.... not sure if this is the smartest thing for me to share or not - but here goes.
I have earned my living since 1968 by using my EE degree in some capacity related to education.
I am not a mechanic - or at least a certified or professionally trained one. But, according to my late Father, I was born with a wrench in one hand and a piston rod in the other. I have an ongoing love affair with anything that runs off of gasoline, diesel, alcohol or nitro.
When I was 13 (1959) I entered my Junior High School Science Fair with "Anatomy of a Gasoline Engine". I placed second. My Dad said he was later told I did not get first because some of the judges did not believe I did it all myself.
There have been go carts, motor scooters, motorcycles, boat motors, tractors, cars, Ham Radio, etc. in some form ever since. I've always loved messin' with engines and electricity - and 65 years later still do.
Not to change the focus of the thread, but it would be neat to know how some of the rest of the folks here came to be motor-heads (or whatever you want to call yourself :h).
1959 Science Fair Photo
Only the old timers will remember CLINTON engines :W 
