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06-01-2010, 08:17 AM

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lfw045

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Originally Posted by ginnie6

a 1972 Buick lesabre with racing heads....that thing would go! My uncle taught me to drive and one thing he did was take me to this huge gravel parking lot and make me do figure 8's. Then as soon as I got my permit he took me to the mountains and told me that I could keep that big old Buick to drive.....as long as I could make the tires sing through those mountains. I drove that car till it died. :-) Dh taught me to drive a stick in a 62 beetle with mudgrips. he also told me (wrongly) that I could not burn rubber in that car. Yeah I was a pistol back in the day. There's a 72 Cobra mustang sitting in my driveway now that belongs to my dd.....I get driving privileges when she gets it running!

I had a '67 bug that would burn rubber and beat the socks off a '70 beetle going uphill.......LOL!

06-01-2010, 08:27 AM

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heidikins

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1963 Chevy pickup, 3 speed on the column!

Me too!! I learned in a 1962 Chevy pickup. Dad said I couldn't go over 35 mph on a loooooong straight road for miles. That was torture for me. The next lesson I hit the hills. My sister and my best friend were in the back. They started out sitting by the back window and ended up laying with their heads against the tailgate! What fun those days were!
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06-01-2010, 08:32 AM

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thequilterslink

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i learned to drive on a 68 chevy nova, i paid 200.00 for, loved that car, dh, (then my boyfriend, painted it a two tone blue.

06-01-2010, 08:32 AM

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thequilterslink

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sorry double post

06-01-2010, 08:45 AM

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ginnie6

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Originally Posted by lfw045

I had a '67 bug that would burn rubber and beat the socks off a '70 beetle going uphill.......LOL!

lol! those bugs were something weren't they? I took a camaro one time from red light to red light....the look of shock on the guy's face was priceless. Sadly mine caught on fire and burnt up....while I was driving it.

06-01-2010, 08:48 AM

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iltoaz

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1956 Chevy

06-01-2010, 09:02 AM

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nativetexan

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a Chrysler New Yorker that barely ran!

06-01-2010, 09:19 AM

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lfw045

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I had a '67 bug that would burn rubber and beat the socks off a '70 beetle going uphill.......LOL!

LOL.......yep stoplight to stoplight.......you could beat just about anything.......you pop that clutch just right and you're gone.....LOL! I loved that blue VW with the pinstripes......it developed a crack over the rear axle and had to be retired (it's still in the woods at my Dad's sitting there like a shrine to my 20's..lol). That engine was put into a yellow '70 beetle and it was never the same. But oh the fun in the blue one :^)

06-01-2010, 09:25 AM

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Rachel

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I drove just barely in a 76 Mercury Cougar, then then decided I wasn't ready yet (or my brother decided, might be more accurate), so then I went on to a Cutlass Supreme (not even sure what year, but a much smaller car and some kid had put a tiny little racing steering wheel in it. Mom and I were driving around town and mom said, this car will turn tight, its not like the cougar... the next thing I know, she's yelling at me to get off the curb. It turned tight alright. tee hee