I started flipping back when I was a teenager. I grew up in a very low-income family. I had no money. There were no clothes, no food, and I had to fight for myself so that I would go to the junkyard.
That was in June, and that would have been 19'… '58 or '59. So, that led to “Hey, there's money in cars. I would go through town looking for cars for sale; I'd buy them, bring them back, clean them, clean the inside, put a For Sale sign out.