I was rather frightened...

[gryeyes]

I think they were more worried about what was on the seat of the Presidental limo, not in the hearse...............

You think correctly. Back in that day, I don't think anti-bacterial wipes had been invented. I'm sure The Prez wouldn't care for the scent of Lysol in his ride.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[theoldchick]

For me, it was normal the things Dad and I did together.

Yes, we owned an old hearse and even took it drag-racing.
It was fun...Me and Dad, we didn't have no real casket. So we
made us a nice wooden one that worked as an ice chest.

The Caddy did have the gurney that you used to roll the actual
casket on...you would roll the wooden casket to the car, load the
casket, tuck the gurney in and go.

In our case we would feel the casket full of pop and food, it was
a big ice chest that we took racing. We would unload it being oh
so careful...and go racing. The car had one big beacon light on top
and a siren. We got to use them both.

When we bought the car it did come with some "casts" and I have no
ideal as to the why-for. We had us a pile of leg casts and arm casts.

Yeah...for me and Dad that was completely normal.

Was your address 1313 Mockingbird Lane?

 

[Spookwriter]

No, I did not live at that address, I could not, would not.
But as it seems so much to amuse you people, I will share
a few more true-tales about Spook and cars.

My older brother and I were using Dads 1965 Ford to haul
a load of gravel for mom and dad. We must of put too much
on it. The truck broke completely in two.

Thar was bad. Shoulda had the stone delivered...

And a group of us were out drag racing over in Ewington.
Riding with my uncle. Car hooked up pretty hard when it
left. Too hard....Ripped the whole rear end housing out from
under the car.


Spook...who will someday remember the dumbest thing he's done
in a car.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[sourland]

Spook...who will someday remember the dumbest thing he's done
in a car.

Would that dumbest thing have been done while driving the car?

 

[Bunnylady]

I can think of some pretty dumb things done by people who weren't the one driving the car at the time, but most aren't allowed on this forum.

 

[theoldchick]

What? Like texting while driving? Yapping on a cell phone?

I know what you mean.

 

[oldrooster]

No, I did not live at that address, I could not, would not.
But as it seems so much to amuse you people, I will share
a few more true-tales about Spook and cars.

My older brother and I were using Dads 1965 Ford to haul
a load of gravel for mom and dad. We must of put too much
on it. The truck broke completely in two.

Thar was bad. Shoulda had the stone delivered...

And a group of us were out drag racing over in Ewington.
Riding with my uncle. Car hooked up pretty hard when it
left. Too hard....Ripped the whole rear end housing out from
under the car.


Spook...who will someday remember the dumbest thing he's done
in a car.

my neighbor would always add a quarter load if pea sized gravel to his driveway a few times every couple of years with his 4x4 3/4ton pickup truck, so he wouldn't do that also he never bought too much unless he thought he needed to round up the driveway for some reason.....

 

[Chick N Haus]

Our driveway (when I was young) was steep coming off the road and going down the hill with 2 switchbacks before coming to the house. As I recall it, I was in my immortal period, having just received my first car. It didn't take me long to discover that I could come off the main road fast enough to become airborne and hit the brakes as I hit the ground just before the first switchback, crank the wheel hard left to make that first hairpin turn on the gravel. Naturally, I did this on a regular basis. Well, one day I was going about 5mph making a left hand turn into a gas station, when I had my steering wheel come completely loose in my hands. I had rack and pinion steering and the mechanic just couldn't understand how it could have been broken like that with such a quiet young lady like me driving it. After all, I was only going 5mph. Who me??

However did we all live to grow up??