by BUD WILKINSON | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Unlike many classic car enthusiasts, Curtiss Burr of Watertown doesn’t trace his affection for antique models to his youth. “I used to build models all the time, little plastic models, Revell models,” he recalled last fall, “but I never really got into the big stuff, no.” It wasn’t until he was a grown-up that a friend’s 1957 Chevrolet pickup caught his attention. The friend then plied him with copies of the “Goodguys Goodtimes Gazette” vintage car magazine, which helped hook him. “It just came on,” Burr said of his now decades-old passion. His first classic car was a 1939 Buick coupe, which he ended up selling because it too hot to drive in the summertime. Its replacement was a hot-rodded 1938 Chevrolet coupe “in pretty good shape” and with air conditioning. He bought it in 2002, but later sold it – reacquiring it in 2019.