DoubleDingo
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- Joined
- Jul 3, 2012
- Posts
- 11,333
- Reaction score
- 17,400
- Location
- Right where I am
- First Name
- Bagoomba
- Truck Year
- 1981
- Truck Model
- 81-C20 Silverado Camper Special-TH400-4.10s
- Engine Size
- Carb'ed Vortec 350
I wish my dad would have let me keep it, but he sold it to a step bro cuz I wasn't 16 yet but he had bought a 71 SB brand new. Not sure if the Fuel Inejection was an option or standard, but this one was fuel injected. I remember that thing well. I remember at age 11, I was sneaking off driving it around the block. Then when I did turn 16 my mom says, I guess I'll teach how to drive the Toyota (manual trans) so you can take your drivers test in it since her husband wasn't going to let me drive their vehicle. We walk in the house, and my step dad says, so did he tear it up like Scott (my older step bro) did? Uhhh NO, he drove it better than I do, and made NO mistakes and I asked him where he learned to drive a stick and he tells me he used to steal the VW and drive it around the block so he already knew how.
That reminds me of when I was 14-15. The '56 was already mine, but I wasn't old enough to drive it. Mom and was always busy working or at the softball games after work, so I'd take the car out and drive around the east side of town. I's learned how to drive a stick on a Cushman at the golf course. I wasn't good at it, so taking off was the hardest part. I was cruising up towards main street on a side street that is right across from the softball fields. Cocky move with the amount of people there that knew the car, but I didn't care. Mom was leaving and somehow didn't see me. I about crapped myself. I knew she was going home and she only had one traffic light that might stop her. I had three stop signs and about a 1/4 mile more to go because of the way the streets didn't parallel main street. I raced down the streets, and turned the corner to park the car in its spot, jumped out and just got the door closed when she pulled up. How she didn't hear the exhaust crackling as it cooled is beyond me. Good memories.