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I had my check book half way out until I realized it has an automatic transmission. That's a deal breaker for me in a muscle car.
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Damn near fell off my chair laughing Mike,this is the best one i've heard tonightI had my check book half way out until I realized it has an automatic transmission. That's a deal breaker for me in a muscle car.
I grew up driving wheat trucks too! Learned to drive them when I was 12. I also learned how to break an axle when trying to back uphill in soft dirt with a full load. Bouncing is baaaaad LOL.Back in my early days,i blew up more 4 speeds then Carter had pills,usually after they blew up more then once Muncies/T-10's etc,they got replaced by an automatic,and every car was faster with the auto,then they ever were with a 4 speed. I'm one of those guys who grew up driving grain trucks in soft fields,so i never lifted on the shift,lol.
Plus an auto was way easier on the shoulders,a day at the track with a 4 speed was tough as hell on the shoulders,when you don't lift on the shift,lol
Broken axles i can relate to,had a few of them happen back in my teenage years,usually in harvest when you were 1 truck trying to keep 2 or 3 combines going,lol.I was the oldest in my family,and my dad had lost most of the use of his right arm on a drilling rig,so i was driving trucks and tractors by 9.When i was finally old enough to get a licence,the old driving instructor told me i'd been driving long enough to know how to drive,so all i had to do was drive around the block and parrellel park in my moms car,and he handed me my licence,lol. 300+ bushels in the box on 8.25/20 duals in a soft field taught you how to shift,if you didn't make that shift from first and high to 2nd and low at lightening speed,you were starting all over again,lolI grew up driving wheat trucks too! Learned to drive them when I was 12. I also learned how to break an axle when trying to back uphill in soft dirt with a full load. Bouncing is baaaaad LOL.
For sure, an auto can usually get you a faster ET. I did say muscle car not racecar though. Race tracks are not plentiful where I live. And I'm not really interested in the quarter mile scene. So I seek out the roads less traveled around here for having fun. And the fun factor is much higher for me when there's a third pedal.
Same here, drove a tractor, built a homemade go-kart (never had brakes), an enduro motorcycle, and a snowmobile that sometimes kicked over backwards and would take off in reverse before reverse existed on snowmobiles. By the time driving with a license came along I had tens of thousands of miles already logged. Today it is GTA, good luck transferring that to the real world.We learned on a go kart and lawn tractor cutting grass and rototilling the garden.
I feel sorry for kids today and back a decade or so, we didn't have much as kids but wow did we have fun vs. kids today that have every materialistic thing that they can think of but won't have many stories to tell their grandkids other than yeah I remember the time I won that video game! lol
Love it......we still do that.....a rancher friend down the road has an old Chevy farm truck.....I help feed some cows when they are short a hand.....we load up the back of that truck with bales......take her out in the field.....put her in first gear.....point her in the right direction.....jump out and jump up in back.....the cows just follow as we toss flakes of hay.....ya just gotta be aware when that ravine comes into view and get back in the cab to give her a turn! Fun times.Being raised on a Farm or Ranch, you had to learn how to drive, some one had to do the heavy lifting & you were only 8, 9, 10, etc.
So you could not do the lifting, sometimes, your Father or Uncle would start the vehicle & put the vehicle in gear & let out the clutch & tell us to steer straight ahead & they would jump out & load the bales of hay.
They jump back in at the end of the field & get you going in the opposite direction, etc. etc.
Then one day, he let you try to use the clutch
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