Ditto on Tom Swift. I’ve read all of the original ones several times each and about half of the more recent Tom Swift Junior ones.
In fact, Just a few days ago I downloaded a few of them from this site: http://durendal.org/ts.html to read again.
I guess I read a half dozen or ten of the older Hardy Boys books, but never REALLY got into them.
I also read all the “Motor Boys”, “Rover Boys”, All the Horatio Alger books several times each. And at least once each read “The Boy Scouts”series, “The Banner Boy Scouts” series, “The Don Sturdy” Series”, “The Radio Boys” Series, “The Moving Picture Boys” Series, a couple of the “Dave Dashaway” books, and several other similar ones.
I was lucky; My father and his brother were serious collectors of such books in their youth, and my Grandfather preserved their collection after they went off to War, and passed them on to me as soon as I could read.... Which my mother taught me how starting when I was three years old, and I was rarely without a book in hand from then on.
Then in High School, I started reading Louis L’Amour Westerns and the like
I’d say pretty much that the adult I became was 90% due to what I read in those books as a youth and a mere 10% due to other influences from ‘the real world’ of the 1950s and 1960s.
Too bad that the youth of later generations mostly didn’t read that kind of stuff. The world would be a much better place now with that kind of influence.
I looked at the Moving Pictures Boys on the album cover commissioned by Rush many many times :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAIxUvd8gWo
apparently enough that I still own a manual transmission red barchetta (well a german one anyway, had an italian one but I was working on it all the time)
but I do not let my kids drive it, cause I know they would ignore the motor law.