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102-year-old driver still wows the car-show crowds with her 82-year-old Packard roadster
New York Daily News ^
| September 21, 2012
Posted on 09/22/2012 4:41:21 AM PDT by SMGFan
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posted on
09/22/2012 4:41:26 AM PDT
by
SMGFan
To: SMGFan
She was driving at 8, not unusual for rural children in those days. Today, children that age are barely potty trained. We are devolving.
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posted on
09/22/2012 4:44:06 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: SMGFan
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posted on
09/22/2012 4:44:54 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
To: txrefugee
I was driving a “three-on-the-tree” (column stickshift) at 9, in WVa and the Midwest, but only at Scout Camp properties, in the 50s.
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posted on
09/22/2012 4:47:40 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Libs, dems, unions, leftist scum & murderous muzzies - are like bacteria: attack, attack, attack!)
To: SMGFan
I know her key to longevity - she didn’t grow up having the gov’t telling her what she couldn’t do. Driver license at 12 years old!
Great story - she’s looking good and so is her car!
To: Monkey Face
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posted on
09/22/2012 5:18:12 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("In the kingdom of the blind, sight is a crime and mentioning what you see is a gaffe.")
To: SMGFan
Article says she still changes the oil and spark plugs herself. Terrific woman and beautiful car!
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posted on
09/22/2012 5:44:47 AM PDT
by
GnL
To: SMGFan
To: Future Snake Eater
Those tires are almost as big as she is!
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posted on
09/22/2012 6:06:51 AM PDT
by
Cheapskate
(Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
To: SMGFan
She is also a Life Time Member of Second Amendment Sisters! She packs, and we hear she is a good shot!
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posted on
09/22/2012 6:19:57 AM PDT
by
basil
(Second Amendment Sisters.org)
To: SMGFan
“I’m ready for my close up, Mr. DeMille.”
(Neither fair, nor appropriate, I agree. For one thing Norma Desmond was only 50 and she did very little to keep up the car.)
To: windcliff; onedoug
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posted on
09/22/2012 6:42:34 AM PDT
by
stylecouncilor
(Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
To: txrefugee
“Today, children that age are barely potty trained”
That’s for sure, I taught myself to weld and channeled a 32 5 window in 1945 at the age of 8.
spent all my early years with friends 8-10 years older, gave up that playing shit and had some real fun hot rodding!
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posted on
09/22/2012 6:46:46 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: txrefugee
Today, we don’t want anyone doing anything until they are 26. Remember our government, does not want farm kids doing anything.
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posted on
09/22/2012 7:30:32 AM PDT
by
taterjay
To: txrefugee
“We are devolving.”
“Are we not men?”
To: Future Snake Eater
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posted on
09/22/2012 10:31:21 AM PDT
by
dljordan
(Voltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: txrefugee
She was driving at 8, not unusual for rural children in those days. Today, children that age are barely potty trained. We are devolving.
I once read a book on cars where in Colorado, one of the first car dealers there was a boy 11 years old. I admire the responsibility our ancestors accepted at a young age, my grandfather quit school in 1914 at the age of 13 and got a job, so he had adult responsibilities at a much younger age than people today. Shame the Progressives killed that. B-(
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posted on
09/25/2012 8:58:29 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: All
This reminds me of an amateur radio operator that I knew. He was born in 1914 and still drive a classic car, a 1964 Rambler American 990 he bought new. If he’s still around (moved to Florida), he would be 98 and if in good health, still driving and jabbering on the amateur radio at the same time. Would be kind of cool to fix these guys up. B-)
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posted on
09/25/2012 9:21:37 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: dalereed
My Brother still has the 32 5 Window Deuce Coupe he bought and fixed up when he was 16. He turns 66 in about a week.
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posted on
09/25/2012 9:31:34 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(How do you insult an Obama Voter? Call them an Obama Voter.)
To: Kickass Conservative
Wish I had the 32 roadster that we set the D fuel record of 1534 at El Mirage in 54 with.
After Voight and Colb beat us at Bonneville with their Hemi DeSoto I sold it for $650 including the Hallibrand quick change and all the street gear that was stripped out to go racing.
For that matter I wish I had my 40 coup street racer I sold for $600 to get married in 1958.
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posted on
09/25/2012 9:42:51 PM PDT
by
dalereed
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