Bob grew up in the west coast logging industry, started working on chainsaws in 1949 at the age of ten, while living at the Nanaimo River Camp. 

Having little to do all day on weekends and evenings, he was inclined to hang around the shop.  Fearing he might be hurt; his step father had recommended a safer environment to go hang out in the saw shack where they worked on the saws. 

 As he continued to travel to school 30 miles each day getting chauffeured in the camp crummy by one of the camp foreman Tony, in which he became a very close mentor.  Through his child hood Tony taught him to drive as he reached his teens and also taking his driver’s course with the crummy that astounded the instructor. As Bob reached adult hood, he had an opportunity to move to Victoria to be with his Nana and took a job as a Car Jockey at a dealership in 1956 where he used his knowledge of the automobile.