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I learned to drive stick in a 1948 Pontiac with "3 on the tree" and an in-line 8 cylinder engine called a "Straight Eight". What a car. It was very uncool at the time because it was already 17 years old which was ancient back then, but it want I had to learn in so I was grateful for that. Here's a pic of a similar car.
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I had been watching my friends drive stick vehicles for years but of course no one ever let me try to drive their cars. Come to think of it, no one ever let me drive their automatics either, hmm.. My first chance to drive a stick was when I was in the Navy. It was a Dodge Power wagon. Our shop PO told me and another guy to go pick up a load of bombs (inert practice) from the armory about 5 miles away. I told the other guy that I was driving, and off we went. I did a long slow tour of pretty much the entire base (stop, go, stop, go) before going to the armory. By the time we got back I considered myself a pro, and grabbed every opportunity to drive everything I could get my hands on.
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02-17-2024, 04:22 PM | #7594 |
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We had a guy in our division that could score ANYTHING we needed! We regularly ran out of pens and our allotment. We would send him on a "pen run" and he'd return with boxes! For some reason, he's one of the few people who's name I remember after 45 years; Alton Prentice.
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"Yo! A.Prentice front and center!" I went thru boot camp with a guy whose last name was Case. The dumbass named his son Justin. Nothing like setting your kid up for a lifetime of grief.
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^^^I guess your socks need to match your sofa?
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There was a fellow in my Army Basic Combat Training (boot camp) platoon with a very difficult to pronounce last name. Our drill sergeant's solution? He simply called the trainee "Alphabet."
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Same here! I had this exact thought as I started reading your post.
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...when you used be part of Arnie's Army.
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him back to the motor pool to drain the air tanks on the 3/4 ton truck. Of course, the 3/4's had no air tanks.
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We also sent the new guys for those very hard to get "supplies;" 50' of chow line CGU-11's, buckets of steam, torpedo charts... One thing the new "deck apes" were sent to get was the key to the stern gate (I was on an LPD). One enterprising machinist mate made a key. The designated mark proudly presented the "key" to the chief. Without skipping a beat, the chief told him great, now open it!
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I was an "airdale" so we would send our virgins to fetch "flight line" and 'prop wash".
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Checkered paint? No, but a trip to the Gedunk to pick up some Aileron Rolls was a favorite also.
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I think I learned stick on gpa's 1904 Masey-Ferguson.
Gpa's, not my dad's. Although I'm positive he and all his brothers probably also learned on the same tractor. HOT metal seat in the Iowa summers . . .
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....when your medical contacts out number your family contacts...
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