PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. | I have been a “Car Nut” since I was 12 years old. In my 80s now, I have owned over 200 cars. My fascination started with my first paid job at Dollar Auto Wrecking in Glendale, Calif. It was owned by my 20 year old cousin, Tom, and I blame him and the yard for the craziness.
First day on the job ($1 a day) I was told to harvest the batteries out of the 300 or so junked and wrecked cars, spread over some six acres. I was told to simply load the monsters into the trunk of one of the running cars and then stack them in the battery shack.
Talk about excitement…12 years old, me, driving a car. I didn’t dare tell Tom I didn’t know how to drive or that I really didn’t know what a battery was…