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Bloog
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Location: Over yonder
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1969 GMC pickup 3 speed on the column.
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bignick
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Joined: July 31, 2006
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Location: Chattanooga, TN
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First car: 1990 Silver Spur II Rolls Royce
First car with license: 1998 MB SLK230 (33,000 miles as of last week!)
First care owned: 1970 VW beetle (by far the best!)
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67 Shane
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Location: Losing my mind in Charlotte, N.C.
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1980's something LeCar or some such shit. With the dingle balls around the headliner. Used to drive it out through the pasture and woods to the dump on our ranch with Dad sloshed in the back seat. I was about seven.
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BugMan114
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Location: Ellenwood, GA
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first engine powered vehicle: riding lawnmower 
first car driven: 92' hyndai excell
first car owned: 71 beetle, with 1929 mercedes benz kit body (project, but drove around yard for a while)
first car driven for real: 74 super beetle
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1974 Super Beetle: Custom resto in progress
1972 Super Beetle: Daily Driver
1971 Std. Beetle w/ 1929 Mercedes Benz Gazelle kit
1960 Baja Bug
1969 Baja Bug
Sand Rail- Homemade
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Aircooled Airheads
Why the hell do they call it a gland nut. its obviously a big fat bolt!!! |
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CarreraRS2.7
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Location: Woodstock, GA
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My mom's 98 Dodge Grand Caravan when I first got my learner's permit.
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Gigi: Saturn Yellow 1974 Karmann Ghia Cabriolet
El Barto: Rosso 2017 Fiat 500 Abarth |
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Fletch75
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Location: San Antonio,TX
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| a 19?? older than dirt farmall tricicle tractor. So old it had an inertia starter and a gasoline engine. The inertia starter makes a awful noise when starting. Was scared of it as a little kid so my uncle made me sit on his knees and steer while he worked the brakes/throttle as we mowed the pasture. Not safe by any stretch.. The shredders were made from linking big truck rear diffs side by side, pinion pointed down with huge blades attatched, No gaurds, all open. The sound of the tractor(no muffler), combined with the noise of whirrling death from the blades is what scared me...Rightly so..I believe that was satans tractor.. |
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Kuncle
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Joined: June 08, 2005
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Location: Greer...South Carolina...
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a 68 beetle when I was 12
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fred69vert
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Joined: August 17, 2007
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Location: Home of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA
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| a 19?? older than dirt farmall tricicle tractor. So old it had an inertia starter and a gasoline engine. The inertia starter makes a awful noise when starting. Was scared of it as a little kid so my uncle made me sit on his knees and steer while he worked the brakes/throttle as we mowed the pasture. Not safe by any stretch.. The shredders were made from linking big truck rear diffs side by side, pinion pointed down with huge blades attatched, No gaurds, all open. The sound of the tractor(no muffler), combined with the noise of whirrling death from the blades is what scared me...Rightly so..I believe that was satans tractor.. |
My Granddaddy had a 1948 Minneapolis Moline tractor, with a LEVER clutch. I still remember him teaching me to drive it, how you had to EASE the lever forward until the thing got moving, then pull back and shove it home.
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I'm not losing my hair, it's just retired and relocating further south.
1969 VW convertible, "Heidi" |
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10/60bug
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I first drove a DUSTY 1963 faded blue beetle around the marina where I had my first job.. at $1.65 per hour at age 14.. Clutch chattered, but it was fun!!
First car of my own, a 1960 beetle for $595.99 in 1975
from the back of a car lot.. Had a gold painted case 36 horse(rebuilt)
trashed interior, crashbox 1st gear... 70 MPH flat out all day long...Man, I beat that bug hard!
(I was19) Sold it for a 1975 VEGA wagon...(I still kick myself for that one!!) : |
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shucklemoon
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Location: Sacramento, CA
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'59 ragtop beetle (name of Flowers) that my Dad bought new. When I was 11 and 12 I used to steal the keys and drive it around the yard after school, before any grownups got home from work. By then it had been repainted shit brown (over the original green with "love-in" daisies that my cousins had painted on it in '63 as a wedding gift for my parents), and it was missing both front fenders. I taught myself to drive stick without ever telling anyone, and I used to park it veeeeery carefully in exactly the same spot every time. Later, Dad couldn't believe that it started right up after "sitting" for over two years -- I don't think he ever knew it had been started and driven almost every day.
