[alamantia]

yeah, when I was five or six my father promised to let me help work on the family car, which was a 1980 suburban. I remember sitting there for like 2 hours, which you know for a 5 year old with obviouls ADD syndrome its like 2 days, eagerly waiting in anticipation so that he would let me do something, once I realized whatever he was doing he was almost done with I remember crying that I didnt do anything, he felt so bad he said "hey, I still have to put on the air cleaner, do you want to put it on with the wing nut?" i nodded yes, he said "all you have to do is put the wing nut on the stud once I get back from cleaning off the air cleaner cover, can you do that?" i nodded yes, so he took off to go get the new air cleaner from out of the box and to hose off the debris from the lid, naturally, I wanted to do a supurb job once he got back so I figured I would get a feel for how the wing nut would thread onto the stud..... well, I crawled up onto the bumper, placed the wing nut on the stud and I droped it, It's amazing how big the primarys were on big block q-jets. I also learned how to properly remove and reinstall a carb that day. It was from that moment forth that I knew I was destined to work on cars.