Answer: A lot.
Just ask Margaret Dunning, a 102-year-old Michigan woman who’s been making headlines after her energetic appearance at a classic car show in Canton, Ohio, over the weekend. Dunning attended the show with her baby: a 1930 Packard 740 Roadster that she purchased in 1949 and restored to mint condition. She talked happily about how she’s been changing her own oil and spark plugs all these years.
“I love the old cars,”Dunning told The Akron Beacon Journal. “I love the smell of gasoline. It runs in my veins.”
Dunning grew up on a dairy and potato farm west of Detroit, not too far from where Henry Ford’s family lived. When she wasn’t clambering onto her Packard’s running board to pose for photos, the longtime car enthusiast waxed nostalgic at the car show about how she learned to drive on her family’s farm at age 8, crashed into the barn at age 10, and secured her first driver’s license at age 12.
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