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What Did You Learn to Drive In?

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July 08, 2019, 10:01 AM
USMCE4retired
What Did You Learn to Drive In?
I'm almost afraid to admit this, but here goes...
In the mid sixties on the farm I learned to drive on a Depression Era Model A "hybrid".
It was a Model A front end (no cab) with huge wooden spoked rear wheels and axle. After plowing and pulling stumps with that hilltop stop signs held no fear for me. Then in the mid seventies Dad gave us an old Volkswaggen Beatle to run around the orchards.
Good times.
July 08, 2019, 12:52 PM
preten2b
Dad had a 67 VW bus when I learned. It was so under powered that I could often drive the PA TP completely floored for the entire trip and only get to 65 with the help of big hills. Taking the driving test serpentine in that pig.....


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July 08, 2019, 01:09 PM
PASig
A 1987 Dodge Omni:




July 08, 2019, 01:15 PM
TMats
quote:
A 1987 Dodge Omni:


Is the L car a “real nice car” too? Wink


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July 08, 2019, 01:18 PM
MNSIG
1974 Pontiac GrandVille.
July 08, 2019, 01:20 PM
bobandmikako
From a young age, I was regularly driving a Ford tractor and a 1972 F350 flatbed truck on my grandparents farm. When I actually got to take my driving test, it was in a 1978 Honda Civic.


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July 08, 2019, 02:30 PM
GT-40DOC
1949 Chevy coupe....manual trans of course.
July 08, 2019, 02:33 PM
83v45magna
1976 Datsun pickup, short bed, reg cab, manual: steering, windows and locks. 4 speed manual. It did have an add on A/C but never really cooled. It mostly just had 260 A/C.


I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11

...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted]
July 08, 2019, 02:40 PM
AZSigs
1960 something Buick station wagon



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July 08, 2019, 04:34 PM
P210
quote:
Originally posted by USMCE4retired:
I'm almost afraid to admit this, but here goes...
In the mid sixties on the farm I learned to drive on a Depression Era Model A "hybrid".
It was a Model A front end (no cab) with huge wooden spoked rear wheels and axle.


I remember bombing around fields in similar contrivances on farms when we visited upstate NY all through the sixties. They called them Doodlebugs. Today they’d lock you up for letting your kid even near one of them. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.