No, 65 Dartman, I never did, and there's a story behind that. My father's dad died when my father was quite young, leaving a widow and lots of children. My dad grew up during the depression and his family was very impoverished, as in "not a penny to their name" (literally). Therefore neither he nor his siblings ever had enough money to drive a car. He was first able to afford a car after he graduated from high school, came to California and got a job in a factory. So I guess that's why he never learned to maintain a car. In fact, when he was younger he seemed to be somewhat in denial that a car ever needed any maintenance. He never seemed to change the oil, and when one old car broke down he would buy another used one. (Finally in '56 he bought a new Plymouth Savoy, and was so proud of it that he actually maintained it.) So when my brother was a kid he never learned that it was necessary to check the oil level on his '41 Plymouth and change it occasionally, so he ran the engine out of oil. Then the '41 got junked. I shudder to think of how many cool '40s Mopars suffered the same fate back in the '50s, mainly because they weren't worth anything because people considered them old-fashioned and wanted one of the more modern body styles instead.