Hemmings Classic Car

Old and Crude

“Tearing down and looking after my old cars helped bring my shoulders down from around my neck and drop my blood pressure below redline.”

 to play tennis, go hunting, or do gardening. Me, I like to drive and work on old cars. Always have. My grades went south as soon as I got a driver’s license at age 16; I went cruising in marginally ancient machines in Southern California during the Fifties and Sixties. There was Oscar’s drive-in, Harvey’s Broiler, and the A&W; after

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