=========================================================== Empower your Team with Remote Access. GoToMyPC Pro provides your organization with instant remote access to email,files, applications and network resources in real time. FREE TRIAL: caab6aub7yoMza/ ExpertCity =========================================================== When I was about 12 or 13, I wanted to help my Dad with the car. He would pull the '63 Plymouth up on the grass, at the end of the driveway, to change the oil. Get out the bumper jack, raise the car until the wheel would just about be off the ground, and crawl under. It seemed so hard for him to get down, then back up because he had the wrong size wrench, or waiting on the oil to drain, or go get the grease gun. He was 6'5 and it was a long way down to the ground. I used to crawl up under the car to watch, and listen to him curse under his breath. After a while, I asked if I could do the job, I had watched enough times, and just knew I could do it. He MIGHT have stood there the first two times I changed the oil. He would always ask if I tightened the drain plug enough. He would never double check me, he didn't want to crawl under there again. At that time I became the family mechanic. We lived in north east Ohio, and Dad had always bought used Chrysler products because they were cheap. The "rust belt" was hell on cars. He would always complain about the wiring problems with the cars. "Must be imported Japanese wires, and can't handle the American voltage" I made it my crusade to determine the reason every problem that came up had a cause. Bad ground was the most common. He still would curse the car's problems, but turn around and buy another Chrysler product. Our back yard was about one acre, and it got mowed just like the rest of the yard. That was the "proving ground" for any oil leaks after an oil change. THAT was enough to keep me interested! Any 14 year old kid that could drive a real car around a lot that big, was in hog heaven. I did end up taking Auto Shop in high school, and my Dad loved not having to take any cars to a garage for minor repairs. I tried to fix more than I broke, and Dad had a pretty good sense of humor. I miss him. =========================================================== $6.95 .com Domain Name Sale! Limited Time! ICANN Accredited GoDaddy! caab7pQb7yoMzf/ GoDaddy =========================================================== ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html. b7yoMz.