Almost every person on this earth has some sort of list of desires to accomplish before their inevitable demise. Songs and movies have been written about how people try to cram their lives into their dying days. Until now, I have never pondered my death so I wouldn’t know.
My “Bucket List” is really only a “Bucket Item;” I want to open my own custom auto shop one day. I have loved cars and trucks my entire life. My first toy was a Matchbox car. Since then I had collected over 1,000 Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars, each of which I knew individually. I collected them and played with them. I set up miniature cities and roads with traffic grids and passing lanes. I learned all I could about cars and how they worked.
At the age of seven I purchased a 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle. It was “sunshine yellow” with flecks of rust shining through the front. Amazon had just hit it big as a website and my $20 in “Christmas Stock” I had invested soared to over $1200 over a week, and that’s how I bought my car. I learned out to drive on the little dirt drive we lived on; after some practice, I was pretty good at it too.
We eventually sold the bug but not my love for cars. Over the past 10 years I’ve drawn many concepts of custom vehicles that I would love to build and design.
Now I’m 18 and my “Bucket List” is to build my own custom ride and use that to jumpstart my own shop. I want to do something I love before I die and that is about it. I’m not concerned about skydiving or anything extreme, just my work and my passion.
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