My name is Mike Konners, and I live in Troy, Michigan. I grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania, and I spent the early years of my childhood in the Wilkes-Barre area (NorthEastern PA). I spent my Junior and Senior High School days in SouthEastern PA, about half-way between Pottstown and Boyertown. Anybody out there familiar with either of these areas?
My dad never showed much interest in cars, --to him, a car was just a way of getting you where you wanted to go, and back home again. But when I was 12 years old, we had a next-door neighbor by the name of Karl. Karl was a 19-year-old "James Dean type" who always wore blue jeans and a tight white T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up. (No cigarettes rolled up in there, -he didn't smoke.) Karl honored me by letting me be his go-fer and his third and fourth hands when he was working on his '34 Ford sedan. (And he was working on it almost every day.) -And then, when he worked on his '33 Ford coupe, and later, when he worked on his '41 Ford coupe. And my reward, along with the honor of helping him, and just being allowed to hang out with him, was when he would take me to the stock car races on Saturday night at Sanatoga Speedway, just a few miles East of Pottstown. (Pretty cool stuff for a 12-year-old back in the fifties!)
Although I hadn't thought about it for quite a few years, I can still remember the names of my favorite drivers back then. Monk Keller, Red Lesher, Mose Moore and his brother Harry)
That's where my love for cars all started, and cars have been a very enjoyable interest and pastime for me ever since.
Thanks Karl!
My current "Pride and Joy" -- my 1950
Well, if you like cars like I do, I'd like to make you feel welcome by making this site a place on the web where people like you and I can share our experiences, our knowledge, and our love of cars and other things that we find we have in common.
CarDreamer.com was actually born the night before the 2000 Woodward Dream Cruise intheir hobby, that I got gaught up in the spirit. (Officially, the Woodward Dream Cruise is a 1-day event, always on the third Saturday in August. But it has gained such huge popularity, that during the week before the Cruise, almost every night there's a HUGE "unofficial" cruise.) Anyway, I got the spirit and I decided it was time to register my domain name, before somebody else claimed it.
So, just before
I got off to a pretty good start on building this site back in 2000, but I never got much traffic. And then a lot of things happened, (like the "dot-com crash" and 9/11), and that resulted in me getting side-tracked and neglecting the site for about 5 years. Well, here we are in 2006, and I find myself kicking myself because I didn't stick with it. So I'm starting over again, almost from scratch. But this time we're gonna "Git 'er done"!
I've got some ideas for some things we can do on CarDreamer.com, but I'm still open to suggestions. In fact, if you have a good idea, I'm open to a joint venture. Maybe we can both have some fun and make a little extra money while we're at it!
If you have any comments, questions, or ideas, please let us know by emailing us at future53@hotmail.com.
And check back often, as we build out this site!
Thanks for visiting!
Mike
Konners