAR & IF YOU EVER MADE OUT IN ONE, SIT IN IT & SEE IF YOU CAN RECOMEMBER HER NAME"???
BOTH times, I DIDN'T have my danged CAMERA!
Bill Funguy

Bill,
You made my day. One of my granddaughters (age 14) has helped me with my RDSTR PU in progress and plans to help more. All three of my sons and a grandson have helped.
One of my sons did a "fix-up" of a 40 Chevy PU, another has restored a Toyota Land Cruiser and MY 1966 IH Travelette (4 dr pu) and is really into old cars because of my A.
All of my grandchildren and any adults neighbors or kids will get a chance to drive MY A.
And I will always say, "Please touch, but touch gently, we're old!"

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

An OLD MAN thumped a Friends' FIBERGLASS Fender, "They don't make steel like that anymore, not even a RING"!-----"YUP"!
Bill Quiet

[JDupuis]

Thanks Bill! LMAO Jeff. LOL LOL

[Railcarmover]

The stories are gone forever, No one is buying one for five bucks and running it on penny a quart drain oil anymore..or how three guys bought a '31 coupe for 10 bucks and drove it from New York to Florida..straight..nothing like hearing those stories from the horses mouth...all they see is a bunch of old guys driving them in parades.It's hard to impart the love of the car the storyteller had.. second hand..

[Mikeinnj]

My daughter is now 28 years old and still interested in Model A's.

[Clem Clement]

At the shows I put kids in the rumble seat(with their guardian's blessing. Lots of grinning and giggling