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Old 01-03-2019, 02:39 PM   #181
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82 in August, same 31 coupe since I restored it in 1985, took 6 years
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Old 01-03-2019, 03:32 PM   #182
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37, but I've been in love with the Model A since I was about 3...
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Old 01-03-2019, 04:17 PM   #183
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What is my age?, comes with a story. I am a high-school teacher, I joined the Model A Club to hang out with adults. They are all old. My new two new best friends are in their 80s. After an endearing day of school with freshman, I rush to the garage to work on a car with my "new" two best friends "in their 80s". I walk in and they're playing, "You want to see where the shark bit me" and "You want a "Hurtz donut"". I am 57, 44 years older then my 80 year old friends. I feel sorry for my senior high school girls. We boys never mature.

By the way I won the Hurtz Donut, 80 year olds are whimps.
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:24 PM   #184
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I am 75. There are a lot of things I can still do but no longer feel like doing anymore. I am cleaning up my '29 Tudor and have hired a guy to do what I don't feel like doing, which is refinishing the underside of the "Jalopy"!
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:35 PM   #185
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TI am in my 75th year, celebrated my 50th in 2018 with my truelove, bought, restored, and still own our only Model A '31 coupe in '72 when we barely had two nickles to rub together and cleaned the frame (and everything else that needed it) using two B&D drills + wire brushes.
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Old 01-08-2019, 12:28 AM   #186
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72 and have had my 1929 cabriolet since ‘58 or 59. Working on it today and took it around the block to test recent repairs. New Thomas head on it.
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Old 01-11-2019, 01:19 PM   #187
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52, plenty of time left to play with old iron.
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Old 01-11-2019, 01:53 PM   #188
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48 years young,
Little personal note my grandfather was 48 when my dad was born, unfortunately never meet my grandfather. I hear he was quite the tinker and owned several Model A's in his time. You know what they say, every other generation, my dad could give a rats a$$ about cars.
One of my favorite quotes from an older gentleman when I was younger:
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McRNSFGwqtY

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Old 01-11-2019, 06:44 PM   #189
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Try 72 on for size. Purchased by first "A" in 1978 - still own it and have added quite a few more to the fleet over the years. Great hobby!
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Old 01-12-2019, 02:47 PM   #190
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48 years young,
Little personal note my grandfather was 48 when my dad was born, unfortunately never meet my grandfather. I hear he was quite the tinker and owned several Model A's in his time. You know what they say, every other generation, my dad could give a rats a$$ about cars.
One of my favorite quotes from an older gentleman when I was younger:
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were"
I think this sums it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McRNSFGwqtY

Do post a clip of him at his 100th.
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Old 01-13-2019, 05:28 PM   #191
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76 here.
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Old 02-17-2019, 03:16 PM   #192
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I'm 67. Sometimes I feel so old it takes me 1 1/2 hours to watch 60 Minutes! :😜
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Old 02-17-2019, 04:05 PM   #193
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70, but always point out I am the youngest part in my Model A.
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Old 02-17-2019, 06:06 PM   #194
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59 working on my first model A
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Old 02-17-2019, 06:30 PM   #195
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I'll be 55 in about 9 days.
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Old 02-17-2019, 06:50 PM   #196
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I recently turned 46. I have been tinkering off and on since I was 15.
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Old 02-18-2019, 01:26 PM   #197
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If you're asking for mental age I probably qualify for teenybopper. If you want physical age all I'm going to say is 1945 was a looonnng time ago.
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Old 02-18-2019, 04:09 PM   #198
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Will be 74 in April. We have owned our 1929 Tudor since 1968. We have owned a few model A Fords before 1968 and owned many more since.
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Old 02-18-2019, 04:49 PM   #199
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I was 34 when I got my A. I had to have it ready for my wedding, so no time was available to waste RESTORING it. By then I was 35. Kind of odd that a 34 year old guy wants an original A. I don't care, it's my money, and my car. What I like is what counts not some hot rodder. Although, I do have a streetrod.


I'm 58 now.
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Old 02-18-2019, 06:36 PM   #200
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I am going to be 70 in July. Got my first car, a 31 Tudor in 1964 or 65. Sold a while later. Bought a barn find 28 roadster pickup in 1972 when I got out of the army. Still have it
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