Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.
Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.
My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
I don't know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.
He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.
I've always worked on my own home and different places that I've owned. I really enjoyed it. But I'm a mechanic, a motorcycle and car builder.
We've worked on hundreds of cars and there's always something different so it's hard to get bored of individual vehicles.
