Got my first stovebolt when I was 14--51 GMC 3/4ton--bought out of a junkyard--cracked head and wrecked--got another head and put a flatbed on it and ran a haycrew--only way a poor boy could get the money to go to college back then.
Never served in the military--college deferred out of Vietnam--in fact; no member of my family has been in the military since the Civil War. That poor ancestor was hung by the Federals as a confederate spy--kinda soured my kin on military service.
