# 84 Years Old and Still Driving His First Car

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**Created:** [August 23, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/84-years-old-and-still-driving-his-first-car/34290 "2007-08-23T02:10:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/84-years-old-and-still-driving-his-first-car/34290/4 "2007-08-23T04:45:39Z")

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> Mr. Curtiss has made one major upgrade, installing a Hudson Terraplane engine in 1940, because, he said, “I raced kids home from high school with it, but there were a couple of cars I couldn’t beat.” That allowed it to go more than 80 miles an hour, compared with 55 m.p.h for a standard Model A. “Then I could beat them all,” he said.

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