It's fun how these sounds imprint on your mind. I've (obviously) owned many cars, and when they're in a movie I can tell if the sounds the car makes are correct or if they were from some other car dubbed in by the foley people. Not just the engine/transmission sounds, but the sounds the doors make, etc.
I've restored a couple of cars and nobody that sees the end result will ever truly appreciate the amount of work that goes in to a job like that unless they've done it themselves as well. Your dad looks so happy in those pictures!
We were at a Wills event and coming back from the bathroom I heard two ladies talking about riding in the rumble seat of a car with their Grandmother in a parade in Detroit. I said would you like to meet the guy whose car you rode in? They were delighted and my Dad wrote letters to them until weeks before passing away at 101.
My Dad served as a great example to me although my passions are more of the geeky kind.
You are - and you probably already know this - very fortunate to have had a father like that.
Of all the cars he owned, the one he liked the most and kept the longest was a 1926 Wills Sainte Claire roadster. He sold that car so that he could send me and my sister to college. My earliest memories from around age 2 were watching my dad wrench on that car.
I borrowed it from the owner with the help of the president of the Wills Sainte Claire museum for my father's 100th birthday. Our entire family felt such a strong emotional attachment to that car, but none stronger than my Dad.
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