They didn’t have girlfriends way back when — or so they claim — because every nickel and dime they earned was already promised in advanced to the true loves of their lives.
The good times returned Saturday for the aging gearheads who were among the earliest members of Monterey’s original Slowpokes Car Club, founded in 1949 by a couple of teenagers named Mike Homan and Al Bergquist.
A handful of the hot-rodding pioneers reunited at the Monterey Fairgrounds, sharing war stories with friends whom they hadn’t seen, in most cases, for 30 to 45 years, at a vintage car event organized by a Gold Coast Rods, a modern-day descendant of the Slowpokes.
The first line caught my eye “they didn’t have girlfriends or so they claimed”. One Slowpoke I knew very well had a beautiful girlfriend. Not only was she gorgeous she worked at Foster Freeze on Lighthouse ave. I would gladly help clean uncle’s ’59 Impala for a ride to see her.
