Today it's a boring superhighway with gentle grade and almost no turns. Bah! Fortunately, the old Lewiston Grade is still drivable.
Posted on 12/06/2017 7:49:25 PM PST by sparklite2
Paraphasing, "that is the only thing remaining from my Model A that fell on me and broke my back. I spent the whole day under that thing".
No one messed with my Pop-Pop...
FORD - Fix or repair daily
FORD - Found on road, dead
Our parents were good drivers?
Well, of course the vast majority did survive. The public concern was because of a growing toll of death and carnage, even if it did involve a small minority of the population.
OTOH, we all knew stories. I think the institutional reaction to poor highway safety was on the whole, exemplary, and in fact we take it for granted.
It's hard to compare todays standards with the 1950's or 1960's. I think each of us would be shocked to return to them, if by some spell.
However,never been a car guy then my Wife got me an Audi a4 (s-line, ultra sport) and a friend manages AWE Tuning...
The thing is a rocket, handles like a precision instrument and I haven't done the turbo etc, yet. I don't drive it in the cold weather so (hopefully) I'll get around to working on it over the winter.
Half-a-dozen kids in the back of dad’s pickup, heading for a day at the beach. On our backs, looking up at the bridges and overpasses. “Don’t put your fingers between the bed and the cab!” Six or seven kids in a pickup bed would now warrant years in jail...abuser! What a time that was.
My favorite ride is my 1980 Jeep CJ ...
(Basically a Tractor that goes 55 MPH)
You have to DRIVE it because by itself it will find both ditches and not be stopped/slowed.
I looked into getting one for driving around the mountains at Big Bear in 1985. The dealership in San Bernardino didn’t think it was what I needed. They were probably right. I ended up getting a Cherokee which I drove into the ground with two hour commute each way. It was falling apart faster than I could get it fixes.
Today it's a boring superhighway with gentle grade and almost no turns. Bah! Fortunately, the old Lewiston Grade is still drivable.
I can relate to that. I grew up on a ranch and learned to drive in a 54 Chevy pickup.
Yep, today we’d be in jail for doing what we did.
Yes, what a time it was.
With me in the passenger seat, I remember my dad putting his arm out to hold me back if he had to stop quickly.
About 500,000 Americans died in their cars in the 1950’s. But they never post on FR.
Not to mention the number of dogs and children who rode in the bed of the pickup who had no problem remaining safe.
Ah, yes, there are still a few independent thinkers left at this site amidst all the sheep. Adding seat belts and air bags in some of those old cars would have been nice but one still can not get around basic physics. F = M x A
As I stood on the seat next to him, my Dad would put out his right arm to keep me or my other brothers from falling when he hit the brakes. None of us ever fell or hit the dash.
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Wow. That brings back memories.
I still miss MGBs, Triumphs, and vent windows on the doors.
He created a platform out of the back seat with tomato stakes, somehow. My sister and I rode in there as if in the chariot of a god.
In North Carolina, or someplace, we stopped at an amusement center in some cave, or something, which had a very novel light sensor arcade game, where my Dad skillfully plugged the roaring bear, causing him to swerve repeatedly to to the right and to the left. I'll never forget it.
Also, the Mercury overheated, and my Dad stopped to add water, and the radiator spewed a geyser, leading to an outburst of crying on my part. Shortlived, as I was reassured.
Well, we got there, and that was the main point, but it is the trip that I remember.
Wing vents. I was wishing I had one just the other day.
No, they will never post anything here.
Wing vents. I was wishing I had one just the other day.
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Same here. It’s a shame they’ve disappeared.
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