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The new 2016 flashy automobiles, SUV’s,
pick-ups, and more, are in the dealer showrooms
and I thought I would brave the wet and snowy
streets of town and check them out. Wow, did
they look great and represent a lot of money that
will be moving around town. I can’t believe these
new vehicles cost more than houses purchased
in the passing years. The price tags on some cars
and SUV’s were as much as $80,000. The average
seemed to be in the $25-$35,000 range.
As a teenager, I learned to drive on my
nonno’s open air truck. He was a fruit peddler
working the southeast part of town. Compared to
what’s on the road these days, that truck, today,
would be on the scrap pile. But, then, it carried
baskets of corn on the roof, potatoes and oranges
on the tailgate and tomatoes, apples, peaches, cherries, and plums on the side shelves. In
those days, the vehicles had a clutch and so, in my early learning stages, I drove the truck
mostly in a jackrabbit hopping motion.
Grandpa showed me to make an H in shifting gears and I came to know where neutral,
first, second, and reverse gears were. In the beginning, I was allowed to drive only short
distances; from house to nearby house. I never graduated to the main drags until I had
mastered the clutch and H without scorching the gearshifts. I was never permitted to put
the truck in reverse because I didn’t stop in time and drove past a customer’s house.
After mastering my Uncle Charlie’s 1937 Ford, the Chrysler came along with Fluid
Drive. I no longer had to worry about a clutch or jackrabbit motion. I came to master a
1947 two-tone Studebaker and a 1949 Chevrolet. All I had to do was put the gear in drive
and take off. Kudos to the engineers who must have had me in mind.
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