I'll try to be brief. Ha! At 10 and 1/2, I drove Dad's '50 Chevy PU with our wheat seed to the barn when it started to rain. I scraped the right fender on the door going in. At 11, I drove the '50 Chevy PU 1/2 mile down the road to a rental field. I turned into a driveway across a 4' deep ditch. No problem. At 14, pulling my mom's 49 Chevy car, with a utility trailer, into the feed elevator to get some feed. The brakes failed and I rolled backwards into a 50 Chevy car behind us. At 16, I drove the '55 Ford Wagon with my parents and 2 younger sisters 130 miles to my grandfather's farm. At 17, my father purchased a '56 Ford Club Sedan with the T-bird engine. I drove it, with my family, to my Grandfather's farm. Part of the route was a 3 lane highway, the center lane shared by both directions to pass slower traffic (try that today!) There is a side story here. At 17, 3 months later, on New Years, I was seriously injured having skidded on a slipery road and hit straight on a cement bridge abutment. One week in the hosiptal. The car was totalled. At 18, 30 days after my accident, my father purchased another '56 Ford, a convertible. A year later I was involved in rear-ending another car. No injuries. Busted radiator. Dad took the car and sold it. I got my sisters '55 Ford, straight 6, with overdrive. I drove it 200 miles to college for 16 months. I found a '54 Ford Skyliner in a boneyard for $50. It set for a year in the yard. I found a T-bird engine and installed it with a 3spd on the floor. That car would eat Falcon Sprints. One transmission and one rear-end. Later the engine quit and I installed a Ford 240 ci straight 6. I was still driving that car when I met my wife in 1965, and was still driving it when I went to work at Ford, and into my first 6 months of marriage. My wife had a nice '62 Ford Fairlane. Being in management I needed something a little newer and bought a 1962 Mercury Monterey. I won't go any further other than to say, I have had many used and new vehicles over the years.
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