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Fletch75
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Location: San Antonio,TX
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| a 19?? older than dirt farmall tricicle tractor. So old it had an inertia starter and a gasoline engine. The inertia starter makes a awful noise when starting. Was scared of it as a little kid so my uncle made me sit on his knees and steer while he worked the brakes/throttle as we mowed the pasture. Not safe by any stretch.. The shredders were made from linking big truck rear diffs side by side, pinion pointed down with huge blades attatched, No gaurds, all open. The sound of the tractor(no muffler), combined with the noise of whirrling death from the blades is what scared me...Rightly so..I believe that was satans tractor.. |
My Granddaddy had a 1948 Minneapolis Moline tractor, with a LEVER clutch. I still remember him teaching me to drive it, how you had to EASE the lever forward until the thing got moving, then pull back and shove it home. |
Too long ago to remember how the clutch worked. I do remember it only had a hand throttle. The steering wheel was steel and had a looooong shaft down the top of the hood. All that old farm equipment my uncle had looked to be made by some mid-evil sadistic torture expert. It is no wonder most of the old farmers are missing bits and pieces.Safety gaurds are over rated  .. He also used to spray some awful stuff that was something like agent orange, no mask, smoking roll your own cigs. The herbicide is illegal now. He ran over a newborn calf once with that shredder. Didnt see it in the tall grass. Messy.. |
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Ghoti
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Joined: May 30, 2007
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Location: Rollin' in 541
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Other than go-carts and the such?
All of my brothers and sisters are between 11 and 16 years older than me. I was at my sister's (and brother-in-law's) house and my brother told me I could pull his truck around the back of her house (it was parked in the grass next to the house). I was in the 6th or 7th grade at the time.
I hopped in the driver's seat and him the passenger's.
It had been raining and I didn't know a car will move without hitting the gas. I pushed the brake, shift into drive, and floored it. My brother about had a heart attack as I skidded his truck (an old beater Chevy) down the side of my sister's house.
I took off the water faucet on the side of the house and water was squirting everywhere. I don't hear about it much anymore, but it took a long time for that one to die down.
Everyone was also glad it had been raining as I wasn't "able" to get good traction on the wet grass.
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LowNslow '65
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1969 mercedes 280sel at 12
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fred69vert
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Location: Home of the US Navy Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, VA
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| a 19?? older than dirt farmall tricicle tractor. So old it had an inertia starter and a gasoline engine. The inertia starter makes a awful noise when starting. Was scared of it as a little kid so my uncle made me sit on his knees and steer while he worked the brakes/throttle as we mowed the pasture. Not safe by any stretch.. The shredders were made from linking big truck rear diffs side by side, pinion pointed down with huge blades attatched, No gaurds, all open. The sound of the tractor(no muffler), combined with the noise of whirrling death from the blades is what scared me...Rightly so..I believe that was satans tractor.. |
My Granddaddy had a 1948 Minneapolis Moline tractor, with a LEVER clutch. I still remember him teaching me to drive it, how you had to EASE the lever forward until the thing got moving, then pull back and shove it home. |
Too long ago to remember how the clutch worked. I do remember it only had a hand throttle. The steering wheel was steel and had a looooong shaft down the top of the hood. All that old farm equipment my uncle had looked to be made by some mid-evil sadistic torture expert. It is no wonder most of the old farmers are missing bits and pieces.Safety gaurds are over rated .. He also used to spray some awful stuff that was something like agent orange, no mask, smoking roll your own cigs. The herbicide is illegal now. He ran over a newborn calf once with that shredder. Didnt see it in the tall grass. Messy.. |
I spent a number of summers working in tobacco fields (in NC) when I was growing up. After I got my license, it became my job to drive one of the tractors, an old Allis-Chalmers, from field to field, most times on the highway. Problem was, that old A-C had almost NO BRAKES!!!! I learned to jam the gearbox and throttle down to get it to stop. The other tractor was driven by the farmer's 12 year old nephew. It had good hydraulic brakes.
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1969 VW convertible, "Heidi" |
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LBE-VW
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Location: Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Hi. I am new to this forum. When i was about 15. The first car that i have driven was my fathers VW Jetta Automatic on the way to our holiday chalet. It was on a sand road on a mountain. it was fun. The first manual (stick shift) that i driven was my mothers datsun 120y panel van. i struggled at first the first time driving the manual as i was used to my fathers auto, but i got the hang of it the second time round. The first air cooled VW that i have driven was a VW baja bug that my family was thinking on buying as a third car for me and my brothers, but they had decided to go for something else for us.
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HAHO777
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first car driven was my older sisters vw kombi.
first car driven on my own was my dads vw passat.
first automatic car was my moms nissan sentra.
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rustydub
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| A baby blue '84 Ford Escort 4 spd, a real chick magnet. |
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19super73
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PatterBon
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My dads Black '03 Ford Ranger
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williamblanda
Don't Disgrace The Eddy!
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| First car I drove was a 1996 Geo Prism. I drove it in one of those African Safari's in Canada and Monkey's attacked the car ripping off the turning signals, while they were leaving one took a gigantic shit on the hood. |
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