A phone call from my nephew got me thinking....

Grew up in my grandpa's shop. He was a trucker for many, many years. All of the dirt and grease worked into the old concrete floor, it just has that smell when you walk in the door. From the solvent tank, to the 80w90, good old carb cleaner, to where all the tires were stored. Sure brings back memories. I've been in business myself for almost ten years doing general automotive, specializing in these old Mopars. My shop has a smell, but, not THE smell, lol. Like many learned mechanical skills by tearing stuff apart and putting it back together to see if it would work. Three horse Briggs at 6 to all my bikes. Learned how to operate the welder at ten. Not going to say "learned to weld", lol. I eventually learned to weld. First carb was around the same time, an Autolite four barrel. It was a scrapper carb, but, the old man stuffed it on a Mustang to see if it would even fire. It did! Started helping in the service of the tractors and trailers at 13. Greasing u-joints, changing oil and filters, changing tires. Yep, very good times. They are missed......