How old are you and how long have you raced

I am 53 years old and sadly tried to street race my 1956 chevy truck when I was 16. Never took it to the track but it was lucky if it ran 16 in the 1/4. Had a stock 350 with a 3 speed stick. My 11 grade of high school I got this wild ideal and traded it for a 1964 mustang 289 4 speed car. Had it a month then blew up the engine. My friends Dad gave me a 351 Windsor, which was fun trying to get to fit wear the 289 was. Finally got it in and running, just had to mount the radiator and the car was ready to test drive. We'll stoped to eat because mom made home maid pizza. Didn't even get to take one bite, when I looked out the window and saw that the gerage was on fire. Ended up losing everything . Mustang was burnt to a crisp. Maybe that's the reason I dislike ford's so much. Lol anyway went to basic training for the army reserves 2 days after passing the 12th grade. When I got home from AIT I bought a 1965 plymouth valiant off my uncle. It was a 318/ 4 speed car. Man that car was a blast and out ran a bunch of cars it shouldn't have
After that I was hooked on mopars. I even conceived my son in that car.lol latter on I built a mid 10 second 1/4 mile 1965 plymouth Belvedere and a big block 73 dart. Sold them didn't do anything for a few years. Then tried to get back in it, by then Abodys were selling for crazy priced. So I decided to build the dodge dakota I have now. I have more in the heads I think ( trickflow 190CC) than I do in the whole truck. Loll raced it for a year before I fell off a porch 5 years ago and broke a part of the disc in my spine at my L5 . Had sugrey to remove it. Which didn't help much. So really haven't done much racing in the last 3 years. Think I havent raced more than 10 times in the years. I planed on making this year the year to come back racing and it's July the 3rd and haven't made one pass yet. Seems like it's rained every Saturday for the last few months. Lol any way I am going to make some races this year no matter what. Also got tired of going slow so I bought a 650 HP stroked gen3 hemi for the dakota. This engine ran 9.73 at I think 138 in the guys 3100 pound Olds cutless. So it ought to be a lot if fun in the projunk yard dakota. Damn didn't mean to make this post so damn long. Lol