>> My parents took me to Sunday school when i was a kid but in 1945 when I was 8 I kicked religion for hot rods and drag racing
Damn, you were drag racing at 8 years old? 1945 was a hell of a time to be alive, if that’s the case! :-D
Built my first flathead and taught myself to weld and channeled a friends 32 coupe but didn’t drive a car until I was 12 when I went 123 mph in a flathead dragster at Santa Ana.