[Neil Mylar LakewoodCA]

I am going to eventually going to do 4 entries with pictures that I just found.

Late in 1964, at age 16, I purchased my first car, a 1929 Special Coupe. I took it apart in my parents driveway. I overhauled the motor in my Inglewood High School auto shop class. I gave it a valve job, tightened all the bearings, (unfortunately some of the main bearings ended up with no shims), resurfaced the head, put it all back together and it ran great.
Every summer our city had a 'Centinella Days' celebration and encouraged people to bring their antique cars. In one of the pictures you can see my 29 Coupe and behind it is my younger brother Barry's 31 black coupe.
I am posting a picture of a 1965 Ford Parts Obsolete ad. It was located in Los Angeles around 40 minutes from my parents house. On August 11, 1965 I drove my coupe to Ford Parts Obsolete to get some parts. I took Avalon Boulevard on the way home and did not realize it at the time, but came within 1 and 1/2 miles of where the Watts Riot was just beginning. I had no idea what was going on.