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| What kind of car...; did you first learn to drive? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 20 2006, 03:48 PM (507 Views) | |
| DivaDeb | Oct 20 2006, 03:48 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I learned on my dad's 1966 VW Beetle. Loved that car and drove it long past the point where I had to park it on a hill, roll it, and pop the clutch to start it. (prompted by IT's Studebaker) |
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| Jane D'Oh | Oct 20 2006, 03:51 PM Post #2 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I learn in my mums VW golf. It was a manual and had something going on with the choke and so it would stall as you changed down gears approaching a roundabout. So as a learner I learnt to downsift, pull the clutch lever right out, turn the key and rev hard when approaching a roundabout. It was a nervewracking experience - particularly for my mother who had the whole process down to one very smooth operation! :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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| Bond, James Bond | Oct 20 2006, 03:55 PM Post #3 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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| Daniel\ | Oct 20 2006, 03:57 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I learned on a 67 Bettle that was soon replaced with a 64 I had for ten years. The 67 was totaled in an accident that was not my fault. I started my VW many times that way. |
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| sue | Oct 20 2006, 03:57 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ford pick-up. Looked very much like this. Yee haw!
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| sue | Oct 20 2006, 04:00 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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do they start any other way? In my beetle's final years, I always parked facing downhill to start it.Years later, many different vehicles, I am still hesitant to park up a hill. |
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| Optimistic | Oct 20 2006, 04:09 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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1990 Toyota 4Runner |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Luke's Dad | Oct 20 2006, 04:10 PM Post #8 |
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Emperor Pengin
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77 Plymouth Fury. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| George K | Oct 20 2006, 04:14 PM Post #9 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Kincaid | Oct 20 2006, 04:21 PM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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A stolen 1975 Plymouth Fury 4-dr. Fortunately it was an automatic. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| DivaDeb | Oct 20 2006, 04:26 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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only one...there was no hill for me to park on at school. Every day, a couple of my best guy friends would follow me out to the parking lot and push it, get it rolling, so I could start it. It was a dicey procedure when the lot was icy! |
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| Luke's Dad | Oct 20 2006, 04:28 PM Post #12 |
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So I wasn't the only one driving around in one of those barges. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Daniel\ | Oct 20 2006, 04:30 PM Post #13 |
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Once I was driving across a bridge at night in Florida in a thunderstorm and both windshield wiper blades went flying off. There was no defrost in the first place. There I was going about 60 mph in the rain rubbing the fog off the inside of the windshield and squinting through the water. Sigh. |
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| apple | Oct 20 2006, 04:42 PM Post #14 |
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one of the angels
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and down shifting rather than braking to extend the life of the brakes... we went thru quite few 200 dollar VWs (coupled with a station wagon for the 11 of us) |
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| Jolly | Oct 20 2006, 04:53 PM Post #15 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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1958 Chevrolet Apache. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| LWpianistin | Oct 20 2006, 04:59 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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1999 Pontiac Grand Am and a Chevy S10 |
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| kenny | Oct 20 2006, 05:50 PM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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VW bug - manual tranie. Quite possible a 66 like DD.
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| sue | Oct 20 2006, 06:36 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ah, such memories. I had an ice scraper for the inside, and would have to scrape and wipe as I was driving. Fully bundled with hat, coat and mittens, of course.
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| DivaDeb | Oct 20 2006, 06:40 PM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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heh...I can remember a load of times where I had to pull over every few blocks, get out, grab a couple of handfulls of snow to clean my windshield, get back in and drive til I couldn't see anymore. I lived about 10 miles from my highschool...it's really kind of a wonder I made it through those years in that car. |
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| JBryan | Oct 20 2006, 06:43 PM Post #20 |
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I am the grey one
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Just like this one except it was blue and, oh yeah, it was newer then: '65 Chevy Nova Sation Wagon. Three on the tree. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 20 2006, 06:46 PM Post #21 |
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MAMIL
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One of these:![]() The colour is the same. In fact, every detail, including the open bonnet is pretty much bang on. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| JBryan | Oct 20 2006, 06:50 PM Post #22 |
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I am the grey one
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Where is the smoke? |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Daniel\ | Oct 20 2006, 08:19 PM Post #23 |
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Fulla-Carp
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an ice scraper for the inside. LOL!! Oh, that's great. |
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| Daniel\ | Oct 20 2006, 08:21 PM Post #24 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I hear you. :lol: |
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| Steve Miller | Oct 20 2006, 08:26 PM Post #25 |
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Bull-Carp
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'56 Ford Victoria coupe like this one:
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In my beetle's final years, I always parked facing downhill to start it.


I had an ice scraper for the inside, and would have to scrape and wipe as I was driving. Fully bundled with hat, coat and mittens, of course.



8:37 AM Jul 13