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[Jstpssng]

I remember back in the late 70's around Ft. Lauderdale. The number of mid-late 60's olds delta 88's, 98's, buick electras and chrysler Imperials driving around that at first glance looked like no one was in the driver's seat. When you got up behind them ... sure enough two hands just visible on the wheel and a bit of blue hair about level with the hands. I was a mechanic at the time & asked a few of these old ladies when they came in for tune-ups/oil changes why they didn't sell & get something smaller & easier for them to drive & the answer was always the same ..." My poor (Herbert/Ralph/Henry/Stanley), rest his soul, told me that this was the best car to ever come out of Detroit and he made me promise I would never sell it. Our daughter/son/grandkid can do what they want when my time comes to join him, but until then I'm honoring my promise."

My grandmother never learned to drive until she was in her '50s. She then became the proverbial little old lady who only drove to church... in a 1966 Fairlane fastback with a 289 auto and no power steering or brakes.

 

[WinterDeere]

My grandmother never learned to drive until she was in her '50s. She then became the proverbial little old lady who only drove to church... in a 1966 Fairlane fastback with a 289 auto and no power steering or brakes.

My grandmother used to like telling a story of when she and her sister drove to Washington DC, and got caught on a round-about, going round and round on the inner lane, without sufficient aggression to nudge into traffic on the outer lane and get out. This would have been presumably 1930's.

National Lampoon's European Vacation had a bit like this, circling Big Ben.

 

[Camofurever1]

My grandmother never learned to drive until she was in her '50s. She then became the proverbial little old lady who only drove to church... in a 1966 Fairlane fastback with a 289 auto and no power steering or brakes.

Did she have no power brakes or absolutely no brakes? If she had no brakes, might have been why she drove like an old lady!

 

[aeblank]

Did she have no power brakes or absolutely no brakes? If she had no brakes, might have been why she drove like an old lady!

Haha. I was thinking the same thing / how English is weird.

One eyed one horned flying purple people eater.

He only ate purple people?

 

[BigBlue1]

Read a news article from the weekend where a semi lost a set of duals on the interstate near metro Minneapolis and the duals struck another vehicle (Nissan Rogue) and killed two people in it. Not really much more info than that being published so isn't really worth linking to the article. But, damn, that would be a sucky way to go.

 

[lilranch2001]

Read a news article from the weekend where a semi lost a set of duals on the interstate near metro Minneapolis and the duals struck another vehicle (Nissan Rogue) and killed two people in it. Not really much more info than that being published so isn't really worth linking to the article. But, damn, that would be a sucky way to go.

Does sound like a quick way to go….

 

[Atvjoe]

Only in Miami Florida. 10/16/2023 This guy after passing the street light almost hit center medium with the plywood on the left side of the van. Straight out of Home Depot. Home Depot gives you red flags but he said hell no that’s for wimps.

 

[WinterDeere]

Only in Miami Florida. 10/16/2023 This guy after passing the street light almost hit center medium with the plywood on the left side of the van. Straight out of Home Depot. Home Depot gives you red flags but he said hell no that’s for wimps.

When I see people loading a vehicle like this at Lowes Depot, I can never help myself from commenting to them, "nice truck"!

Recently saw one guy loading 16 ft. 2x4's thru the sunroof of his sedan, with the fore end pointing up at least 10 feet into the air in front of the vehicle. I could only imagine him catching that on an overpass or low drive-thru window awning. I yelled, "nice truck", and he just smiled and nodded.

 

[LD48750]

When I see people loading a vehicle like this at Lowes Depot, I can never help myself from commenting to them, "nice truck"!

Recently saw one guy loading 16 ft. 2x4's thru the sunroof of his sedan, with the fore end pointing up at least 10 feet into the air in front of the vehicle. I could only imagine him catching that on an overpass or low drive-thru window awning. I yelled, "nice truck", and he just smiled and nodded.

Very few things over a public highway are 10' or less clearance.
I somehow find it hard to believe that guy was headed to the Mickie D's drive through.

 

[Blue Mule]

Read a news article from the weekend where a semi lost a set of duals on the interstate near metro Minneapolis and the duals struck another vehicle (Nissan Rogue) and killed two people in it. Not really much more info than that being published so isn't really worth linking to the article. But, damn, that would be a sucky way to go.

That has happened twice on I-75 here this year. Once on the Ohio side, once on the Kentucky side. Fatalities both times.