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by jason812
Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:29 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: Millenial Anti-Theft Device
Replies: 54
Views: 11080

Re: Millenial Anti-Theft Device

Bitter Clinger wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 11:59 am
Lynyrd wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:59 am I learned to drive in one of these. Most people under 40 probably have never seen a starter pedal.

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Or a foot operated high beam switch.
Or 4 wheel non powered drum brakes, no power steering, no air conditioning, and no cruise control. Probably don't know about a carburetor with a manual choke either and the joy when you get it to crank the first try and keep it running when its freezing outside. Wait, I'm under 40 and I know all those things... at least under 40 for a few more months.

I learned to drive in my dad's 77 F100 with a 302 and three speed on the column. I helped him build a fence when I was 5 and by help, I drove the truck. He left it in first gear and I would start and stop by cranking the motor and turning off the key. By the time I was 8, he would let me drive it 15 miles to town on a farm to market road while he sat in the passenger seat. If I ever went faster than 30, he told me to slow down.

My first truck was a 1968 F100 SWB standard side bed. 360 with a 3 speed on the column. I love that truck and still have it. It needs some work and I would love to frame off the thing. Of course it would get, ac, power steering, power disc brakes, and fuel injection, lol. I will keep the foot high beam switch though.

At my second (part time) job, I got in a cement truck to pull it in the shop and it was an automatic. It took me a second to figure out how to get it in gear.
by jason812
Mon Aug 06, 2018 4:30 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: Millenial Anti-Theft Device
Replies: 54
Views: 11080

Re: Millenial Anti-Theft Device

If you have a three speed on the column, might as well leave the keys in it. 20 years ago in high school, my friends couldn't drive my truck.

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