It was actually a left over 67. I paid "3,000 for it new. I did hop it up some. Bought a 1969 428 Cobra Jet Torino three years later.olds442jetaway wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 7:59 pmOK Phil, I’m going to get off track here for just a moment . That new Mustang you bought must’ve been a 68 or 69. Did you leave it stock or hop it up over time. Just curious based on our history of posting about cars . By the way are there any millennials out there that like 50s and 60s cars and hot rods?
For you young guys that think you have it tough today, I left home at 18. My first real job was in the mail room of a bank making $225 a month. I got a $1 bonus for each trip I made to the post office. I had a newspaper route in the morning before I went to work at my day job. I had 300 customers. Rain or shine, I started folding papers at 2 AM so I could make my day job at 8:30 AM. After work, I collected money for the newspapers in the evening. Our first house mortgage was 6%. I kept moving around until I found someone who would give me a future. I eventually started my own small business. In 1969, I was making $10,000 a year, pretty good money back then.
I'm not telling you this to make myself feel good. I'm telling you so you know that anyone can do what I did. Opportunities are everywhere, all you have to do is be willing to work. One of my earliest clients was Wayne Huizenga. He started a little company called Waste Management. When I met him he had a couple of garbage trucks. Google him and you will learn more. I asked him once if he started out to make a lot of money. He told me NO, he just wanted to be the best at what he did. He gave me this secret to his success. "Do what no one else wants to do and do more of it than anyone else."
Attitude is everything. If you believe in yourself, you will do well. No one told me I couldn't do anything I wanted to accomplish. I wasn't the smartest kid in school. My family was not rich. I found something I liked and I kept doing it. Pleasing my customers was more important than making money. When an opportunity came, I took it. I wasn't afraid to fail. I stumbled a few times, but I picked myself up and went on. I like spending money. To afford the things I wanted, I worked harder than the next guy.
My story is not some fairly tail or get rich scheme. It took me 72 years to get this far. You can do this. All it takes is the right attitude, hard work and determination. Get out from under your mother's skirts. Be a man. Start a family and become a productive member of society. When you are old and your grand kids ask you what you did, you can tell them and be proud. There is nothing wrong with having a temporary setback, just don't get stuck there.
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