[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Same here; started with a big generic parts kit. Then I was given several kits that built one thing or another, but I'm pretty sure I never built any of those things; I dumped them all into a big box with the first kit and built whatever entered my imagination.

I was fascinated by big trucks but Lego didn't have any dual wheels, so I pulled the axle pins out of some wheels and carefully epoxied them to the outside of some other wheels that I'd filed most of the "studs" off of...and then turned the axle blocks 90 degrees and stuck them in from the sides. Voila, dual wheels.

I used some train hitch recievers as fifth wheels on the frame of a truck, and I stuck the train wheels to the bottom of trailers so their axles pointed downward and served as fifth-wheel pins; this became a coupling system for a semi tractor and trailer. That wasn't in any kit, anywhere. I wanted to build a semi, so I figured out a way to do it.

Adapt, transcend, innovate, and excel. That's how I learned. I fully credit those years, those experiences, with my proven capability and tenacity as a builder, tinkerer, and problem-solver.

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Don't forget Erector Sets and Heathkit.

Both of these x 1000.

All of this led up to my love of cars, working on them, and modifying them. The saddest thing I see is young men now look under the hood with a completely quizzical look IF they can even get it open.

We live in a completely era.